How NOT to market bad news…



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Making bad news sound happy is not good marketing

I had a recent experience with Starbucks that got me thinking about how marketing organizations can have a tendency to think that their job is to make everything sound like good news — and how sometimes that is such a very wrong approach. Read More

The best approach for an executive sales conversation


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The conversation

During one of the member coaching hours of my professional development program, someone asked me how to improve the way to have conversations with executive customers.

I recalled a common situation that occurred when I was a technology executive and sales people would bring me into their clients as the “visiting dignitary”. Read More

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” job) which took me about an hour to clean up.

(They actually went so far as to put in about 8 cable ties to reinforce the most tangled areas, making it impossible to even shove the pile of wires aside without cutting everything apart.) Read More

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 did not read the prior article, the gist is that as an owner of a new BMW your choice is to get free service from BMW that you dislike (because of the awful and useless, “give me a 5” survey process I described) or to get good, paid-for, service from someone else. Read More

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 BMW Z4 just passed 120,000 miles.

Today I found myself thinking a startling thought…

“When I get a new car, I don’t want to get a new BMW…I’d rather get a used one, because new BMW’s come with free maintenance for a few years and I don’t want to have to deal with BMW’s service department. Read More

Customer Service: Is it Cost or Care?

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It all starts with one executive decision.

Every company has one, single, strategic decision to make about customer service. That decision is cost or care?

Here is what I mean:

If you make the decision for Cost:

You have made the decision to provide customer service only because you have to, and you want to do it at the lowest possible cost. Read More

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