Use this template to inform the customer about his/her underpayment. An underpayment is usually an oversight, especially if this is a regular customer.
Despite claims and ad campaigns to the contrary, many companies are doing a poor job of establishing productive dialogues with their customers. A simple but effective way to help remedy this is to run regular customer focus groups. A focus group is a face-to-face meeting with a sampling of the...
Byline: SHRUTI DATE SINGH If Target Corp. sticks to its threat to halt expansion in Chicago, it can rule out 27-year-old Smita Kini as a regular customer. The Edgewater resident, who has no car, shopped at Target only a couple of times...
If a person has ever been asked if he or she would like fries with a burger or offered a larger portion at only a slightly higher price, then the person will understand the concept of cross-selling and up-selling. While the first encourages the person to buy a complementary or...
The information in a marketing database can be used to achieve significant business benefits by supporting and improving performance across the whole spectrum of sales and marketing techniques. Collecting and using data on your customers and your markets helps you gain a better understanding of the market so you can...
Ask the Experts: How Would You Fix Wal-Mart?Improving Wal Mart's ImageI see Wal Mart's biggest challenge as improving the customer experience. Wal Mart needs to hire better quality employees - service oriented employees who are knowledgeable, efficient, and enjoy what they do. I have stopped shopping at Wal...
Starbucks: What Went Wrong at The Top?StarbucksWhat are the odds of following a wildly successful founder, entrepreneur and maintaining either the street buzz or the meteoric rise? The law of big numbers was going to eventually catch up and you can’t fuel a fad forever. Shultz will weather the market...