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by DW Green — January 10, 2024

Delighting a customer will build customer loyalty and ultimately improve sales.

Yesterday I read an excellent blog post by Seth Godin on customer service. Seth’s insight on customer service reminded me of how critical a company’s overall service strategy is determined and implemented.Quoting from Seth Godin’s blog post…“Customer service is a choice.It’s either part of your strategy or you’re paying for your mistake.You can’t cost cut your way to greatness.Great customer service is expensive, but it’s also free. It’s free because delighting a customer who has an issue is the single cheapest way to not only keep that customer but have them spread the word.”Just an operational mindfulness of delighting a customer will build customer loyalty and ultimately improve sales.If you found Seth’s insights valuable, subscribing to his blog is a great way to further expand your knowledge on various topics related to business and marketing.I highly recommend subscribing to Seth’s Blog.

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by DW Green — November 15, 2023

No one brand can possibly have universal appeal.

Can a successful retail brand appeal to everybody? Nope. No one brand can possibly have universal appeal. Since you can’t be everything to all people successfully, you must purposefully limit what you offer and to whom. When you are identifying your strategic initiatives, choices about what not to do (subtraction) are just as important as choices about what to do (addition). Your success depends on the trade-offs you are willing to make. Simply put, a trade-off means that more of one thing necessitates less of another. A supermarket can choose to offer more service departments, adding labor costs and higher retails, or it can choose not to, offering less service and lower retails, but it cannot do both without bearing major inefficiencies.In a recent conversation with a high profile and successful Northwest retailer, I learned about their thoughtful and discriminating approach to creating their private label product line. The retailer understood that to be brand successful they needed to limit their retail brand product line to ensure the products themselves reflected the same brand benefits of the store brand itself. Only selecting items in product categories that could be distinguishable f...

by DW Green — November 8, 2023

Brand marks are like punctuation symbols…

A Brand mark is a simple, clean, and easily remembered graphic representation of a company’s Brand name. Brand marks are like punctuation symbols:. stop
, pause
; pause longer
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? question mark Brand marks and icons can represent a deeper meaning of a company’s purpose or an abstract expression like the Nike swoosh. We have a Northwest client whose brand mark is a sailboat. Who would have thought of a sailboat icon for a food store? The sailboat is very meaningful to their company culture. It’s meaningful to me too. I’m proud to wear their caps and jackets that showcase their company icon.The DW Green icon reflects our design mantra “Less is greater than more.”So, if you’re considering a new or updated design for your company’s brand mark, give us a call.