{"id":55,"date":"2007-06-07T15:39:11","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T15:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/07\/its-not-every-day-your-insurance-company-calls-you-to-apologise\/"},"modified":"2007-06-07T15:39:11","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T15:39:11","slug":"its-not-every-day-your-insurance-company-calls-you-to-apologise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/07\/its-not-every-day-your-insurance-company-calls-you-to-apologise\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not every day your insurance company calls you to apologise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a call today from my car insurance company: eSure.  It seems they regularly search the web for references to &#8220;eSure&#8221; and they picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/06\/car-number-plates-and-car-insurance-tales\/\">my eSure car insurance post yesterday<\/a>.  So the conversation goes something like this (paraphrased):<\/p>\n<p><strong>eSure<\/strong>: Hi, I&#8217;m calling from eSure customer services, we&#8217;ve seen your post on the internet about us.<br \/>\n<strong>Me<\/strong>: !!!!!!  Errr, ok.  What&#8217;s up?<br \/>\n<strong>eSure<\/strong>: Well I thought you&#8217;d like to know that I&#8217;ve listened to the recording of your telephone conversation with our customer service agent (CSA), and I&#8217;d just like to apologies to you about what happened.<br \/>\n<strong>Me<\/strong>: *thud* &lt;= <em>the sound of me falling off my chair.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>eSure<\/strong>: It seems our CSA was inexperienced and I&#8217;d like you to know that as a company we are very aware of the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM).  However we don&#8217;t offer a discount as we already target the safe driver side of the market, which is why our quote was cheaper.<br \/>\n<strong>Me<\/strong>: *laughing now*<br \/>\n<strong>eSure<\/strong>: You might like to know that as a result of your post, we&#8217;ve sent round a company wide communication reminding our staff about the IAM.  Is there anything else we can do for you?<br \/>\n<strong>Me<\/strong>: Yeah, about that discount&#8230;?<br \/>\n<strong>eSure<\/strong>: Sorry, we can&#8217;t do that.<\/p>\n<p>Tee hee, it was a very unexpected and entertaining conversation.  First off, well done to eSure for excellent use of technology (by the way, my company offers this service too, for \u00a395 a month I&#8217;ll send you weekly emails with links to websites that have referenced up to 5 words of phrases of your choice, I suggest you chose your company name, products names, brand names etc., however if you mention you came from my blog, I&#8217;ll double that to 10 per month, see here for details: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intrinsic-marketing.co.uk\/services-internet-keyword-tracking.php\">Internet Keyword Tracking Service<\/a> ).<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, well done to eSure for excellent proactive customer service, I really am quite impressed.  Of course they didn&#8217;t actually give me a discount, but meh, they were the cheapest anyway!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a call today from my car insurance company: eSure. It seems they regularly search the web for references to &#8220;eSure&#8221; and they picked up my eSure car insurance post yesterday. So the conversation goes something like this (paraphrased): eSure: Hi, I&#8217;m calling from eSure customer services, we&#8217;ve seen your post on the internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}