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The power of a great customer – vendor relationship

Customer Think

Bergen Logistics is a global third party logistics provider, based in North Bergen, New Jersey. As part of my series of customer interviews, I recently had the chance of speaking with Keith Cooper, vice president of customer experience at Bergen Logistics.

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How customer experience can save the environment

Inside Customer Service

The other is Goatote , a reusable shopping bag system that's being piloted in New Jersey. The state of New Jersey recently banned single-use shopping bags at large grocery stores, which creates a need for reusable shopping bags. One is James Coffee Co. , You can rent an unlimited number of reusable bags for $2.50

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Are You Really Confused? How You Describe Yourself is Not Seen By Others

Beyond Philosophy

Knowing that a customer is a 40-year-old man from New Jersey is not enough information. However, if you know that he is a 40-year-old man from New Jersey who enjoys cycling and drinks craft beer, you learn more about him and how to talk to him. .

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The World Is Going Crazy

Beyond Philosophy

First, I had flown for a quick trip to New Jersey, landing at JFK in New York, which is anything but quick at seven hours flying time. Many of my followers weighed in with their own experiences that tell a truth that is hard to swallow, the world has changed for good, but it’s not good for customers.

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Author of The Nordstrom Way: What Makes a Make Mom Proud Company

Customer Bliss

All that changed in 1935 when she married Fred Spector and came to work in the family business in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. But at the butcher shop in the sub-freezing New Jersey winters, she would bundle up in inelegant layers of clothing and wool mittens cut off at the finger tips. She was used to that.

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5 Rules of How to Effectively Target Your Critical Customers

Beyond Philosophy

Sure, they might be 40-plus, living in a 4-bedroom in New Jersey, but that isn’t why they subscribe to your service. Demographic and geographic information is one of those inputs, but not the only ones. You have to know why people are doing what they do so you can talk to them in a language that is relevant to them.

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Wikimedia Foundation COO Janeen Uzzell on future-proofing history

Intercom, Inc.

I sit at my Aunt Laura’s dining room table in her home in New Jersey and she tells me things about people that I don’t know, but I wish I knew, and even people that I did know, like my father. Coming from the South and slavery and moving North – some of us moved to California, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Florida.

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