Tag: empathy

We’ve all been there. When we’re tired, your meal takes longer than you feel it should, or simply, you are frustrated with something that you deem to be basic but becomes very hard. I’m guilty of being “that” customer who desperately needs a revision mirror in that moment and have placed the blame on innocent customer service agents who are simply just doing their job.

Bad customer service is one thing, but quite often the actual customer needs to look in the mirror and see themselves.

That age old battle - the ego vs the heart - is more relevant now than ever to us marketeers and anyone directly involved in business development. It dictates how you speak to the people you need to be speaking to; how you capture their attention and it applies to every communication you put out there – online, direct mail, posters, brochures, social media.

The thing is though, with everyone communicating to everyone else - shouting, pitching and bargaining for a share of the market - it can be hard, defeating and infuriating for those of us running ethical business operations to compete with ‘get rich quick’ and ‘lose 7kg in 7 days’.