Category Archives: What’s Going On

Restocking

“So where is he this morning and why is my blog reading enjoyment cut off?”. That’s what you’re thinking. I know – it’s like I’m psychic! Well, I’m attending an advertising and marketing conference today where I’m restocking my brain and blog idea bank. This, of course, ultimately benefits you, dear reader. Please don’t take the fact that I have the time and attention span to post this mobilly as an indication of the quality of the information I’m getting. It’s actually been pretty good so far.

See you tomorrow?

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True Confessions

There are a few things going on these days which sort of got connected in my mind this morning. As you read this you’ll probably go “duh, it took him way too long as usual” but I’ve been trying not to jump to conclusions so I may seem a little slow. The three things are the gulf oil spill, the Goldman hearings, and the coal mine tragedy and while they’re very different things, I think at their cores is exactly the same behavior. Continue reading

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Service By Design

I’ve gone on at some length in this space about customer service and those companies that do it badly.  Today, I’d like to write about one that does it well and explain why I feel that way.  It’s nice to applaud rather than boo for a change!

I go on a golf trip each year.   I’ve also written about that band of brothers before but I don’t think I mentioned that one thing each guy brings is a gift for the others.  Generally these are relatively inexpensive – golf balls, pen knives – that sort of thing.  I think the biggest thing ever given to the rest of us was a cruise on the Inter-coastal Waterway one afternoon.  My contribution for the last few years has been a commemorative T-shirt of some sort.  I get them from a company named DesignAShirt and they’re the recipient of my applause today. Continue reading

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