The place to start is radical – look at all employees as members of the sales force. Why? Sales are the only employees in the company that can affect their checks while everybody else is trading time for money. If a well designed sales compensation systems drive more sales, what would happen if people doing the work could affect their checks?
The 6 Biggest Mistakes in Service Delivery And What You Can Do About Them…
Do you really know what it takes to deliver the ultimate customer experience? What buyers really want is a predictable experience. It takes teamwork to build loyal repeat customers. If you measure the different kinds of breakdowns that occur within a company, you will find most happen due to internal-external communication breakdown. This affects the […]
Do You Offer ‘Raving Fans Service’?
Raving Fans Service is an expectation of how customers will react when doing business with you. Although business is more mundane than a sports event, the analogy works. Imagine a stadium of enthusiastic fans – all of them the perfect customer applauding your company, your team, and you for being the best in the business. […]
When is Enough, Enough?
Sometimes the best ideas result from an innocent question. In a recent conversation with Gregg Wartgow at Green Industry Pros magazine he discussed their vision for the publication. They want to be the resource for the aspiring landscape companies under a million in revenue that want to grow. This represents 80% of all landscape companies, […]
High Impact Firms
Introduction – The End Game If you look hard at the business practices of the most successful companies, the elite 5% of all small businesses, you will find 4 general competencies. This is not a tale of just landscape companies, it is the story of all companies that started small and became billion dollar firms. […]
