Trade show season is, mercifully, drawing to a close and loading docks across the nation are filled with display booths, crushed foam core signs, dented ballot boxes and damp collateral. Marketing pros are tracking their stuff as it lurches across the country, sits in Memphis awaiting a customs broker or languishes in some depot. At […]
Are You Beating Your CSAT To Death?
A while back we looked at how marketing shoves the Customer Abuse Department under the bus by setting unrealistic expectations nobody can possibly live up to. Today I want to talk about another reason our customers may be finding our statements about their value a little dubious, and it’s time to blame Daddy. You remember […]
How Marketing is Pushing Customer Service Under the Bus
In 1958 John Kenneth Galbraith famously took on the economic doctrine of Consumer Sovereignty. First floated by Paul Samuelson, this theory held that consumers, by right of their choice in the marketplace, were ultimately the sovereign beings who determine what is produced and the price at which it is sold. Galbraith put a bullet in […]
Are You Counting Your Marketing Calories?
I met my friend Jeff for lunch recently and it went like this: Jeff: Notice anything different about me? Me: You’re licking the inside of a Pop-Tart wrapper. Tell me you didn’t find that in the subway. Jeff: I mean do I look thinner? I have a high school reunion coming up. Me: So you’re […]