Global Product Management Talk On The Value of Fanatical Support™

May 25, 2012 - PRLog -- San Francisco – Many customers are sitting listening to hold music waiting for their problem to get resolved. Instead of stewing privately, they are now airing their grievances publicly to anyone and everyone that will listen. The BP oil spill and Toyota recalls have shown how people are using social media tools to give pissed off customers a new voice – and it’s a megaphone. Knowing your customer and understanding how to address everything from a crisis to the everyday question quickly and effectively is critical. We'll talk about some big flubs, how the ball was dropped, what could have been done differently and the value of social support.

Rob LaGesse, Serial Entrepreneur, Software Developer, Customer Junkie, will speak at the weekly Global Product Management Talk on Monday, June 18, 2012 at the simultaneous times of 10:30-11:30 AM Pacific / 12:30-1:30 AM Houston,TEXAS TIME / 11:00-12:00 AM Boston Eastern Time, 4:00-5:00 PM London and using the hashtag #ProdMgmtTalk on Twitter.

Rob says, Robert says, "I love Social Media and how I connect to customers there - but I call my team Social Support, because that is more accurate. We support customers using Social Media - we don't pitch. Glad to address the Global Product Management Talk, a great application of social tools in support of the professional product management community!"

Each week, The Global Product Management Talk features an expert guest discussing pre-posted questions with the co-hosts and Twitter participants broadcast live over BlogTalkRadio. The transcript of Tweets and podcast are available for on-demand consumption on the web, iTunes, Google Play and mobile devices.

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NOTE: DAY & TIME!
Monday, June 18, 2012 at the simultaneous times of  8:00-9:00 AM Pacific / 10:00-11:00 AM Houston,TEXAS TIME / 11:00-12:00 AM Boston Eastern Time, 4:00-5:00 PM London
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About Robert D. La Gesse
Rob LaGesse is a Serial Entrepreneur, Software Developer, and Customer Junkie. As the Chief Disruption Officer, he heads up social media efforts at Rackspace. His passion is taking care of customers and he goes to great lengths to do so. Though he was hired as the Director of Software Development for the Rackspace Cloud, he soon realized his heart was in “who” they were writing software for, and not the software.  He says he was building for the Internet before we had the Internet, writing wireless apps before many had wireless and doing large scale software testing before it was cool. However, he was unhappy building software because he wanted to build something he could get feedback on NOW – like customer satisfaction.

Robert said, "In my team I am looking to get people that know the products, the company and how the company works rather than them actually knowing how to solve customer issues."
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Contact Rob
blog: http://www.lagesse.org
email: rob at rackspace dot com
twitter: @kr8tr
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kr8tr

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