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Personalization in a B2B World

“Hire character. Train skill.” – Peter Schutz  In a real-world setting, a good salesperson would size-up a new prospect walking in the door and within seconds begin to tailor the conversation to that person’s needs. In the digital world of eCommerce and automated marketing, the union of data and content management technologies is allowing companies to replicate […]

Updates from SDL

“Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.”  – Abraham Lincoln  I just spent the last three days meeting with SDL leadership and customers at their annual Connect […]

Digital Transformation

For all the advancements in our technology and methods of communication, it’s still just one customer at the end of all those devices. I am regularly asked to speak to our clients about their customer engagement strategies. More often than not, they are concerned about a particular channel of communication… mobile, web, promotional, etc. This […]

Being a Good Consultant

We are a relationship led company. In every respect, the quality and strength of our relationships determine the short and long-term success of our business. Qualitatively, this is the most important point of judgment regarding the health of employees, partners, clients, and the company. If you can’t build and maintain great relationships, consulting is not […]

Promises

“People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it.” – Howard W. Newton  Promises   It was early in my career and late on a Friday night. All of my friends were out on the town and waiting for me. I had a report due that day and was working […]

Where Everyone Knows Your Name

“Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision.”  – Peter M. Senge, The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization  Where Everyone Knows Your Name     “Where everyone knows your name… and they’re always glad you came…” Do you make our customers feel this way? Do you know them and […]

Loyalty or Sales Strategy?

“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer  I have a favorite restaurant that I go to frequently; I’ll be honest… it’s the bar at a nice restaurant. I enjoy this place because the bartenders Jason and John make the experience so pleasant. Several months ago, the restaurant started a loyalty […]

Great, not Good Service

“In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.” – Karl Reiland  I was working with our team in Seattle this week and we were discussing the tenets of good customer service. If I learned anything working at Nordstrom, it’s that good customer service is proactive, not reactive. If someone takes your […]

MarketerCX

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.” – Margaret Thatcher  Hi Everyone,  We launched our first Software as a Service (SaaS) product! MarketerCX is a fully implemented version of our […]

Doing Right by the Client

I keep coming back to this one idea: if we are to be a truly global consulting company supporting the best brands in their customer experience journey, we need to provide a level of service and quality that is unequaled in the industry. The Tahzoo experience should be a fair exchange of value delivered in […]