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Here’s how it went:

Read in the news about Clearwire going to Clear on its new 4G network, clicked through to see how it might impact me, a current customer; learned that I have to upgrade to the new modem/network and that it wouldn’t cost me more to have faster speeds–great, I thought, sort of nervously….
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Most of the companies I work with regarding customer experience strategies are big–big, global-big, huge complex problems with complex solutions. During the course of that, it would be easy to lose sight of the simple things that make the customer experience work.
That’s why a recent experience really stayed in my mind: Wavehounds, a local [...]

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The title of a recent post caught my eye as I was perusing the aisles of blogs on Alltop.com. The Mummy, the Tart, and the Mystery Station was the name, and it was a post on the Wells Fargo blog. Ruh?

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As a yoga aficionada, I was interested in a recent post at the Graco company blog site that talked about starting a yoga class. What struck me about this post was how focused it was on the human side of the company–not pushing products, but rather “walking-the-walk,” or in other words being what they advertise….

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Ever since Web 2.0 took hold following the dot.com bubble burst, followed by Enterprise 2.0 when it was coined by Harvard prof McAfee, seems like every industry is learning to fold the 2.0 promise into its thinking. While the 2.0 moniker might be tiresome, the trend is good. It means companies and sectors [...]

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There’s a news story out recently about Whole Food’s CEO John Mackey’s online blogging and board commentary that crossed a line, causing Whole Foods to initiate a rule around blogging.  To whit: refrain from posting items that would be injurious to the company or that would reveal competitive information.  I think Microsoft already has that [...]

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With the proliferation of web based applications to enable contextual networking, it’s easy to think blogging is a thing of the past already…and really, it hasn’t been around that long.  It’s even easier to think of blogging as so-15-minutes-ago when it’s being picked up so broadly inside of corporations and outside, not to mention the [...]

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Mulling the news today re a Harris poll and the problems with online shopping, specifically:
Forty-two percent of consumers who experienced problems during an online transaction switched to a competitor or completely abandoned their effort….
Another 52 percent who have experienced bad service from a contact center after they had a problem online have completely [...]

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A while back (thanks for the tip, Bri), Ask the Wizard posted an article about his recent experience flying with an airline that-oddly enough–was delayed, and a hotel that was excellent. The airline touts its customer focus at every opportunity–in advertisements, on its website, on the tickets themselves. The hotel, conversely, makes no mention [...]

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According to a recent Forrester study, 79% of all companies with a website channel fail to make their page text legible–either because of font size or type, background color, competing graphics or what have you. That failure leads to a significantly higher customer abandon rate.
Another common problem with websites is security. The highest [...]

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