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Webcare as an Integrative Tool for Customer Care, Reputation Management, and Online Marketing: A Literature Review

In: Integrated Communications in the Postmodern Era

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  • Guda Noort
  • Lotte M. Willemsen
  • Peter Kerkhof
  • Joost W. M. Verhoeven

Abstract

When consumers are dissatisfied with a consumption experience, they usually respond in one of the following ways (Hirschman, 1970): (1) stop using an organization’s products/services and take their business to a competitor, (2) file a complaint with the organization that is responsible for the dissatisfying consumption experience, or (3) talk about their dissatisfying consumption experience with fellow consumers (negative word of mouth). Janelle McCoy, a former loyal customer of Chevrolet, decided to combine all responses with the help of social media. In a series of comments on Facebook and Twitter, in which Chevrolet was either tagged or addressed (@chevrolet), Janelle shared her dissatisfaction with one of Chevrolet’s car dealers. In doing so, she not only engaged in negative word of mouth (NWOM) but also complaint behaviour. As can be seen from the excerpt of the Twitter dialogue depicted by Figure 4.1, Janelle’s comments addressed a double audience consisting of not only other consumers but also the organization responsible for the dissatisfying consumption experience. Consumers such as Janelle increasingly voice their complaints as electronic NWOM, with the aim to draw the attention of organizations and, as such, enforce service excellence. Thus, after receiving no satisfactory response from Chevrolet, Janelle decided to take her business to a competitor and to share this decision with other consumers on Facebook and Twitter as well.

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  • Guda Noort & Lotte M. Willemsen & Peter Kerkhof & Joost W. M. Verhoeven, 2015. "Webcare as an Integrative Tool for Customer Care, Reputation Management, and Online Marketing: A Literature Review," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Philip J. Kitchen & Ebru Uzunoğlu (ed.), Integrated Communications in the Postmodern Era, chapter 4, pages 77-99, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-38855-1_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137388551_4
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    1. Surachartkumtonkun, Jiraporn (Nui) & Grace, Debra & Ross, Mitchell, 2021. "Unfair customer reviews: Third-party perceptions and managerial responses," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 132(C), pages 631-640.
    2. Li, Meichan & Wang, Rui, 2023. "Chatbots in e-commerce: The effect of chatbot language style on customers’ continuance usage intention and attitude toward brand," Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Elsevier, vol. 71(C).
    3. Javornik, Ana & Filieri, Raffaele & Gumann, Ralph, 2020. "“Don't Forget that Others Are Watching, Too!” The Effect of Conversational Human Voice and Reply Length on Observers' Perceptions of Complaint Handling in Social Media," Journal of Interactive Marketing, Elsevier, vol. 50(C), pages 100-119.

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