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The FOREfront guide to epic customer service

Author
Mark Eggers
5
min read

What's in the eBook?

If you've got customers, you're doing customer service.

Businesses live and die by their customers, so striving for anything less then stellar customer service is like planning for things to go awry.

In this eBook, we'll share our method for turning customers into raving fans, and share a couple of case studies from businesses who we think have nailed it.We cover the following topics:

  • How to create raving fans for your business.
  • The FOREfront method for ensuring customer service success.
  • Bonus: Epic CX case studies.

To download the eBook today, click here.

The FOREfront guide to epic customer service
Mark Eggers

Mark heads up the Sales team at Yarno. He loves to chat, which is fortunate because he’s very good at it. He's our digital Swiss Army Knife, always armed with a solution to any problem.

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