Tips and Tricks For Your Business Solution

If you’ve been in business very long, you’ve likely heard it all! You know, the irate customer who’s going to sue you over the nineteen dollar product that they claim is bogus; the one that’s going to “shut your business down” because they conjure up in their minds that you might have breeched your privacy policy.

There are some simple processes for dealing with irate customers without burning yourself an ulcer over them and without telling them you hope they get cancer and die!

Here are some tips and trick you may find useful…

1. Don’t take it personal

There’s one thing that almost all nasty customers have in common. They try to attack you on a personal level. Name calling isn’t unusual. When you take it personal, you’re likely to get into a yelling match with the customer which resolves nothing and only stands to make things worse. Try to diffuse the situation – kill the anger with kindness as we say. If that doesn’t work, ask them to contact you again once they’ve calmed down and are willing to speak reasonably. Refuse to speak with a customer in an irate state. You don’t have to put up with abuse ever. Read more… »

If you’ve been in business very long, you’ve likely heard it all! You know, the irate customer who’s going to sue you over the nineteen dollar product that they claim is bogus; the one that’s going to “shut your business down” because they conjure up in their minds that you might have breeched your privacy policy, or the one that takes complete advantage of your money-back guaranty. My favorite has to be the one that calls and screams vulgarities into the phone for apparently no reason.

It doesn’t happen often, but if you’re going to be in business, you’ll run across some nut cases from time to time. Some can be diffused, some can’t. That’s just the way things go in business.

There are some simple techniques for dealing with irate customers without burning yourself an ulcer over them and without telling them you hope they get cancer and die!

Here are some tips you may find useful…

1. Don’t take it personal

There’s one thing that almost all nasty customers have in common. They try to attack you on a personal level. Name calling isn’t unusual. When you take it personal, you’re likely to get into a yelling match with the customer which resolves nothing and only stands to make things worse. Try to diffuse the situation – kill the anger with kindness so to speak. If that doesn’t work, ask them to contact you again once they’ve calmed down and are willing to speak reasonably. Refuse to speak with a customer in an irate state. You don’t have to put up with abuse ever. Read more… »