Interview With Frank Eliason AKA @ComcastCares, Part 4

March 31st, 2010 by admin under Customer Service, Newsworthy, Response, Social Media

We wrap up our 4-part interview by turning the focus to the internal process of hiring and training the right Digital Care team. The number-one attribute Frank looks for? Passion.

Interview With Frank Eliason AKA @ComcastCares, Part 3

March 30th, 2010 by admin under Customer Service, Newsworthy, Response, Social Media

In Part 3, we learn that the Digital Care team at Comcast sends Tastykakes and popcorn to customers in certain, special cases, and we get Frank’s take on the burning question: How does customer care via social media response scale in a large organization?

Interview With Frank Eliason AKA @ComcastCares, Part 2

March 29th, 2010 by admin under Customer Service, Newsworthy, Response, Social Media

Here’s Part 2 of my conversation with @ComcastCares Director of Digital Care, Frank Eliason. I’m posting these as soon as they’re edited, and will wrap them up in a single post later.
In Part 2, Frank shares meaty details about the Comcast’s Digital Care response operations. We discuss reply/engagement ratios, the difference approaches to response on [...]

SXSW Interview With Frank Eliason AKA @ComcastCares

March 25th, 2010 by admin under Customer Service, Response, Social Media, Uncategorized

This is the first in a series of interviews I did during my trip down to Austin for the South By Southwest Interactive Conference. In the days to come, I’ll also be posting interviews with Bowen Payson of @VirginAmerica, and Susan Bean from the @ATTCustomerCare team at AT&T.
If you read this blog, Frank Eliason needs [...]

Kings Of The Wild SCRM Frontier

Last Friday, Altimeter Group’s R “Ray” Wang and Jeremiah Owyang published six month’s worth of research and insight in a report aimed at showing “business how to finally put customers first.” With a promise like that, how could I resist?
Well, Social CRM: The New Rules of Relationship Management did not disappoint. In fact, we may [...]