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The best way to apologize is to let the customer vent first. Don't interrupt, just take notes and make empathetic noises. You can even tell the customer that it makes you mad too. Second, ask the customer what their speed of need is. Tell them what they ant to hear. That you apologize, that you understand how they feel, that you are meeting with the appropriate people to get a resolve, and that it will be done in 24-hours.
Jeffrey GitomerWhen you can show concern about what matters to your customer, that's Business to Customer Loyalty, and you can bet on it, you've just acquired a customer for life.
Albert Houtum-SchindlerWe're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards.
Jeff BezosIf the employees come first, then they're happy. A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy so they keep coming back, which pleases the shareholders. It's not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time, it is just the way it works.
Herb Kelleher...while everyone's focusing on keeping the boss happy, who's focusing on keeping the customer happy?
James HunterDon't try to be all things to all people. Concentrate on selling something unique that you know there is a need for, offer competitive pricing and good customer service.
Lillian VernonThe customer is always what inspires me first! I love talking to everyone on Instagram and seeing feedback on SnapChat! I can ask a question like "What product do you wanna see next??" and they give you immediate answers. I will never make a product I personally wouldn't wear every day! But I think it's important to be in tune with your audience and see their expectations.
Jeffree StarTop-down leaders, by withholding power from those in the ranks, deprive them of the ability to use the expertise and information vested in them to respond directly and with speed to customer concerns.
Sally HelgesenIn the marketplace, small businesses are the face and voice of humanity, which provides them with a great advantage in the Age of the Customer.
Jim BlasingameNo vision issue today is bigger than the question of efficiency versus some combination of innovation and customer service.
John P. KotterIn writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them.
John WanamakerDon Keough's (CEO Coca-Cola) 11 Rules on "HOW TO LOSE": 1. Stop taking risks 2. Be content 3. Never deviate from what the founder did 4. Be inflexible 5. Rely totally on research and experts 6. Concentrate on competitors instead of your customers 7. Put yourself - not the customer - first 8. Solve administrative concerns first 9. Let others do your thinking for example, headquarters 10. Rely on T-G-E: "That's Good Enough" and T-N-M-J: "That's Not My Job!" 11. Rationalize slow growth
Donald KeoughBecause Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.
Robert GlaserWe did start with a simple manifesto, as we called it, which was a description of what we were about, and it was the Un-carrier. It was about finding and solving customer pain points in an attempt to fix a stupid, broken, arrogant industry. It was something we felt passionate about. It was our goal to make changes and have the industry make the same ones.
John J. LegereLet's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line.
Ron WydenRemember that, in the end, the customer doesn't know, or care, if you are small or large as an organization - she or he only focuses on the garment hanging on the rail in the store.
Giorgio ArmaniIโm a Verizon customer. I donโt mind Verizon turning over records to the government if the government is going to make sure that they try to match up a known terrorist phone with somebody in the United States. I donโt think youโre talking to the terrorists. I know youโre not. I know Iโm not. So we donโt have anything to worry about.
Lindsey GrahamPeople need to understand: Businesses are going to make mistakes. They shouldn't be shot and hung every time. We should apologize for it. We should make up for it. My shareholders paid for it. No customer was hurt, which is critical to me. But I hurt my shareholders, and I wish I hadn't.
Jamie DimonAuctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time building the product before getting our first customer, whereas with Stripe we made sure we had paying customers from the very start.
John CollisonWhen the alarm bell rings, you'd better wake up and realize that the customer expects more from you today than he did the day before. You'd better find ways to be better.
Gary L. TookerI believe that all brands will become storytellers, editors and publishers, all stores will become magazines, and all media companies will become stores. There will be too many of all of them. The strongest ones, the ones who offer the best customer experience, will survive.
Natalie MassenetOnce, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or laterโno matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forgetโwe will return.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonThe greatest accomplishment of a bartender lies in his ability to exactly suit his customer. . .
Harry Gordon JohnsonMost ads are about the product or the company that makes it...the best ads are about the customer and how the product will change his life.
Roy H. WilliamsAt a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return.
Roger StaubachBetter service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise.
Konosuke MatsushitaReengineering posits a radical new principle: that the design of work must be based not on hierarchical management and the specialization of labor but on end-to-end processes and the creation of value for the customer.
Michael Martin HammerAny time a customer comes into contact with any aspect of a business, however remote, is an opportunity to form an impression.
Jan CarlzonBig Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. Itโs great โcustomer service,โ except that you can never get out of the store.
Mark SteynThe #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.
J. Paul GettyThe customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.
Erich FrommBe dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.
Scott D. CookI'm constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don't train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.
Zig ZiglarI feel constantly the tension of the quarterly cycles, the drive to produce shareowner value at the cost sometimes of customer value and employee value. [But] if you take equal care of the employees, they will take equal care of the customers and then we will get an equal or better opportunity for our shareowners.
Marilyn C. Nelson