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The Perfect Storm in Customer Service

Buzz Marketing for Technology

In my last post we discussed the 4 reasons why using Social Media pays to provide Support : Customers prefer a good customer experiences to low prices, helps aid in spreading WOM, makes customer less likely to defect and results in high profitability for the company. Tweet This! Share this on Facebook. Share this on Linkedin.

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How to Use Engagement Marketing to Acquire More Customers

Single Grain

For example, referral marketing – a strategy in which brands incentivize loyal customers to promote their products or services via personal referrals (similar to word of mouth, except that WOM is organic) – will have significantly higher rates of success than cold calling potential leads. Book My Free Marketing Consultation .

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Top 40 Posts and Hot Topics of Inbound Marketing and Social Media

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

5 Beach Books for Marketers - Manhattan Marketing Maven , June 29, 2010 Tired of James Patterson, Steig Larrson, Nora Roberts or Danielle Steele? CK’s B2B Blog , June 8, 2010 I recently ran across a positively terrific article on WOM penned by McKinsey’s Jacques Bughin, Jonathan Doogan and Ole Jørgen Vetvik.