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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.

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Less “let’s go viral” and more “let’s build community”

Communications Conversations

Last week, Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes wrote an outstanding piece about how the rules of social media marketing have changed. While Holmes talked about how we’re in the midst of transitioning to a post-social-media landscape, I envision another stark trend: The comeback of community. First, go back to 2010. Bigger still.

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“Join the conversation”–officially a dead internet phrase

Communications Conversations

” It’s a phrase that’s been ubiquitous since social media blew up in 2007-2008. And, it’s been used (to death) in signage by retailers, restaurants and media. This is what Twitter was like from about 2007-2010. Customers merely comment these days (and increasingly, not on Twitter). And, as of Sept.

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Want Social Media Evangelizers? Be Social

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Want Social Media Evangelizers? Be Social September 7th, 2010 Tweet Today BNET published my second post, focusing on how companies can use social media to turn customers into evangelizers.

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The Old “New Media” and Marketing Tools with Novel Twists [UML]

Sword and the Script

Pinterest, which positioned itself as a “ visual search engine ” – as opposed to a social media network – has set itself up to capitalize on the opportunity while creating a new one for marketers: it recently introduced visual search ads. It’s worth noting Pinterest also has a foundational track record with social media advertisers.

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Would you Run Your Internal Data Through this Media Monitoring AI? PR Tech Sum: Talkwalker, TVEyes, Meltwater, SocialChorus, Cision, Signal AI and Burrelles

Sword and the Script

Internal data such as survey responses, call center data or customer service email data according to a company representative. Well, if you use Talkwalker for social listening, this is a way to evaluate social data against customer data, for example. It compares email data with social media data for Coca-Cola.

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In Public Relations, The Customer Is Your Media

Waxing UnLyrical

If you’re a public relations professional (or business owner) fixated on getting that One Big Media Hit (Oprah, anyone?), consider this instead: The customer is your media. Repeat after me: the customer is your media. I’ve written before about how good customer service is the best kind of PR.

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