Common Or Exotic Customer Service? Here Are 3 Common Practices and Why They Work

Is your Service of the "common" variety? Or areAre you using the best "Common Practices"?
you more "exotic" or "specialized." If you areThese are the standards of your particular
practicing "common" service, you just might beindustry, applied with intelligence, that produce
leading your industry.sustainable and predictable results. Some common
Here are 3 "common" Customer Service items topractices include; proper training, proper dress,
look at and emulate.sustained enthusiasm, answering the phone in 3-5
Are you part of the "Common Sense" mindsetrings or less and any other practice that is
and approach to Customer Service? Do you findaccepted and expected by your Customers.
practical and pragmatic ways to service yourDo you use "Common Courtesy"? Please and
Customers? This means finding solutions thatThank You and May I. Are you practicing
work and can be implemented right away. This"common" courteous actions that include offering
means thinking of the Customers "Best Interest"to show someone rather than point, picking up
and then taking the right action to satisfy thattrash that blows onto your work area or place of
"Best Interest." Are you on the lookout forbusiness, listening and taking notes when needed
roadblocks and barriers to common senseand smiling, that needed smile, that ever present
actions? Common sense approaches? Have yousmile, that says everything about you and your
asked your Customers for their input? They arebusiness.
really your best tool to identifying common senseBeing "common" isn't so bad. It's trying to be
issues. And in many cases, more than happy to"exotic" or "specialized" when you don't need to
let you know what those are.that creates problems.