by Guest Author | Oct 12, 2015 | Customer Loyalty
Note – This guest post by Dennis Gershowitz was originally posted on 10/1/15 on TSIA’s Inside Technology Services
Background About six weeks ago, I shipped a piece of art via a highly reputable shipper. I will spare you the details of this poor customer experience;...
by Sam Klaidman | Oct 7, 2015 | Growth
If your job description includes creating new services or products that become profitable, you know how hard your job is. You have infinite ways to fail and only a few to succeed. So, let’s explore why you are working so hard. What makes creating new services or...
by Sam Klaidman | Oct 5, 2015 | Customer Loyalty
When I was learning about customer surveys, I was taught that if you do not plan to take action on what you learn from a question, then don’t ask it—it made sense to me. However, now I believe that many people do not use any of the information obtained from...
by Sam Klaidman | Aug 24, 2015 | Customer Value Creation
Today, customers are looking to receive more value from their partners than ever before. The two primary reasons are: Customers are “crazy busy” and need relief because they are drowning in problems, opportunities, issues, and challenges. This relief is...
by Sam Klaidman | Aug 10, 2015 | Growth
Q. I haven’t updated my service contracts in five years – is that OK? A. No. This is way too long Q. If they still sell, why should I change anything? A. Because customer needs change, and you don’t want to wake up one morning with a significant problem on...
by Sam Klaidman | Jul 27, 2015 | Growth
I had no competition when I started selling my company’s service contracts. Our products were mission-critical, and most of our customer’s policies were to buy the OEM’s service contract. Hitting quota was easy! Competitors Today things are...
by Sam Klaidman | Jul 13, 2015 | Growth
These days, there are three business models that are emerging into serious long-term opportunities. I have written about the Internet of Things, which is the most developed, and now write about The Sharing Economy. I chose this business model as next to highlight an...
by Sam Klaidman | Jun 29, 2015 | Growth
I subscribe to the Boston Business Journal and have for years. A few weeks ago, one of the articles screamed in 22 pt. type “Internet of Things market will be the size of Canada’s GDP by 2020”. I said to myself, “Holy crap, this is...
by Sam Klaidman | Jun 15, 2015 | Customer Value Creation
In 1955, a Spanish artist took a blank 45 by 58-inch canvas worth about $400 today and put about $50 worth of oil paint on it. Today the painting’s intrinsic value is about $450 plus the labor cost, so let’s be generous and call it $10,000 (it...
by Guest Author | Jun 1, 2015 | Customer Value Creation
Notes: 1) The author of this post, Anil V. Pillai, is a Director of the India-based consultancy Terragni Consulting (P) Ltd. Anil and I were members of Customer Value Creation International. This article was originally published in the May 2015 “Efficient...
