Household brand Birds Eye has a huge online resource of recipes. But the company’s advice to their customers go well beyond this with meal ideas too.
In an article for URLWire, Stephan Spencer whose company, Netconcepts, created the newly redesigned Birds Eye web site and is responsible for the continuous updates and expansion to the site, comments…
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Inc. Magazine's Customer Service Strategies — San Francisco, CA
What makes for an effective online customer service presence? We’ll answer this important question by giving you a tour of some of the best (and worst) practices in online customer service. A number of successful online customer service centers will be closely examined, as we analyze in detail the characteristics of their success. We’ll illustrate exactly how these companies are creating satisfied customers and reducing operational costs, using “killer” customer service techniques and strategies like:
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Spring Internet World — Los Angeles, CA
Imagine a catalog shop in which product managers log onto a Web-based database to change prices, update descriptions and add new items, and that the these changes get propagated to both the Quark Xpress-based print catalog and the online catalog Web pages automatically. In this nuts and bolts session, you’ll see how Quark Xtensions, relational databases and rapid application development tools can support dynamic and real-time updatable catalogs both in print and online.
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Fall Internet World — New York, NY
In this nuts-and-bolts tutorial, you’ll see how Quark Xtensions, relational databases and rapid application development tools can support dynamic and real-time updatable catalogs both in print and online.
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Fall Internet World — New York, NY
Deploying video over today’s Internet is like teaching a dog to sing - it’s unpleasant and it annoys the dog. Nevertheless, advances in compression technology, new bandwidth reservation protocols, streaming techniques and the promise of more robust backbones and higher-capacity delivery systems make it likely to arrive sooner than you think. See the state-of-the-art today and find out what the videonet of the future might look like.
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Fall Internet World — New York, NY
In the fast changing world of the Web, it’s critical for content providers to keep current with the latest multimedia technology — from the ubiquitous to the fringe, from the mundane to the hip. Yet we need to balance that with an understanding of the accessibility of that technology to our user base and the cost/benefit relationships for both the content provider and those users.
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Value-Added Marketing on the Internet — San Francisco, CA
World Wide Web marketing is about one-to-one marketing of value-added services and information to the Internet user. One can market on the Internet most effectively by catering to the individual through customization. A number of high-profile companies on the Web are offering such “personalized” web sites, including InfoSeek (”InfoSeek Personal”), Ziff-Davis (”Personal View”), Bank of America (”Build Your Own Bank”), Amazon.com (”Personal Notification Service”), Netscape (”My Page”), and Microsoft Network (”Custom Start Page”), to name a few.
Personalizing your web site to each user gives you the opportunity to deliver a tailored message to an infinite number of target markets. Your web site can change based on the user’s buying and surfing habits, his past usage of your site, his demographics, his relationship to your company, and a multitude of other attributes which you could collect from your users online or cull from your corporate legacy databases. For example, imagine a customer who is surfing an online computer catalog and purchases a pack of floppy disks. Two weeks later he returns to the site and finds that floppy disks are “On Sale” that week. What he doesn’t realize is that he is the only person receiving the sale price, based on his recent purchasing patterns.
This type of “mass customization” makes a user’s visit more efficient and productive, thus saving him time and money. It encourages customer self-service. By catering to individual needs on a personal level, you foster self-reliance and lower support costs. Personalization also makes it possible to track visitors and correlate web site usage data with customer profiles. So not only does such a strategy allow you to do targeted value-added marketing, but also the user profiles and patterns that you collect will provide invaluable data for your marketing departments!
This in-depth, half-day workshop, is specifically designed for non-technical marketing and customer service professionals. We will:
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Competitive Intelligence: PDMA Spring Conference — Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN
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Internet Strategies for Customer Service and Support — Atlanta, GA
This is the workshop you’ve been waiting for - a LIVE Internet connection
so you can see what the buzz is all about, while an expert in Internet-based
customer service explains what it all means! Customer service departments looking to “get on the Net” need to prepare for the opportunities, pitfalls,
and competitive market niches that are being created in Cyberspace.
This in-depth, half-day workshop specifically designed for non-technical
customer service professionals prepares you to more fully participate in the marketplace. Basic concepts, terms, practices, and directions will be clearly defined and demonstrated. A number of successful online customer service centers will be closely examined, as we analyze in detail the characteristics of their success. We’ll illustrate exactly how these companies are creating satisfied customers and reducing operational costs. And most importantly, you’ll learn in this interactive workshop how to apply those techniques to your own online customer service venture. Demonstrations and discussions will include:
Get a jump on your competition and get the solid foundation you need to succeed in this exciting new customer service venue by joining us for this one-of-a-kind workshop!
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