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Is Customer Service the New Marketing? | Fast Company
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Yesterday I attended the VCN Annual Conference in the Netherlands. The chair of the Dutch Customer Service Federation announced 3 action points because of the T-Mobile customer service riot. These are reducing waiting lines, improved collaboration and improving complaint management. Not a very effective approach in 2011, in my humble opinion. May be time to acknowledge and start acting according to insights like these.
Found at Is Customer Service the New Marketing? | Fast Company.
Just three years ago, you needed to be a prominent blogger like Jeff Jarvis or Bob Garfield to make an online noise loud enough to inspire a company response to a particular product or service issue. It was about that time that Thor Muller, Co-founder and CTO of Get Satisfaction, developed an online tool that would “allow anybody that same power,” to in essence, “get satisfaction by pulling the company in.
To be continued at http://www.fastcompany.com/1704630/is-customer-service-the-new-marketing
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Resolutions 2011: Authenticity & Business
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Reading How multi-channel search marketing has become more social
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Recommended TED Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks
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We’re all embedded in vast social networks of friends, family, co-workers and more. Nicholas Christakis tracks how a wide variety of traits — from happiness to obesity — can spread from person to person, showing how your location in the network might impact your life in ways you don’t even know.






