'Stop the tiresome Stuff' In Your Business

We are living in a world of change. Shift happens! Competition comes from all over the world, which means that many American businesses are in distress.

Many decisions are being made that are contrary to both beneficial business sense and building customer loyalty.

Most organizations' marketing is usually an expend in figuring out what to do to salvage original or potential customers to exercise more dollars with them.

I'm suggesting that instead of thinking about what to do, figure out what to halt doing. In other words, cessation doing the "listless stuff."

Not doing the humdrum stuff means finding out what prevents customers from spending money with you and making positive that that action or reaction never happens again.

Here's an example of what I call "listless stuff." Some airlines now want to charge customers who want to pronounce to a live agent.

That's lifeless stuff in two ways. First, they've chosen to penalize customers who want to continue getting what they've always gotten - one-on-one attention. Worse, they've done it by saying they will charge more for this previously standard level of service. How many customers will they lose because of this decision? I know of at least one.

There are more subtle, but no less damaging, lifeless things businesses need to cessation doing.

pick, for example, the unique Wheaties boxes. General Mills recently introduced Wheaties boxes with photos of the U.S. Olympic gold medalists. One was missing: Paul Hamm. Why?

This was General Mills' response to my inquiry:

"Selecting a Wheaties Champion has never been an easy task, especially when we have witnessed so many outstanding performances by so many championship athletes. But it simply isn't possible to honor every champion on the Wheaties box."

So they leave off the first U.S. man to regain the Olympics all-around gymnastics championship in one of the sport's greatest comebacks? His return from a disastrous drop to a near-perfect high-bar routine won near-universal praise and, for most of us, defined the word "champion."

But there was controversy. As most of you know, a South Korean gymnast claimed that a scoring error cost him the gold and appealed to the Court of Arbitration for sport. The court recently ruled that Hamm can withhold the gold medal.

Even though the medal was disputed, it was not because of anything Hamm did or did not do. unexcited, General Mills decided to do the "valid" thing. But by being valid and leaving out Hamm, Wheaties is alienating the millions of customers who sight him not as controversial, but as a hero, and losing customers in the process. Now that's "listless stuff."

So inaugurate stopping! conclude saying "No" and originate using the word "Yes." cessation charging for services that most of us assume are free.

accumulate out what exasperates, discourages, hassles or confuses your customers and discontinuance it.