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And following are: Some Brands that Listened. Continuous customer feedback is the bedrock of innovation because companies that listen innovate. They include: Adobe Systems. Align Technology. BlackBerry (now trying to listen). Fast Retailing. Hindustan Unilever. IHS Markit. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.

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DECEMBER 21, 2012

I was at a meeting in Boston back in the 1980s, when an energetic young visionary paced the stage and talked excitedly about a new concept in computers… the Apple Macintosh.

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JANUARY 6, 2012

Though if I strain or break something while trying to imitate these moves, you will be hearing from my lawyer, personal trainer, accountant, clients, husband, dogs, Apple and Ragan’s PR Daily. Thank you, Tracy Viselli , for giving me a huge laugh yesterday with this one. And not necessarily in that order.

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JULY 23, 2014

It feels like NBC is comparing apples to oranges. So, a hockey game being played at 5 p.m. in Sochi was airing at 8 a.m. in New York. Saturday and Sunday, you’d get some folks tuning in. Monday through Friday? Not so much. So let’s start there. Your programming has to be live in order for social media to drive it.

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MARCH 9, 2011

jeez, looks at what Apple does with… just about everything. Just because you sell supplemental insurance, it doesn’t mean that you have to sell supplemental insurance. Look at what AFLAC has done with that darn duck…. what Nike does by just doing it….

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JANUARY 3, 2012

To Apple fans at the time, they were practically a collector’s item. If you stick out (or used to stick out) in one area of production or service, there’s nothing to stop you from rising above masses of similar products in another way, too. One computer I was instantly envious of years ago: iMacs.

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JUNE 14, 2012

What it says is: what’s true for my apples isn’t true for Erin’s oranges. How do you like those apples? How Do You Like Them (Infographic) Apples? Does this negate what I say is true about my blog? What do we understand about the Bottica results? . Anyone who believes those assertions is a little gullible.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

According to an experiment conducted by Customer Service Investigator (CSI), well-known brands like Starbucks, Visa, Walmart, and Apple do not bother to respond to their customers on Twitter. H owever, recent stats show big brands do not bother to engage with their customers on social media.

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JUNE 26, 2013

Similarly, if you’re an ice cream store and you’re trying to increase sales, make sure your sales are increasing against the same time period last year – July’s sales should be higher than January’s, so don’t compare apples to oranges. Don’t get hung up on failure.

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DECEMBER 11, 2012

The apple doesn’t fall from the tree either. Aunt Jeanette told me that at the ripe age of 12, my grandfather saved as much money as he could from his first job and bought a small Christmas tree and little gifts, such as a piece of candy, and wrapped a gift for each of his siblings.

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JUNE 22, 2011

It happened when I decided to switch from BlackBerry to iPhone , and when I decided to switch from PC to Mac (that was the first Apple product I ordered, so you can see I have slowly but surely become a #Machead). Now, I’ve never heard great things about Apple’s customer service. That is the magic that is Apple.

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MARCH 25, 2016

And while some of the new devices from other manufacturers coming out are really tempting, it will take a lot for me to renounce my citizenship in the Land of Apple. .” Since that fateful day, I’ve gone completely over to the dark Mac side, and taken my husband with me. Because the Mac changed my life.

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MAY 20, 2011

Let’s plaster the whole edifice with apple pie whilst we’re at it. The way to fix it, we are told, is to advocate more transparency, more corporate responsibility, more fairness and better corporate governance. “But is there really a crisis of trust? Or are we in danger of making the wrong diagnosis and recommending the wrong remedies?

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In fact, they were named “ best brand for storytelling ” two years in a row, alongside Apple. Cadbury consistently occupies one of the top spots for the “best storytelling brands” on the market today.

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MARCH 4, 2015

A company immediately differentiates itself from the herd when it links its corporate brand with a human being: Apple and Steve Jobs; Virgin and Richard Branson; Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. In my new book, Sticky Branding , I describe this approach as creating a “First Choice Advantage” for your brand.

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MAY 27, 2015

Thought leadership is content marketing that taps into the talent, experience and passion within your business to consistently answer the monumental questions on the minds of your target audience, on specific subject matter. Steve Jobs. Ring a bell?

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APRIL 15, 2015

We hired a world-class design firm to create a simple, elegant UX (user experience), borrowing the Google ethos of less is more and the Apple aesthetic of restraint and simplicity. Most travel ecommerce sites are old school with big toll-free numbers plastered everywhere and butt-ugly web pages crammed with banner ads and deals-deals-deals.

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

That’s about the diameter of a guava, or a small apple. What they found was not malignant, thank goodness, but a 7 cm endometrioma (a cyst caused by the prevalence of endometriosis, which I was diagnosed with in 2004).

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JUNE 24, 2011

The hacks on Craigslist who undercut your estimate forcing you to give your prospect the “comparing apples to oranges&# speech might lose some business but believe me, they deserve it. The design and marketing professionals I know, and admire, have nothing to worry about with crowdsourcing.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

Now, I was in no way an early Mac adopter, but ever since my conversion last year, I’ve come to love Apple products. They have literally changed my life. So even though that news wasn’t completely unexpected, the actuality of it made me sad.

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APRIL 16, 2011

Which should not have been that difficult, it certainly wasn’t the first time around, hello Apple! I finally got a new iPhone and then spent about five hours setting up my email, contacts, etc. What did I learn from all this? Never put your phone in your pocket. I don’t know what possessed me to do this.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Apple, on the other hand, values good design where creativity is required. Granted, it is possible that responsible operations and super-standard engineering contributed to the $230 billion difference; regardless, Apple’s reputation for creativity and design is well-known and highly attractive.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

A piece of “intelligent” content can be created once and served up in many places automatically e.g., blog article served up on an Apple Watch or Google Home. Now that’s intelligence. What is Intelligent Content? Intelligent content is essentially structured content. Now imagine it’s two years later or longer.

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DECEMBER 23, 2010

That through our outreach , we all take pride in our work, regardless of the few bad apples that inevitably penetrate any industry.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Justine ( iJustine ) Does she like Apple? Fun Fact She has a “porno music/comment time&# at the end of every video where she interacts with her supporters by responding to their comments. Yes she does! Obsessed, actually.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

There are…and always will be…”bad apples.”. Some of the “all” perceive our work as manipulative or downright sneaky. And, sadly, not every single person who practices public relations is squeaky clean…much like any other profession. I would argue this applies to the vast majority of PR professionals.

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JULY 30, 2014

The very product examples mentioned above compare apples to oranges, and gloss over the nuances in each of those market spaces. This way of thinking encourages marketers to push for growth above all, rather than take the time to build something properly.

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DECEMBER 14, 2012

Whether he’s talking about Apple or Facebook (oh boy, Facebook), he’s the one looking at things from a different angle. Kirk Hazlett’s posts, for example, often reinforce the strong customer service element in good public relations and how, while “it’s not rocket science,” it does take hard work.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I sold my trusty Treo 700 on eBay, bought my way out my contract with Sprint, and walked, as if hypnotized, into an Apple Store. I became a victim of AT&T upon the release of the original iPhone in June 2007. There I paid a man with a soul patch $600 (U.S., not Canadian, mind you) for the tech world’s equivalent of methamphetamine.

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JANUARY 26, 2011

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MAY 5, 2011

There are times I think, following Apple and Disney, it’s like they’re putting on a marketing clinic. Apple’s always been known for the design and the “how&# they make things. It’s about your customers or vendors, your clients and employees too; their stories and how your product or service helps them.

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