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Make Customers Happy – Five Rules To Do Business By

By Christine Dubyts, Dubyts Communications

The first step in making and keeping happy customers is asking some tough questions. Do your customers rest easy, confident you'll make them look good? Can they relax knowing you'll deliver on time as promised? Do they enter your establishment over and over, assured you will meet and exceed their expectations as you've always done?

Happy customers will tell you that all they really want is to go away feeling satisfied, pleased or delighted with the exchange -- aka, HAPPY. One of the most service-oriented organizations says it best: "In spite of the enormous range of products, services, customers, employees, facilities, systems and situations that exist in today's business world, survival depends on making people happy." - The Disney Approach to Quality Service.

So how do you make customers happy? If you Google, "make customers happy," you'll find 11,400,000 results, with article after article containing tips, hints and checklists on how to make customers happy. Check it out for yourself – there's some good stuff there.

Making customers happy should be a top priority. Our core philosophy, adapted from someone I respect as a business person, colleague and friend, is connected to this "happy feeling," and has been central to our way of doing business for 10 years. He said, "Give people what they want." And this is what we strive to do day after day, taking what people say they want and ensuring it's what they really need and then fulfilling so they go away happy, pleased, satisfied and oftentimes even delighted.

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