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Customer service

January 22, 2019 by Simon Mainwaring

SAP is one of the largest technology companies in the world. Its Chief Marketing Officer, Alicia Tillman, sat down with We First’s Simon Mainwaring to discuss how SAP, acutely aware of its innovative global reach in practically every industry and line of business, activates its purpose to not only drive business solutions and growth but, […]

SAP is one of the largest technology companies in the world. Its Chief Marketing Officer, Alicia Tillman, sat down with We First’s Simon Mainwaring to discuss how SAP, acutely aware of its innovative global reach in practically every industry and line of business, activates its purpose to not only drive business solutions and growth but, …

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Filed Under: Brands, Consumers, Future, Leadership, Purpose Tagged With: CMO, Corporate Social Responsibility, Customer service, Global Brand Initiative, sap

June 24, 2012 by Simon Mainwaring

Customer service is often the lesser cousin to self-congratulatory brand marketing, and for a long time customers have simply endured this situation as they were effectively powerless to do anything about it. But no more. Increasing customer frustration is being match by growing pressure on brands to service the customers they have says the newly …

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Filed Under: Advertising, Brands, Consumers, Social Tagged With: American Express, Customer service, Social media

June 6, 2012 by Simon Mainwaring

It is fitting that perhaps the most distilled articulation of the key to successful customer service should come from Mahatma Gandhi himself, as an extension of the life of service (in a larger sense) that he led. There is little I can write to add to the profundity of his words, so I will let …

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Filed Under: Brands, Community, Purpose, Social, We First Tagged With: Customer service, Gandhi, Social media

February 8, 2010 by Simon Mainwaring

Ordinarily I wouldn’t write about this sort of thing as it’s so close to home but it’s such a wonderful example of how a brand can use service to its advantage. At Christmas I went home to Australia to visit my family. At LAX, my daughter was wandering through a store while waiting to board …

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Filed Under: Brands, Values Tagged With: Brands, Customer service, Delta Airlines, service

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