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Kenan Samms

How to Answer the Social Phone

It seems that if there are many ways to listen in the social Web, there are also many reasons with the ways to answer. Tom Asacker puts it well, we define ourselves both according to what we identify with and what we reject, and given ...READ»

Kenan Samms

How do You Find Out What Your Customers Want?

You could just ask, but that wouldn’t give you a product or service worth the money you might put into it - 50 to 90% of the product and service initiatives by US companies are failures. This costs in the magnitude of $100b per ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Sprint Nextel Tells Customer “No” Data

Sharing the data you collect about a customer with that customer may be your single most important gesture of transparency - not to mention that it may give you the ability to convert more of those conversations.I found the story ...READ»

Kenan Samms

When it Comes to Customer Service, Action Speaks Louder than Words

Social media is rarely the work of only one person, especially when it comes to implementations done by organizations. Today however, I wanted to talk about the difference that one person made in each of three companies - even though ...READ»

Kenan Samms

What’s Your Moment of Truth?

Quite a few years ago, Jan Carlzon wrote a book titled Moments of Truth. At the time, Calzon was the CEO of Scandinavian Airlines Systems and had helped the company reorient itself to become customer-driven. In his own words, a ...READ»

Kenan Samms

How Intuit Keeps the Pulse on Tax Advice to Help Customers

TaxAlmanac is a free resource for tax professionals, a wiki created by Intuit to help them stay current. In return the company gets free tips and advice from a roster of tax specialists that help improve its products for customers. ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Adobe Creates a New Kind of Customer Conversation on Delicious and Reaps Rewards

Smart companies have learned that often the best users of their products know as much or much more than their employees. Adobe is one such company. They are the creators of design and desktop publishing tools for communications and ...READ»

Best Buy

How Best Buy Socializes for Business

In an interview with Francois Gossieaux of BeeLine Labs, Barry Judge says "to the extent that we can basically be human with what we know, and share it as freely as we possibly can, I think we'll go a long way towards gaining a higher ...READ»

Kenan Samms

How to Build an Engaging Video Library for your Customers

This is not the kind of library that just sits on the shelf. It’s a very active and dynamic way of offering information, tutorials, FAQs answering most asked questions, and special announcements for your customers. Why does video ...READ»

Kenan Samms

How Customer Conversation can Be the Keystone of Your Marketing

Direct conversations with customers allow organizations to become public resources on areas of expertise. This happens in at least two ways: (1) through engagement, or social components, and (2) with valuable content, which is where I ...READ»

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