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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 – ‘The Irritating Lack of Consistency’

A few weeks ago I was working with a group of course delegates on a community project. We were spending a couple of days re-furbishing a classroom [...]

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Customer Service Leads to Customer Loyalty

All customers want and expect superior customer service, and it is all too important that we give it to them. Otherwise, our competition will. [...]

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Customer Service Gems: “I Want To Make Sure It’s The Way You Like It!”

My client was sitting as his impressive desk extolling the virtues of a customer service rep that helped him with his charge card questions. [...]

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‘Gold’ Standard Customer Service is Still Key to Growing Your Business

The advent of the internet has changed the mortgage industry but a good customer service proposition is the key to achieving your business aims [...]

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Technology Is Not the Substitute to Build Extraordinary Customer Service & Loyal Customers

Have you ever experienced the impact of technology when trying to resolve a customer service issue? You listen to an automatic message that: Will [...]

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Customer Service – Important Customer Retention Strategies

Do you know the value of the mistakes you’ve made in the past has for the marketing of your business in the future? You would be amazed what a [...]

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