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Secret Sauce: What it is, and How to Apply for best PR Results

Flack's Revenge

If you plug “secret sauce” into the Google Ngram viewer , which charts word usage in books dating back to 1900, you will see the first mentions in the early 1970s (confirming the Burger Wars theory), with rapid growth occurring around 2000 (perhaps, not coincidentally, during the dot com boom). Not necessarily. Just ask Zappos.

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Infographic: The Perennial Customer Revolution

Sword and the Script

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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2020, PR Moment (decade) of Truth

Flack's Revenge

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 ). Next up: A PR truth-telling how-to guide (and no, it is not the shortest book ever written!).

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New Rules That Every PR Person Should Know

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

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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How to Engineer the Perfect PR Metric

Cision

After all, there are plenty of books and posts and miscellaneous expositions claiming the same. 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.

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Time for PR to Take Back Reputation Management

David PR Group

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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Should your C-suite tweet? Maybe!

Stuart Bruce

The social web is no longer new, but should be an integral part of how a successful company operates. There is a wealth of information available from seminars like this morning’s to blog posts like this one, conferences galore (I know I speak at many), books (I know I’ve contributed to some of them). public relations'