10 Stories of Excellent Customer Service
Photo Credit: Matt Watts So frequently, we talk about poor customer service. I wanted to find some examples of excellent customer service. Below are 10 examples of what people found to be excellent customer service. I hope one of them triggers an idea. Customer Service Gone Terribly Right – Nintendo makes exchanging a Wii convenient. “She has such a cheery disposition” – Whenever anyone steps up to the counter, Weaver waves a blue and white pompom and chirps: “Hi, everbody. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-14 10:03:56
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10 Stories of Excellent Customer Service
Photo Credit: Matt Watts So frequently, we talk about poor customer service. I wanted to find some examples of excellent customer service. Below are 10 examples of what people found to be excellent customer service. I hope one of them triggers an idea. Customer Service Gone Terribly Right – Nintendo makes exchanging a Wii convenient. “She has such a cheery disposition” – Whenever anyone steps up to the counter, Weaver waves a blue and white pompom and chirps: “Hi, everbody. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-14 10:03:56
10 Stories of Excellent Customer Service
Photo Credit: Matt Watts So frequently, we talk about poor customer service. I wanted to find some examples of excellent customer service. Below are 10 examples of what people found to be excellent customer service. I hope one of them triggers an idea. Customer Service Gone Terribly Right – Nintendo makes exchanging a Wii convenient. “She has such a cheery disposition” – Whenever anyone steps up to the counter, Weaver waves a blue and white pompom and chirps: “Hi, everbody. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-14 10:03:56
Faux Marx
Faux Marx Laura of 11D says this quote is making the rounds of Wall Street ... unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalised ... no one in 1870 imagined the working class having access to bank credit. Poor people might get some time [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 18:43:29
Forgotten Gems: Clash of the Titans
Thanks for checking out my review in a new feature I like to call Forgotten Gems ... this. The stop-motion model animation and poor green-screening almost give credit to the charm of this film ... musical score until there is a true moment of plot that requires its punctuation. The casting [more...]
Date: 2008-07-13 00:16:20
Focus Of Financial Meltdown Blame Shifts To Barney Frank (D-MA)
FRANK-LY DISGRACEFULCongressman's Key Meltdown Role Increasingly Clear*** NEW: ... loans to people with poor credit histories in the name of "social justice". Frank was at the very ... that making some bad loans was just another tax., a cost of doing business as a regulated company [more...]
Date: 2008-09-27 19:12:00
Overcoming a Routine of Bounced Check Fees, Overdraft Fees, and Payday Loans
“Max” is a friend of mine ( ... and poor credit), he’s often riding the fine line of having enough money to make it through a month, even with some state assistance - and sometimes he falls short. Falling short when you have no credit [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 20:00:14
Expert Advice On Mobile Home Loans
by Ray Lam If you are in the market for a mobile home, you’ll find a variety of loan programs and financing options to make buying the home of your choice affordable and easy. Even people with poor credit may be able to obtain financing for a mobile [more...]
Date: 2008-07-01 09:01:55
What You Need To Know About Corporate Pension Plans
Last week, we looked at the problem looming in many established blue-chip companies that pay dividends now and may not later ... along with blue-chip stocks, and bonds do not pay anything near 7.5% unless they are of poor credit [more...]
Date: 2008-11-13 16:08:34
JP Morgan chairman Dimon warns worse still to come for U.S. Economy
from the Daily Telegraph:The head of JP Morgan Chase has warned of worse to come for the US economy in 2009 as he unveiled “very disappointing” ... of $17.2bn. In contrast, most of the bank’s competitors are expected to report multi-billion dollar losses ... s Investors Service lowered its credit rating on JP Morgan, citing its “poor prospect” of generating [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 03:29:08
Realogy Now on Endangered List
A: Realogy was taken private by Apollo Management in a $6.6Bln LBO, from NRT last year. Talk about ill timing ... . Standard & Poor's slashed Realogy's corporate credit rating to CC from CCC last week. A CC rating ... . This will be one of the side effects of the credit crisis / severe economic slowdown on both the country [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 14:23:28
Sometimes…buying women stuffs are so mind boggling
My supplies of Bobbi Brown loose powder and compact foundation are running low ... the credit card bill comes. But I see some poor women struggling with their conscience even when these poor ... . Times are bad, recession is looming and so, I decided to stop buying them. Moreover [more...]
