Customers want real value not just BOGOFs
Guess what? It would seem that companies are starting to consider once again the idea that people like having a positive value experience when they go shopping – especially having the ability to ask questions of a member of staff when they’re shopping. In the vanguard of this value experience ‘revolution’ we find the corporate [...]
April 25, 2012 by Helen Blake
The Best Way to Lose Customers
Consider your last rail journey. Where did actual journey time fall in your list of priorities? (Unless, of course, the train was badly delayed or cancelled.) Would the saving of 20 minutes to the journey time have come above getting a seat? Or a clean environment? If you are anything like me I suspect not. [...]
November 25, 2010 by Helen Blake
How to quantify value
People always say to me, “But value is just like beauty, it’s in the eye of the beholder”. OK, so one man’s value can be another man’s poison (to mix metaphors) but there are ways in which you can start to quantify value. We always use the equation ‘Value = Benefits minus Cost’, where cost [...]
June 1, 2010 by Cindy Barnes


