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Stop Treating B2B Customers Like Digital Novices

Harvard Business Review

As Bernard Hours, the former COO of Danone, put it, “On the internet, a brand has to become a person, to listen and to answer questions.” It was not that Salesforce.com didn’t offer the standard features, such as FAQs, platforms for user forums, and integration with the company’s webpage.

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How to Scale Without Losing Savvy Customer Service

Harvard Business Review

According to Danae Ringelmann, IndieGoGo co-founder & COO, "canned answers get a bad rap because they often don't answer the questions asked; hence the execution is poor, not the concept." Here are three principles they work by as their startups continue to scale from high-touch to high-tech: 1. Canned answers can be a good thing.

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