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 […]
Why Time is on Your Side When Marketing to Small Business
Welcome, small business owners! Hard to believe it’s Small Business Week again! Come in, sit down, enjoy your eggs. We’ve got a great morning planned for you! We’ll start off with an address about how important you are from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of State for Bingo Halls, Hosiery and Small Business. Then […]
Who Should Wear Your Corporate Speedo®?
Last week we looked at the terrifying beachfront property known as social media. This is where not-so-happy customers are busy telling the world how much their B2B suppliers suck. And it’s where most B2B companies try to pick off the whiners from the cliff tops or shell the beach the relentlessly so they can’t come […]
Are Retention Departments Symptoms of Suckiness?
I have been thinking about retention departments lately. And I’ve decided they are the Emergency Rooms of the corporate world, where accounts in urgent need of repair wind up, usually in less-than-ideal circumstances. Like a real ER, there are countless ways our customers end up there. Sometimes years of neglect pile up and things begin […]
