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How to Delight Your Customers EVERY TIME!

July 18, 20130 Comments

Is your business stuck trying to figure out what your customer wants? You know there’s a really clever and sophisticated way to discover this…. Ask em! There’s a niche in the retail business where companies let the customer design and personalize what they buy. Nike was one of the first. It’s called NikeID. You pick […]

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How to Out-Starbucks … Starbucks

July 9, 20130 Comments

Growing up my mom would pay about 1.20 for a pound of Folger’s coffee, because Mrs.Olson said “Mountain Grown” coffee was the best. Then Starbucks comes along and says the coffee mom drank was garbage…and they made us feel smart to pay 11 bucks for a 1lb bag. Would YOU pay 45.00 for a 12oz […]

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Separate Your Service

July 2, 20130 Comments

I have to tell you what happened to me as I preparing to do an event in Carlsbad, Calif. at the Park Hyatt hotel. In was typical morning. I ordered breakfast. Room service comes. But the room service attendant, Roxanna, delivered something I have never seen before. She brought a full-sized toaster to freshly toast […]

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How to Fight a Price War

June 28, 20130 Comments

Best Buy doesn’t like what you’re doing and they’re fighting back. Does this sound familiar? Let’s say you’re in the market for a camera or the latest flatscreen TV. You walk into Best Buy, you play with the cameras, you wander over to the TVs, stare at a few favorites, you write down a couple […]

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An innovation that makes some people mad!

April 29, 20131 Comment

Michael Burger for the Relevant Report As you know, here at the Relevant Report, we scour the world for innovations that revolutionize a company or an industry. But I’ve actually found an innovation that makes a certain group of people very, very angry.  Got your attention, didn’t I? This is the Tide laundry pod, and […]

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