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Blip.tv customer uber-service

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Two of my favourite vloggers just met across the crowded vlogosphere and the result was a flurry of… compliments. For the last few months I have been bugging Kevin Nalty (and anyone who’d listen) to check out and use blip.tv as their videoblogging space. Last Friday Kevin succumbs to my passionate recommendations, which resulted in a bit of a shock to his system as the co-founder of blip.tv, Mike Hudack, immediately responds to Kevin’s emails to blip.tv support. Eventually it transpires that this customer support is happening via Mike’s blackberry as he is sitting down to dinner. This is no way detracted from the quality of the support, I might add. Kevin, apparently still in shock, says:

Obviously I told him to enjoy dinner and not to worry about it. The surprising thing is that Mike had no idea I’ve been blogging about online video sites for months. I was a random Blip customer, and I got red carpet treatment.

Mike responds proudly:

Here at blip we work as hard as we can to provide excellent support to all our users. We answer support mails on our BlackBerries. We give out our IM handles and our cell phone numbers. We do this for two reasons. First, because it’s what we love. Building blip and working with blip’s users is fun for us. Second, because it’s good business. We’re exceeding people’s expectations, and that’s just good for business.

And the final thought from the happy (and very busy) blip.tv co-founder :

You know what’s really cool? The fact that we can actually give usable customer support from the table at a Korean barbecue joint. That wasn’t possible ten years ago. It should be expected in 2006.

I completely agree. Alas, most companies don’t see it this way and new possibilities don’t seem to excite them as much as frighten them. Blip.tv is one of the businesses that I hope will appear with greater regularity in the coming months/years. Founded with an agenda or an objective that is other than just about business – the idea behind blip.tv is to help vloggers to create, publish and distribute better videos. They aim to make the vloggers happy and their blogs famous, not just promote blip.tv. That happens with good content being drawn to blip.tv for their service and support. Can you tell I am a big fan of blip.tv?

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5 Responses to “Blip.tv customer uber-service”


  1. Simon
    on Jul 16th, 2006
    @ 10:15 am

    http://simon-aubert.blogspot.com/2006/07/adriana-lukas-aka-adriana-cronin-lukas.html

    (in French)

    ^^


  2. NevilleHobson.com
    on Jul 16th, 2006
    @ 13:20 pm

    The new customer service ethic

    With an attitude like this at Blip.tv, how can these guys possibly not succeed? -
    You know what’s really cool? The fact that we can actually give usable customer support from the table at a Korean barbecue joint. That wasn’t possible ten years ago….


  3. nalts
    on Jul 18th, 2006
    @ 12:16 pm

    Sadly they did not send me their leftover ribs.

    -Nalts


  4. Adriana
    on Jul 18th, 2006
    @ 14:20 pm

    Slackers!


  5. Pen
    on Jul 20th, 2008
    @ 3:46 am

    My website videos that are hosted on blip have not posted for two days!!!!!! Whats up!

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