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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. 2012, May 17). Stuffed giraffe shows what customer service is all about. Ritz-Carlton. link] Nordstrom.

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What’s New In B2B Tech PR For 2017

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Good CX combines people, process and technology to understand, anticipate and consistently deliver a high-quality experience across all of a product or service brand’s touch points, from website to customer service. Everyone loves a story of customer service that goes above and beyond.

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Why Public Relations Should Remember Customer Expectations

Waxing UnLyrical

An organization can deliver a customer experience that exceeds industry norms by a factor of 10, but if the customer was expecting one that was 11 times better, the organization has failed. Expectations are everything in customer service, and PR professionals play an important role in creating customer expectations.

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Become the Pied Piper of Community Building

Waxing UnLyrical

There are three main components to building a successful community: content, engagement and customer service. Customer Service. Now that you have cultivated a community, it can be assumed that said community will become your customers (if they weren’t already). Think about content as your bait. Conclusion.

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Managing a Cyber Attack: How to Communicate to Customers

Polaris

Instead of coming clean about the hack when it happened in 2012, the company remained silent. How to Tell Your Customers about a Data Breach. #1 In one extreme example, LinkedIn landed in a media nightmare in mid-May after a hacker tried to sell 6.5 million of their users passwords. 1 Tell it all, tell it fast and tell the truth.

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More on PR2020: social media activism, internal comms resurgence, storytelling and professionalism

Stephen Waddington

Social media activism: brands don’t listen In 2012 Steve Earl and I wrote a book called Brand Anarchy. Any gap between a product or service and the public’s expectation will become a conversation on social media. A version of the complete essay will form the basis of the final chapter of Exploring PR.

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5 Things Small Businesses Need To Know To Avoid The Groupon Curse

Waxing UnLyrical

I even emailed customer service and was told my order would arrive on time. Desperate for answers, I did what any customer in 2012 would do and looked to Facebook and Twitter. Hopefully I could at least determine whether other customers were experiencing the same frustration. I was frustrated and concerned.