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If you have a query with your supplier they typically implement customer support/customer care as follows:Large corporations use a multi-channel approach: Generally you will phone the call centre, or send an email or WhatsApp or fill in a form on their web site. All queries go to their ERP/call centre system/CRM. Someone will pick up […]
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There’s a retailer I buy from occasionally. Yesterday I saw their Facebook advert saying send a WhatsApp to <xxxxx> for daily specials. The reason I saw the advert was because I was considering buying something and remembered they also supply it, so had visited their Facebook page. I sent the WhatsApp yesterday at 8:56am.I received
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The answer is slowly and carefully.Most big businesses ignore this advice and are spending millions on the most expensive consultants and then designing expensive software that will never work and be overtaken by better technology before it is implemented. Who remembers the early days of e-commerce? Around the year 2000, Standard Bank spent millions creating
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I know I sound like a broken record, but if companies would care about their customer service, I wouldn’t need to complain.On Saturday I saw a product I want to buy, but I know competitive products had problems with the handle so I wanted to know if they keep spares. This company’s website had a
Automate. Automate – the act of getting work done in your business automatically. We are all familiar with a production plant that runs almost automatically. That fills up bottles, closes them, seals them, put a label on them ready for delivery, all without human intervention. We all are familiar with a website that takes your
