What do you think of the Starbucks decision to serve alcohol?
The QSR magazine article I referenced in a blog last week was published today. Check it out, https://bit.ly/aREEKX share it with others, and offer your opinion about Starbuck’s decision to serve alcohol
5 Ways Customer Service Should NOT be like Politics
As we come to the end of yet another vicious campaign cycle, I couldn’t help thinking about how “would-be public servants” demonstrate the worst of servant leadership. Service should not be like politics, in that service is: 1) about people not power 2) emphasize those being served not the one serving 3) occurs without making…
How to Create Brand Equity
Which is it – wide ties or skinny ties? Bell bottoms or straight legs? I am convinced that if you wait long enough the old will become new again and the out-of-vogue will return to fashionable. Recently, I asked if brand loyalty was dead? In the context of that question I posed data to suggest…
How to assess the Online or User Experience
Having spent a decade of my life conducting a daily radio talk show in a top US market, I know the importance of engaging listeners with provocative and alluring content. Unfortunately, at times most of us who’ve work in the media have painted an overly negative picture of the world around us, as evidenced by…
Sex Doesn’t Sell that Well! – How to make real visceral connections with customers
I have long been an admirer of the work of Martin Lindstrom. As you probably know, Martin is a revolutionary thinker in the area of consumer behavior, branding, and neuromarketing. In fact he worked with a group of 20 noted scientists to conduct a 3 year 7 million dollar study that used state-of-the-art brain scanning…
Is Social Media Dead? Credibility through Customer Experience
Have the winds changed? Is the social media losing the fresh influence it once enjoyed? There was an Edelman study in Advertising Age that received far less attention than I thought it would. I suspect that the reason the findings didn’t gain traction was that the results were unpopular and that people didn’t want to…
How words sell well!
I write everyday. At present, I am working on a book under contract, finishing revisions for a publishing agreement on my next book, and working on a collaboration document involving a company for yet a third book. So put simply, I write. Unfortunately, all too few writers will ever be able to write as effectively…
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