by The Emmerich Group | Feb 3, 2011 | Customer Success
You have to do some cost-cutting. Fine. It’s part of the responsible stewardship of your business. But if you think across-the-board cuts are best simply because it distributes the pain and keeps interdepartmental whining to a minimum—you’d better think...
by The Emmerich Group | Jun 10, 2010 | Customer Success, High Performance
If I owned a tattoo shop for bankers, I’d ink the same thing over and over onto client after client: Life gives to the givers and takes from the takers. It’s not just pithy, you know—it’s true. If you want to put your bank on the receiving end of the...
by The Emmerich Group | Mar 11, 2010 | Customer Success, Profitability and Growth
We’ve all been there. The car salesman slides the paperwork across the desk at you, pointing at the signature line. Just this one last step, he says, and there’ll be no way out. At least that’s how it can sound to the customer as she wipes her sweaty palms on the...