by Sam Klaidman | Apr 21, 2014 | Growth
Law of unintended consequences This picture defines our understanding of the Law of Unintended Consequences. As you can see, this is a three-part definition. In this post, I am only talking about the last definition, a perverse effect contrary to what was originally...
by Sam Klaidman | Apr 14, 2014 | Growth
A visit to an unhappy customer About 25 years ago, when I was in my first VP of Customer Service job, I received a call from our Southeastern Sales Manager. He told me that one of our largest domestic customers was unhappy with my prices for our service contract. He...
by Sam Klaidman | Apr 7, 2014 | Growth
Leaders of a company, division, department, or project have to accomplish many things right to achieve their current success. They also had to do many things correctly many times. All these experiences become habits that we tend to fall back on when making decisions....
by Sam Klaidman | Mar 31, 2014 | Growth
This post describes what happens when someone is not satisfied with Consistent Experiences. Imagine driving to work on Monday on the same route you have driven for five years. You see a traffic light change from green to yellow, and for a split second, you think about...
by Sam Klaidman | Mar 24, 2014 | Customer Loyalty
The need for an empowered employee Assume that the hard drive on your computer crashed. Either a) you had continuously backed up your files to the cloud, or b) you have never backed up your data anywhere. When you call your computer manufacturer’s technical support...
by Sam Klaidman | Mar 16, 2014 | Growth
When servicing your company’s products, your customer has only three choices – you (either directly or through an authorized service channel), an independent service provider, and in-house service. In most cases, there are only two viable alternatives – you and them...
by Sam Klaidman | Mar 10, 2014 | Customer Value Creation
Have you ever been certain you knew something and found out you were wrong? That happened to me. Last week, during a discussion with the CEO and the Board Chair of a new client, I was asked, “How long are we required to support our products?” My assignment is to help...
by Sam Klaidman | Mar 3, 2014 | Growth
When strategizing on revenue growth, success requires outside-the-box thinking. If everyone is shooting for the same goal and frequently goes into coast mode when they achieve that level, then eventually, everyone will do the same things, and no one will have a...
by Sam Klaidman | Feb 17, 2014 | Customer Loyalty
I have always believed that going directly to your customers (i.e., collecting the voice of the customer) for answers to difficult questions is the only way to get the correct answer quickly. For me, this makes incredible sense. How come people continuously make...
by Sam Klaidman | Feb 10, 2014 | Customer Loyalty
When you start to design a customer feedback survey program, you will potentially fall prey to “death by bias.” Biases will taint your survey results. Sometimes a particular bias matters, and sometimes it doesn’t. You should be aware of and understand the biases that...
