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Explain dangers of poor customer service, including dissatisfied customers, poor word of mouth and reduced revenue.
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Good customer services
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Customer service methods and impacts
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This curriculum point, Explain dangers of poor customer service, including dissatisfied customers, poor word of mouth and reduced revenue sits within Customer service methods and impacts and Good customer services for AQA GCSE Business 8132. Use a business such as SwiftServe serves business clients while changing promotion; the case evidence includes supplier lead time of ?9,530, sales of 375 units, and a 31% change in costs or demand to keep the explanation applied. The important reasoning is to connect customer service with the business objective, the financial implication, and the effect on managers. Avoid treating margin and markup as the same thing. A high-quality answer should explain the commercial trade-off, use precise evidence, and finish with a judgement that depends on the context rather than a generic definition.
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