Webinar Recordings of Customer Service Webinar Series

AMT’s Global Service Committee announces a new initiative designed to provide valuable ‘how-to’ information to AMT members about important customer service and support principles. There will be a series of 4 webinars, presented by members of the Global held approximately every month, on a variety of topics, such as:
- Best practices
- Important soft skills for engineers
- Team-selling techniques
- Using your customer service department to create new revenue streams
Part 1: Customer Service Best Practices
Date: November 12, 2009
Speaker: Donald Forrest, National Service Manager at Trumpf, Inc.
- Introduce ‘best practices’ into your customer services department
- Streamline operations
- Create internal efficiency
- Reduce response times to the customer
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Part 2: Team Selling & Courtesy Calls
Date: December 10, 2009
Speakers: John A. Leone, Director of Sales & Marketing, CITCO Products and Gardner Abrasives
Dennis Stienecker, General Manager - Customer Service, The Minster Machine Company
- Create an effective sales team every time
- An effective team benefits both the customer and the company
- Plan an effective sales call using the team
- Plan your courtesy call and prepare your team with research, an agenda and expectations
- Define expectations of what you need out of the visit
- Closing the loop is important and ensures that the customer is satisfied
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Team Selling Portion Recording (Flash) or Team Selling Portion Presentation Slides (PDF)
Courtesy Calls Portion Recording (Flash) or Courtesy Calls Portion Presentation Slides (PDF)
Part 3: Working With Service Customers Through Financial Constraints
Date: January 14, 2010
Using your service department as a potential source of revenue is one way to prepare for the upcoming upturn. Jimmy Berry, Customer Service Manager at W.A. Whitney, will focus on how to manage customer credit terms and how to effectively use service agreements to benefit both you and your customer.
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Part 4: What is The Profile of the 'New' Service Engineer and What Does He Have to Know?
Date: February 11, 2010
Times have changed and so have your customers needs. Marty Zaccardo, Regional Services Manager at Agie Charmilles and Matt Lane, Field Service Manager at Control Gaging, Inc., will take you through how service and field engineers have changed over the past 10-15 years. They will also cover what skills they need to possess to perform their duties to the company and customer effectively.
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