by Jeff Yablon | Oct 29, 2012 | Business Process, Customer Service, Marketing
As Frankenstorm/Hurricane Sandy bears down on New York City and I wonder whether I’ll be able to keep doing business for much of this week, I’m thinking about customer service, business change, and marketing. Last year, ahead of Hurricane Irene, New York...
by Jeff Yablon | Oct 26, 2012 | Business Process, Customer Service, Influency, Marketing, Search Engine Optimization SEO
It’s Friday, and I was planning to put the lid on the continuing saga of Bad Customer Service at Virgin America today. But through the innocuous act of checking the long-term weather forecast this morning, those plans have changed. Virgin America, I’ll...
by Jeff Yablon | Oct 25, 2012 | Business Process, Development, Marketing, Media
Little computer. Small, but in no way “little” chip running it. Look! Up in the sky! It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s . . . Google wants you to think the Samsung Exynos 5-powered Google Chromebook is “Ready When You Are”. The...
by Jeff Yablon | Oct 24, 2012 | Customer Service
I have a very simple message today. This post has no shiny picture to lure people, and isn’t being nearly so aggressively Search Engine Optimized as much of what I write. It’s just . . . a story. Customer Service is hard. OK, maybe not. Customer Service...
by Jeff Yablon | Oct 23, 2012 | Customer Service, Influency
Sometimes, pushing is the wrong strategy. Of course, if you believe that “the squeaky wheel gets the grease”, you push. You push all the time. You explore. As I’ve heard pointed out in various ways by many people, “little boys just can’t...