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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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Email Is A Last Resort

Isn’t it ironic that many people with smart-phones use them to email rather than call? That’s such a waste and potentially even dangerous. What I mean by that is this: email is one of the most potentially detrimental things you can bring to a relationship with peers, customers, and others. Continue reading

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New Carts

I received an email from the pro at the golf club yesterday which was sent to the entire membership.  Not that I was planning on it, but he informed us that if we wanted to play golf today we’d have to walk the course since carts would not be available.  It seems we’re getting new ones.  That’s not a bad thing – some of the old ones had issues and you would occasionally find one stranded on a cart path where it had died mid-round.  But it isn’t really a good thing either, since maybe the focus should be on things like getting some sand in the bunkers so they’re playable or even filling the ball washers now that season has officially begun and there is a lot of mud on the course.  I know – great having me as a member, right?  But it’s  good business lesson (which, after all, is what these clubs are!). Continue reading

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