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More Tips for a Customer-Centric Foundation

As we discussed last week, the most successful companies are the ones that cultivate a superior customer experience, the ones that take pride in everything they do. On its face, that idea doesn’t seem all that revelatory: after all, don’t most business owners think that keeping their customers happy is…
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Building a Customer-Centric Foundation

The most successful companies are the ones that place the customer experience above all other considerations. Yes, that even means over maximizing profits or emphasizing growth. Those customer-centric businesses understand that you need a strong foundation before you can build the rest on top of it. They understand that profits…
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Stop Wasting Your Time

When you’re in a position of leadership at your company, your time is precious. There aren’t enough hours in a day for you to handle everything yourself, and you can’t afford to shorten the day further with poor productivity. Dayshift supervisor, store manager, or business owner—or something in-between—it doesn’t matter.…
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Understanding Your Company’s Culture

Alison Doyle, writing for The Balance Careers, describes company culture as “the shared values, attributes, and characteristics of an organization.” She goes on to explain its importance by saying “workers are more likely to enjoy work when their needs and values are consistent with their employers.” After all, believing in…
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Shrinkflation

According to Wikipedia, shrinkflation “is the process of items shrinking in size or quantity, or even sometimes reformulating or reducing quality, while their prices remain the same or increase.” The term is relatively new, and is usually attributed to British economist Pippa Malmgren, who used it in a Twitter conversation…
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Customer Loyalty Is Always Up for Grabs

One of the most important pursuits for any company is maximum customer loyalty. In fact, we’ve devoted countless blog posts to this idea, and we’ve structured our mystery-shopping service around the idea of earning that loyalty. Why? Because loyal customers equate to repeat business, naturally, and they also lead to…
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Beyond Compensation and Benefits

The specter of the Great Resignation continues to haunt most companies around the country, as droves and droves of employees are resigning to pursue other opportunities. With the workforce in so much flux, many businesses—especially small proprietorships—are rightly concerned about losing their best employees and having to deal with a…
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Employee Fulfillment

In last week’s blog, we discussed the rising tide of employee turnover straining an already delicate economy. One key Gallup quote that should haunt all of us is, “Fifty-two percent of voluntarily exiting employees said their manager or organization could have done something to prevent them from leaving their job.”…
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The Tide of Employee Turnover

While The Great Resignation has thrust the problem of employee-turnover into the spotlight recently, it turns out that it’s not actually a new challenge. It’s been a long, long time since the norm was individuals working the breadth of their careers for one company and retiring with a pension. In…
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