Sara November 21, 2012 Communication, Internet, Management, Organizational, Professional Development

Employee social media workplace whining is a very new and serious area of concern for employers – unchartered territory.

Continuing on this subject – employees and employers alike should be on guard and remind themselves of the fact that EVERYONE could see what’s being written – ...

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Sara October 28, 2012 Communication, Customer Service, Leadership, Management, Operations, Professional Development

Do you have “Talk Equity”?

That’s free advertising accordinging to the Southwest Airlines leadership who develped a “personality description model” for their company to   craft the ...

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Sara October 16, 2012 Communication, Human Resource Management, Leadership, Management, Operations, Organizational, Professional Development

Set and renew noble expectations

Hang with me for one more day while I tout a few of the fabulous lessons we as business owners, principals, managers can learn from the sensitive successes of our friends in ...

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Sara June 14, 2012 Communication, Customer Service, Sales & Sales Management

“Get Clear” by assessing your strengths

Your strengths are your talents, skills and knowledge.  Talent is your innate aptitude for an activity.  A skill is something you learn and become more adept at doing through ...

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Sara November 3, 2011 Communication, Customer Service, Synerdynamics

Re-engineer your company by beginning with a vision of what the customer wants.

If you surveyed a room of agents why their last account went to another agency at renewal, the overwhelming majority will tell you it was because of price. Our industry ...

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Sara November 2, 2011 Communication, Customer Service

Do you know what makes your customers loyal?

  If I ask agency or 20, every one will almost always tell me they have a very loyal client base.  My second question is “why?” which is when the fun begins.  ...

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Sara November 1, 2011 Communication, Customer Service

Are you keeping up with your customer’s expectations?

Paying attention to what you hear from your client’s will shape where you take your business.  It gives you an opportunity to experiment a little, be innovative and improve ...

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Sara October 27, 2011 Communication, Customer Service, Synerdynamics

Customer expectations are changing at internet speed. How are you keeping up?

Of course that statement assumes you’re even asking or paying attention to what you’re client expectations are – unfortunately to many people aren’t and ...

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Sara October 26, 2011 Communication, Internet, Marketing, Operations, Sales & Sales Management, Websites

Customer Value Management = greater productivity and profits

  Greater productivity and profits make good business sense.  The things that you identify in your customer value surveys that will increase your productivity and ultimately ...

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Sara September 27, 2011 Marketing, Websites

Early adopters of internet marketing have an incredible advantage and consistently dominate their market.

Nike is famous for the “Just Do It” philosophy, which was a common attitude toward the early stage internet positions for most of my clients.  Yes, jumping out there ...

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