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Looking Forward To 2014

  • Posted on January 6, 2014April 24, 2016
  • by Alan Berkson

A heartfelt “thank you” to all of you for your friendship, collaboration and patronage. 2013 was an exciting year for Intelligist Group and I owe a great deal of it to the incredible people with whom I connect on a…

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  • IBM Midsize Business

It’s Time For An Internal Garage Sale…For Your Data

  • Posted on September 6, 2013
  • by Alan Berkson

We’ve all been there. The closets are full. The basement is full. The garage is full. It’s time for a garage sale. What are you selling? This is all stuff that at some point had value to you but now…

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  • Customer Service

Apple’s Advantage Is Not Technology Or Design

  • Posted on September 3, 2013September 3, 2013
  • by Alan Berkson

Apple’s got a lead. It’s not technology. It’s not design. It’s customer service and customer experience. The battle for dominance in the smartphone market and the consumer “computing” device — including laptops, tablets and everything in between — is being fought…

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  • Customer Service

Good Customer Service Has No Price. It’s Priceless.

  • Posted on August 27, 2013August 28, 2013
  • by Alan Berkson

A tale of two restaurants. I was chatting with my brother recently and he related two customer service stories that made me think about the relationship between price and value. And that low cost doesn’t mean low value or poor…

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  • Customer Service

Customer Service is NOT a Department at my Local VW Dealer

  • Posted on August 8, 2013August 9, 2013
  • by Fred McClimans

Customer service is one of the core elements that help shape a customer’s pre and post-sale experience – here’s a personal example of embedded customer service in action.

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  • Business Strategy

Social Media has leveled the playing field. What’s your game plan?

  • Posted on February 3, 2011March 29, 2012
  • by Alan Berkson

So we have a challenging dichotomy: there’s a fear in social media that we’re giving too much away, but content seems to be the currency. I wrote a blog a while back called The Age of Thought Leadership in which I discuss the concept of knowledge abundance vs, knowledge scarcity. Which side are you on? Does it matter?

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  • Customer Service

Double Postage From Aeropostale

  • Posted on September 13, 2010
  • by Alan Berkson

So, not only had Aeropostale customer service been curt and unapologetic, they were wrong!

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  • Customer Service

Good Security or Bad Security

  • Posted on July 26, 2010
  • by Alan Berkson

Just got this email from Verizon. My first reaction was why were they updating MY password? My second reaction was, how forward thinking to proactively address security issues.

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  • CRM

Apply eBay Transaction Model to Customer Service?

  • Posted on July 21, 2010
  • by Alan Berkson

One of the principles of the Intelligist Group is the concept of Undiscovered Assets. During the weekly #custserv chat on Twitter hosted this Tuesday by Jeffrey Kingman and Marsha Collier I noticed a heated thread on getting feedback from customers. Here’s…

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  • CRM

Back In Business

  • Posted on July 17, 2010October 26, 2011
  • by Alan Berkson

Ahh…finally! At last our Intrepid Hero can get back to focusing on the reason he’s in Alabama in the first place – assisting with the oil spill cleanup effort.

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