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I just feel like the care about their customers too much than other companies do because when I was reading the tweets that they post it was all about how they can help their customers. I just feel like other companies just want you to buy their stuff instead of focusing on what the customers wants. For example I went on the DIRECTV twitter page to see what they are twitting to help the customers all I saw was a lot of tweets about football games and basketball games. You can say that connecting with their customers, but I don’t think it is at all. What DIRECTV need to do is what Comcast is doing which is make sure your customers are getting the help they need from your company instead of talking about how the football games and basketball games are

1.1 Explain how different methods of promoting products and/or services impact on customer service delivery

First and foremost objective is to reduce the increasing number of high frequency of repeat service calls and then keep it to minimum possible extent simultaneously motivating the technicians? Ensuring the first priority of Rogers Cable as customer service to maintain the loyalty has become a challenge.

According to the theory of the 'invisible hand' of the marketplace, as advocated by Adam Smith, the marketplace naturally determines the optimal price of a good or service. But even Adam Smith viewed the development of monopolies with some trepidation and believed that government intervention was required to cease their proliferation. During the 1980s to the 1990s, it seemed fairly clear to most industry analysts that cable television functioned as a monopoly in a manner that was deleterious to consumers. Cable television had few competitors, except in the form of analog 'rabbit ears' which did not provide the full range of channels or quality that cable provided. In many areas, only a single cable company dominated the market and subscribers had few alternative options.

The generation of talking face-to-face is slowly fading away, and the technology era is going to keep on growing. One of the most widely used technology services known today is the cellular phone industry. According to the Pew Research Center’s website, 90% of American adults own a cell phone. Of that 90%, the smartphone ownership is at 64% (2013). Verizon Wireless, along with the other major carriers, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T, have taken this data and comprised a growing industry where competition arises from all angles. These companies have battled one another on pricing, plans, and customer service for many years in order to stay on top. Unfortunately, these are major factors in whether or not a customer will choose the particular company over another.

There is a genuine risk that FCC will lose its State and Federal Government funding, which accounts for 40% of all Council Funds, if Customer Service isn’t dramatically improved within 18 months. Consequently, the Council members are desperate to see improvements, without cutting into current spending or increasing rates. The current Customer Service Manager has been in the position for 24 years, and doesn’t believe that anything needs to change, and that the community will “come around in the end”.

Every Comcast employee must know how to provide the best customer satisfaction to their customers. In order to make a customer happy they must establish a great relationship with their customers. By becoming customer-focused they are able to reposition themselves and provide the very best customer service.

State Farm has chosen to further to its already-existing operations in Canada, with the result of capturing millions of new customers. These customers will require both brick-and-mortar and telephonic support. Brick-and-mortar locations number in the thousands and continue to grow. With the acquisition of a greater number of customers, these locations will be able to absorb and support a respectable number of these new customers. Yet internal analyses indicate that the younger customer base, that is, customers in their 20s and 30s, prefer virtual or telephonic interactions and will actively shun brick-and-mortar locations. It is these

While public purpose challenges are still judged by the Madison Cablevision standard today, the Supreme Court of North Carolina has refined the doctrine’s scope. To start, the court in Maready v. City of Winston-Salem addressed whether a broadly constructed state statute allowing for local economic development could meet the Madison Cablevision standard. Further clarifying the first prong of the Madison Cablevision standard, the court in Maready held that “whether an activity is within the appropriate scope of governmental involvement and is reasonably related to communal needs may be evaluated by determining how similar the activity is to others which this court has held to be within the permissible realm of governmental action.” Maready

Another top stakeholder within Costco’s organization is its customer clientele. After careful research, the author noted several variables that contributed towards Costco’s highly-rated customer service and satisfaction ratings that speak from sales in addition to positive feedback. The author will briefly dissect this stakeholder group and display, in writing, why this group aids Costco in providing low prices on select items, its continuous service method which has proven, both financially and through praise, to be one of the more successful methods in retail, and to demonstrate why Costco

Another case that is important to note when talking about privacy rights vs. the First Amendment is, Doe vs. TCI Cablevision. A hockey player named Tony Twist sued TCI for misappropriation of name and defamation. Misappropriation of name falls under the general heading of invasion of privacy. Twist believed that is name was being used in a bad connotation and that his likeness was being affected. Misappropriation of name in torts is defined as “the "right of publicity," which is said to "protect a person from losing the benefit of their [sic] work in creating a publicly recognizable persona”’ (Doe vs. TCI Cablevision). Twist believes that he should be compensated for the use of his name and character in the comic book. The defendant uses Twist’s

He vowed to put customers “at the center of every decision we make. “Comcast has one of the worst customer service rankings in the nation, per the American Customer Satisfaction Index, topping only Time Warner Cable. Videos by Comcast customers complaining about infuriating or even abusive customer service have forced public apologies from the company. In a more passive aggressive case, Aaron Spain recorded how he was left on hold for 3 hours and 25 minutes trying to cancel his service, only to discover the office that handled cancellations closed while he was on hold. (Isidore,

Rogers Cable is the leader in Canada’s cable television market, with a over 2.3 million cable television subscribers and 500000 internet subscribers. In 1993 the Canadian government relaxed the norms of telecommunications industry followed by an application in 1999, allowing local carriers to change the content of the information passing through their networks. This led to increased competition in the market and the customers enjoyed a lot of choice. As such Rogers Cable focused completely on increasing its subscriber base and

In our extensive research on Time Warner Cable, we found out that Time Warner is one of the biggest names in the cable industry. On the other hand they are know to have notoriously bad customer service which in turn limits the amount of customers they bring in and increases the amount of customers that cancel their service. To deal with these problems we have come up with multiple marketing recommendations. In order to get rid of the reputation of bad service Time Warner has to advertise their new and improved customer service so that people will want to buy from Time Warner Cable. One way to start improving customer service is to offer online survey so that the customers know that their opinion is whats most important to Time Warner Cable. The survey will not just ask if their problems were solved or if the representative was good. It will ask in depth questions about what the customer thought about that particular representative. They also can give follow up surveys a few weeks after a phone call. These surveys will be there to see if the problem that the customer experienced is arising again and to make sure that there are no new problems. These surveys show that Time Warner Cable truly does care for the wellbeing of their customers. Along with surveys Time Warner Cable can also offer holiday specialties such as reduced prices for the holiday season. They can market this by saying that they understand that a lot of money is being spent on

The SWOT analysis also reveals another weakness, “fickleness.” Fickleness of cable and satellite customers is based on the low brand loyalty and high churn rates. In order to reduce customer defection to competitors TFC must develop brand loyalty and not only attract new customers but retain those that it already possesses. The opportunity facing TFC is the fact that it is in a position to address its market