Satisfaction Articles

1). Delivering Great Customer Service - 10 Tips By : Jane-Michèle Clark
It almost goes without saying that good customer service is essential to sustaining any business. No matter how wonderful a job you do of attracting new customers, you won’t be profitable for long unless you have a solid customer retention strategy in place – and in action. It’s the actions that count – not what you say you’ll do, or what the policy says.
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2). What is Your Mission on Earth and What is it Not? Ten Misconceptions By : Ineke Van Lint
You were sent to earth with a mission to fulfill. This mission has to do with your passion. If you want to be happy and fulfilled with enthusiasm, you have to discover what your mission is and organize your life and activities in function of your mission.Most people have the wrong idea about their mission. Here are ten common misconceptions and the truth about what a mission on earth really is.
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3). Why Should You Find Your Life’s Purpose? By : Ineke Van Lint
Many spiritual traditions revolve around one central question: “Who am I ?” Even the business world ponders this crucial matter. According to business gurus, the first step on the road to success is asking yourself this very question:“What’s my mission? What on Earth am I doing? Am I in the right place?” If you can’t answer these questions, then you are wasting 90% of your time and energy doing things that are neither your mission nor your business! You will feel an inner anxiety, urging you to search for the deeper meaning of your life.
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4). What’s changing in Customer Service? The top 5 new things that customers want. By : Jane-Michèle Clark
We all know that good customer service is paramount to growing a business and increasing profitability. What many managers are failing to realize, however, is that rapid changes in technology have lead to equally rapid changes in the delivery of quality customer service. In addition to the basics we all have heard time and again, there are five new areas of customer service that should be addressed to keep customers happy.
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5). How Compatible Are You And Your Partner? By : Kim Olver
What are the things you argue about? Where are the disagreements? The small resentments? Where do you have to give in to get along? Do you argue over money? Are you fighting over sex? Do you have different ideas about how much time you should spend together and apart? Do you squabble over extended family and friends? Is one of you daring and reckless,.
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6). Are You Living The Successful Life You Want Or Something Else? By : John Halderman
Copyright 2006 John Halderman Have you wondered why you continue with life as usual, even though you are not experiencing enough happiness, and you know you want things to be different? Your full happiness and satisfaction with life is largely based on the natural expression of yourself. That's great you say, so why does it seem so hard to set up my life to fully express myself the way I really want? There are some also very natural and normal aspects of you that tend to block change.
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7). Email Marketing is Still Hot for Small Business By : W. Dave Free
How do you communicate with your customers? We all know that there's getting to be more and more online activity. How much? According to the Pew Research Center: The proportion of Americans online on a typical day grew from 36% of the entire adult population in January 2002 to 44% in December 2005. The number of adults who said they logged on at least once a day from home rose from 27% of American adults in January 2002 to 35% in late 2005.
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8). Greatness By : Laurent Grenier
When I was a nineteen-year-old high school student and budding poet – two years after my diving accident – many factors adversely affected my creativity. My trips in a special bus to school and back home, my courses, and my assignments, though I was spared a lot of writing and was mostly tested orally, all this was time-consuming. More often than not, my obligation to study took priority over my desire to compose poetry.
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9). Ten Steps to Electrifying Enthusiasm By : Ineke Van Lint
Enthusiasm is the highest level of energy we can experience as human beings here on earth. Discovering your passion is the first step towards excitement and enthusiasm. I present to you ten steps to help you unfold your excitement so you can join the enthusiasts on this planet!
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10). You Can Improve Your Relationship By : Kim Olver
It seems as if creating successful relationships with our significant others and parenting children are two of the most difficult jobs we face and yet we get no formal training in either. It’s as if people believe that we are born with an inherent ability to do these two things. Yet, look around us. In the US, the divorce rate is slightly over 50%! I don’t know anywhere but baseball where a 50% average is a good thing.
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11). Customer Service Policy Geared For Excellence By : Alicia Smith
One unhappy customer will tell the world about inferior service while a happy customer rarely tells a soul. Your challenge as a business owner is to create a buzz so positive about your products and services that your clients and customers will become your raving fans and will tell the world about you! Your lesson for today is to put pen to paper and write a rock solid customer service policy for your business.
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12). Wisdom By : Laurent Grenier
What is wisdom? But first, what are the conditions that render it desirable, if not necessary, and what is its essential purpose? Life is a desire to live, and better still a desire to live happily. As we strive to satisfy this desire, we encounter obstacles that complicate or frustrate our efforts. This complication or frustration amounts to suffering because it stands in the way of satisfaction.
