Come at once. We have struck a berg. It’s a CQD, old man You have heard this story On the 15th April 1912 the Titanic sank on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. Whilst steaming at high-speed through an area of pack ice she hit an iceberg and broke in two. Over fifteen […]
Lessons From The Corner Shop
Yesterday I went into a corner shop to buy a newspaper. The woman standing at the counter was muti tasking, talking on her mobile phone whilst, at the same time, chewing gum. When I went to pay she didn’t look me in the eye, she just stuck out her hand and took my money She […]
Dead Connection
A lady in America lost her father to cancer. His old telephone supplier are chasing her for the £300 he owes them (since he died), despite the fact that she has no legal obligation to pay. She is, understandably, a tad upset. Innovative things that they could have done instead: Apologised profusely and cancelled the […]
Customer Care: How to make your customer feel like a criminal.
I was cycling through deepest Norfolk with my daughter. It was raining, hard. My daughter had started bitching. A tea shop loomed into sight, it was dry and warm and served tea, my prayers had been answered. 25 minutes later, happy and content I went to pay the bill, only to be told that they […]
How to Calculate the Cost of Poor Quality
Do you ever have quality problems? Here is a technique to help you work through the cost of poor quality. Get a group of people in a room and the ask them to estimate the answers to the following questions. How many customers do you treat badly each year? How many of them complain? When […]