Welcome the the Customer Service Carnivale! This is an awesome edition full of customer service tips plus a few stories.

A big THANK YOU to all who submitted an article...and a big THANK YOU for reading!

I hope you make some time over the week to read all of the submissions because I think they're all worth reading...

Customer Service Tips

Anya Portnik presents Sales training tips for handling cold calling objections, part III posted at Gavin Ingham.

Steve C presents The Most Important Customer Service Tip I Have To Give posted at MyWifeQuitHerJob.com.

GP presents Easy Like Sunday Morning posted at Manely Montana.

Surbhi Bhatia presents The Art of Public Relations posted at The Viewspaper.

Adrian Ma presents 5 things every freelance designer should know about managing clients posted at The Corpus Callosum.

Rocky presents Dealing with angry clients posted at Service Biz Coach.

Nissim Ziv presents Help Desk Interview Questions and Answers: IT, Computer and Analyst posted at Job Interview Guide.

Shaun Sayers asks, What is “brand”? posted at Capable People Blog.

Great tips for internal customers! Ilyn Q. presents How to Make Field Staff Productive – Tips and Tools posted at The Service Manager.

Jim presents Seven reasons why customer relationships matter to growing a business posted at Beyond Customer, saying, "Customer relationships matter because of their value to your business. It’s not selfish to say so, it’s more reality, we need loyal customers more than they need us."

Is it worth a customer service manager's time to deal with an escalation? Service Untitled presents Customer Escalations and You.

Customer Service Stories

Adesh Sidhu presents Enjoying Journey and Reaching Destination posted at Not Being Sarkari.

Banquet Manager presents The World's Rudest Restaurants - Part 1 posted at So You Want To Be a Banquet Manager....

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of customer service carnivale using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.