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Customer Service is a Mindset

There is a special place in Heaven for the folks who invented automated answering systems. I’m sure you have stories to tell. How much time have you wasted trying to get a human being when you needed help from a provider? I ...READ»

Customer Service is a Mindset

There is a special place in Heaven for the folks who invented automated answering systems. I’m sure you have stories to tell. How much time have you wasted trying to get a human being when you needed help from a provider? I ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Customer Service is a Mindset

There is a special place in Heaven for the folks who invented automated answering systems. I’m sure you have stories to tell. How much time have you wasted trying to get a human being when you needed help from a provider? I ...READ»

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Would You Like a Mortgage With Your Mocha?

Who says banking has to be dull? Not the executives at ING Direct, who are banking on powerful technology and clever marketing to make a radical change in an industry that needs it. The result: In less than three years, they've attracted more than a million customers and $10 billion in assets. And they serve a pretty mean cappuccino.READ»

Kenan Samms
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Brand and Employee Engagement

Brand management at corporations is usually handled by the marketing department. Most of the energy in defining and building a brand is to communicate the values of your company, its services and products, to potential customers, ...READ»

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Between The Lines

The stories behind this issue's stories.READ»

Kenan Samms

WANTED: Customer Service Champs

It’s interesting to me that every time I read articles and newsletters about leadership, I find references to how true leaders treat their employees with respect and dignity, value their opinions, and ask for their feedback. When ...READ»

WANTED: Customer Service Champs

It’s interesting to me that every time I read articles and newsletters about leadership, I find references to how true leaders treat their employees with respect and dignity, value their opinions, and ask for their feedback. When ...READ»

WANTED: Customer Service Champs

It’s interesting to me that every time I read articles and newsletters about leadership, I find references to how true leaders treat their employees with respect and dignity, value their opinions, and ask for their feedback. When ...READ»

Performance Review

Not since Apple's Switch ad campaign has video footage been so lovingly parodied. Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer seems to like to get his dance on at large company gatherings. And his sweaty exhortations are by turns embarrassing and ...READ»

Customer, Serve Us

Two recent articles in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal make an excellent parallel read. Yesterday, the Times, Fast Company founding editor William Taylor considered the sorry state of the customer service call center. ...READ»

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The Money Issue

Welcome to our first-ever (and first annual) Money Issue. Don't worry, we haven't been possessed by the spirit of Malcolm Forbes. What you won't find in this issue are the utterly predictable (and totally unreliable) gimmicks that ...READ»

Kenan Samms
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Three-Dimensional Chess

Job cuts deepen across the USA. Retail outlook expected to worsen. We can’t seem to escape these headlines. And this week we’ve read about and heard our share of news about the economy that, for the most part, is pretty grim. ...READ»

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Hennion and Walsh Launches its Newest UIT: The SmartTrust™ Diversified Dividend Trust

PARSIPPANY, N.J. -- Hennion and Walsh is pleased to announce the introduction of its SmartTrust[TM] Diversified Dividend Trust (2007 Series A), a unit investment trust (UIT) whose objective is to provide investors with the potential for capital appreciation and current dividend income.READ»