Well, here’s an update for you folks. A few weeks ago, my friend Paul-Gabriel Wiener wrote a guest post: Disney thinks my last name is a naughty word. Emails with customer service reps assured him that his “candid feedback” about the checkout form censoring his last name would be forwarded to management. That was the [...]

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Sara Onstine on November 23rd, 2009

I’m following @LaneBryant on Twitter. I’m not sure they’re following me, but that’s hardly the point since they should be monitoring their name on Twitter anyway; they should notice when I mention them, right? Well, they didn’t. But that’s okay, because I know it’s a busy world out there and businesses don’t have time to [...]

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Sara Onstine on November 12th, 2009

Rants ‘n Raves Roundup – Week 3
Obviously, there are tons of customer service stories out there. And I’m not the only blogger blogging about them on a regular basis. So now, every Thursday, you can find my personal roundup of rants and raves from around the blogosphere. This week is a bit of a special [...]

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Sara Onstine on November 5th, 2009

Obviously, there are tons of customer service stories out there. And I’m not the only blogger blogging about them on a regular basis. So now, every Thursday, you can find my personal roundup of four rants and raves from around the blogosphere. Here are this week’s four!
Learn how JetBlue made Blake Sunshine at the Brazen [...]

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Sara Onstine on October 29th, 2009

Obviously, there are tons of customer service stories out there. And I’m not the only blogger blogging about them on a regular basis. So now, every Thursday, you can find my personal roundup of four rants and raves from around the blogosphere. Here are this week’s four!

An Open Letter to American Express (from Cracked.com) – [...]

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Sara Onstine on October 28th, 2009

I’d like to welcome Customer Service FTW’s first guest blogger: Paul-Gabriel Wiener. Paul is a long-time friend, as well as an amateur writer. When he let me know about his recent adventure at the happiest place online*, I insisted that he share his story here. It’s our hope that Disney will choose to fix this [...]

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Sara Onstine on October 20th, 2009

I’ve seen several companies leveraging YouTube as a way to engage their customers and extend their brand. There’s Southwest Airlines, for example, whose YouTube Channel – NutsForSouthwest – shows just how nuts they are about their employees and their customers. This is indeed a great practice in using social media for customer service (because I’ll [...]

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Sara Onstine on October 19th, 2009

If you’ve lived in Tucson any time in the past few years, you understand exactly what I mean. Well, maybe you do, unless you’re the fine folks in charge of TEP e-bill. If they knew it sucked so badly, they’d fix it, right?
Before I get too far into this, let me give the rest of [...]

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