{"id":13926,"date":"2019-07-29T10:06:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T17:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=13926"},"modified":"2019-07-29T10:06:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T17:06:58","slug":"the-summer-of-customer-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=13926","title":{"rendered":"The Summer of Customer Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, aside from AOL, that ism giving my partner a hard time setting up another email account.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that good customer service is breaking out all over&#8230;.Arby&#8217;s honoring a freebie for messing up a previous order, Relief Factor grandfathering us into the old prices, Fry&#8217;s honoring a poorly worded discount on bread. There are a couple of other examples, too.<\/p>\n<p>The point is, at a full employment economy, you might think that customer service people, usually among the last hired, might be a bit service and out of touch.<\/p>\n<p>Au contraire. They&#8217;re giving good customer service.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere, among these corporate titans, word might have reached the marketing poobahs that good customer service begets good word of mouth, which begets increased sales.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s keep it going into the fall and winter months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, aside from AOL, that ism giving my partner a hard time setting up another email account. It seems that good customer service is breaking out all over&#8230;.Arby&#8217;s honoring a freebie for messing up a previous order, Relief Factor grandfathering &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=13926\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[622],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13926"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13927,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13926\/revisions\/13927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}