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Please Aggravate Me: Is Gamifying Customer Service a Reality

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Drive customers to your website, email, forums and robust, highly searchable FAQ to answer questions in event they may not need immediate help solving or the use of a live person. Rewards for Using Self-Service Channels. Want to save your organization precious “human CSR capital?”

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Please Aggravate Me: Is Gamifying Customer Service a Reality

Convince & Convert

Drive customers to your website, email, forums and robust, highly searchable FAQ to answer questions in event they may not need immediate help solving or the use of a live person. Rewards for Using Self-Service Channels. Want to save your organization precious “human CSR capital?”

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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He specifically addresses incremental sales: “Opinion Leaders” or “Fans” are not as effective in spreading WOM that drives incremental Sales because these efforts are “preaching to the choir”, per #1 above. At the same time, word of mouth marketing IS important, and effective. link] jeff_molander Fascinating, Mike.

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Social Media is the Servant of Strategy, Not the Master

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There is nothing new about social media; it's just modern WoM. There is nothing new about social media; it's just modern WoM. As such, it should compliment, enrich and accelerate the strategies ALL good marketing professionals are already engaging in and, ultimately, the executive vision for the company in question. .&#

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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This is because B2B has a smaller potential customer base, a higher average price point, and a customer decision funnel that is more influenced by word of mouth and reputation. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. Isn't the same for b2c though? I'm just a little confused.

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Is Social Media Too Big For Its Britches?

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In either event, your job in this circumstance is to create conversation. I love the inverted pyramid, and agree wholeheartedly with your point about the best way to build loyalty with existing customers (and to communicate that loyalty to ancillary networks through WOM). In some cases these are members of the media.