What’s on your About Us page? I’ll bet you don’t even know. When was the last time you looked at it? Did you get the summer student to write it eight years ago? Did you put that fun 5,000 word history of the company commissioned three CEOs ago? God help us, you didn’t put your […]
It's Time to Kill Off Your Dreary Customer Reference Program
Gentle friends, we have spent a great deal of time over the years discussing the generally terrible way we approach almost everything to do with our customers. From the Customer Abuse departments to the save gates to Being Creepy to the ineffective measurement of misery, we have generally come up lacking, both on the B2B and B2C […]
Border Collies are Loyal; Customers are Satisfied
Here we are at the Loyalty phase of our Journey of Unreciprocated Love. This is the Unreciprocated Love part. Last week we talked about why we need to focus on the very end of the race, lest we be dazzled by the finish line and pipped by a competitor. Let’s imagine we managed to get […]
Getting Commitment Requires Primal Selling and Quiet Marketers
There is a video making the rounds lately of a runner who, finding himself well out in front in the final bit of the race, decides to ham it up a little with the crowd and, you guessed it, fails to notice the competitor who sneaks up and crosses the finish line first. If […]
Preference and Its Pylons
Marketers can sure get in our own ways when we try to create preference. We clap on and on about our great customer service and low prices but we don’t always remember to mention the problem we are solving. Our prospect, on the other hand, never forgets the problem they need solved. Too often we celebrate […]
