Hone Your Skills To Provide Better Customer Service On Phone

By Author: William King
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If you've got the experience of calling some company's helpline and talking to their representatives, you must be having an idea of the difference that the person on the other side of the telephone line can make. Some representatives are able to make a positive impression even before the actual conversation take place. Research shows that a good percentage of angry customers skipped the idea of getting rude and using foul language, just because the person who received the call sounds too polite and erudite. We can safely assume that a big majority of these customers must have skipped the idea of bad mouthing that particular business in front of their friends, as well.

On the contrary, some representatives take pleasure in poking fun at customers and making them feel sorry for even thinking about complaining or making an inquiry. Sometimes it can be due to insufficient training or little or no check over your CSR. Sometimes little things like advising them to call to another number or sending an email to some specific address can prove to be a big enough turnoff (ideally it should be the customer service representative ...
... who'll forward their complains to the concerned department). At times the prospective customer calls a new business and upon hearing a somewhat discourteous greeting, the first thing that comes to his/her mind is if hiring their services means hearing such displeasing response more often, then there's no way I m getting into business with these fellows.

Your customer service staff needs to be au fait with the main idea that they are there for customer's service. What a shocking revelation Mr. writer, you must be thinking, but this obvious point is ignored by customer service staff quite often. CSR people are there to serve the customers, not for giving short answers to their questions and hanging up the phone instantly or take another call. However, it's not always the customer service staff that makes this mistake, sometimes business owners are themselves the culprits, without even noticing it. If you are a small business and you don't have the need or resources to hire specialized staff, you must hone your skills to give a better impression.

You don't necessarily need to join some crash course of improving your telephonic conversation; some mock calls with your family members or friends can give you plenty of advice to work on. All you need is to ask them to comment on your voice quality, selection of words and convincing techniques.

William King is the director of Mobile Phones Wholesale Suppliers: http://www.wholesalepages.co.uk/ukwholesalers/Mobile_Phones-119-0.html , China Wholesale Suppliers, Distributors, Dropshippers & Manufacturers: http://www.dailytrader.com/china/ , and Active Trader - Stocks & Bonds Directory: http://www.activetrader-links.com/ . He has 18 years of experience in the marketing and trading industries and has been helping retailers, entrepreneurs and startups with their product sourcing, promotion, marketing and supply chain requirements.