How To Improve Your Customer Service

Customer service is an important element in having a successful telemarketing campaign and shouldn’t be taken for granted when it comes to closing sales and communicating with potential customers. It can be really detrimental and create a bad reputation if you don’t pay attention the quality of the customer service your team is providing. Today, we are looking at how you can improve your customer service to secure those sales and maintain happy customers.

BUILD RAPPORT

We have a whole post focused on building rapport and we believe it is one of the most important methods to grasp in customer services. Building rapport is a great way to improve your service because it allows you to build excellent relationships with customers and clients.

EMPATHISE

Being willing to have a conversation and to hear out your potential customer or client shows that you are interested in more than making money from these people, which is a great customer service skill to adopt. Making the customer feel like they are not just for profit, and that you actually care about what their needs, wants and concerns are will help you to secure more invested and happy customers.

THICK SKIN

Having a thick skin is a massive must have for working in customer focused roles, and it can take a bit of experience to get it. People won’t always be willing to work with you or hear you out, especially in a telemarketing campaign, so having a thick skin and not taking everything personally is really important not only for improving your customer service, but for your own sanity.

KNOWLEDGE

There’s nothing more unprofessional than not actually knowing what you’re talking about and not being able to handle customer concerns or questions can be hugely detrimental to your campaign. Ensure you and your team are constantly refreshed and aware of new systems, new protocol and new information that needs to be addressed to and with potential customers. Not only will knowledge improve your customer service it will save you a lot of time pressing the hold button and consequently create more sales.

There you have our top tips on improving your customer service skills when working on telemarketing campaigns. Many of these are purely common sense, but providing excellent customer service is commonly overlooked by many telemarketing teams, as the priority is sales. Sales come from customers, and treating customers with excellent service only heightens your chances of closing a sale.