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In Customer Service, When Can You Say “No” ?

The Customer Service Equation

The stuff in the picture is corny, isn’t it? Throw together the right set of tiles and you can win at the customer service game! The customer service equation is easy to solve! The customer is always right!

Well, no, to all of those things including the one about the customer always being right. You’re allowed to say “no” to customers, just as long as you’re willing to see them become ex-customers. You’re even allowed to say no to the customers you want to keep if you say it politely, firmly, and are willing to discuss the issues you’re saying no about in terms that matter to the customer.

Livefyre? Bad Idea. But Not For Why You Might Think …

Livefyre: A Great Idea, But Not for Comments

When you’re The Answer Guy, you need to have answers ready for tough questions. And for the time being, my answer to “is Livefyre a good idea?” is, sadly, an emphatic no.

This makes me sad, but probably not for the reason you’re thinking. Livefyre does what it’s supposed to do and we could see that from the moment we installed it yesterday. But technologically speaking, Livefyre is a bit of a mess. And while it tries to make good on its promises, like letting you keep all your Search Engine Optimization juice, Livefyre creates other influency-sapping issues.

Influency and Content Management: Shaken at Your Core

Don't Edit The Core Files in your CMS

Truer words that you see above have never been spoken.

Ever since the days when I was The Computer Answer Guy, I’ve lived in a world filled with both end users and programmers. I’ve made it my challenge to bridge those worlds for decades now, which is why I find questions like “Where’s My Any Key?” so funny . . . and so real.

It gives me a unique perspective. When programmers back in the day talked about “spaghetti code” (programming code that’s so redundant and undocumented that it becomes impossible to maintain), I understood it in a way that most non-programmers or not-quite-a-programmers just can’t get a handle on.

Headway Runs WordPress! WordPress Runs Headway! (Uh-oh)

Headway and WordPress Rock (WordPress and Headway are Frustrating)

 Ack!, as the character in the middle would say.

Today, I’m taking our old “computers are too hard” refrain in a whole new direction. Ready? Content Management Systems Are Too Hard.

As we get ready to re-brand and re-deploy Answer Guy Central around Influency*, I find myself asking again and again: What’s hard about this stuff? Of course, the accompanying question is then, What’s Easy?





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