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- From: hrlaser@netcom.com (H.R. Laser)
- Subject: Re: More against BETTER CONCEPTS
- Message-ID: <hrlaserDMLLts.1xG@netcom.com>
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- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 06:25:04 GMT
- Sender: hrlaser@netcom3.netcom.com
-
- Craig (craigr@icc.com) wrote:
-
-
- : Obviously, Brian, you obviously don't realize that we are one of the
- : last standing complete Amiga Source for (almost) anything Amiga. I'm not
- : saying this should fix anything between us & David but mistakes
- : sometimes happen and in this case several. Of course the story is not
- : complete from david and you are only hearing his side, but we are still
- : to blame and are not refting that. If someone like yourself can't
- : appreciate us being 100% amiga and supporting it to death by writing
- : software for it, providing technical support for anything Amiga,
- : carrying almost anything for it and making a mistake then don't think of
- : us, don't look at our ads, don't enjoy our software, because we don't
- : need people like you, in fact, people like you drive people like us into
- : the PC market and then all Amiga users will suffer because you wont be
- : able to buy SHIT in this country for your Amiga. If this ever happens,
- : we will remember to thank you.
- : BCI Rules :>
-
- The point is that the damage has been done, because someone screwed up.
- Wasn't careful. Wasn't paying attention. Or didn't care. Now you're
- here doing damage control. Wouldn't you rather be sending thank
- you notices to people who post flattering articles about your service
- than doing damage control because someone got mad enought to post
- to a newsgroup that millions of people can read? (And that tens
- of thousands probably _do_ read).
-
- The problem is that people have short memories. All your good deeds
- can be wiped clean from a person's mind when they read a horror
- story as the original post relayed.
-
- Now who the hell am I to butt in here... well besides being
- an Amiga user from day one, I previously spent 15 years in the
- freight forwarding industry, shipping all kinds of shit by
- sea and by air all over the world from and to companies who had
- 1 to hundreds of thousands of employees. I took great care in
- the way I did my job. Because my employers hired uneducated
- morons to work in the warehouses, I found myself sitting on a
- forklift plenty of times loading an ocean container because
- the guy hired to do the job was too stupid to know not to put
- the heavy stuff on top of the light stuff. I could write a
- book about this segment of my life.
-
- But the point I'm trying to make is that the customer is king.
- And the customer has friends. And he's one of your best sources
- of referrals to other customers. If I'm satisfied with a company
- in the way they did business with me, people are gonna hear
- about it. And that company's gonna make some money from it and
- everyone's gonna be happy.
-
- I take this attitude with my Amiga Zone customers on Portal.
- I've spent countless hours on the phone with clueless newbies
- who didn't know which side of the mouse is up, helping them
- install comms software, getting connected, downloading files,
- using the net. I could shrug them off but that's not gonna
- get good word of mouth. One cannot just put one's company
- on auto-pilot and expect every transaction is gonna be smooth.
-
- And it's important for someone in a position of authority to
- not only take blame if something goes wrong, but to fix it
- and make it right. Even if it involves shipping out another
- product gratis, just to say "Sorry for what you went through.
- Please accept this token as our apology. We want to earn
- and keep your trust."
-
- It's not good to see Amiga-supporting companies go away, of
- course not. It's also not good to read horror stories of
- problems that could have easily been resolved had someone
- in authority stepped in and made good quickly.
-
- Harv | "Do you recognize the
- harv@cup.portal.com | Bell of Truth when you
- http://www.portal.com/~harv | hear it ring?"
- hlaser@eworld.com <--- Newton mail only! | - Leon Russell
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