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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 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 is Like Dating – At Least the Rules Are the Same!

The most important ingredient in the recipe for success is your customer — without the customer there is no retail business. Consumers are [...]

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Customer Service – Are You Serious?

I happened to visit a few retail outlets over the last couple of weeks. I am shocked to see customer service at some of the outlets. Many [...]

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Airline Customer Service Careers

The US airline industry is gradually moving away from all the bloodletting that brought about the bankruptcy of four major carriers over the [...]

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5 Keys to Good Customer Service

If you own a business or manage a business, then you have to understand how important customer service is. This is especially true for those of [...]

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Headphones Present New Challenges for Customer Service

As the workforce continues to age they can be expected that employees will more frequently be listening to personal music while at work. A [...]

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Let Your Client’s Know Your Customer Service Expectations

At American Retail Supply, we make mistakes. We spend lots of time and money to make our procedures as efficient and foolproof as possible, but [...]

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Customer Service Training – Improving Skills in Call Centres

Customer Service skills training in Call Centres often takes place once in a Customer Service Agent’s period of employment – at the beginning! It [...]

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