customer experience

Discussing Growth With Your Clients – Smart or Stupid?

If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you know my position on the importance of cultivating referrals – particularly for smaller businesses. This is a realm of marketing that is commonly overlooked… typically botched… and arguably the highest return marketing activity a company can invest in. Literally… Infinite Return Marketing when executed properly [...]

Who Is Really In Charge of Marketing?

I’d hate to be responsible for marketing at Sprint (together with Nextel). There are people at Sprint dedicating their lives to trying to make people like this company – to say nothing of the millions they spend in that effort. And for what??? To have it all ruined the moment someone walks into one of [...]

Lunch With Yoda (Part 2) – The Master of Customer Experience

If you haven’t read my July 21 post, Lunch with Yoda, take a moment and read it. It sets the stage for this post. My afternoon with John revealed what I submit are six laws for creating a perfect customer experience. While I’m certain there are others (and I’d love your opinions), these are a [...]

Lunch with Yoda – Master of Customer Experience

John Taylor is the grand master among a new breed of marketers. A short while ago, I wrote a post criticizing Sprint/Nextel for their abysmal failure to even be civil in their face-to-face interactions with customers. John is the polar opposite. He is the engineer of a near flawless customer experience designed to delight just [...]