Ever wonder where your new customers come from? They came from someone else’s brand! That’s right, they lost them and you picked them up! The question is can you hold on to those new customers, or will you lose them like they did? What are the...
When a new company is just getting started or sales are down, the pressure is on for more advertising. But is that the best solution? Advertising is based on your long-term commitment to running expensive ads repeatedly before you can get any “traction.” But there is...
When sales drop off, it’s easy to simply blame the sales division. We often hear, “They’re just not doing their job!” But is it really the sales division, or is it something we generally take as an unchangeable constant, like the very structure of the company...
Unless you are selling direct to the consumer, your consumer brand lives or dies on the basis of chain and box store authorizations. Without access to the marketplace you simply can’t grow your brand. Especially when your brand is unknown and has no sales track record...
We dread calling 800 numbers because we can be tied up for hours due to being put on hold, getting passed around, and being dropped off. If that’s not bad enough, after we have spent the afternoon on the phone trying to solve a problem for...
Last week we were honored to be the closing keynote speakers for the Annual Customer Experience Conference in New York, brought to you by the same folks who bring you the Consumer Confidence Index: The Conference Board. The MC for the event was Robert Reiss, often...
Your marketing people have done a fine job of creating a marketing plan, strategy, and package. They’ve considered the market, the competition and the delivery systems. They have honed the message, dialed in the positioning, and developed the compelling logo, catchphrase, and merchandising materials. But like...
Any discussion about customer satisfaction needs to start by training a microscope on dissatisfied customers. Only a fraction of the dissatisfied customers will ever mention it to your company. The vast majority will just buy something else. It’s too much trouble for most customers to call...