Customer Service

How NOT to market bad news…

Making bad news sound happy is not good marketing I had a recent experience with Starbucks that got me thinking…

8 years ago

The best approach for an executive sales conversation

The conversation During one of the member coaching hours of my professional development program, someone asked me how to improve…

9 years ago

Caring about customer care

Comcast vs. AT&T I have had a “Comcast experience” over the past 2 weeks (photo is of their actual “finished”…

11 years ago

BMW Bad Service – The Sequel

Previously...Free service you don't like Awhile back I wrote an article about how BMW "pseudo-service" repels customers. For those that…

11 years ago

Pseudo – "customer service" that people hate

Service or torture? I am the type of person that buys a car and drives it forever. My sturdy little…

12 years ago

Customer Service: Is it Cost or Care?

Customer Service It all starts with one executive decision. Every company has one, single, strategic decision to make about customer…

12 years ago

Technology shouldn't torture people

Easy or Annoying? This is a bit of a diversion from my normal topics, but I know many of you…

14 years ago

How Companies Waste Leads

I have worked with many different sized companies and one of the universal truths I have seen is that sales…

15 years ago

The Polar Bears have had it…

Recently I was on the street in a downtown area, and I came across a group of young people with…

15 years ago

Customer Value and the P&L

This is a sequel to my last post on Customer Cost or Care.  Several people left comments, and I got even more…

15 years ago