Date: 2008-11-02 15:49:49
Links 12/28/08
Food needs 'fundamental rethink' BBC Sikh Signs For Package, UPS Driver Enters His Name As "TERRORIST" Consumerist Amex drops credit limit on customer for shopping where poor people shop Tom Barlow The yield curve (wonkish) Paul Krugman British banks may face second credit crunch in the New Year [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 06:43:05
Sunday reading: check cashers and recession talk
Today was a great lazy Sunday. I didn't do any "real" work at all. Still, even in down time, it's hard to escape financial topics ... . Poor customers are commodities, deposits are irrelevant, bad credit makes for a good loan candidate ... alone pulled in $28 million in fees last year. Check cashing companies and like-minded payday loan [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 05:13:49
Third quarter results to dictate trend
The ongoing quarterly reporting season may dictate the market trend in the near term. Investors are bracing for poor quarterly earnings as high input costs, credit crunch, high ... billion in fresh government cash and a federal backstop against $118 billion of bad assets to help [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 14:34:00
ways that stores and businesses alienate their customers with their poor business practices ... . Me: (I handed over my credit card) Stylist: I apologize but we do not accept credit cards here ... , it is just like buying a used car. A sales guy will greet [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 16:19:22
Cotacachi Surprise Parade
Merri and I love Cotacachi for many reasons…the sweet people…the beauty…the weather… ... at the parade, let me remind you that you can surprise a loved one and help Ecuador’s poor with fresh Ecuador ... of a thick credit card so it is always in my pocket and I began shooting. The parade was heading [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 07:01:54
SO LONG JAY!
Normally we enjoy the Jay Leno show but Friday evening he reached a new low in bad taste and poor judgment ... Sullenberger's performance is a credit to pilots who every day put their skills to work on behalf [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 20:57:10
Spain on Credit Watch
The international rating agency Standard & Poor’s announced last Monday January 12 that it had issued a downgrade warning on Spain’s triple-A sovereign rating. The news came as a surprise for the Spanish political elite, but was no surprise for investors in view of the increasing yield spread between the Spanish ten-year bonds [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 16:22:01
The Trillion Dollar Head Fake
The Trillion Dollar Head Fake Posted by HughS Published: January 15, 2009 - 7: ... ) and contains gems like: 1) "$150,000,000 for repair, revitalization, and alteration of facilities ... floodplain easements as authorized by section 403 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978". Save a Poor [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 23:17:28
Nix Agonistes
Maybe those payday loan providers just want to help? ... . Poor customers are commodities, deposits are irrelevant, bad credit makes for a good loan candidate ... against a postdated check, known as a payday loan, is even pricier — about 30 times the annualized [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 14:04:00
JaeJoong: from “miso soup” to “cold noodles”
DBSK’s talk part at Music Fighter yesterday. Credit: purplefanatic91 Poor JaeJoong. He’s been compared to miso soup before and now he’s being compared to cold noodles. LOL. Junsu’s comparisons [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 04:24:12
Today in Russian Business - Jan 14th, 2009
The financial crisis is having a dire effect on migrants who depend on money from their employers to support their families back home, ... had its credit rating lowered to 'junk' by Standard & Poor's. The government wants to counter [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 11:33:41
My Year End Financial Performance Review
Mr. ToughMoneyLove has spent a good part of the past five months being critical of others who use poor judgment in matters of personal finance ... of the almighty credit score. Depending on your own attitude about these subjects, I may come across ... now looking at the yearly performance of our entire portfolio. Frankly, I knew it was bad [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 13:33:20
Ainda o “downgrade” da S&P (5)
Bloomberg Spain may struggle to sell 1.8 billion euros ($2.4 billion) ... . Standard & Poor’s said Jan. 12 it may lower Spain’s AAA credit rating. “There is a clear risk ... of bonds as the prospect of a credit downgrade and a flood of new issues by European governments [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 09:54:11
How Will Print Media’s Financial Problems Affect Its Coverage?
