The customer is always right. This is an adage that many entrepreneurs and businesses aspire to live up to. However, most entrepreneurs soon find out that customers can be difficult and irrational.

When I wrote a column on taking care of customers, one negative e-mail stood out to me because it illustrates an important point so well: Companies need to continue to stress customer service and ...

You just need to look at the news lately to realize that there are more difficult people out there. People are getting arrested for being unruly on airlines it seems almost every day. The number of ...

Nicole Leinbach-Reyhle, a regular contributor to Forbes magazine, says there is a proven way to kindly and productively handle difficult customers, and it comes in a 10-step method. “Calmly listen to ...

When it comes to the food service industry, dealing with challenging customers can be a regular occurrence. But sometimes the encounter is odd enough that it stands out from the crowd. That’s the case ...

Learn how to build winning relationships, provide the right assistance at the right times, and effectively a variety of customers. Customer service care costs organizations billions of dollars each ...

The adage “the customer is always right” rings true to a point. Your customers have a right to expect good service and a quality product at a fair price. But some clients or customers have ...

This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. By Krish Chopra It was 11 p.m. on a Thursday when my phone rang—again. Another nurse practitioner student was overwhelmed and panicked ...

The goal of the average freelancer, entrepreneur or service provider can be summed up in this basic algorithm: Get a client, land a gig, get the job done, get paid promptly, and get a repeat. If you ...