Deirdre Breakenridge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

During my career, I have noticed that one particular skill is often overlooked when it comes to training new PR pros and that is customer service. You might wonder what has customer service to do with PR? 4 reasons PR pros need customer service skills: Put yourself in their shoes. Put your client first.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 22, 2018

Good PR and great customer service have never been more intertwined. The best way to understand a company’s reputation — and its values — is to look at its response to customer reviews and complaints. A business can spend millions on brand reputation and community service. Use automation wisely.

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Communications Conversations

AUGUST 3, 2021

What makes a brand “best in class” when it comes to social media marketing? Marketers seem so focused on churning out content, many brands are pushing out more than 280 tweets and 140 Facebook posts a month! The top three characteristics of a “best in class” brand focus on customer service and engagement.

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Remote PR Jobs

OCTOBER 21, 2024

For example, when working with a new client outside your field, it’s important to ask them the right questions about their brand and to listen to them carefully. This helps everyone stay on the same page, so the services you provide fit their brand image. It lets brands connect with their audience directly and instantly.

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Ronn Torossian

JULY 18, 2019

Customer service. However, customer service is, in fact, an important part of marketing. After all, a customer who has a poor experience with a business […]. The post What Does Customer Service Have to Do with Marketing? What is it? This may seem a bit odd. appeared first on.

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Agility PR Solutions

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Although loyalty today is primarily driven by companies’ ability to resolve customer issues on first contact, it will increasingly be shaped by how effectively customer service represents the company in a […].

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Agility PR Solutions

APRIL 3, 2022

The post Racing to resolve the ‘Engagement Capacity Gap’: Companies leaning into customer service tech appeared first on Agility PR Solutions. Last year, the firm […].

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Agility PR Solutions

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Customer service has always been a pinnacle of business success—however, it has never been as important as it is now in today’s market. In addition to past word-of-mouth recommendations, which were the dominant form of brand referrals, it’s now easier than ever for consumers to share their experience with your brand online.

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Agility PR Solutions

OCTOBER 27, 2021

When it comes to customer service, the biggest disconnect between consumers and businesses is the desire to solve an issue the first time the company is contacted. The post Consumers to businesses: Your customer service is trying too hard—and not where it matters appeared first on Agility PR Solutions.

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Prowly

JANUARY 29, 2025

But here comes brand tracking. By systematically measuring key brand health metrics, you can uncover vital insights into consumer awareness and sentiment, allowing your brand to adapt and flourish. Get to know all the key indicators you should follow to measure brand health effectively and (almost) effortlessly.

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Agility PR Solutions

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

It’s a strategy, a tool that redefines the core of customer service by enabling real-time, clear, and cost-effective communication. VoIP technology is not just about making calls over the internet.

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5W PR

JANUARY 18, 2025

A public relations crisis can strike any organization at any time, threatening to erode hard-earned trust, damage its brand reputation, and even jeopardize its very existence. Conduct regular training sessions for employees on crisis communication protocols, media relations, and customer service best practices.

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Agility PR Solutions

APRIL 8, 2024

Chatbots are swiftly becoming a customer service norm, on hand to help clientele instantly, at any time of the day. Certainly not by setting it up, […] The post 14 chatbot metrics to track whether your AI is performing good customer service appeared first on Agility PR Solutions.

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Remote PR Jobs

JULY 11, 2024

In today's saturated market, brands face the challenge of rising above an ever-increasing number of competitors. However, one universal strategy to ensure your company stands out is to humanize the brand , imbuing it with a unique personality that resonates with target audiences. They know what they are and they own it. Innovative?

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Agility PR Solutions

DECEMBER 3, 2023

However, with the countless customer interactions happening on various social media platforms, it’s easy to stumble into common pitfalls that can harm your brand’s reputation.

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Cision

JULY 27, 2017

But there’s one aspect of your business that I’d encourage you to pay more attention to — brand situational awareness. Why Leaders & Execs Need to Know How Their Brand is Perceived. But understand: having a vision of your brand’s status that is misaligned with reality can cause you and your team to make poor business decisions.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 10, 2019

But it’s a perfect time for fresh leadership, and a good way for Korey to be sent packing as a public face of the brand. Yet my first take on the Away reputation mess wasn’t just that workplace culture impacts brand reputation, although that’s true. Businesses spend millions on brand reputation and community service.

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5W PR

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Whether the issue stems from a product failure, a public relations misstep, or an ethical controversy, the damage to a brands reputation can be significant. Customers, stakeholders, and employees may all feel betrayed, making it difficult to regain their confidence.

