Posts Tagged ‘startups’
Small Business and Startups: Slice & Dice Your Customer Service Data
Mike | October 29th, 2012After every quarter I delve into our customer service data to have a look at a few things: first (and foremost) are we effectively meeting out goal of providing world-class customer service to our community? Next, what is the demand on our system and do we have capacity available to meet it? Third, have we [...]
Is The Only Purpose of Customer Service To Change Feelings?
Ross | October 25th, 2012Seth Godin, in a recent post on his Blog contends that the only purpose of customer service is to “change feelings.” Here’s what Seth wrote: The only purpose of customer service … is to change feelings. Not the facts, but the way your customer feels. The facts might be the price, or a return, or [...]
Small Business and Startup Tips: Pricing and Analysis
Mike | October 22nd, 2012Periodically every business needs to take a fresh look at pricing their products or services. There are several basic questions that need to be asked, and then a great deal of work to analyze the current state of pricing data and then to forecast the impact of any change in pricing. First, you need to [...]
Startup Tips: Ask Your Customers For Feedback. Then Act.
Mike | October 15th, 2012A few months ago, veteran crowdSPRING Buyers may have noticed something new when they completed wrapup on a project. Instead of just asking them to rate their experience with the winning Creative in their project, we started asking them to also rate us. It’s a simple survey – just 4 questions and a comment box [...]
5 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Art Students
Mike | October 8th, 2012My younger son is a high school senior this year and I find myself in awe of his ability to manage an wildly complex and demanding existence. First semester of senior year is an overwhelming time – college visits and applications to schedule and manage, final rounds of SATs and ACTs to prepare for, a [...]
