May 19th, 2008

Filed under Asides on May 19th, 2008 by Chris Harrison

Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit - And You Should Too. “It’s a small practice with big implications: Companies don’t engage emotionally with their customers—people do. If you want to create a memorable company, you have to fill your company with memorable people.” Fantastic read, really.

March 8th, 2008

Living Up to Our Committment

Filed under Asides on March 8th, 2008 by Chris Harrison

Toyota: Living Up to Our Committment. My next vehicle may very well be a Toyota just because of this. It’s nice to see a company support their product above and beyond what might be expected of them.

August 2nd, 2007

Nintendo Rocks

Filed under Personal on August 2nd, 2007 by Chris Harrison

Nintendo rocks. Seriously.Some time ago, my father-in-law started experiencing randomly shutdowns while playing games (even while fully charged) on his DS Lite. He mentioned it to me for the first time tonight, and I took a look at it. Sure enough… most of the time I hit the B button, it would shut itself off. I briefly searched online to see if anyone else had been experiencing this same sort of problem to no avail.So I called up Nintendo and explained the situation to them. They looked the system up to see when it had been purchased and the representative told me it just went out of warranty a couple of days - but not to worry… they were going to repair and/or replace the DS Lite anyways! You don’t know how happy that made me. A new or repaired DS Lite will be on its way in 2-3 weeks. Can you ask for anything better?I had read stories about how good Nintendo was to its customers, and this was the first time experiencing it first-hand. It makes me glad to own a Nintendo Wii, a DS and a DS Lite. I know the money went to a company that will definitely take care of its customers.Thank you, Nintendo.

September 23rd, 2005

Macromedia Rocks

Filed under Technology on September 23rd, 2005 by Chris Harrison

Macromedia Customer Service is awesome. Not only did they take care of my problem, they took care of it quickly. It was unfortunate that I received a broken CD in the first place, but Macromedia sent a replacement via FedEx right away.Macromedia - you definitely kept a customer happy. Thank you.