Customer Service and K-Logs. What customer activities have shifted to the Web (based on a Forrester study on the sales of complex goods): Researching product information (90%) Comparing product features and prices (58%) Contacting customer service (56%) Locating a store or distributor (42%) Checking product availability (36%) Which of these activities could be enhanced by corporate… Continue reading Customer Service and K-Logs. What customer activities have shifted to the Web (based on a Forrester study on the sales of complex goods):
- Researching product information (90%)
- Comparing product features and prices (58%)
- Contacting customer service (56%)
- Locating a store or distributor (42%)
- Checking product availability (36%)
Which of these activities could be enhanced by corporate use of weblogging?
- A weblog, built and maintained by a product manager, could provide customers with an active resource on the products they are deciding to buy.
- This could be accomplished by building a spreadsheet comparing (feature by feature) several different products, and publishing to a weblog as an additional page accessed by the navigation system. Additional comparison info could be presented in a weblog format for easy consumption.
- Contacting customer service on most sites is painful. Additionally, the FAQs and resource databases seem put together by monkeys (albeit highly paid ones). A simple way to generate an extremely valuable and organic customer service data is to have each rep publish a weblog. The question, including keywords, is the title of the post. The answer is the response.
- Not really applicable, but for many companies the local outlet doesn't have an effective Web presence (not even for coupons, specials, etc.). A simple weblog with a corporate template would suffice.
- New poducts should be hyped via a weblog. Features, improvements, etc would all factor into the weblog's posts. A simple countdown clock would track the days or hours to availability.