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In This Issue
Mobile Facts: Texting tops Talking
Customer Experience: Making the Best of Customer Complaints
Case Study: Touchwork boosts feedback by 3,000% at Airport
Report: By next year, 1 in 5 US Households will be wireless-only
New Product: Smart Messaging Solutions for Conferences and Tradeshows
Trends: Text Messaging replacing talking among Teens
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Thank you for the feedback and comments on our September newsletter!
 
We help companies stay "in touch" with their customers by using the mobile channel to engage and interact with them at the moment that they experience your products or services.
 
As a result brands not only obtain realtime feedback about their products and services but can instantly identify dissatisfied customers and peform rapid service recovery.  As reported by many studies it is those brands that listen and respond to customer complaints that outperform their competitors!
 
Our newsletter provides interesting content on the mobile channel and its use in customer feedback applications as well as some updates from Touchwork. We hope you enjoy reading it and welcome your comments.
  
Johann Leitner,  PhD 
President, Touchwork
Mobile Facts: Texting Tops Talking
   
Cell phone textingThe typical U.S. mobile subscriber sends and receives more text messages than phone calls. 

Nielsen Mobile found that during the second quarter of this year, domestic wireless subscribers sent or received an average of 357 text messages each month, compared with an average of 204 phone calls placed or received.
Customer Experience: Making the Most of Customer Complaints
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Customers are constantly judging companies for service failures large and small, from a glitch-ridden business-software program to a hamburger served cold. They judge the company first on how it handles the problem, then on its willingness to make sure similar problems don't happen in the future. And they are far less forgiving when it comes to the latter. Fixing breakdowns in service-we call this service recovery-has enormous impact on customer satisfaction, repeat business, and, ultimately, profits and growth.        Read more  
Case Study: Touchwork Boosts Feedback by 3,000% at Cape Town International Airport
 
Woman at airportCape Town International Airport is getting an overhaul at the moment in readiness for the upcoming 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup. Find out how they increased passenger feedback by over 3,000%.   Read more
 
 
To read the full case study, click here
Report: By next year, 1 in 5 US Households will be wireless-only
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Cords are becoming endangered across America. More than 20 million U.S. households have ditched their landline and rely solely on wireless handsets for home telecommunications. 
New Product: Smart Messaging Solutions for Conferences and Tradeshows
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Touchwork recently launched Message4Events, comprising a range of smart text messaging based solutions for conference and tradeshow organizers.These solutions enhance the conference experience for delegates by: 
  • Facilitating on-site networking amongst delegates
  • Enabling organizers to communicate with all delegates during an event
  • Automating the rating of presentations, sessions and speakers
  • Adding a fun "mobile treasure hunt" to drive traffic to participating tradeshow booths 
Trends: Text Messaging Replacing Talk Among Teens
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Second to clothing, teens claim that a mobile phone tells the most about a person's social standing or popularity.  The respondents said they spend as much time talking as they do texting each month. In fact, the feature is so important that if texting were no longer an option, 47 percent of the responding teens said their social life would end or be worsened.                   Read more
To discuss how the mobile channel can be used in your business, please contact Carl Mostert at  800 218-3856 ext 301 or cmostert@touchwork.com