{"id":2150,"date":"2016-06-09T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2019-04-03T09:28:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:28:09","slug":"thoughtful-thursdays-gold-star-for-customer-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/09\/thoughtful-thursdays-gold-star-for-customer-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursdays &#8211; Gold star for customer service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s sales thought is about a recent excellent customer service experience.<\/p>\n<p>Some time ago I purchased a Zebra 0.5 mm mechanical pencil. It is not special or expensive, but I like the way that it functions. One of the features of the pencil is&nbsp;its twist up eraser. Over a period of time the eraser has worn down and is in need of replacement. I went online to order some replacement erasers and discovered they were not available in local stores. Rather than discard the pencil I decided to contact the manufacture via email&nbsp;to ask them where I might finds the replacement erasers.<\/p>\n<p>The response I received is the reason for awarding Zebra a gold star for customer service.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently replacement erasers for this pencil&nbsp;are not readily available, perhaps that is a topic for another Thoughtful Thursday. In any case they offered to send some to me free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>Two thumbs up for Zebra Pen Canada Corp!<\/p>\n<p>People buy from people they like.<\/p>\n<p>Good selling,<br \/>\nRichard<\/p>\n<p>Have a question about sales? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sakanashiandassociates.com\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contact Sakanashi and Associates Inc.<\/a> and I will respond.<\/p>\n<p>Please share Thoughtful Thursdays posts with people you feel may find the topic interesting and helpful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s sales thought is about a recent excellent customer service experience. Some time ago I purchased a Zebra 0.5 mm mechanical pencil. It is not special or expensive, but I like the way that it&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/09\/thoughtful-thursdays-gold-star-for-customer-service\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,67,68,3],"tags":[38,50,73],"class_list":["post-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customer-service","category-pbfptl","category-people-buy-from-people-they-like-2","category-thoughtful-thursdays","tag-customer-service-2","tag-people-buy-from-people-they-like","tag-thoughtful-thursdays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3651,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions\/3651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}