Communications Conversations

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

While a good chunk of brands still use Twitter as a customer service tool, some are starting to move away from Twitter and not devote the resources platforms like Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn are receiving. No replies (that’s customer service). And, in some instances, the answer has been “yes.”

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Think of Google PageRank, the web indexing algorithm that helped make the company the unrivaled search leader and giant it is today; or Facebook’s newsfeed algorithm, or Amazon’s one-click online shopping and recommendation engine. Examples in more modern day tech are all around us, but might not jump out. Not necessarily.

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How To Wikipedia Engineering Web 194

Prakkypedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

It’s imperative to get to know customer service staff, the finance team, web team and so on, so that the impact of any PR work can be measured across those different spaces. I’ve worked with a number of organisations over the years – large and small – all with various objectives and sets of data.

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Measurement Customer Service Web Course 92

Stephen Waddington

MAY 9, 2020

The best responses are rooted in listening, engaging and providing support to customers. The crisis has led to a massive shift to digital communications as organisations pile into email, social and web. It has pivoted to record stories about the crisis and provide web services. It’s proved popular in our household.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Of the many things that play into a brand’s reputation, there are a few that you have control over: customer service, your online presence, and corporate social responsibility. Happy customers and word of mouth referrals lead to an increase in sales, which are worth more in the long run than advertising.

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5W PR

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

As such, it viewed and ranked companies across three categories – web, mobile, and cross-channel. To get there, they had to score best practice adoption rates of at least 63% on the web, 72% on mobile, and 82% cross-channel. Of 125 major retailers, only two, Home Depot and JC Penney ranked high in all three categories.

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Communications Conversations

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

For years, we’ve been debating the merits of “gated” content on the web. And sure, there are many ways brands earn trust–customer service, CEO actions, and pricing just to name a few. But, as content marketing (and the social web) evolved, so did customers’ expectations.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 19, 2015

It seems to me the same is true of customer service. Every few years there’s a new book that forewarns of a customer revolution. Mass media, the web, social media were all destined to change customer service. Good customer service isn’t the rule, it’s an exception. And yet it hasn’t.

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Critical Mention

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Social Media Improves Customer Service. Oftentimes, consumers rely on social media reviews and online customer service to finalize purchasing decisions. Add URL links to your posts to direct customers to your site or landing page. Doing so helps increase web traffic and form completions. Share Tweet Share.

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PRSay

APRIL 29, 2019

.” The correct answer is the second choice, and that’s because it’s a “benefits headline,” which is a type of headline that entices your readers by showing how your product, service or idea will make your life better. Here are five tips for crafting effective benefits headlines: 1. Pile on the perks.

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PRSay

DECEMBER 27, 2022

We’ve all seen users tweet about poor customer service, but via Twitter brands can offer to resolve those issues faster than any other method. For example, if someone in your organization is quoted in your press release, then include a web link to a high-resolution headshot of that person, along with your organization’s logo.

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Onclusive

JANUARY 10, 2018

Brand lift, moving customers through the funnel more quickly, organizational efficiency, customer service, product development – the list goes on and on. There are so many other thing that can tie content and PR to ROI beyond sales. I want marketers to think more creatively and broadly about what to measure.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 2, 2019

It’s indicative of the fact that outside of customer service social media engagement has largely become a paid activity. Areas of investment in digital PR The main areas in which brands are spending their digital and social media budget are: video-based content (58%), paid social media activity (58%), and web design and build (47%).

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Digital PR Report Communications Crisis Management 78

Melissa Agnes

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

TCIP #014 – Toronto Police Service, Their Customer Service and Crisis Preparedness with Chris Boddy. This week on The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, I had the pleasure of chatting with Staff Sergeant Chris Boddy of the Toronto Police Service. What You Need to Learn from DiGiorno Pizza’s Foolish Twitter Gaffe. Listen here!

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PR 20/20

JUNE 6, 2023

The platform is now a comprehensive suite of tools and services to help businesses with their marketing, sales, customer service, and operations. It’s ultimately designed to enable businesses to attract, engage, and delight customers throughout their buyer's journey.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 4, 2020

The phrase is intended to account for the additional ways a person or company could earn visibility on the web, including traditional news – but more importantly beyond it. The company cites ease-of-use, filtering tools and a focus on customer service as distinguishing qualities.

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Communications Conversations

JANUARY 29, 2019

Because customer service is something almost every brand worth its salt is doing on Twitter and Facebook. Responded to customer rants on social media with templated responses? This is customer service. Define engagement more succinctly—is it all about customer service? I don’t see it that way.

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Cision

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Traditional authority has been stripped away, because today, anyone can build a solid social media following and influence the Web with their posts. Quality customer service is appreciated and talked about on social media. Get all of Jeff Bullas’ listening advice today! Influencers.

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David PR Group

DECEMBER 2, 2016

If so, you’re probably vulnerable because millions of people look at online reviews across multiple sites, and it should be a customer service function more than anything else. If your customers, happy or unhappy, are commenting about your business on a review site, who should be monitoring it? But wait, there’s more.

