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How Should Companies Talk to Customers Online?
The words service agents use to engage customers often end up backfiring.
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Customer service agents have taken to heart advice to say “you” as often as possible – and to eradicate using “I” – in the belief that these speech patterns are good for business. In this conventional wisdom–busting paper for the MIT Sloan Management Review, three Canadian marketing professors – Brent McFerrin, Sarah G. Moore and Grant Packard – overturn decades of customer service training by reporting on research that shows digital service agents’ use of the word “I” can significantly boost customer satisfaction and sales – while their use of “you” can backfire.
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Canadian academics Brent McFerran, Sarah G. Moore and Grant Packard are associate professors of marketing at Simon Fraser University, the University of Alberta and Wilfrid Laurier University, respectively.
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