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13). Are You Inspired In Your Work? By : CD Mohatta
Why do we all work? If it is for money, then does it mean that those who earn enough to last a life time or those who inherit, should do no work? Try to find out around with your friends about why they work and surely few of them will answer - for money. If someone who has enough money decides to do no work, will it make that person happy and contented? We derive satisfaction in life by doing things that we feel are worth while.
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14). Employee Motivation is a Psychological Process By : James Hunt
To understand employee motivation, we first need to know exactly what it means. The most common definition of motivation states that motivation is the...
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15). You Will Not Be Truly Satisfied Until You Do This... By : Mohamed Tohami
Are you looking for satisfaction and fulfillment? To be satisfied and fulfilled you must do something you love to do. But it is not always easy to do that. You will find yourself drifted away from doing what you love and do other things to just make a living. You may be successful but not satisfied and your soul may be looking for something bigger to pursue.
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16). Shift Your Growth into the Fast Lane by Engaging Your Customers By : W. Dave Free
Do you feel like you have the “pedal to the metal,” spending all you can on advertising but still can’t get the growth of your business into the fast lane? The fact is, if your customers aren’t engaged, it may not matter how much you spend on advertising. Just like a car in neutral isn’t going anywhere (no matter how much gas you give it) until the transmission is engaged, your business isn’t going anywhere until your customers are engaged.
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17). Customers Who Rave About You and Your Service By : Alicia Smith
According to customer service studies by marketing gurus of the world, here are the following qualities, which must be present in your life and your business in order to develop raving fan customers who are not just satisfied but completely loyal to you over the long haul. 1. People want you to show an interest in their lives. You not only know about their business, you know about their families, the hobbies they enjoy, and their life experiences.
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18). Happiness Versus Pleasure By : Margaret Paul, Ph. D.
We are a pleasure seeking society. Most of us spend our energy seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. We hope that by doing this, we will feel happy. Yet deep, abiding happiness and joy elude so many people. There is a huge difference between happiness and pleasure. Pleasure is a momentary feeling that comes from something external – a good meal, our stock going up, making love, and so on.
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19). 1. Personal Development By : Ab van Deemter
There has been a time in my life that I was only chasing money and personal success through money. For quite some time I managed to live a wealthy life with lots of so-called friends. And although I had lots of fun during that time, I lost everything because I lacked a real important thing in my life: - Personal Growth - I forgot how important it is to work hard to become my very best me and to be able to live my full potential.
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20). 2. Mentoring By : Ab van Deemter
It is common knowledge that in the animal world it is the elders who teach the younger animals where to get their food, how to hunt, how to protect themselves and how to behave. The young ones need role models to learn how to sustain the family, pack or herd. Without the guidance of the elders young animals don’t know how to live and succeed in their environment.
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21). Are You a Habitual Starter? By : Jez Lacey
Do you keep starting things and don't ever complete anything? This is a sign of scattered thinking which leads to disatisfaction and frustration. Find out what you need to do in order to get yourself on a success cycle supporting your purpose.
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22). Are You Receiving The Happiness You Should? By : John Halderman
Where do you think your happiness and satisfaction come from? Most expect and rely on people, situations and things to provide it. In reality it is totally up to you, but you must be aware and make the choice to take control of how you feel.
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23). Referrals Win Again By : Dave Free
I was out Christmas shopping with my wife last week. We were at Best Buy looking for video games for our teenage sons. My wife asked the clerk for his opinion on the best game for teenage boys. He ran through several. He did a good job, but none of the descriptions were compelling enough to make me want to pick one up. As he and my wife went on talking, a fellow shopper came up beside me and said, "Hey, if you want a good game for teenagers, get this one.
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24). If I'm Not Satisfied, What Do I Want? By : Jeffery Glaze
Customer service is all about the customer. As business owners or employees, we have all at one time or another had to deal with an upset customer. What happens when the upset customer is us? Being in business does not guarantee success. The last thing a business owner wants is to lose our business, so when something goes wrong and we are the customer, do we just accept it and walk away forever or do we seek satisfaction.
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25). Dude, You Gotta Try This, You Won’t Be Disappointed! By : Dave Free
Is there anything more powerful than a referral from a friend? Money can’t buy the credibility that a friend, or even an acquaintance, commands. The recommendation above was actually emailed from a happy Sport Clips™ customer to his friend along with a coupon for $3 off. This is just one of many referrals sent by the customers of Joan & Chuck Matheny.
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