Tenacity Podcast
Keep the Clients You’ve Worked So Hard to Get
Episodes
June 26, 2020 • 28 mins
A 30-minute webinar record with KSU, "Starting the Climb Back."
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May 25, 2020 • 29 mins
A discussion on ways we might emerge from the disruption of this pandemic (or any crisis) as a responsive and empathetic partner. We hope that the extraordinary commitment you can demonstrate now will serve to make the relationship stronger after emerging from the crisis period than it was when we entered it.
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September 29, 2019 • 29 mins
A Conversation with Tenacity Founder John Gamble
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September 29, 2019 • 4 mins
First, you should know Tenacity is the world's leading client retention firm. Our Clients for LIfe client retention process is protecting over $24 billion in management contracts...
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September 29, 2019 • 4 mins
Hello World! It seems like a lot of water has passed under the bridge since a 21-year-old Tiger Woods used these words to announce the start of his professional golf career 14 years ago. Indeed, Tenacity® was already 13 years old when Tiger announced – we’re just saying “Hello World” anew today, because things have changed so much in our world (let alone his — OK enough said on that!).
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September 29, 2019 • 5 mins
Once upon a time (1984 to be exact) I was a relatively new VP of Marketing for a large Division of one of the country’s best-known service management organizations, headquartered in a major northeastern city (known for cheesesteaks). My fellow Atlantan and good friend Steve Wurzbacher had joined the company about three months prior. Together, we were off to conquer the world of contract service management.
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September 29, 2019 • 4 mins
We think it’s usually a good thing when people say, “Interesting, I like the name of your company.” We get that a lot, actually. Answering the follow up question is instructive too, “So, why’d you name it that?”
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September 29, 2019 • 8 mins
In early 1995, John and I gave a keynote address to a Partner’s Conference at PriceWaterhouse Coopers. The PWC Vice Chairmen, who had sort of accidentally happened upon our first book (“What Your Clients Won’t Tell You and Your Managers Don’t Know”) had arranged for the speech and clearly knew very little of what he had gotten himself in to.
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September 29, 2019 • 3 mins
Let's start small by talking about a billion. That's billion with a "B." My wife Bonnie (that's also with a "B"), who recently took early retirement from the Coca-Cola Company, has been a prolific speaker on the subject of meaningful work.
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September 29, 2019 • 2 mins
Lead, leader, leadership. Do these words really mean anything anymore – particularly in the way that they are used when companies and organizations go about promoting themselves? Look on the website of virtually any company or enterprise you can think of and one or all of these terms will almost always be used as an adjective to describe themselves. Kind of all gets lost in the translation and ignored in what becomes little more...
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September 29, 2019 • 2 mins
Are you over-investing (in acquiring new clients)? Probably. At least if you fit the pattern of most service management companies we encounter. The notion that growth comes from the next new client you sell is fallacious, that is, if your client retention house is not yet in order.
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September 29, 2019 • 10 mins
Most firms go to market focused on two primary pillars: client satisfaction and selling new business. Legions of literature and faddish management paradigms have emerged to guide companies in pursuit of these two goals. And, they’re important. It’s just that they’re not sufficient to differentiate a service-based company from its competitors in a manner that generates eye-opening profit improvement and category leadership.
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September 29, 2019 • 3 mins
I miss Detective Sargent Joe Friday and the show, "Dragnet." It harken back to a simpler time of moral clarity when truth wasn't quite so relative.
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September 29, 2019 • 4 mins
The legend is that Dr. Albert Einstein, while at Princeton in the early 1950's, was asked by a student, "Professor, what is the most powerful force in the universe?" He is reputed to have answered, "compound interest."
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September 29, 2019 • 3 mins
We have to give David Letterman the credit for inventing, or at least popularizing, the “Top 10” idea. In many endeavors, it really is a sound discipline to thoughtfully list out and prioritize the reasons that you may want to do something – particularly if what you are considering portends great impact or requires a high investment.
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September 29, 2019 • 4 mins
Do you remember back to the 80’s and the corporate raiders? The Michael Douglas portrayal of Gordon Gekko, made famous in the 1988 Oliver Stone movie “Wall Street”, was symbolic of the real life “Barbarians at the Gate”, describing people like Henry Kravitz, Carl Icahn, Michael Milken, T. Boone Pickens, etc. They used a lot of other people’s money (hence the “leveraged” in the term LBO) to acquire companies – many of which were m...
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September 29, 2019 • 5 mins
So back to last week’s podcast – yours truly is on the hook for roughly triple my net worth as a participant (twice-removed) in a management buyout – having outbid the modern day iterations of Gordon Gekko to make the deal. Financial (not to mention personal) Armageddon is feeling like a real possibility here.
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September 29, 2019 • 3 mins
YES, IT IS! You don’t think so? Picture yourself at an operating forecast meeting. You’re seated around a conference table. There are six of you, including the boss. She has just put that very question on the table for discussion – “Do you think that it is possible to retain 100% of our clients this year?” Awkward silence. “Do you think we should plan for attrition?” More silence.
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September 29, 2019 • 4 mins
As we prepare to engage in the battle for client retention, client satisfaction is a really big bullet. I’d sure want to have it in my arsenal as we take on the challenge of retaining clients. The problem is, that client satisfaction in and of itself, is not enough to guarantee success. At worst, overreliance on a client satisfaction metric or annual survey can be down right dangerous. Here’s a quick story:
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