Rant Alert: Dear Dry Cleaners, Suck Less Dammit!

I rarely use my professional blog for a personal story or diatribe, but when something crosses over to my world of marketing and public relations, it’s fair game.

Long story short: a local dry cleaner (misnamed “Dependable Cleaners” of Smyrna, GA) shrunk an older but still nice… Continue reading

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Personal Service: Marketing and Public Relations Secret Weapon

For all the chatter about branding, reaching out, building relationships and making connections, I wonder how much of it really cuts through and matters to the paying customer.

Service and the X Factor

If two businesses are selling the same thing for comparable prices, what’s the difference… Continue reading

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Delta: Take these Skymiles and … give them to AirTran

My blogs have been a little Apple-centric lately so I thought I’d unleash the hounds at another enterprise engaging in poor marketing and PR: the Airlines.

What started this? A few calls and one claim form sent to Delta. A couple weeks ago, as their website suggests, I booked a flight in Continue reading

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