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Is Customer Service the New Marketing? | Fast Company

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.

How Thor Muller and the gang at Get Satisfaction have helped thousands of companies and millions of consumers transform the fundamental notions of customer service.


Thor MullerJust 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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Reading recommended: OneBeep offers one-way connectivity to remote communities

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Reading recommended: OneBeep offers one-way connectivity to remote communities http://ht.ly/18OhkJ

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Recommended: Understanding the Consumer of the Future

Did you survive a recession or are you in the midst of a transition (partly as a result of that recession). Only time will tell. But for the moment read the context, connect and act!.


As chief insights officer for Young & Rubicam,John Gerzema presides over the world’s largest database of information about consumer attitudes. Recently, he has been traveling the country, interviewing marketers and consumers about changing consumer behaviors — insights that are collected in his new book (co-authored with Michael D’Antonio), Spend Shift: How the Post-Crisis
Values Revolution is Changing the Way We Buy, Sell, and Live.  He recently spoke with Inc. editor-at-large Leigh Buchanan.

See also this deck from early 2010.

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Resolutions 2011: Authenticity & Business

brands and authenticity
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Recommended: BSI’s deck Why European Social media projects fail.

Reading How multi-channel search marketing has become more social

Reading How multi-channel search marketing has become more social http://ht.ly/18H08e

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Recommended TED Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks

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.