Comments for Escaping Mediocrity

Comment on If You Want Fierce Loyalty, You Need To Be Fiercely Loyal First [Day 3- 28 BFL] by Amandaot

Amandaot — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:33:00 +0000

Great advive. I enjoyed the read.

Comment on If You Want Fierce Loyalty, You Need To Be Fiercely Loyal First [Day 3- 28 BFL] by Danny Brown

Danny Brown — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:37:00 +0000

Thank you!

And yes, so agree! Motions are good inasmuch they make you think. But after that, the kids take over and they`re pretty much an organization

Comment on If You Want Fierce Loyalty, You Need To Be Fiercely Loyal First [Day 3- 28 BFL] by Karl Kovacs

Karl Kovacs — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:18:00 +0000

Great article. It reminds me of the loyalty that NASCAR fans have with their favorite drivers and the brands they have splashed all over their cars. If a driver switches teams, their fans will switch brands in a show of support. Guys who once bought Castrol motor oil would switch to Mobil. Loyalty is a funny thing when you have a group of fanatical fans.

Comment on If You Want Fierce Loyalty, You Need To Be Fiercely Loyal First [Day 3- 28 BFL] by Jeremie Miller

Jeremie Miller — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:01:00 +0000

Thanks Danny, that is a great way to make that distinction, and I definitely have clients that fall on both sides of that determining factor. I am going to sit with this for a bit and look at my current client list.

That was really helpful

(Can’t post through facebook this time for some reason, so am using my twitter account if that looks different, but this is Jeremie)

Comment on If You Want Fierce Loyalty, You Need To Be Fiercely Loyal First [Day 3- 28 BFL] by Danny Brown

Danny Brown — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:01:00 +0000

EXACTLY, Niraj – now why can’t more businesses understand that without customers you are nothing? So why ignore them and piss them off?

Comment on If You Want Fierce Loyalty, You Need To Be Fiercely Loyal First [Day 3- 28 BFL] by Danny Brown

Danny Brown — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:58:00 +0000

So many businesses think you can just buy “care”, mate (just look at all the crappy companies selling Facebook fans or Twitter followers).

Yet, the thing these guys and others like them miss is the very simple yet true point you make – loyalty is nothing without caring. Something the faux Likers realize too late. Shame for them…

Comment on If You Want Fierce Loyalty, You Need To Be Fiercely Loyal First [Day 3- 28 BFL] by Danny Brown

Danny Brown — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:41:00 +0000

I think you just talked about the thing that most (if not all) business owners struggle with, Jeremie.

It’s not easy, but one of the things I always did at my own agency was ask if the clients I worked with would answer my phone call if I called them at 1.00am in the morning. Or turned up at their door on Christmas Day with a personal problem. Or would pay my medical bills if I was in a big, uninsured car crash.

The ones that you feel would do all that? Continue being awesome for them. The rest? Be great to them.

Comment on If You Want Fierce Loyalty, You Need To Be Fiercely Loyal First [Day 3- 28 BFL] by Lisa Robbin Young

Lisa Robbin Young — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:36:00 +0000

Either, both. I’m sure there are folks here that would love any answers you could share.

Comment on If You Want Fierce Loyalty, You Need To Be Fiercely Loyal First [Day 3- 28 BFL] by Danny Brown

Danny Brown — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:22:00 +0000

Okay, for this quote alone, Ava, you are my new favourite business person:

“I share who I am with them…all of it…the good, the bad, and the ugly. What MY struggles are, and what I’m learning that can be useful to them.

Now why the hell can’t more business owners be like you?

Thank you!

Comment on If You Want Fierce Loyalty, You Need To Be Fiercely Loyal First [Day 3- 28 BFL] by Danny Brown

Danny Brown — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:20:00 +0000

When the Nintendo Wii first came out, legendary developer Shigeru Miyamoto released Super Mario for it. He went for a bigger audience than traditional Mario games, and it was criticized heavily because of that. He listened to the feedback, changed things up for the sequel, and created one of Nintendo’s most popular games ever.

Funny what criticism can teach us, eh?