It may not be the most glamours activity in the banking world, but for community banks to effectively compete against larger counterparts, some rote processes must be involved. The following 3 steps of a continuous improvement sales process, though, may yield...
Disruptions of any sort raise many questions for your business. Any market disruption could be considered a competitive threat. It may or not be a real competitor, but in the end if you fail to achieve your goal, you lost. We can prevent those losses. Since 1987,...
7 ways for grocers to gain customer attention when budgets are stretched “Improvise. Overcome. Adapt.” It sounds easy enough when a square-jawed, upright Clint Eastwood barks orders to a group of elite Marines in the film Heartbreak Ridge. But for American consumers,...
Who would have imagined we’d see a day when even ‘recession-proof’ luxury goods retailers like Tiffany have to SUE to be acquired? The COVID-19 global health crisis has luxury brand owner LVMH seeking to back out of an historic deal to acquire the...
By Julius C. Dorsey Jr. Godiva is well-positioned to go head-to-head with Starbucks, but they’re also well-positioned to go around them to a unique and defensible “Godiva niche.” Godiva is already established as a premium chocolate maker with a...
But what about customer lifetime-value? Are customer service managers really doing the company a favor by ditching the pesky customer who just wants to complain? More and more, some companies are taking a gamble on the likelihood of a disgruntled customer giving up on...
