February 28, 2017

SHUT UP!! I know…it sounds harsh but it makes the point. The key is to stop talking. It has become a “knee-jerk” reaction today to come up with excuses or reasons why you couldn’t deliver an awesome customer experience. Employees are well armed today to do battle with any customer over why something didn’t work

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One Simple way to improve your Customer Experience by 100% immediately!

February 25, 2017

There have been a lot of articles talking about the big challenges McDonald’s faces and how they are trying to find their way back to dominance in the fast food industry. Much of the discussion has been around their new ad agency and how they have been getting a lot wrong lately. We could dissect

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How McDonald’s (and others) Can Find Their Way Back

December 22, 2016

Here’s the deal…everyone is happy and trying to be cheery, super friendly, and helpful during the “holiday season”. This is awesome…but will it continue? When we wrote our book, “Creating and Delivering Totally Awesome Customer Experiences,” we found a very interesting fact from our research…customers hate the unpredictable and inconsistent. We coined the phrase, “Random

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Will your Employees “Christmas Cheer” continue throughout the New Year?

December 13, 2016

If you’re like many Business Owners and Leaders you probably feel pretty good about the position you hold in your market…so did the taxi cab companies and drivers before Uber became a reality. Now they are scrambling and trying to find a way to survive…even to the point of trying to get political help in

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Are you at risk of being “Uberized”?

December 5, 2016

This is a question I get asked quite often when speaking to Business Owners and Leaders. It’s a great question…and the right question. Customer Obsession is successful when it is “top down” in any organization…coming from the top Leader as the way you are going to run the business. It isn’t successful from the “ground

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What it takes to be a Customer Obsessed Leader…5 Critical Skills

December 1, 2016

Being SATISFIED is about MEDIOCRITY. When someone says they are “satisfied” it means they are content, they have had enough or they got what they needed. It is about achieving a middle state…it isn’t “Dissatisfied” and it isn’t “Ecstatic”…it’s being Satisfied. With all the options available to us in the B2B or B2C marketplace, this

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STOP Delivering “Customer Satisfaction”…Your Customer Wants…no, Demands MORE