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Customer service representative assisting a customer, highlighting links between service and marketing

What Does Customer Service Have to Do with Marketing?

Right under your nose lies one of the simplest and most effective approaches to marketing for any business of any size. What is it? Customer service. This may seem a bit odd. However, customer service is, in fact, an imp

Greta Thunberg stands before a microphone, raising awareness about flight shame and climate change

Sweden’s Airline Industry has a PR Problem

In recent months, climate activists across Europe have stepped up their efforts to convince travelers to skip air travel, with infamous Swedish schoolgirl and campaigner Greta Thunberg spearheading the trains-over-plane

Hong Kong police in riot gear, protesters' anger over disproportionate force

Police Change Optics Amid Hong Kong Protests

Just four days after Hong Kong saw some of its most tumultuous civic unrest on record, an estimated two million demonstrators returned to the streets on June 16th to protest controversial government plans to reform the

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Assessing Potential Crisis Counselors

No matter the industry, your brand is likely to face some form of PR crisis at one time or another. Surround yourself with the right people, and you stand a far greater chance of riding the wave and surviving the damage

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How to Create Community with Marketing

Even as the consumer world moves closer to home, with services and commodities available at the push of a button, we all still crave a bit of human interaction. As more customer service models are going towards outsourc

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How to Stay Current on Marketing Trends

Marketing is a fluid industry. This can present a challenge for some professionals who solely rely on their school education to guide them. And while a higher education that’s focused on marketing and/or business is val

Angry customer confronting a manager about a negative experience in a store

Negative Customer Experience: How to Diffuse the Situation

It happens to even the best of us. Sooner or later, a customer will likely have a negative experience at a business. It’s not always due to something the business or manager did wrong; sometimes there are misunderstandi