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Guest Feature: Researching Your Buyer Persona

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creating-buyer-personaAs broadband providers, you’re aware that your customers  are constantly bombarded with demands for their attention, from social media to email and text messages and even from other broadband competitors. It’s becoming increasingly difficult for your marketers to push their message through the noise. So what’s the solution? Make your customers come to you.

In order to do this, you need to create something your customers already want and are actively searching for. ...

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4 Good Employee Attributes

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good-employee-attributesCompanies are constantly looking for employees that can positively lead others and greatly contribute to daily operations. Of course, this is not always an easy task as I’ve encountered many growing pains as a manager in customer care. I think that for certain positions, companies are focusing on degreed employees, but even with this requirement, if those degreed employees don’t possess good employee attributes –  namely passion, attitude, work ethics, and loyalty ...

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7 Steps to Successful Broadband Usage Enforcement

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usage-limit2Broadband providers are facing the reality that they can no longer offer all-you-can-eat bandwidth to all their subscribers.  Those days are gone. More of us are using more of our broadband connection. We’re watching more video on more devices. Some folks have dropped their traditional Pay TV and others are seriously considering doing the same–cutting the cord in favor of over-the-top (OTT) TV.

Some pioneers who tried implementing broadband usage enforcement limits and ...

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Strode Testifies at Rural Communications Senate Hearing

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Recently, the Senate Communications Subcommittee met with rural telecom and cable operators to discuss the challenges and barriers that they face providing service to rural consumers.  The goal of the committee is to “bridge the digital” divide so that broadband is an impactful force in rural communities similarly as in larger, more urban areas.  ZCorum Affiliate, Ritter Communications, Inc., was invited to testify and was represented by Vice President – External Affairs, John Strode.  With extensive history ...

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When Do You Set Your Expectations for Customer Service?

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expectations-for-customer-serviceWhen customers contact a “customer care” facility, they are generally looking for one thing – a solution to their concerns.  In most cases, they want the answer they receive to be a direct solution rather than just an attempt to point the finger at someone else.  The grade a customer care facility is given on exceeding expectations for customer service is crucial to the overall perception of the service provided.  Fair ...

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Should Working from Home Be Banned?

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working-from-home-bannedJust in case you hadn’t heard, Yahoo’s new CEO, Marissa Mayer, caused quite a stir when she implemented a policy that banned employees from working from home.  By June, all work-at-home employees must make their way back into Yahoo’s offices each day.  According to the memo, Mayer appears to want to develop a more innovative work force and see Yahoo operating as it once did during it’s peak in the ...

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Tweet Recap: ACA 20th Anniversary Summit

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aca-20th-anniversay-summitThe movers and shakers of the independent cable industry convened on our nation’s capital for the American Cable Association’s (ACA) 20th Anniversary Summit.  Throughout the summit, keynote speakers praised cable operators on being the “job creators and innovators” while also tackling issues ranging from lack of broadband infrastructure to support an “all-IP world” to telecommunication laws not being ...

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What Happened in Vegas at the NCTC WEC

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I’m back from Vegas, and I’m going to tell you most of what happened there. I was at the NCTC Winter Educational Conference (WEC) with my ZCorum cohorts Alex Rivera and Neal Grillot. If you’re not familiar with the NCTC WEC, it’s a great place for cable and telephone providers who are NCTC members to exchange ideas and learn about new technologies and trends within the TV and broadband industry. ZCorum is an approved NCTC service provider, and ...

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Let’s Talk Bandwidth Consumption

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netflixLately, if you’ve been reading techie news, you are probably already clued in to the surging success that Netflix has been experiencing this past year.  Their fourth quarter 2012 revenues exceeded even their own forecasts, which is awesome for them.  However, it is potentially not so awesome for ISPs who are not currently capping their bandwidth offerings for their customers.  Now,  every time a user logs on and spends a day ...

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Make Your Broadband Business Better in 2013 – Part Four

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threat-atlasThis is the final post in my four-part series covering how you can make your broadband business better in 2013. I’ve been focusing on the value of doing a SWOT analysis to take an inventory of your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. The first two posts talked about Strengths and Continue Reading →

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