Posts Tagged customer loyalty


    Averting Service Disasters – Quicken Loans the Sequel

    July 7th, 2010

    Last week, I used my unpleasant mortgage application experience with Quicken Loans to demonstrate the danger of force locking in consumers instead of fostering loyalty. Since then, I have received some interesting communication from Quicken Loans. As a consumer, I emerged from the entire experience feeling OK again about Quicken Loans as a lender. While [...]


    Lock in vs. Loyalty

    July 1st, 2010

    Recently, while trying to obtain a mortgage, I spoke with a Quicken Loans customer service representative named Jorge (I omitted the last name here to save him some dignity). On the phone, I told him that we have not decided on a lender and that we wanted to get an idea of what Quicken Loans [...]


    Loyalty Lessons from Sports Fans

    June 16th, 2010

    Image by wwworks | CC 2.0 The 2010 FIFA World Cup kicked off on June 11. While total viewership is still unknown at this point, Nielsen has reported an 80% audience gain for ESPN and ABC during their weekend coverage of the event. For past World Cups, FIFA reports a worldwide audience of 26.29 billion [...]