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Entries Tagged as 'Customer Service'

How to Work That Very LARGE Room

May 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Blogs & Blogging, Customer Service, Freelancing, General Interest, Small Business

I suppose I’ve always dreaded networking events for the same reason I was a lousy blind dater in college. Polite chit chat with strangers comes hard for me. Most of my best dates were with people I already knew. I married my best friend . . . and he still is. If we’d met at [...]

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Postscript: What Does WOW! Customer Service Look Like?

March 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Customer Service

What does varsity-level customer service look like? Follow these links.

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Apathetic Customer Service Torpedoes
Local Venue’s Marketing Push

March 27th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Customer Service, SXSW

House of Blues (HoB) Houston squanders an opportunity to provide some 90 to 100 communicators and marketers with a WOW! experience in customer service.

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Small Business Backups: More Important In Challenging Times

March 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Customer Service, Freelancing, Small Business, Social Media

Is there ever a convenient time to lose your data or re-load all your software? In slow times we might have more time for our own troubleshooting and recovery, but less money for paid assistance when those efforts are unsuccessful.

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