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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. 1 Do Things that Don’t Scale. Ritz-Carlton. 2012, May 17).

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Brand Ambassadors, Brand Advocates: These Programs Aren’t Easy!

Rock the Status Quo

What is the difference between a brand ambassadors, brand advocates and just an online community? Communities are a collection of people passionate about something, who are gathered into a social media community around that passion. It can be an industry, a career field, a product or service or just an idea. Just in case.

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Harnessing the Power of Big Data for Public Relations

Waxing UnLyrical

How can PR professionals harness the power of big data to support customer service, PR and marketing efforts? Waze is the community-driven app that learns from users’ driving mannerisms to provide routing and real-time traffic updates. There is no silver bullet, but we can provide some examples, based on recent experiences.

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State of Crisis Communications and Social Media from a Professor’s Perspective

Waxing UnLyrical

A recent report from Continuity Insights in 2014 shows that “over half (58%) rated mobile technologies [are considered] as absolutely vital in carrying out crisis communications plans, up 5% since 2013” (page 4). Build crisis communications practices throughout curriculum.

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8 Questions with Syracuse University’s Sports Legend, Michael Veley

Critical Mention

However, we had 48 hours to create and host a championship celebration in the Carrier Dome to honor the team, and then, coordinate a major downtown parade, pep rally and community-wide tribute less than two days later. It’s all about customer service. Ask the right questions.listen.and engage your customers.

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LinkedIn Social Selling for MDRT Financial Services and Insurance Pros

wiredPRworks

You can grow your business by integrating LinkedIn into sales, customer service or marketing efforts for immediate and long-term impact throughout your business and community. at Social Media Week Berlin in 2013. About MDRT via MDRT.org.

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LinkedIn Pulse: The Next Content Marketing Must-Have?

MaccaPR

Preceding its $90 million acquisition by LinkedIn back in 2013, Pulse was a news-aggregator app that curated your favorite publications and news sources and presented them in a Flipboard-type manner. Rebranding to “LinkedIn Pulse” in late 2013 , the app has quickly become a key part of making LinkedIn a content marketing machine.