Food for Thought


January 15, 2007

An oldie but goodie with a slight addendum in light of the impact of social media.

  • A customer who is pleased after doing business with you tells one person
  • A customer apathetic to your experience tells no one
  • A customer who has a bad customer experience tells approximately nine people OR …
  • … they blog about it and you experience the online firestorm that Kohls has had after someone’s cell phone camera met up with a messy dressing room
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is a strategist, speaker, educator, and author of Brand Now: How to Stand Out in a Crowded, Distracted World and Get Scrappy: Smarter Digital Marketing for Businesses Big and Small. He is the Chief Brand Strategist at Brand Driven Digital, an educator at the University of Iowa, and host of the On Brand podcast. More about Nick.