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Learnings and Takeaways from Product Camp Atlanta 2010

I attended Product Camp Atlanta last weekend hosted at the Georgia Tech Research Institute Conference Center. It was my first product camp, so the only knowledge of format and content I had going in was from the description on the web site. The topics of the conference focused on product management and marketing which are [...]

10 Questions with Sean Murphy of Canvas Systems

I asked Sean Murphy, co-founder of Canvas Systems, to answer a few questions related to entrepreneurship, his business experience, and the pre-owned IT equipment industry.   I met Sean a few years ago during our involvement with local youth athletics.   Sean is a great family man, a successful entrepreneur, and very active in our local community. [...]

Three tenets of customer focus competency for organizations

Another satisfied customer

I’m not a customer service professional by title, but I write a good bit about “customer focus” and its importance to a business.  As I interact with businesses in my personal and professional life, I’m always looking for those that exhibit world class customer focus. A marketing professor once told me that [...]

Rethink Customer Loyalty

Customer loyalty programs are all around us. Points, miles, cash back, member-only coupons, additional discounts, etc. These are all tactics to get a customer to be a repeat customer. They do work. I’ll admit, I’m a member of more than one customer loyalty program myself and I’ve used the rewards on several occasions in the [...]

Tips for KPI Planning

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are a universal business measurement tool. A basic question for any business is how do you effectively perform KPI planning to maximize govern the value and results you provide to the organization? It’s a busy answer. It involves specific actionable steps for teams.  I’ll answer the question by looking at KPI [...]