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Customer Experience

Former Cubs Manager Joe Maddon’s Advice for Baseball and Business

Former Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon became a beloved figure in the city of Chicago, and his frequent quips – […]

Customer Experience

Why Two High-Ticket Sales Resulted In Two Very Different Experiences

This is a tale of two sales. Both are for big-ticket items, and both occurred after much research and comparison shopping. In one, the buyer has become a lifelong brand advocate; in the other, he has buyer’s remorse. What happened?…

Customer Experience

Loyalty Programs Can Gain – Or Lose – A Customer’s Loyalty

Rewards programs can be lucrative for loyal customers, but when companies add lots of rules and restrictions to a loyalty program, it can actually have the opposite effect. Customers are very perceptive, and they understand when something is a value and something is not. One example of this is when rewards expire.

General Business

What I Learned Publishing My First Book

During a leadership meeting at work last January, my boss challenged his direct reports to identify a personal goal to […]

Customer Experience

Customer Experience in Mergers and Acquisitions Strategy

Mergers and acquisitions abound in almost every industry. Between 2000 and 2018, nearly 800,000 transactions were announced worldwide, with nearly 52,000 in 2018 alone, according to the Thomson Financial Institute for Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances…

Customer Experience

5 Ways Rental Car Companies Improve Customer Experience

You’re sitting in a Ford Focus, or maybe a Nissan Versa, or perhaps a Hyundai Accent. You’ve waited in line at the counter, initialed in seven places, declined the insurance, and received the rental contract printed on an old dot-matrix printer. From which rental car company did you rent the car?

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