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Online Reviews: How To Encourage People To Review Your Business

SharePositive online reviews for your product or service are powerful tools in encouraging others to sample your wares and build brand loyalty. Need proof? Consider recent news that online review giant Yelp may actually be killing chain restaurants as users instead opt to support and review local, independently owned establishments. In the same study, Michael [...]

Customer Service Lesson: Caviat Emptier Newport News/Spiegel

Share This is a guest post by one of my favorite, and smartest of friends, and a well-known online security expert, Christopher Burgess (@burgessct) My Customer Service Nightmare at the Hands of Newport News/Spiegel  There comes a time in every consumer’s lifetime when a retailer may try and take advantage of the relationship and deliver [...]

Breaking Down The Walls

Share I stopped at a local eyeglass shop this afternoon to begin the arduous process of shopping for new specs. There was really no time for this indulgence in an already busy day packed with wall-to-wall meetings, but I felt like stopping, so I did. This was a relatively new neighborhood store and one I’d [...]

Driving Sales Through Social Media

Share Social media has enabled companies (even some with notoriously poor customer service) to better field consumer questions and concerns. Major brands like Comcast, Dell and Best Buy have embraced social media as it has allowed them to connect with their consumers in a more immediate and impactful manner. If companies participating in the social [...]

Have a Job? Thank Your Customers.

Share This is what my friend Erika Napoletano, the infamous Chief Redhead at Redhead Writing, would call a Bitch Slap. Damn, but I wish I’d thought of that. I’ll ask again … do you have a job? If so, it’s probably because the business you work for has customers. And when was the last time [...]

Grocery Store Fails When It Comes To Consumer Behavior

ShareDeliver a Consumer Behavior For Dummies Book STAT to my Local Grocery Store When I started to write this post, I really had to stop and reflect as to whether the topic of today’s rant should be on customer service or on consumer behavior. After much consideration, I settled on consumer behavior. And so the [...]

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