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Set the Tone in Email: How You Say It Is as Important as What You Say

Set the Tone in Email: How You Say It Is as Important as What You Say

by Leslie O'Flahavan | Aug 4, 2021 | Uncategorized, Writing Matters Blog

Setting the right tone in email writing is more than just choosing the right wine to go with the meal. Tone in email – how you say what you say – is so important that an inappropriate tone can cause a reader to ignore, delete, or overreact to your message. A versatile...
“I’m tired of stupid comments”: How NOT To Respond to Social Media Followers Who Wear You Out

“I’m tired of stupid comments”: How NOT To Respond to Social Media Followers Who Wear You Out

by Leslie O'Flahavan | Jul 27, 2021 | Writing Matters Blog

If you’ve ever had to endure customers’ negative comments about your company or products on social media, you may be giving Larry Hogan, Governor of Maryland, a round of applause for his response to Heather, a follower of his official Facebook page. She wrote, “We’re...
How to Write a Five-Star Response to a One-Star Rating or Poor Review

How to Write a Five-Star Response to a One-Star Rating or Poor Review

by Leslie O'Flahavan | Jun 18, 2021 | Featured, Uncategorized, Writing Matters Blog

A gracious response may help to win over an unhappy customer and demonstrate that you’re listening and you care. Sometimes social media feels like the mean kids’ table in the lunchroom at middle school. Everybody’s talking dirt about someone else. And once the gossip...
Customer Service Chat by Vizio: Some Answers, But No Help

Customer Service Chat by Vizio: Some Answers, But No Help

by Leslie O'Flahavan | Jun 5, 2021 | Writing Matters Blog

Customer service chat is popular with companies and customers alike. It’s easy, it’s quick, and it works well on mobile devices. But easy and popular doesn’t always equal good. Read this chat with customer service agent “Jack” at Vizio....

Verizon customer service chat: How to kill your relationship with your customer

by Leslie O'Flahavan | Feb 7, 2021 | Writing Matters Blog

Someone needs to tell Verizon: “Customer service chat is supposed to help the customer.” Read through the transcript of this truly painful chat, and you’ll hardly believe your eyes. The customer, Marianne, endures: One hour and 17 minutes of chat...

Resources: Writing in Plain Language at NTSB

by Leslie O'Flahavan | Aug 24, 2020 | Uncategorized

Webinar 1 Where to find plain language award winners and heroes: Plain English Awards The Center for Plain Language is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization. We help organizations create information that’s easier to understand. https://plainlanguage.gov...
For Entrepreneurs: How to Grow Your Virtual Network, Sincerely

For Entrepreneurs: How to Grow Your Virtual Network, Sincerely

by Leslie O'Flahavan | Aug 16, 2020 | Uncategorized

We’ve all experienced the highs and lows of having a personal virtual network. We enjoy the highs—reconnecting on Facebook with your best friend from high school—and we suffer the lows—scrolling through a cousin’s Instagram pics of every plate of food she’s ever...
5 Great Reasons You Shouldn’t Be Scared to Write to Customers In Social Media

5 Great Reasons You Shouldn’t Be Scared to Write to Customers In Social Media

by Leslie O'Flahavan | Jul 30, 2020 | Writing Matters Blog

For years, customer care organizations have been as scared of social media as water-phobic summer campers staring at the high dive. “What if customers gang up on us? What if we get trolled? What if one of our agents gives the wrong answer and all 25,000 followers see...
Put Us Out of Our Misery: The End of Customer Service Email?

Put Us Out of Our Misery: The End of Customer Service Email?

by Leslie O'Flahavan | Jul 27, 2020 | Writing Matters Blog

Predicting the death of email may seem risky for a consultant who helps frontline customer service agents improve their writing skills, but I’m here and I’m doing it. Throughout the 2000s and the 2010s, email was the workhorse customer service channel—an easy, modern...
Why You Should Be (Business) Friends With Your Competitors

Why You Should Be (Business) Friends With Your Competitors

by Leslie O'Flahavan | Jul 20, 2020 | Featured, Uncategorized, Writing Matters Blog

When I started my business 24 years ago, I believed I should have a “versus” attitude toward my competitors. It was their offering versus mine, right? One company had to win, didn’t it? Like many people, I thought that getting ahead in business meant getting ahead of...
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