Why Customer Service is a Marketing Job - Jason Anello

In Chapter 9 of 15 in his 2010 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, creative director and experience marketer Jason Anello shares why social media communication has created a need to unite marketing and customer service business units. Anello suggests the traditional model keeping the two groups separate is outdated and needs to change, especially given how customer service client engagement continues to increase as new technology becomes available. Anello is the co-founder of non-traditional marketing agency Manifold Partners - www.wearemanifold.com . He is the co-founder of Brooklyn-based supper club Forking Tasty - www.forkingtasty.com . Previously he held creative leadership positions as an Ideologist at Yahoo's Buzz Marketing team and as an associate creative director at Ogilvy & Mather - www.ogilvy.com . Anello is an alumnus of the University at Albany - www.albany.edu .