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Reputation Wikipedia Customer Service Engineering 40

Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 12, 2015

To help you avoid that trap, this week’s roundup features seven posts from around the web that might help you craft new beginnings for old issues, as it were. Never Underestimate the Power of Consistent Customer Service. Why: Customers enjoy reliability and predictability when it comes to business transactions.

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Customer Service Web Community LinkedIn 40

Melissa Agnes

JANUARY 5, 2015

If you aren’t yet monitoring social media and the web as a whole, then you aren’t ready for anything, never mind to implement the following three must-do strategies. Do your customer service representatives understand their responsibility when it comes to issue management ?

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Crisis Crisis Management Exercises Customer Service 133

Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 2, 2013

I’ve been a web marketer for a long, long time. Having built my first web site ( DVD Verdict ) in April 1999 and managed one of the larger SEO teams in the country from 2006 to 2009, it’s safe to say I’ve seen many changes in web marketing over time. Guest post by Sean McGinnis. That’s a blog post for another day.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 6, 2016

Any PR pro who lacks basic SEO and web analytics knowledge should seek additional training, even if it’s basic free background like Moz’s analytics tutorial. The explosion of digital and social media has made every factor of corporate reputation―from customer service to CEO behavior―relevant to brand image, and therefore to PR.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Direct Messages are more dynamic than ever with read receipts, typing indicators, and web link previews. Google Hangouts and Skype are more or less extensions of traditional customer service. Facebook mitigates this somewhat by allowing you to promote initiation on third-party sites using the Messenger embed code.

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Skype Facebook Customer Service Google 120

Rock the Status Quo

MARCH 30, 2015

” “People will be able to have personal conversations with companies – specifically, customer service representatives – and be able to make requests, ask questions and get quick responses in an ongoing thread.” It could help customers by saving them a few mouse clicks. ” Okay. Triple hmmmmm.

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Cision

JULY 27, 2017

While your marketing team may be the one to pull together reports and analytics on sentiment and even web traffic, you should use this data to guide future decisions about earned media and content programs, as well as the general strategy for your brand moving forward. Get departments other than marketing involved in the process.

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Cision

MAY 6, 2015

Marketing is responsible for X, Customer Service for Y, PR for Z. One way to measure this would be for the customer service reps to ask customers how they heard about the company. From a digital standpoint, Google Analytics is a great measurement tool to understand customer behavior on a web property.

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Engineering How To Measurement Analytics 120

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 16, 2024

Propel does not have its own bot crawling and indexing the web. The customer service is above and beyond as well.” Here again many of the existing vendors also partner with TVEyes for broadcast, because it has become the industry standard. There are only a handful of PR software vendors that do have their own crawler.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 25, 2013

And online, they have a great approach to social media, integrating customer service every step of the way. Lessons in Listening and Customer Outreach From Chobani is a post from: Waxing UnLyrical. Shouldn’t every business take getting to know its fans and building relationships this seriously?

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Newsfile

JANUARY 30, 2024

Offer exceptional and empathetic customer service. Share customer stories and testimonials to build trust. Develop content that educates and adds value to the customer’s life. In contrast, ChatGPT offers conversational, personalized responses and creates original content just for you.

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Trends YouTube Video Social Media 105

Flack's Revenge

JANUARY 15, 2020

After firing off an angry tweet , I got to thinking (always a bad sign); and reflected on a post I wrote over ten years ago: PR Moment of Truth (the title refers to a phrase from the customer service field ). In 2020 it is a different moment of truth, a different kind of reckoning.

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Journalism Ethics Customer Service Report 156

5W PR

JULY 15, 2020

Today, most media kits are pitched via online newsrooms, or a web page attached to a company’s main site that features all of the company’s most relevant news and public relations information. Online newsrooms became best practice about five years ago, and they served as a replacement to PDF format media kits. . •

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 28, 2017

Today, we ingest thousands of news articles, millions of social media data points, web analytics, customer service data, CRM data – the list of data sources is nearly endless.

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Analytics Software Technology Data 96

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

this week’s roundup features seven posts from around the web focused on business lessons learned from politics. Customer Service, Richard Nixon, and the Silent Majority. Why: Understanding and embracing the needs of the silent majority can boost your customer service ratings.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

For example, bring your PR and customer service teams into the advertising planning process. Part of the reason people lose their minds about customer service on social media is pure frustration. This particular example is a classic illustration of how the web has changed marketing.

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 5, 2024

Luckily, several free tools on the web help with email address verification. Ask a Company’s Site Chat Many brands incorporate customer service chats directly into their website. Sending emails to too many inactive or incorrect addresses will hurt your sender reputation and get your emails directly into spam inboxes.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 2, 2021

The tool has historically helped PR and marketing search through web content to find those pieces that are being shared the most or have earned the most links. Muck Rack is a comprehensive all-in-one tool – and it puts customer service front and center. BuzzSumo introduces journalist profiles.

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