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The Single Thing That Can Sink or Save Your Brand Reputation

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You can have the most amazing product in the world, provide an incredibly valuable, useful, important service…but it can be tarnished in an instant by a single thing. Conversely, a difficult situation or a disappointed customer can be remarkably helped – even completely turned around – by that very same Read more »

The Wicked Social Media Backhand

We’re asking companies to listen and use social media but when they do, we question their motives. Or whether they really care. Or whether they’re just responding because someone yelled loud enough or has enough followers. Or whether they’re just going through the motions because someone said they should. What Read more »

How Hotel 71 Fixed a Customer Service Snafu and 5 Lessons to Take Home

I had a rather cruddy customer service experience the night before last, and I wasn’t going to blog about it. I posted a couple of tweets that night amid my frustration (after contemplating carefully whether I wanted to call out the business itself). But I was just going to let Read more »

Why I’m Tired of #Fail

We use the word “FAIL” with such abandon today – even with a taste of vindictive enthusiasm – and often in the instant someone or something rubs us the wrong way, most especially a business. We have microscopic levels of patience that match the brevity of our status updates, making Read more »

The Dots Need Connecting

Social media is grand, and yes, it’s proving to be valuable for customer service in some scenarios. But it’s exposing a big disconnect: the companies embracing using things like Twitter or blogs aren’t necessarily taking those principles and applying them to their more traditional ideas of customer service and the Read more »

The Critical Mass Of Listening

What’s your expectation for a company when it comes to listening – and acknowledgment and response? My friend Jeff Shuey and I chatted a bit about Foursquare the other day on Twitter. I said I didn’t really get it yet. He was dismayed that he thought they had some customer Read more »

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