Esteemed Magazines June-July 2007 | Page 7

Perspectives Customer Relations Customers are important in your business There is no business that I have come across that does not involve a customer. One customer relations professional is said to have told her class that even for a housewife, her husband and children are her customers. In that regard, it occurred to me that everyone who deals with people needs to learn some very basic customer service and customer skills. At Esteemed Magazine, there is no way we are going to work on raising the bar of professionalism in all businesses without talking about customer, how to handle them and how to handle ourselves as customers and so much more that would encompass customer relationship management. But not all at one go! Today we talk about what customer care is and some of its very basic background information According to Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Care) “customer service is the set of behaviors that a business undertakes during its interaction with its customers”; while according to http://www.iec.org/online/tutorials/cust_care/ “Customer care is a customer service that seeks to acquire new customers, provide superior customer satisfaction, and build customer loyalty”. (www.flexiblelearning.net.au/toolbox/demosites/series3/317/resou rces/glossary/gls_idx.htm) says “customer-care is a phrase that is used to describe the process of taking care of our customers in a positive manner. The term is used in place of complaint handling due to its positive focus, and is a reminder that customer satisfactio