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- From: "Shane R. Monroe" <darkuni@qed.net>
- Subject: Re: More against BETTER CONCEPTS
- Message-ID: <311E417A.56E4@qed.net>
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 11:20:26 -0800
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- Organization: Dark Unicorn Productions
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- H.R. Laser wrote:
-
- > 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).
-
- Sure, this a form of damage control, and you are right. And I can't
- begin to tell you how many times I have called a customer back later to
- check on a tech problem he called about or issure that everything got
- there.
-
- > 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.
-
- As they say in the Navy: 100 'Atta-Boys' are equivalant to 1 'Oh Shit'.
-
- > 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.
-
- But you know what? There are some customers that is JUST DOESN'T MATTER
- what you do for them ... we could DRIVE TO THEIR HOUSE to try and fix
- the problem with a lifetime supply of chocolates and NOTHING will fix
- the damage. Some people THRIVE on unhappiness it seems. Believe me, I
- can produce a list of the 'gratis' goodies I have ALONE (not to mention
- the rest of the people here) sent out to help quell a problem.
-
- > 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.
-
- That is why our programming team gets nothing done. We sit with similar
- individuals for HOURS helping them install AmiTCP or something else that
- we have NO OBLIGATION to do, yet we do it.
-
- > 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."
-
- Most of the time, it doesn't help. We DO do that ... OFTEN.
-
- > 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.
-
- You make it all sound like it was intentional ... Although I personally
- wasn't involved with the order, I KNOW the people I work with would not
- just pick someone at random and say 'ah ha! Here is the guy we are
- gonna screw over today'...
-
- Thanks for the post!
-
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