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In today’s market its hard to keep up with technology, as newer versions and upgrades seem to appear right after you just bought the last one. This creates a challenge for marketers. They want to deliver the message that the latest product is better, faster, hotter than the last one and that you need it.

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Nunwood’s strategy director David Conway looks at how insight has helped fuel the performance of the firms that came out top in the agency’s customer experience league table. In his 2003 book The Fusion Manager, management theorist Robert Heller noted businesspeople’s intense preoccupation with finding the ‘one right answer’ – a belief that a wholesale

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Twitter is a popular mechanism for customers to contact brands, but it can cause issues if questions or complaints are left unanswered. Vodacom has often been fairly quick to respond and deal with customers on Twitter, but it has filled the companies main Twitter feed with a lot of direct feedback that is not meant

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Some recent statistics from Morgan Stanley Research don’t look great for the future of the notebook. This could be due to the increasing popularity of tablet pc’s, which are quickly proving to manage similar tasks one would perform on a laptop, but with the benefits of size, weight and battery life. Morgan Stanley says: “tablet cannibalization.”

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Designed by Shane Snow (@shanesnow) for Mashable.com, FarmVille vs. Real Farms takes a creative view on the FarmVille craze on Facebook compared to real life farming. With all those millions of Facebook and iPhone users tending to virtual crops and sharing them with friends, have you ever wondered how their toils stack up against actual real-life farmers? How

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In our latest article, Do ‘excellent companies to work for’ provide better quality customer service?, we introduced the concept of a holistic approach to customer service.  The article demonstrated that there is a link between staff satisfaction with their roles in the companies they work for and quality of customer service, based on results from

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Craft An Irresistible Price By Focusing On Your Users Price influences behavior. In order to craft an excellent user experience, the price — and how your users interact with that price — must be central to the development of the product, especially applications. No user will welcome an application if the cost is prohibitive. This

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A survey recently by ForSeewent out called the American Customer Satisfaction Idex, which added a few social media website this time, provided some interesting feedback on what people think of Facebook. The feedback was primarily of dislike for Facebook, which is surprising when looking at its gigantic exponential growth, while closing in on 500 Million

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Live Labs, an image/tech/data contingent of Microsoft has launched PivotView, which is visualisaton data tool that takes large chunks of data and presents it in a usable and visual way. PivotView makes comparing a topic easy by placing everthing on one page with images which can lead to furthur information, rather than having a whole

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The Vuvuzela has always been popular in South Africa, but quickly gained worldwide interest during the 2010 World Cup. It became a trending topic on twitter, it was seen in the hands of the Google Street View man and it was added as a special feature on YouTube. Here are some facts and figures on

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