Attention — It’s what your customers crave.

Attention — It’s what your customers crave.
The thing that’s most expensive to give customers—a defect-free product—just gets you in the door. Only human attention, love shown to, your customers is going to buy their loyalty in return. (If you’re making airplane engines, please, please ignore this paragraph. I like a defect-free flight. A lot. Concentrate [...]

Land mines and gold mines in customer service

The way gossip spreads on the internet can turn even your “least important” customer into a public relations land mine. Consider the example of Tom Farmer and Shane Atcheson.
They were denied “guaranteed” hotel rooms at 2 AM. They formatted their complaint to the hotel as a bitter (but humorous) powerpoint presentation and sent copies [...]