Here’s what I have been addicted to lately – Pinterest!

It’s a virtual corkboard of all images you see on the web! You just “pin it” to your board and then it stays with the permalink to the post you originally saw it from – pretty cool, right? It helps me blog too, since I keep tabs on everything online. Instead of “starring” feeds in my Reader, I just “pin” stuff I like into their categories. What’s more cool? It has an embed feature too, no need to save images, upload into your own host and copy HTML to blog post! Now I can afford to have pictures in every posts, even of p kaufmann fabrics, without having to sacrifice time!

Pinterest – COOL!

Often seen as a more sophisticated and classy version of cigarettes, cigars are once again growing in popularity. In fact, unlike before when you will only probably see a cigar on a relatively older man, many young people and women are now also trying it.

However, good quality cigars are often looked upon as expensive and hard to find. This is why many cigar lovers will love the Cigar Place at CigarPlace.biz, an online store of affordable and high quality cigars. You will find a wide selection of cigars, ashtrays, humidors, cutters, lighters, hygrometers, and many more.

The home page is designed in a pale, subdued hue of orange which makes the site look classy yet accommodating at the same time. The layout is clean and simple, with the two sidebars showing the product categories and special offers. The importance placed on customer service is evident in how they provide you with your cigar needs such as in their 2 cigar guarantee, quick delivery, worldwide shipping, and great prices. Aside from all of these, all cigars are shipped with a humidification device to ensure that the quality of the cigars is preserved during delivery.

CigarPlace.biz offers a complete online shopping experience. The product pages include clear images of the products and you have the option of ordering a single cigar, a box of 21, or a bundle of 25. If you are looking for an online place to get high quality but affordable cigars, there is no better site than CigarPlace.biz.

Almost three weeks in 2012 and I have just seen ONE movie – What’s Your Number starring Chris Evans and Ana Farris. I love the movie, in a way I like chick flicks. I might just be easing out into movie watching, given that we havent been in a movie house yet (we are passing the movies Alvin and the Chipmunks 3 and Ghost Protocol – will wait for netflix coupons and downloads from the web for them) – but there is one movie I won’t miss watching in the theaters – Beauty and the Beast in 3D. It will feature a short movie of Tangled as well. Cant wait!

I did some research on the genius of the person who conceptualized these ads – and she was the same person who did all the Nike Women Ads. Great great piece of work.

I honestly think they have yet to top these.

The Importance of conducting a Customer Satisfaction Survey

How to generate sales and revenue for the company should not be the only thing that businesses should focus on. Yes it is important that a company generate sales as it is what keeps the business going but it is also of equal importance that companies should find ways to build relationships with their clients and achieve high customer satisfaction.

If a client is happy with a service or product that the company offers, there is a big chance that the customer will come back to avail the same service, and this will provide for a continuing revenue for the company. As what business experts always say, “It takes 5 times more to get a new customer than to retain one,” so businesses must really find ways on how to achieve this.

One way to understand your customer to increase customer satisfaction and improve the way you do business is by doing a customer satisfaction survey.

Why conduct a customer satisfaction survey?

1. To learn and meet customer’s expectations. By conducting a survey, companies will be able to know what their clients expect from the products and services that the company offers. By knowing their expectations, they then can develop products, offer services and alter their business processes to meet and manage those expectations.
2. To better understand the customers’ preferences and perceptions. A business may have varied customers coming from all range of background, age, culture and more. A customer surveys can help gather information about the demographics of a company’s client so they can understand the client’s preferences, the reasons why they are patronizing the products, the client’s preferences and the like. By having this information at hand, companies will not be working in the dark as they try to develop products or improve their services to address the different preferences and perceptions of their customers.
3. To set a standard for the company. Knowing the expectations and preferences of the customers will help the company create a standard that they will observe and implement in the conduct of their business to better meet the expectations of their clients.
4. To correct problems. The customer survey is one venue where customers can air their complains and concerns about the company. Knowing about these will help the company correct the problem and avoid for similar problems from happening again in the future which will surely improve customer satisfaction.
5. To learn about the company’s status in the industry and against its competitors. Customer survey can also give the company information on their status as a provider especially against their competitors. This information will help the company gauge if they are going in the right direction on how they conduct business or it will inspire them to alter some of their business practices to improve the status and the perception of the industry and their customers towards them.

The right questions must be asked and included in the survey to get answers that will bring valuable information for the company. Once the survey is done, it is also important that the survey will be interpreted well to get data and information that a company needs. As such, it is important for companies to get professionals to do the customer satisfaction survey for them like Infosurv.

Inforsurv is a company that offers various services like online market research, prediction markets, customer and employee surveys and more. They conduct hundreds of customer survey every year and they tailor fit each survey depending on what their client wants to achieve in conducting the survey.

They employ different strategies and methodologies to gather the most relevant and informative data that their client can use to improve customer relationship and push business initiatives.

No matter how big or small a business is, customer survey is important as it can give the business important information coming from people that matters most to their company, their customers.