Rule No. 7: Customer Service

“You can treat each customer, new and old, like a real human being. “We intuitively sort of knew what we didn’t like in customer service everywhere else: automated calling trees, slow response times, poor problem solving, etc., so we made sure there was as little friction as possible between the customer contacting us and actually getting their problem solved.” When you are a small business, there’s no excuse for having poor customer service. Your best new customers are your old customers, and the best way to touch your old customers is to provide quick help when they need it. Customer service is the most reliable touch point to keep selling your service to them.”

James Altucher, in his excellent guest post on TechCrunch about Bryan Johnson and Braintree

Does Startup Life Have To Be A 24/7 Grind?

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Last week, Andrew Wilkinson, the CEO of MetaLab (a Groove customer!), published an awesome guest post on PandoDaily taking the ‘24/7 hustle’ startup culture to task. Andrew gets eight hours of sleep, goes to the office for 5-6 hours a day and doesn’t work on the weekends. Oh, and guess what? He’s built a multi-million dollar company with more than 50 employees.

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