A message to you from 1,000 American consumers

It’s a time when countless consumer-focused brands are wrestling with this year’s customer experience (CX) performance and next year’s CX plans. If that’s true for you, don’t forget one of the most important steps in the process. Step away from the spreadsheets and...

5 Tricks to Treating Your Customers

Worried that this spooky year is scaring away your customers? Here are my top 5 tips for luring them back to your front door and treating them so well that they’ll never run away again. Stop catching them by surprise! Nobody likes an ugly surprise. This year, your...

5 Timeless Lessons in Customer Trust

How to turn a one-time purchase into a loyal customer relationship Consumers are now more mobile, open to switching brands, and intolerant of poor customer experience than ever. What does it take to keep a customer coming back? In a word: Trust… But trust is tricky....

3 Questions That Can Save Your Brand

In a year that has forced so many brands to rethink plans, revisit marketing strategies, and revise budgets, it helps to step back, take a breath, and check the landscape from somewhere above the tree line. In other words, get out of the weeds. Not always easy. But so...