customer service

As someone responsible for loyalty in a mobile company, have you been introducing discount programs and advertising heavily on TV and Print to promote them only to find that they are not working? Then this week’s mobileYouth TV is for you. This week on mobileYouth TV we continue our Youth Loyalty Series as we share our findings on how youth churn is a social process influenced by peer recommendations, how mobile operators can address this by focusing on customer service and youth engagement programs, and the importance of introducing new metrics to gauge the fight against churn.

Customer Service is your best marketing strategy

by Graham Brown on November 9, 2009

There’s an old maxim describing 4 blind men discovering an elephant. The blind man who feels the leg says the elephant is like a tall tower of stone. The man who feels his tail disagrees saying the elephant must be a long, thin but flexible rope. And the irony is they are both correct because [...]

Youth and Customer Service 15 April 09

April 15, 2009

* Top 10 ‘Most Annoying and Unjustified’ Consumer Ripoffs (MarketingCharts) * Measure, Understand and Improve Customer Experience | MCorp Consulting (Slideshare) * More Info On Customer Experience And Loyalty (Customer Experience Matters) * Download mobileYouth report overview 2009 – insights, youth mobile trends and mobile behavior (Mobileyouth) * AOL account cancelation crisis : Brands should [...]

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Youth and Customer Service 26 March 09

March 26, 2009

* Top 10 ‘Most Annoying and Unjustified’ Consumer Ripoffs (MarketingCharts) * Measure, Understand and Improve Customer Experience | MCorp Consulting (Slideshare) * More Info On Customer Experience And Loyalty (Customer Experience Matters) * AOL account cancelation crisis : Brands should realize we are leaving in a tyranny of transparency era (Emmanuel Vivier) * Wireless Carriers [...]

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Winning and losing relationships (Apple vs Mobile)

February 6, 2009

Sneak preview from the 2009 mobileYouth report Mobile Industry – Winning and Losing Relationships View more presentations from Graham Brown. (tags: apple mobile)

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Youth and Customer Service 05 Feb 09

February 5, 2009

“What is my life if I am no longer useful to others?” von Goethe Customer service is your best marketing strategy but for most industrial marketers it’s nothing more than a cost center. Remember when that company p***ed you off? You went and told the world about it didn’t you? A generation ago customer service [...]

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10 Articles on Customer Service 25 Dec 08

December 25, 2008

* Customer Experience Rankings 2008 (Logic+Emotion) * Bad News Travels Fast Via Twitter (AdPulp) * Loyal gas and electricity customers overcharged by £181m (Telegraph Finance) * Customer managed experience: Facebook lets you vote on ads (Customer Experience Crossroads) * Greyhound Canada: How To Piss Off All Your Customers Without Actually Making Them Any Safer (Matador [...]

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10 Articles on Youth and Customer Service

December 6, 2008

* Customer Service as a Truly Positive Global Experience (Tech PR Gems) * The Real Impact of Customer Complaints (The Customer Institute) * The Satisfaction Quarterly Report, Q3 2008 (Customer Experience Matters) * Learning customer-centricity from ING Direct (Customer World) * WOMMA: Approaching WOMM Through Customer Service (Digital Influence Mapping Project) * Industry Customer Churn [...]

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What do young people want from their mobile service providers?

November 13, 2007

Not “killer applications” it seems (whatever they are anyway), or even web2.0. Feedback from the mobileYouth workout in London 2007 provided some interesting insights into the mind of the young consumer today: 1) Forget technology for a minute, customer service is your best youth marketing strategy. At the top of the list, youth want customer [...]

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