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How Airlines Like Delta Hold Parents Hostage

Sword and the Script

For a mere eighty-eight additional dollars, the airline was kind enough to reassign us in a row together. The airlines are counting on it, indeed, I’d contend airlines, including Delta, prey on such emotions to separate a few more dollars from the consumer wallet. CSR #customer. Misery” as a Business Strategy.

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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. Southwest Airlines. Ritz-Carlton. 2012, May 17).

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How to Stop a Nightmare: Listen to Your Customers

Cision

The real cause of the United Airlines incident is an industry-wide problem, the all-too-common practice of overbooking. Bumping a paying passenger from a flight is an enormously disruptive action, regardless of which airline does it. The airline even appologized after it bumped a 10-year old from a flight.

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How to Stop a Nightmare: Listen to Your Customers

Beyond PR

The real cause of the United Airlines incident is an industry-wide problem, the all-too-common practice of overbooking. Bumping a paying passenger from a flight is an enormously disruptive action, regardless of which airline does it. The airline even appologized after it bumped a 10-year old from a flight.

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When is bad language not a four-letter word? On business jargon, clichés and exploitation

PR Matters

Unfortunately, in the world of business, as well as communications, including PR, marketing and advertising, there remains a great tendency to use clichés instead of writing content that works well simply by being clear, to the point and providing value and evidence for the reader.

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8 Ways to Differentiate Your Brand on Twitter in 2016

Cision

That said, Twitter is a social platform that is uniquely positioned for: Customer-initiated social care (customer service). Put resources into fast social care (customer service). Amazon responds to every inquiry and either solves or redirects every social inquiry to an appropriate customer service function.

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Be All In Or Get All Out With Content Marketing

Beyond PR

Write about the thing, not the keyword string. Although it’s good to focus on content for your funnel, if 40% of your business is coming from current customers, why aren’t you creating 40% of content for those customers? Royal Dutch Airlines used to have an inefficient program for returning lost items to travelers.