Customer Advocacy

Is Customer Service Getting Better or Worse? The Unexpected Gift of Social Media

I am a guy of advancing age (late 50s), so I am starting to sound like my father. Occasionally, I even find myself suggesting a fondness for the past by populating sentences with phrases like, “In the good old days…” Yesterday or Today But when it comes to customer service experiences, I am uncertain as to…

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Complexly Simple – Success Can Breed Mediocracy

Do you want to sound smart? Then, tell your friends you read a blog this week about how metathesiophobia is bolstered by accomplishment. In other words, people who are successful often resist change. Most of us suffer from at least a smidge of metathesiophobia (the fear of change). Certain things can help the condition – like…

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Please Ask My Opinion BUT NOT TOO MUCH

There is a fine line between disinterest and inquisition! You know what I am talking about – some brands are solely focused on themselves and not on their customers. Leaders at those companies drive a business freight train down the track at their customers with seemingly no interest in what customers think or feel about…

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Want a Free Franchise? A Hypothetical with Real-World Implications

Let’s pretend I gave you a company. Awful nice of me right? Well, maybe not! The company is a chain of video stores. Remember those? If you are old enough to recall the video rental phenomena, the landscape for that industry was dominated by Blockbuster and Hollywood Video, but there were a panoply of local…

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What’s Your Signature? The Importance of Defining Brand Moments

When I was asked to do a TEDx talk about a year ago, I keyed in on the message that your brand (be that your individual brand or your corporate brand) is little more than “what people say about you when you are not around.” In keeping with that message, I am excited to be…

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