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Title:

Customer Service is the New R&D

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Level:
Advanced
Type:
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Category:
Business / Entrepreneurial
Organizer:
Pamela O'Hara, BatchBlue Software
Description:
With forums, Get Satisfaction, good old email support and more, let your early adopters help build your product and create the solution they've been searching for. See how boot strapping start-ups (and some past the start-up days) build an online R&D lab to turn 1000+ voices into real features.
Pamela O'Hara
on 8/8/08
Customer service does not have to be overwhelming! The plan for this session is to collect a group of CS evangelists (from start-up phase to established brands) to talk about how they used the myriad of tools available to stay connected to their customers, build a better product, scale the technologies and make a better business. From live chat to social media to the good old fashioned phone - hear how to make it all work together.
lane becker
on 8/8/08
Well, I'm with Get Satisfaction, and one of us would certainly love to be a part of this if you want us! Otherwise we'll just attend. :)
Pamela O'Hara
on 8/8/08
Hey Ian - we'd love to have you on the panel! Talk about your CS gurus. We've got some great folks lined up. Now I'll have to add SXSW panel picker to the "myriad of" places we track conversations. Thanks for joining in this one.
Sunir Shah
on 8/8/08
Hey Pamela, thanks for inviting me to be on the panel. I'd loooove to be part of it. I can tell you a thousand stories.

For instance, I recently flew to San Francisco to take 30 of our customers out to dinner (the best way to meet them face to face). One customer made some feature requests to solve some major pains he had. I wrote down his requests on his business card, got back to Toronto, and followed up with him that we were now tracking his requests.

That's what Software as a **Service** means to me.
Sunir Shah
on 12/8/08
Oops, I forgot to mention, I'm a marketing nerd at FreshBooks.
Jeska Dzwigalski
on 8/9/08
This sounds like a great panel idea, I work with Linden Lab (creators of Second Life) and if you're looking for another panelist, I'd love to talk about the challenges of moving from an audience of early adopters to more mainstream users and how to best incorporate all types of users into your feedback loops as you grow.

Drop me a line if you want to talk more :)
brown air jordan
on 27/12/08
Very helpful, thanks!!
Do it today!
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