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Cision

APRIL 21, 2017

Customers who are quick to tell all their friends and social networks how much they adore your brand. I call these brand fanatics. Now, these people may be willing to spread the word about your brand for you, but in my experience, a little nurturing of that relationship never hurts. Make Them VIP Customers.

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Agility PR Solutions

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

There are several aspects to consider when you want to build a successful business, but one that’s surprisingly underrated is your brand image.

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Melissa Agnes

OCTOBER 2, 2018

How compassionately conscious is your brand? This episode explores: How the world of customer service has changed since United Breaks Guitars. How no customer should be seen as “statistically insignificant” – and if that is the mindset and culture within your organization, you have some work to do.

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Agility PR Solutions

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Brands and businesses are increasingly turning to AI-powered customer service to reduce costs and increase efficiency, but the majority of participants in a new survey from customer experience and business process outsourcing firm Acquire BPO have had plenty of time to make their AI-driven customer service functional and satisfactory, As companies, (..)

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Agility PR Solutions

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Customer service and public relations have a lot in common. The difference is that customer service applies to your customer base and PR shapes the general public’s perception of your business. They both shape people’s opinions about your business and can be intentionally leveraged to support your success.

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Agility PR Solutions

MARCH 9, 2023

The firm’s new report, […] The post Customer service PR: Negative interactions motivate consumers to consider switching brands appeared first on Agility PR Solutions.

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Cision

MAY 30, 2017

This post is an excerpt from the e-book, Listen: 5 Social Audiences Brands Can’t Afford to Ignore. . Are you listening—REALLY listening—to your customers, even (perhaps especially) those that are upset? I want to be close enough to my customers to smell them,” Sterling told me.

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Agility PR Solutions

JANUARY 3, 2023

No matter how great of a product a business might develop, if the company’s customer service isn’t reliable and helpful, or simply difficult for consumers to reach out to, other people will eventually hear about that, and the company will lose out on customers.

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Agility PR Solutions

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Business leaders are scrambling to get AI into their operations to boost their company’s productivity and CX efforts, and of course that’s a good plan, but new research sheds light on what brands and businesses can also do to drive those initiatives more organically—pay more attention to strengthening company culture.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 30, 2023

But the task of building and maintaining a lasting brand value is a t ricky one, requiring careful strategy and dedicated execution. In this blog, we’ll outline clear tactics you can implement to build brand value by building stronger brand awareness, protecting your brand, and increasing your brand reputation.

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Agility PR Solutions

MARCH 16, 2023

An uncertain economic environment and changing consumer behavior is causing a major shift in the retail industry, now underpinned more by customer experience and engagement than more traditional measures such as quality and price (although those features remain key)—one in three shoppers will switch to a new brand after one bad experience, affirms (..)

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Agility PR Solutions

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As purchase preferences continue to morph during the resurging COVID era, brands and businesses need to get on board with the fact that their customer service communications are emerging as the key factor for customer satisfaction and brand loyalty.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 18, 2023

Gartner calls reputation management “the practice of influencing stakeholder perceptions and public conversations about an organization and its brands.” Anyone considering how to influence stakeholder perception and drive conversation around a brand would be wise to consider both. There are ways to turn bad publicity into a net gain.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 14, 2021

Here at Crenshaw, our client base of high-growth tech organizations have found that earned speaking opportunities and industry recognition build credibility and visibility for their brand. For more on how PR turns prospects into customers , see our earlier post. Support employer branding. Here’s how it works.

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Agility PR Solutions

MARCH 28, 2023

Is today’s automation tech moving too fast, or are business and brand marketers becoming too quickly over-reliant without proper upskilling? Or do the tools themselves just fall short of expectations at their current stage of innovation and development?

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Cision

APRIL 10, 2017

At Forrester’s Customer Marketing conference held last week in New York, speakers ranging from Casey Carey, director of marketing at Google Analytics to Stephen Kennedy, director of loyalty marketing at Dominos discussed how personalization is helping brands succeed.

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Agility PR Solutions

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

DOT’s investigation found that […] The post The too-often neglected facet of PR: Good customer service—my personal experience with American Airlines appeared first on Agility PR Solutions. Department of Transportation (DOT) today fined American Airlines $4.1

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Agility PR Solutions

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

New research from unified CX platform Emplifi takes a deep dive into what consumers are looking for in their brand experiences in 2022, looking at everything from expected customer service response times and preferred communication channels to just how integral CX is to brand loyalty.

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Cision

AUGUST 22, 2017

One of the roles of a good leader of a multinational company is to help build and maintain a global brand, as well as unify company culture. As an executive, it isn’t your responsibility alone to ensure that your brand is recognized as a leader in its industry, but it is a continuous effort and an exciting journey. Everything.

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