Want to know the secret to great customer service? Communication. Yup, it’s that simple. As customers, when we have a problem with a product or service, the last thing we want to do is to repeat ourselves again and again and again. Real World Story: My mother lost her...
Have you ever received excellent service from a company of which you weren’t even a customer? A friend told me the following story. Real World Story: “On the morning of our last day Harley riding across the USA, my bike stalled in the middle of a road and would not...
For those of you who read my post last week about Thrifty Car Rental, I continue to write about my experiences in Indiana in this week’s post in which I describe my stay at Staybridge Suites. Real World Story: After experiencing abysmal service by several employees at...
If you Google the word thrifty, you get the following definition: using money and other resources carefully and not wastefully. Well, someone needs to let Thrifty Car Rental in on that definition. Real World Story: I recently flew from San Diego, California, to...
In my last post, I described how excited I was to visit the Lemon Tree hotel in India because the hotel had sent me a positive welcome email claiming I would be met by smiles and friendliness. Real World Story: After my 30-hour trek from the US to India, I checked in...