Archives for customer service

Event: Customer Service Call Centres and Social Media

I’ve been asked to speak in Melbourne on April 15th (evening) about the impact of social media, online communities, social networks and call centres. As you probably know, I believe that while marketing and PR want social networks to be about them and their needs, the customer usually has a specific question they want answered, [...]

How NOT to do Customer Service on Twitter Crucial Paradigm

Crucial paradigm versus a client over a Twitter comment. Justified?

Australia Social Network: Customer Service and The Future

Miss me? I’m still in Singapore, teaching Social Media campaigns and how to build branded microcommunities for the Singapore Government. I’ll be back next week. In the meantime, here’s an interview I did with Choice Magazine on the future of social networking: In the future, we will turn to the internet to get a job, [...]

Social Networks and Australian Reconciliation challenges

Let’s pretend this isn’t groups on Facebook but you’ve just spotted them on member created forums on your own little community. Do your community “spider senses” tingle when you start to see groups with Gary Coleman and Nazi Swastikas all over it? And then -oh dear – you see the group is called… we dont [...]

Australia: Foxtel’s faulty customer service – 1 week.

At the very bottom, above the line is “Customer Service Updates” link Well, I didn’t believe it. Foxtel Customer Service has been down for over a week. Nope, I’m not exaggerating. And I don’t mean, busy or hard to get through. I mean “sorry for the inconvenience but we can’t take your call right now.” [...]

McKinsey is annoying me…

Not really social networking. Actually not social networking at all. But it annoyed me. McKinsey recommend overbooking technicians to make them more productive. Let’s forget about all the delayed appointments, missing parts and lost in traffics – things that weren’t straight forward and gosh! most of the technicians that come to my house have to [...]

Customer Service and anti-Customer Service

Remember one of my mantras? Your staff are members of online social networks too? Hat tip to Steven Lewis at Zest: Irish blogger Damien Mulley complained on his blog about the service of his airline’s ground agent, Sky Handling Partner. In return someone at Sky Handling Partner allegedly signed Damien up for some gay dating [...]