KUDOS and KUDON’TS

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So who deserves a Kudo? Who’s earned a Kudon’t? Send me your nominations: the business that went out of its way for you, or the one that made you want to throw your phone across the room. I’ll check them out before I name anybody. Fair is fair.

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Many companies have decided that treating customers badly is an acceptable cost of doing business. Phone trees with no exit. Apps that stand between you and a human. Refund policies with a trap in them. None of that is an accident. Somebody upstream decided it.

This book names names on both sides.


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Mark Lusky is a veteran writer, storyteller and author, with 50+ years of public relations, advertising, marketing and journalism experience – starting with a Regional Marketing Director position for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.