Tag Archives: Apple

Customer Service Coda

The final chapter in my iPhone 4S saga, which I had detailed here and here, came today in the form of an auto-generated email from AT&T (click to enlarge): I had wondered when AT&T would have told me about my canceled order. Turns out it would have been today, three weeks after my original order [...]
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Under-promise. Over-deliver.

Listening again last night to Guy Kawasaki’s book, Enchantment: the Art of Changing Hearts, Minds and Actions, one of his tips on “How to Enchant Your Boss” was (and I’m paraphrasing because it was an audio book, so I’m not sure I got the quote exactly right): Under-promise and Over-deliver. Only make promises you are [...]
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Customer service follies

It’s important not to write a blog post or Tweet in anger or frustration. Lots of people say you should count to 10 before you hit “publish” or send. I agree with this advice, and I took it in the case I’m about to share with you. In fact, in this case I counted to [...]
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Chancellor’s Choice Award: iPhone 3G

This won’t be a surprise to anyone, but the first Chancellor’s Choice award, in the category of Smart Phones, goes to the Apple iPhone 3G. I formerly used a Blackberry (and liked it), but was blown away by the iPhone. And since at least one of the futureĀ Chancellor’s Choice winners is an iPhone application, I [...]
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Apple Neutralizing Windows Advertising

I saw this great new Mac ad during the baseball playoffs last night, with Apple counter-punching on the Windows $300 million ad campaign: http://youtube.com/watch?v=MimCZikP8cY It was interesting that recent Windows ads used a PC look-alike to complain about stereotypes in the Mac ads.
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