Archive for September, 2009

Your Ideal Customer — Who are they?

Who purchases your products and services?
What do they look like?
How do they interact in your marketplace?
These are just some of the questions you need to know the answers to when you seek out your ideal customer.  For the small business or niche business, your ideal customer is not everyone that walks through your door.  In [...]

The Need To Plan Your Succession

In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal on September 21, 2009, discussed how larger companies like Starbucks and Avon are consolidating the power base into the CEO.  This is done by combining the CEO and COO positions and/or President positions under one person.  In essence the combination of those positions eliminates the #2 [...]

Great Customer Service Through Email

While we are a bunch of lions here at Von Gehr Consulting Group, we also are pet owners.  Yesterday we had a wonderful customer service experience through email.  Take a look:

I had never even heard of your breed of dogs before. Live and learn, huh?

I was looking at a couple of web sites on those [...]