How word of mouth works. Against you, that is…
A simple and obvious, but incredibly valuable lesson from Michael Arrington today. Sure, we’re all aware that we must take care of our customers or someone else will, but what I think we fail to recognize is that it’s not just the customers we lose today when we don’t meet their needs. It’s all the potential customers lost when they decide to share that failure with friends. Or everyone they know, for that matter.
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