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Customer Service Is The “New” PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

The best PR agency in the world can’t hold a candle to employees who are empowered to do the right thing. Apparently the staff of a nearby Costco opened their doors to helpless locals, handing out dry clothes and even dragging in furniture when the store itself started to take on water. It can employ high-powered PR agencies.

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Main Street Revival: 41% of consumers went local during COVID–and 94% plan to continue

Agility PR Solutions

Although the COVID crisis was a catastrophic and even fatal event for many small business owners, others were able to take advantage of these trying times by drawing consumers to their shops with the magic wand of 2020—excellent customer service.

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How Speaking Opportunities Support B2B Companies

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Customer relationship management (CRM), local search optimization, and digital product catalogues were all once new product or service categories, which are now widely known. Especially in the B2B tech space, buyers are seeking partners that also provide great service in addition to a great product.

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The 22 Responsibilities of PR and What They Entail

Onclusive

Corporate communicators regularly work with stakeholders across the organization to develop and distribute pertinent info to employees and key affiliates. Taking dry content like company policies and turning it into information that employees actually want to read requires a savvy communicator. How do you know what’s working?

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Customer experience matters–except when it doesn’t (which is a lot of the time)

Communications Conversations

To my surprise my friends came back with a host of other industries where this lack of customer service and experience matters–home construction, cable TV companies, credit card companies and hair salons (that one surprised me). And the employee who served you most likely then said “my pleasure.” It was easy.

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What’s the One Thing?

Cision

When employees at one of the companies went on strike over the summer, customers and vendors joined them. The employees wanted him back and weren’t going to work until he was. The story became one of helping employees and reinstating an employer known for taking care of his workers and customers. What to do.

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The Extra Mile PR Strategy: Wow Your Customers

Doctor Spin

A family staying at the Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island, Florida, experienced the hotel’s customer service when their son’s beloved stuffed giraffe, Joshie, was accidentally left behind. Stuffed giraffe shows what customer service is all about. Ritz-Carlton. 2012, May 17). link] Nordstrom. 3 Nordstrom, Inc.