124 didn’t, but over 5000 did.
June 23rd 2022 by
A couple of weeks ago, I had the privilege of training at, and hosting, the Not Just Travel conference. The room was buzzing! A combination of coming out of the pandemic (which had decimated much of their business) and the boom in new bookings created a heady atmosphere. But, there was an elephant […][...]
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What’s Happened to Hospitalty?
May 26th 2022 by
I’m back on the road. Over the last couple of months, the switch has been flicked and bookings are flooding in for keynotes and training. And with that comes travel and hotels. It’s no secret that the hospitality industry is having a staffing crisis. I talked to a restaurant manager last week […][...]
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What Happened To 5 Star Service?
April 6th 2022 by
What Happened To 5 Star Service? Regular readers know I love brilliant customer service. I wrote a book on it. I’ve trained over 100,000 people on how to deliver it. I’ve consulted with some of the best organisations in the world on how to create it. And you know how much I avoid negativity. But… […][...]
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The key to brand loyalty
January 27th 2022 by
When it comes to creating brand loyalty, I believe TRUST is top. In the simplest (real life) terms: I don’t trust Hermes* to return my product to Amazon, but I do trust Amazon to refund me anyway. Therefore, I comfortably buy from Amazon, but I wouldn’t choose to send anything via Hermes. Trust is key […][...]
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Just One Touch
September 29th 2021 by
Mrs H & I enjoyed a few days away to celebrate the completion of our most successful Write That Book Masterclass (more on that later). We spent our weekend in Cartmel, in the south Lake District and started with lunch at L’Enclume. This isn’t a foodie blog – it’s a people blog. Although L’Enclume totally deserve their […][...]
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Doing Their Best
August 24th 2021 by
My favourite pub, The Rat Inn, has chosen to close on Mondays. Not due to Covid. It’s because they can’t find enough staff to provide the service they are known for. They’ve tried letting patrons know and still some customers kick off. After a horrendous 18 months, the hospitality industry is being hit again with the challenge of not being able to find enough people. And […][...]
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Could 2021 be the WORST year for British Hospitality?
May 12th 2021 by
There’s a boom happening. Staycation, holiday at home, let’s go ‘out out’, the great British getaway. Whatever you want to call it – it is happening. There are record sales for domestic holidays. And with them… record prices. 200-500% increases in some cases! Many coastal and country hotels are fully booked for months. And the idea of […][...]
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Death by 1000 cuts
October 21st 2020 by
Lingchi (Chinese for lingering death) was a horrendous torture method used for hundreds of years before being banned in the early twentieth century (I know, that recent). It’s horrendous and I’ll leave the detail to your imagination. We often think something ‘suddenly’ happens, but could the truth be that we killed it with 1,000 cuts? The family business transitioning to the next generation. The new owners are happy to take some […][...]
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Take your shoes off
October 8th 2020 by
I was recently presenting a 5 Star Service Zoom webinar to a group of estate agents. At the end, I was asked this question: ‘What’s the one thing estate agents could do to provide better customer service?’ Obviously a brilliant CRM system, great representation, using Omnichannel effectively, etc. comes to mind but my answer was: ‘Take […][...]
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Is it going backwards?
January 30th 2020 by
I picked up my friend Jamie at Newcastle; he’d just had a 3-hour train trip from London and commented that the service was getting worse. The once brilliant Apple have dropped the ball three times (with me) over the last 12 months. BT told me less than the truth, failed to fix a problem and mis-sold […][...]
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