It so happened that over the past few weeks I’ve been doing a lot of online shopping, and while altogether sad/uncomfortable it was interesting to register some of the mistakes online merchants (aka e-tailers) make. As I was watching them commit their mistakes, I couldn’t help but also make parallels with affiliate program management. Today [...]
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Yesterday ForSee Results released their annual E-Business Report based on ACSI (American Customer Satisfaction Index) methodology. “The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) is an economic indicator that measures the satisfaction of consumers across the U.S. economy. ” [source] The following general observations were made in the ForeSee Results’ study: Social Media: Current customer satisfaction is [...]
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Yesterday, I called AT&T Wireless to get the unlock code for my Blackberry. I have fulfilled my two-year contract obligations, and was eligible to have my phone unlocked. Unfortunately, (i) the customer support person spoke very poor English (I am especially sensitive to things like this, because English is not my own native language, but [...]
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Just a couple of hours ago, ForeSee Results has released the results of the newest ACSI Annual E-commerce study. After a slight drop in 2008, the overall customer satisfaction with e-commerce sector has raised in 2009 back to the level of 2007. The drop in 2008, just as drops in 2001 and 2004, are explained [...]
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Upon surveying “4,600 US consumers about their interactions with a variety of companies gauging the usefulness, ease of use, and enjoyability of those experiences”, Forrester has arrived at its 2010 Customer Experience Index (not to be confused with the Customer Satisfaction index recently published by ForeSee Results). It is being reported that out of 133 [...]
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Having analyzed this holiday season’s performance of the top US and UK online retailers, ForeSee Results has published two interesting lists where they rank the top 40 e-tailers in each country according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index [more about ACSI]. Yesterday they published the UK data where the top 10 e-tailers list looks as [...]
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Attention deficit is a serious problem in itself, but all the more so when you observe it in people whose primary role is in providing you with customer service. Both for the sake of notifying the affiliate network, and to find out what their recommendation would be, we reported the application receipt from the suspicious [...]
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I’ve been hosting my website with Globat for some time, and have been having problems with their marketing methods, but never with their tech support. Maybe because before I decided to start blogging every day I haven’t really had much need in a technical support for a 10-page website. Consequently, I have not paid much [...]
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I’ve been hosting my website with Globat for some time, and have been having problems with their marketing methods, but never with their tech support. Maybe because before I decided to start blogging every day I haven’t really had much need in a technical support for a 10-page website. Consequently, I have not paid much [...]
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