Trusting your customers will reap rewards

It was one of the more stupid things I’d done in a long time: With a rare Saturday all to myself, I hopped in the car and drove 1.75 hours northward to a tourist/shopping destination, King Arthur’s Flour in Norwich, Vermont.  I had one required purchase to make, and...

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...