{"id":1485,"date":"2011-02-11T23:08:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T12:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2011-02-10T23:08:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T12:08:31","slug":"think-about-the-order-of-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/02\/think-about-the-order-of-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Think about the order of information&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting frustrated may be part of life, but I don&#8217;t find it particularly enjoyable. It&#8217;s even worse when it could have been avoided so simply, too.<\/p>\n<p>There is some software I am considering purchasing to use for a client as the freeware doesn&#8217;t have al the features I need. There&#8217;s\u00a0a question I need answered first so I looked through their FAQs which didn&#8217;t answer my question.<\/p>\n<p>They suggested asking intheir forum so I did. Only to discover, in small print in a directory listing not linked to originally, that the forum is old and questions unlikely to be answered. I wish they had made that clear elsewhere &#8211; or stopped people being able to ask questions instead of wasting my time.<\/p>\n<p>So, then I used their contact form &#8211; filling in name and email and a nice message explaining what I needed. Form worked nicely but the next message was &#8220;You can&#8217;t contact us directly anymore&#8221;. Again, why not tell people that before they fill in your form? Why waste their time and, presumably, cause more emails to come to their inbox?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever their reasons for not providing customer support, I don&#8217;t think there is any excuse for not putting messages in place to save people&#8217;s time. It would cost them nothing to have put the message before the contact form instead of afterwards, but would save aggravation for customers and give them a much more positive image.<\/p>\n<p>So remember the sequence of messages can be critical for efficiency and estalishing good relationships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting frustrated may be part of life, but I don&#8217;t find it particularly enjoyable. It&#8217;s even worse when it could have been avoided so simply, too. There is some software I am considering purchasing to use for a client as the freeware doesn&#8217;t have al the features I need. There&#8217;s\u00a0a question I need answered first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,59,60],"tags":[1162,691,1161],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-info-tools","category-web-content","category-writing","tag-customer-service","tag-message","tag-sequence"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1488,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}