Tag Archives: customer experience

6 ways to transform your competitor’s “bad” customers into your “great” customers

This is a guest post from Jeff Frank, owner of Simplicity Sofas — a company that designs and manufactures furniture for small rooms and narrow entranceways. Recently I read an article entitled Fire Your “Bad” Customers and Send Them to a Competitor by Noel Peebles who begins the article by saying, “Let’s face it; some…

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How to focus on the details that start conversations

[Welcome back to our Word of Mouth Marketing Lessons newsletter. This is text from the great issue all of our email subscribers just received. Sign yourself up using this handy form.] We often tell our readers to sweat the details, to look for the small stuff that can make a big difference for their customers…

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The need for a Chief Customer Officer: How to prevent customer quicksand

This is a guest post from Jeanne Bliss — customer experience expert and author of “I Love You More Than My Dog.” See the original post this is adapted from and more like it on her blog. We all suffer from silo dysfunction. Silo dysfunction is the inability or lack of collaboration inside the corporate machine to link…

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WOM Tip #166: Use small stuff to make big impressions

While your service and your stuff are key to giving your customers a remarkable experience, sometimes what they talk about has more to do with the little details. These small things make for great opportunities to let your personality shine through and start word of mouth. Lots of companies use coupons and discounts — but…

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Toothpaste and WOM: Recommended by all dentists

This guest post is from Jeremy Epstein, VP of Marketing and Social Navigator at Sprinklr. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times. In the social era, you don’t necessarily need BIG or expensive campaigns to generate huge word of mouth. A tube of toothpaste and a nice handwritten note can do the…

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Why a culture of belief is crucial to customer loyalty

This is a guest post from Jeanne Bliss — customer experience expert and author of “I Love You More Than My Dog.” See the original post this is adapted from and more like it on her blog. Too often in our daily lives, it feels as if businesses hold all the cards. As employees, we are penned in…

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3 ways an old form of communication still starts conversations

[Welcome back to our Word of Mouth Marketing Lessons newsletter. This is text from the great issue all of our email subscribers just received. Sign yourself up using this handy form.] There are tons of ways you can use tech to connect with your fans, and while Facebook, Twitter, and email are great, don’t forget…

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How to hire customer service superheroes

This is a guest post from Greg Meyer, a member of the Customer WOW team at Desk.com. Photo by Andrew Becraft. Say you’re going to start a company, and the first thing you want to do is provide amazing customer service. Are you going to hire the brilliant person who alienates customers? Or are you…

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9 Things to Share That Start Conversations

Use the examples in this guide to help inspire ways to make your message more portable and shareable.

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These tools will help you kick off any word of mouth campaign no matter what topic, industry, or budget.

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The Top Four Tips for Multiplying Your Word of Mouth

These tips can help you get your marketing to do more work without a lot of extra effort.

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10 Ways to Turn Around Negative Word of Mouth

The most effective ways to stop negative WOM with examples from Zappos, FedEx, Dell, and more.

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The New Topics Worksheet

All word of mouth starts with a topic of conversation — a simple, portable, repeatable idea that gets people talking.

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The Word of Mouth Action Plan

Create a complete word of mouth marketing plan using this worksheet’s eight simple steps.

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