Acknowledgement is nice!

A friend of mine used to live in Sydney and regularly trekked out to Herbie’s Spices at Rozelle. She’s now moved to Melbourne and had to order at the website, so she included an explanation as to why she hadn’t ordered in person. She got a lovely...

Treating clients right!

I don’t know how often I hear people complaining about the level of courtesy and service they receive from businesses and, increasingly more often, in respect of professional services. I enjoy receiving the brilliant Alan Weiss’s regular newsletters and in a recent...

Add a little bit more

Many moons ago we were having breakfast at a cafe, when I was reminded of what a difference adding a little bit more makes.My wife had ordered a banana smoothie and normally, when you buy a smoothie, that’s what you get – a glass of smoothie. However we were...

Stress saving tip

If you provide services for lots of clients, I bet you have a few that always give you grief and cause you stress. You know the type. They give you information days, weeks after you gave them a deadline for it. They have weeks to let you know they need some...

Is it foolproof?

This morning I had an appointment at a fancy schmancy university where you are welcomed, checked in and announced to the person you are seeing electronically. So, I did as bidden and tapped in all of my information to be told electronically that the person I was...