by Minter Dial | Aug 8, 2012 | Business
People talk quite a lot about empathy as an important quality of modern leaders. There are blogs and sites vaunting its beneficial powers (See below for a good list of resources). The issue is that empathy is not a natural skill. It takes time to develop...
by Minter Dial | May 6, 2012 | Responsibility, Social Media
It is my belief that a company’s Digital IQ – the way it integrates and leverages digital technology to service the business needs – will be a key driver and competitive advantage over the next decade. A 2012 Price Waterhouse Cooper report...
by Minter Dial | May 4, 2012 | Social Media
There are now a good number of brands that have identified social media as a channel for customer service (Best Buy, Starbucks, Dell, Zappos to name a few). First, there was the automation trend. Then there was the outsourcing boom. Now there is the...
by Minter Dial | Apr 3, 2012 | Leadership
Tough choicesWith the limited resources we all have at our disposal, we must make tough choices. Here are a set of options that, with your magic wand, you can provide for your business overnight. Which is to be?Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the...
by Minter Dial | Feb 27, 2012 | Retail
With some 500,000 eCommerce sites in the US and presumably over double that in Europe (considering that each country has to have its own language and that France alone has over 100,000), eCommerce is hitting the big time. If you take the USA and Europe combined,...