After I boarded the flight and sat down in my seat, the flight attendant brought me a glass of cold water.  The water hit the spot.  She saw me with my Taco Bell bag and came to me and asked, “Can I have it?” My immediate...

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In today’s tough economy, every store is trying to find ways to increase its guest count.  Sometimes, the smallest of gestures or actions makes a customer walk away.  What is worse is there are times we set an expectation to the customer and...

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My daughter, my niece, and I woke up at 5:30 in the morning to get to Cherry Creek Mall on June 24th because the new iPhone came out.  Of course as a dad I did not want to miss the opportunity to get the first...

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In the classical business model, we all say we want a win-win relationship. But is there such thing as a true win-win relationship? Isn’t there always an ending where one party feels that he/she could have gotten more?But traditional marketers and operators as...

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In one of my early projects in the corporate world, I built a team member satisfaction measuring tool for the company I was working for. As I built the questionnaire, I covered all areas from hiring to training, from on the job satisfaction...

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While having coffee with one of my colleagues one afternoon, I asked for his views of the future of luxury brands and Baby Boomers. “Luxury brands are dead,” he said, pointedly. I was taken aback by this cryptic pronouncement. Probing further I asked him to reconsider...

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I am honored to be the first guest blogger on Arjun’s blog. I don’t need to know that others were asked before me and turned down the opportunity. I seized the chance to tell my tale of the turnaround of a brand; or least the...

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