Preparing to use bots in your customer care organization? Confused about what a bot is and how one works? Is the robot army marching toward us? Maybe? Probably! As customer service professionals,...
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10 Awesome Things I Got to Do While Filming a Lynda.com Course
I've just completed filming my first Lynda.com course, and I am on a work-related high. (Really.) It was a great experience. After months of working on the scripts and storyboards for my course, How...
Don’t Jekyll-and-Hyde Your Customers: Why Customer Service Should Also Use Your Company’s Brand Voice
If your company’s advertising makes your product sound fun, practical or hip and your customer service emails, chats or tweets sound scoldy or legalistic, you’ve got a problem. It’s not good for...
Resource List: Copyright-Cleared and Royalty-Free Images
For selfish reasons, I'm offering you this list of places to find copyright-cleared and royalty-free images. My scattered list of these sites is driving me crazy, and I need to keep track of these...
Register for my webinar: How to Write to Customers in Your Company’s Brand Voice
In partnership with SOCAP, I'm leading a two-part online course on July 26 and August 2 at: How to Write to Customers in Your Company's Brand Voice. Each webinar will run from 2 pm to 3 pm ET....
How to Write Automated Texts That Sound Human, Not Robotic
By Leslie O’Flahavan, E-WRITE and Rich Weborg, OneReach If your customers have opted-in to receive texts from your company, they probably realize that some of your texts are going to be automated....
How to Write an “I’m leaving my job” Email That Won’t Burn Bridges
This piece was originally published as part of the “Tough Talk” article series by Relate, where I’m honored to be a guest author. You’ve had the heart-to-heart with your boss about why it’s time for...
How to Write a Condolence for a Coworker
This piece was originally published as part of the "Tough Talk" article series by Relate, where I'm honored to be a guest author. My colleague, Frank, seemed distracted. He was taking days to...
E-WRITE’s Eight-Course Writing Curriculum Helped a Government Agency Write Right
Over the last six months I’ve been involved in a dream-come-true project. For the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), I developed a full writing curriculum—a set of eight different writing...