How to Ruin a Great Customer Experience

It seems really ironic that organizations can take a great customer experience and convert it to an awful experience just by asking you about your customer experience. I wonder who talks to the customer experience experts to tell them about the experiences they create?
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Speak Up!

You need to communicate more. The people you work with and the ones who work for you want information, they want feedback. They don’t want to be left in the dark.
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How to Build a Culture of Trust

As a business owner, you have to see yourself as the quarterback. Engage with all employees — not just your “star players” — and work to build a trusting team. Your company’s success is built on this foundation of mutual trust.
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A New Way to Find Out Exactly What Your Users Are Thinking

One of the biggest startup-related lessons I’ve learned over the past year is that user feedback is essential to creating a successful startup. Too many entrepreneurs fall in love with their idea and end up spending thousands of hours developing a product that, in the end, doesn’t actually fit their customers’ needs.
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How the Internet Has Shifted Commerce into High Gear

With eCommerce sales on track for a 20% growth up to $1.5 trillion in 2014, it’s safe to say that the Internet has revolutionized the way we do business. Through the power of the web, a small business owner can reach entire countries, or, with the right logistics, the entire planet, using a single website.
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Where Do Leaders Come From?

If you want to grow your business, you must grow your people. In the small and mid-sized companies that I work with, there is—not always, but more times than not—a sizable gap between the CEO and his or her direct reports. It’s not a skill gap. It’s a leadership gap.
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