Bad customers, bad experience for others

It’s unavoidable, really. In certain kinds of businesses—a bank, a retail store—a certain kind of customer can easily turn a good experience into a bad experience for his or her fellow customers. Nevertheless, it’s the business that will be blamed. In this article...

Are you getting four-letter words from customers?

Maybe you’ve got some kind of customer service evaluation survey—online or over the phone—going on in your company? If you do, but the answers you’re getting from your customers are along the lines of “fine”, “good” and “okay”, maybe that’s a clue that you’re...

Love the ones you’re with; they’ll bring you more

Repeat customers are the largest source of revenue for more than 43 percent of small business respondents to a recent survey by Huzzah Media. The SECOND source of revenue cited by these small businesses was “word of mouth”—or, put another way, that first large group...

Be there, always, for your customers

I love my mechanic. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing romantic about our relationship. But if you, he, and I were in a lifeboat with only room for two people, I’d hang on tight if I were you.Why? Because he is always there for me. I mean always....