The question that is this post’s title occurred to me as I read through this report earlier today by Seth Sutel of the Associated Press ... for an industry awash in bad news, the newspaper business went through one of its most severe ... troublesome: Given the current poor climate for the business, (Emile Courtney, a media industry credit [more...]
Date: 2008-06-30 01:59:32
Bush's legacy - Thanks George
The 2001-2009 presidency of George W. Bush ends in less than a week, so it's appropriate to evaluate the Bush years and his economic legacy ... credit (EITC) policies -- which literally lift millions of working poor / lower income adults [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 12:31:00
Walks Like A Duck, Talks Like A Duck...Ain't A Duck
Thomas Frank, a man of many bellows, bellows yet again in the Wall Street Journal today, ... work done on behalf of the working poor--especially the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit ... be bad news for polemicists like Frank; I suspect [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 15:40:57
Totally Disconnected: US Government Risk, Ratings, Bonds and Equities
As part of his seemingly ongoing program to remove systemic risks within the financial and corporate matrix, ... ; Poor’s reiterated its “AAA” rating for the United States, credit default swaps spreads for 10-year [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 06:52:43
Redirective feedback
Redirective feedback Long-time readers may recognize some of the content of this post from a while back, but whatev. I wanted to share it again ... -- was she saying I did a good job or a bad job?water down the praise -- people are more likely ... accept the praise, take credit for your work, and contribute to a positive atmosphere. Another poor [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 00:59:43
Opinion: NZ$ the worst currency over past 24 hours
By BNZ Currency Strategist Danica Hampton Once again, the NZD has the dubious honour of being the worst performing currency over the past 24 hours ... survey, Standard & Poor’s downward revision to the outlook for NZ’s foreign currency credit rating ... 4% this week from above 0.8500 to around 0.8150. Keep an eye out for Australia’s employment report [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 19:48:44
Circuit City To Close All Stores in the United States
Big-box technology retailer Circuit City is asking for court approval to liquidate after two failed attempts at acquisition. The Richmond, Va ... Circuit City’s Firedog repair service and 700-plus Canadian retail and outlet stores may be next ... when the poor economy led vendors to impose restrictions on payment terms and credit for the company [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 17:09:50
Motorola Credit Rating Downgraded to Junk Status
It’s been a long time coming, but Motorola’s struggling mobile phone manufacturing business has finally caught up with its finances. Citing Motorola’s “operational challenges” that are not expected to fix themselves in the intermediate term, the Standards & Poor’s (S&P) Ratings Services has cut its long-term credit [more...]
Date: 2008-12-07 20:19:50
A Commonly Believed Myth: The Little Guy Just Can’t Get Ahead
things should feel fine between us, Creative Commons License photo credit: tarahm ... they live in a third world country and are truly poor for reasons beyond their control? Yes. Bad ... , the problem is they’re bad with managing money [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 02:01:28
The One Thing You Can't Afford to Blow Off
I have lots of friends who are entrepreneurs ... resources. Not our checkbooks or credit cards (although sometimes those too), but our creativity ... you that delicate equipment is a lot easier and cheaper to maintain than it is to repair. How to get anything done [more...]
Date: 2008-06-25 03:33:14
Biden v. Palin (III)
Sarah Palin plans to go on the attack in tonight’s debate, hitting Joe Biden for what she will call his foreign policy blunders ... , but you are then compelled to give Biden credit for working alongside your running mate in pursuing these policies ... is to show Biden’s poor judgement, in almost every instance this will highlight all of [more...]
Date: 2008-10-02 21:24:41
BANKS FACE ANOTHER BAD YEAR IN 2009
Rising loan losses, the threat of more regulation and tougher competition adds up to another year of poor profits for banks BY DAVID ELLIS ... a significant deterioration in the health of their credit cards and home equity loan portfolios ... bad the outlook for 2009 is just as dismal. It may seem hard to imagine how 2009 can be worse than [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 15:14:10
RECAP: Warriors 119, Hawks 114: Oak-Town Win-a-fare!
