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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 [...]

Customer Service in Reverse

Today a client from one of the major consultancy companies had an issue with one of our products – he wasn’t able to download the product link from where he was.

What amazes me is how brainwashed big consultancy-staff is in thinking they’re always right.

The download link was fine – the issue was clearly a local one, a firewall, a local setting, one of many easy to solve ones by having us send the download link to a personal email address and then downloading it from home, without the hassles of a corporate firewall network blocking it.

Kindly have it sent and confirm. This is very urgent. I am a bit surprised that all other websites and links open up . Pls cross check and revert with a permanent solution

What disturbs me, is the one track solution mind – “a and b [...]

Great Customer Service Means Thanking Your Customers

“Thank your customers” This is one of those customer service “rules” that shouldn’t be. It shouldn’t even have to be a reminder. To thank someone [...]

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 [...]

How to Receive Good Customer Service

Customer Service-people chuckle, grimace and always have some opinion about whether or not it’s available anymore. Some have even mentioned that [...]

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 [...]

Customer Service Metrics – Tracking What Your Customers Are Saying

Your business is booming! You are making money hand over fist and your bank is sending you love letters. Your investors are crawling over each [...]

Customer Service Managers Need to Establish & Enforce “Rules” & Eliminate Mere “Standards”

As individuals, one of the earmarks of maturing is that we’re allowed increasing latitude and discretion in how we handle ourselves and our [...]

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 [...]