[Welcome back to our Word of Mouth Marketing Lessons newsletter. This is text from the great issue all of our email subscribers just received. Sign yourself up using this handy form.] You don’t always have to do something dramatic to start conversations. You might be surprised to find it’s the little things that your customers…
6 ways to transform your competitor’s “bad” customers into your “great” customers
This is a guest post from Jeff Frank, owner of Simplicity Sofas — a company that designs and manufactures furniture for small rooms and narrow entranceways. Recently I read an article entitled Fire Your “Bad” Customers and Send Them to a Competitor by Noel Peebles who begins the article by saying, “Let’s face it; some…
WOM Tip #197: Apologize with personality
At some point, you’re going to disappoint a customer. And while you want to give them the best experience every time, mistakes also make for fantastic opportunities to earn great word of mouth. So when something’s broken, don’t just fix it. Fix it and then do something remarkable. Recently, one of Mini’s servers went haywire…