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What happened to customer service at Sears?

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The entire history of Sears is way beyond the scope of today’s blog post, but a short summary of Sears has its roots dating back to 1886 when the founder, Robert Sears began selling watches in Chicago. Customer service begins with employees who want to be working and doing their best. So what has happened? billion in 2012.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Customer Service Pet Peeves

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Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Employees that aren’t happy to see customers (rude, disaffected, unhappy, etc.) The four examples above are good examples of broad categories of customer service frustrations.

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Interview Questions and Answers for PAs, EAs and Admins Part 6

Practically Perfect PA

In my last blog I wrote about interview questions regarding career development and a few example answers. In this blog I want to concentrate on competency or scenario based questions. Can you give me an example of great customer service?

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Book Review: Exceeding Customer.

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Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. With a constant emphasis on customer service, Kazanjian reveals the simple philosophy of Taylor’s approach to customer service. What could we have done to improve our service?

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Age of Conversation 3: It Is In BookStores and Available On-Line

Make or Break Moments

Age of Conversation 3 captures the distinct shift from social media as a hypothetical consumer loyalty tool, as it was considered only a little more than a year ago, to its current state as a staple in the modern marketing toolbox. McLellan and Heaton have used their blogs to promote each book’s crop of contributors.

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5 Ways to Make Your Office More Inviting

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

On the outer edges of my desk, I place extra pens, pencils, highlighters, ruler, scissors, tape, tissue, stapler, Post-it notes, staple remover, lotion, hand sanitizer, and an extra phone if possible. Having the extra set of supplies for them makes it so much easier for them to do any final stapling or leaving notes for my executive.

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