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Extraordinary customer service occurs often when the employee has to “break the rules” to do the right thing.

Quite often managers try to “program” the language of customer service into staff by having them say “Have a nice day” etc. The test comes when the customer needs something that goes against policy but the employee could make it happen. That is when there is customer advocacy not just service. Example, the nurse at Rex Hospital (Raleigh, NC) who turned off the annoying machine that went BING for 15 minutes so I could fall asleep even though the Doctor’s orders were not written to allow this. Anti customer service example. JC Penney’s Men’s department. A customer is returning a suit. He paid full price. The suits are now on sale and policy says you return it for the current price. The sale ends tomorrow. Do you…
A) return the suit for the sale price only
B) tell the customer to [...]

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Customer Service & Sales Representative… -Phoenix, AZ #jobs http://bit.ly/1wcwFp

PHXcustservice: Customer Service & Sales Representative… -Phoenix, AZ #jobs http://bit.ly/1wcwFp

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aiyanarose: THIS IS EXTREMELY BAD CUSTOMER SERVICE TMOBILE!! IM ABOUT 2 TAKE MY BUSINESS SOMEWHERE ELSE THIS IS RIDICOUS

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MS_RT_BOT: RT @LantzWeaver RT @MSLearningCurve: Welcome @MICROSOFTHelps ! || Microsoft Customer Service on Twitter with answers and escalations ^ARL

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MicheleNYC: Saks Fifth Avenue Friends & Family – stop by and see Dave at the “Michele” watch counter – awesome customer service!

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jbernoff: @shelisrael Interesting what you say about Twitter being a comm too. Is Twitter really best for marketing, or for customer service? #tville

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The Importance of Good Customer Service

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The Importance Of Customer Service

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