During the holiday season, it’s hard not to think about “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens’ famous story about the curmudgeonly Ebenezer Scrooge, but high school honors English students are probably also familiar with
In 2019, Newsweek began its annual collaboration with Statista, an online data and statistics company, to collect information and produce its annual list of top-rated businesses for customer service. Each year, the survey
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Welcome to another episode of WebPunch’s School of Online Reputation Management. It’s early summer, things are hot. I’m your host, Matt Jones, here to drop some knowledge. I’m here to discuss a little
Picture this: Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com “glides” into a vigorous pace around the circumference of an executive boardroom table on the top floor of the Seattle-based Amazon Headquarters. It’s a
Customer experience has one meaning: It’s the interaction between a brand and a customer. And for the most part, businesses large and small want a similar outcome from their customer service experience. They
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“The customer is always right.” These words were said famously by Harry Gordon. Is the customer always right? I don’t think so. I’m Matt Jones, your professor of WebPunch’s School of Online
Nordstrom is getting weird! In a good way, that is. The upscale clothing store is experimenting with ways to cater to the growing trend of people buying their stuff online, while still providing
When you think about how life has changed over the years and how technology has advanced, what word comes to you?
I once heard that the best way to incite a rant was to invite a business owner to lunch and casually bring up Yelp. The international platform that attracts more than 178 million
What you’ll learn in this piece: The legality of buying reviews How buying reviews violate content guidelines How you may lose trust and credibility by posting bogus content It’s tempting to buy into
What you’ll learn in this piece: What an online reputation and online presence are; Methods for improving your online reputation management strategy; and How WebPunch can help What’s it all about, Alfie? Imagine
Big Tech has done it again. Google has changed what was working to something a little different and a little less user-friendly. BrightLocal made a Twitter survey about this adjustment and found that
In November of 2022, distraught business owners frantically filled Google forums as they awoke to find all of their hard-earned reviews had disappeared overnight. The only thing these businesses had in common was
It’s hard to compete in the social media arena, especially as a small business. Everyone wants eyeballs on their content, and bigger brands always seem to have the advantage. So how do small
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