{"id":16589,"date":"2024-03-22T23:05:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T07:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/?p=16589"},"modified":"2024-03-22T23:05:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T07:05:16","slug":"having-personal-customer-service-contacts-versus-generic-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/having-personal-customer-service-contacts-versus-generic-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Having Personal Customer Service Contacts Versus Generic Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This got me thinking today as I ordered an item from a local shop online and they didn\u2019t seem to have a dedicated page that tells you if your order has shipped with the tracking number.  However, in their automated e-mail it has a person\u2019s specific name with the e-mail matching that.  Therefore, it makes it appear that you are getting someone who will be attentive and specializes in addressing your questions and concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, in this case the company was not very responsive to online inquiries.  But it\u2019s an interesting thought on whether or not you should mark your support addresses like this for smaller companies versus a generic \u201csupport\u201d address as an example.  This obviously wouldn\u2019t work too well for large corporations.  But for smaller businesses, offering a more personable approach should be a competitive advantage where this is one way to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Although, that does add the expectation you will say answer inquiries quicker with accuracy since it gives the customer the feeling as if they are talking to the owner that makes all the decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This got me thinking today as I ordered an item from a local shop online and they didn\u2019t seem to have a dedicated page that tells you if your order has shipped with the tracking number. However, in their automated e-mail it has a person\u2019s specific name with the e-mail matching that. Therefore, it makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-16589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-customer-service"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/polar-bear.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-4jz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16590,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16589\/revisions\/16590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}