Taking the customer for a fool
Posted on July 29, 2009 - Filed Under Business Diary, Customer Service, PU, Zzub - Comments Off
The grocery store that I frequent is offering attractive price cuts in light of the economic downturn. That should mean good news for us, the consumers, right?
But wait a minute, what’s this? They’re offering price cuts of 1 cent on some items!! Come on please! After the rounding up, we would still be paying the [...]
Not keeping customers in the know (2)
Posted on July 27, 2009 - Filed Under Business Diary - Comments Off
Remember my previous post about the bonus points I was supposed to be collecting on my shopping card. A number of you commented about how that kind of customer service sucks.
Well, there’s more. The clerk who was supposed to call me back obviously never did. So I stopped by their information booth again last weekend [...]
Not keeping customers in the know
Posted on July 20, 2009 - Filed Under Customer Service, Marketing, PU, Zzub - 4 Comments
Over the weekend, I made a complaint at the information desk of my neighborhood mall. They have this loyalty card program where we can collect points for shopping at various outlets throughout the mall. They’ve been promoting the card very aggressively of late and more stores have signed up to be on the program.
Great! Except [...]
The mundane side of a home business
Posted on July 19, 2009 - Filed Under Business Diary, PU, Zzub - Comments Off
If only I could afford the motorhome insurance, I’d rent one and sneak out of town right now. Yes, sometimes being a home business owner can get to be awfully mundane and routine. While I’m not technically tied to my home office desk, I still have so many home and family responsibilities to juggle that [...]
Read More..>>Upgraded to 2.8.1
Posted on July 16, 2009 - Filed Under Blogging, Business Diary - Comments Off
Woo-hoo, I finally upgraded to WP2.8.1 after deliberating for weeks over WP2.8. I’d read that some blogs fell flat out after upgrading to WP2.8 and that was what made me hold back on upgrading my blogs.
But apparently 2.8.1 has solved some of the initial teething problems of 2.8. Even then, I wasn’t sure about jumping [...]