Finally ... a reason the fans can celebrate! ... the bench because of poor play. Jackson responded: "As we get guys back we'll keep improving. Corey ... more credit then I deserve however, the game last night really came down to the fourth quarter [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 17:45:09
Another package “to save the world”?
Just a few weeks after Gordon let slip that he had saved the world, ... by taxpayers. 2. Establishing a state owned “bad bank” to buy up and work through some of the poor loans ... bank package. The first very expensive one has not led to sensible amounts of credit flowing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 08:27:02
Banks? Credit Quality Expected to Worsen
Kerry E. Grace reports: Although government support has buoyed U.S. banks, the industry will likely experience overall credit quality deterioration at least through this year, according to a report published Tuesday by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services. S&P [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 09:09:00
LBTM: Accumulated radiation
We left off with poor Clarence Gilyard, alone in an inappropriately Lutheran looking church. I have to give the filmmakers some credit here for including this scene at all. In the book, the Rev. Bruce Barnes' story is recounted second-hand, without any sense of immediacy, but director Vic [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 01:41:14
European banks drag down regional stock markets
This is what the Obama administration is probably going to face for the US markets as well as the banks once again reach out for assistance because of poor policy. What infuriates me is that when they consolidated and grew to this "too big ... and Credit Suisse down 6.5 percent. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 08:42:01
Like A Dog Caught In Barbed Wire
July 11, 2008 Elaine Meinel Supkis HAHAHA! Right after I wrote about the poor gnomes and their sexual frustrations comes a Bloomberg story about ... is a growing concern as the credit crunch adds to stress in the City of London, the U.K. capital's [more...]
Date: 2008-07-11 16:17:12
Social Mood Will Define The Future
Boomers have known only inflationary or reflationary conditions for most, if not all of their conscious lives ... and poor in the western nations have been raised to levels that will not likely be maintained during ... , global credit expansion experiment the world has ever seen is coming to an end. Central banks [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 17:24:29
S&P Predicts Record Junk Bond Defaults in Europe
Standard & Poor’s predicts that at least 60 European firms will default within the next 12 months, ... European nonfinancial corporates, credit rating downgrades are expected to continue to outnumber ... :1 during the fourth quarter. While most LBOs do not face refinancing pressure until 2013, managing [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 15:07:47
Obama: Educate from birth through college
Speaking at Stebbins High School (mostly white, average scores) ... credit to any middle-class student who’s willing to serve their community or their country.” (What about poor and rich students who serve?) Now, part of the plan also calls for fixing the broken [more...]
Date: 2008-09-10 01:35:32
Circuit City’s Dead: Where Do We Go Now?
Circuit City is done. Everybody knows that. What they don’t know is why. It’s simple. Poor sales … in more ways than one ... . Now that the housing downturn and economic crisis have turned off the credit spigot and sent frightened ... high on credit cardmania. You played on that and built stores you didn’t need, but really wanted [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 15:54:41
Ride into the sun, the back way
Someone forgot to take these signs down (Orin O’Neill photos) ... to know they work.There was leftover sand on the margins of 15th, but I have to give credit where it’s due—the city ... down the hill you can see a whole bunch of broken trees. There was a poor soul driving either [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 01:38:23
Bc Student Loans
BC student loans are one of the many ways students who are attending a BC school can help pay for their post-secondary education ... it. As such, the vast majority of the participants in the BC student loans program are from poor or middle ... all of your payments are made on time. This is vital if you want to maintain your credit history [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 22:01:14
REVIEW: Blame it on Paris by Jennifer Greene
Dear Ms Greene, Poor Paris, it always gets the blame for everything. And this time it’s at fault for bringing Kel and Will together ... , credit cards, letters from her dead father who she’s come to Paris to learn ... her a wry grin. “You can take it to the bank—from replacing credit cards to getting money wired [more...]
Date: 2008-08-13 20:33:44
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