a Comcast Cares team to monitor third-party websites to respond to
complaints as quickly as possible.
“The reason that was so damaging to Comcast, and the reason it
got over a million views, was because it reinforced people’s idea that
Comcast’s service wasn’t that good, and so they passed it around and
said, ‘Yeah, see? This is a problem,’” Bernoff tells me. “It’s a problem
that Comcast has now tried to address, but it’s an awfully big problem
to deal with to change people’s perspective on your service.”
There are times, however, when the importance of online chatter
can get overblown.
Johnson & Johnson’s Motrin brand, for instance, caused an
online ruckus when it ran television ads seeming to suggest that
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