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Customers Don’t See Silos<br />

Being great in social media needs to carry through the resolution chain.<br />

Have you ever waited in line at a store to return something? Always<br />

seems to happen to me on the busiest shopping days, like Black Friday<br />

or Boxing Day. And then, once you’ve waited a very long time, trying<br />

to be patient, you get up to the front of the line and somebody tells<br />

you, ‘‘This isn’t the right line.’’<br />

You have to go line up somewhere else, starting the process all over<br />

and giving up even more of your time, effort, and energy. And the whole<br />

time you’re thinking, ‘‘Hey, I’m the customer here. This shouldn’t be so<br />

hard.’’ If you’re returning something, you may already have a negative<br />

issue with the store. Or maybe you just want to exchange what you<br />

have and turn around and spend even more money. Either way, you<br />

don’t want spend more time in another line. I know I never do.<br />

This is what a lot of companies are doing online in social media.<br />

Time and time again, I see examples of people tweeting or saying<br />

something on Facebook to a brand, looking for resolution, just to be<br />

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