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As a cutting edge Service Framework Company, The Art of Service is leading the way in providing high end, client focused Books, Toolkits and online and classroom Education Programs. We've served over 800 corporate clients and 500,000 individual clients and students in 87% of the world's countries. A recognized leader in the Service Management community, The Art of Service has quickly become the Specialist- and Manager’s Educator of Choice.

Extraordinary Customer Service is so hard to attain these days due to the pigeon holing, call center type services.

Too many facilities now make you use scripted responses. They don’t allow for taking the time to qualify a customer completely and gain the client’s trust. Instead companies are too busy to time the CSR and make sure they quickly take the information and move onto the next call. With some customers that may work however I find a much better working relationship with the client by listening to their needs completely and using intellect and resources to exceed the customer’s expectations. Customers can tell when you are just sending them mind-numbing information and only call when they absolutely have to. My kind of service is to provide legendary service. Service where the customer feels they connected with someone and will let you know if there are other potential opportunities coming up that can possibly be capitalized upon. It’s all [...]

Tools for Professionalism in Customer Service

Interview with Steve Coscia discussing professionalism in the HVAC and other service industries: Today we have Steve Coscia, author of [...]

Make Money at Home As a Customer Service Representative

Because of the advanced technology that is available to us, we have many options in the jobs that we take. Many of the available options will [...]

Customer Service -Take Your Fear of The Competition & Turn It Around to Generate Incredible Results

With many retailers fearing the economic impact of the “Big Box” stores, some small business owners have leveraged the advertising dollars of [...]

Decreasing Customer Service Cost

The most integral element that is still being missed in the international markets is the overall price associated with keeping the customer [...]

Customer Service Legends – Is Nordstrom Still Nordstrom?

I was having a delightful conversation with a client the other day when she mentioned that she and her semi-rural neighbors “Think nothing [...]

Improving Customer Service With Mobile Point of Sale Equipment

Imagine shopping at any business that you frequent, are there things that you don’t necessarily like about the overall experience? Is there [...]

Make Money Providing Outstanding Customer Service

Retailers are having it hard in these global recession times.  Obviously something has to be done to bring in the customers and the answer [...]