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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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Empty Spaces

Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd poses a food-related question this Foodie Fun Friday although I’m not sure it was quite planned that way.  Interestingly, the Center for Science in the Public Interest has the answer.  Of course you know there’s a business lesson in there as well.  I’m telling you, where else but here do you get combinations like that on the Internet? Continue reading

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