New Client? Get the Right Start!

The ability to develop long lasting productive relationships with clients starts with the first contact you have.  Building long term partnerships takes work and effort by all members of your team, but begins with the business owner and the culture in place. Here are...

Follow Up is the Missing Link in Poor Service

What an extraordinary few weeks it has been.  Helping my clients succeed by listening as they hit a wall and can’t find the way around it is truly  gratifying work.  Sometime the answers are right in front of them. Like last week working with a residential...

Reaching the Gold Standard in Service

Everyone talks about not being able to find good help that will make it past the 90 day probationary period. In spite of the unemployment numbers, some service oriented businesses cannot find good help.  Yet others seem to have few problems attracting and keeping...

Service At Sea! Business Lessons Part II

So lets talk about Service and making customers feel important.  Have you ever noticed how when you visit the world’s most reknown theme parks, you are addressed as “guests”?  Not customers, but guests.  Think back to all the places you have visited...