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03-27-06, 11:09 PM #1Signal_W Guest
Police finding it hard to fill vacanciesDepartments offer perks, alter standards to draw recruits
Police prepare as thousands take to the streets for a pro-immigrant march Saturday in Los Angeles.
LONG BEACH, Calif. - Police departments around the country are contending with a shortage of officers and trying to lure new applicants with signing bonuses, eased standards, house down payments and extra vacation time.
From this seaside Southern California city to Washington's suburbs, more than 80 percent of the nation's 17,000 law enforcement agencies, big and small, have vacancies that many can't fill, police officials estimate.
"I was just at a conference of police chiefs," said William Bratton, the chief of police in Los Angeles, which has 720 openings. "It was all everybody was talking about."
Police officials and researchers say a confluence of demographic changes and social trends have precipitated the shortage. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have siphoned off public-service-minded people to the military. Hundreds of law enforcement officers have handed in their badges to take higher-paying positions in the booming homeland security industry.
And each year an increasingly large number of baby-boomer officers, hired in the 1970s, retires. The labor pool in the next generation is smaller, further cutting the number of prospective applicants.
The younger generation is better educated than its predecessor, so a career in policing, where the average starting salary is $32,000, is not as attractive as it was before.
Prince William, Fairfax and Loudoun counties all have recently instituted programs -- signing bonuses, bounties for county employees recommending successful candidates, and pay increases -- designed to keep their police departments intact.
In the District, officials said they have noticed increased competition for applicants but are not facing a shortage. But Prince George's County began a $1 million advertising campaign last summer touting police work as exciting and challenging in the hope of boosting its chronically understaffed ranks. The force is 60 officers short of its authorized complement of 1,420 officers.
Past drug use
Elsewhere, departments have dropped their zero-tolerance policy on drug use and past gang association, eased restrictions on applicants with bad credit ratings, and tweaked physical requirements to make room for more female candidates or smaller male candidates, police officials said. Departments also offer crash courses in reading and remedial English for the written parts of the entrance exam, and provide strength and agility coaches for the physical part -- all of which have raised concerns about how qualified some of the new personnel will be.
"We no longer say if you've smoked marijuana five times, you can't be in the LAPD," said Cmdr. Kenneth Garner, who runs recruitment for the Los Angeles Police Department. "If we did that, I'd be sitting in this office by myself. But we really take a hard look at honesty."
In the past, some recruitment drives have resulted in questionable hiring. In 1989 and 1990, the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, seeking to quell a crime wave, mistakenly hired numerous gang members and people with substantial criminal histories and drug and credit problems. Some were later implicated in questionable police shootings.
Experts said that while they hope the inherently conservative nature of law enforcement agencies will protect against a slew of bad hires, there is a concern that with a smaller pool of applicants, less-qualified people are becoming police officers.
"That is clearly a concern, and police chiefs are very uneasy about that possibility," said Hubert Williams, president of the Police Foundation, a law enforcement advocacy group. "The question is, do we keep our radio cars empty or hire people who a few years ago we wouldn't have hired? It is very problematic."
Williams said that some departments are hiring applicants with criminal records. "A few years ago, an arrest record was a deal breaker," he said. "Now departments are asking whether someone is salvageable."
To fill the void, police recruiters are fanning out across the country. When layoffs were announced in the automotive industry in Detroit, recruiters flocked there to try to sign up furloughed assembly-line workers. Police recruiters comb the beaches of Florida, California and Texas during spring break and conduct ad campaigns -- on billboards, in newspapers, on radio and TV -- at a level unprecedented in the history of U.S. policing.
Police officials say the shortage of police officers has hit law enforcement agencies west of the Mississippi particularly hard because they historically have carried smaller staffs. For example, New York City has twice as many people as Los Angeles but nearly four times as many police -- about 37,000, compared with L.A.'s 9,600 -- and last week announced plans to hire 800 more.
In Texas, the need for law enforcement officers is so great that Dallas, Austin and Houston are in the midst of a bidding war to hire veteran officers, with Houston recently upping its bonus to $7,000.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, one of the country's more aggressive recruiters, recently drew the line on tattoos, branding and body piercing -- but left some wiggle room. If the body art can be covered by a long-sleeved shirt and pants, then applications are still welcome.
To find new recruits, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department has offered a $500 bounty to county employees who find applicants who become deputies. The sheriff's department, like many agencies, used to frown on transfers from other departments, but now such lateral hires are given a signing bonus of $5,000.
Mike Farrell was lured over to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department from the San Diego city police force in December. The six-year police veteran got $5,000 to sign, better hours, the chance to clock more overtime and the promise of a fatter pension when he retires. The San Diego city government is tottering toward bankruptcy, so law enforcement recruiters from around the country, including Honolulu and Phoenix (which is sweetening its offer with a down payment on a house), have been picking over its force. Of Farrell's original squad of six on the city police force, he said, only two remain.
"When I first started applying, there were 100 applicants as qualified as I was," said Farrell, 33. "Now they are having a hard time finding 25 to 30 people like that."
In past decades, police departments were hampered by budget cuts. But now, even when there is adequate funding, cities can't find enough cops. In 2004, voters in Oakland approved a $9 million tax increase to hire 63 additional officers to increase the ranks of that police department to 802. Today the city is nowhere close to meeting its recruitment goal because there are not enough suitable applicants.
"People are not as equipped or as inclined to be police officers as in the past," said Barbara Raymond, who has researched the police shortage for Rand Corp. "There's more drug use, there's a more sedentary lifestyle. People are more in debt and overweight."
"What you are really talking about is a major national shortage in a variety of sectors -- teachers, firefighters, nurses and police officers," said Williams, the Police Foundation president. "Corporate America can move across the world to find people to work in its factories. But there are some things that you can't outsource." And unlike the nursing industry, which has attracted thousands of overseas applicants to the United States, most, if not all, police departments require candidates to be U.S. citizens.
Changing duties
Policing also has changed, Raymond noted in her report for Rand. The job is far from the adrenaline-packed hook 'em and book 'em, car chase stereotype of the past. As cities around the nation become more culturally diverse and police departments embrace community policing tactics, officers are often pushed to deal with the root causes of crime, becoming more social worker than cop.
The events of Sept. 11, 2001, have put new stresses on police work. In Long Beach, for example, the terrorist attacks prompted the department of 1,000 officers to create its first counterterrorism unit and a special port unit. To do it, Long Beach reduced foot patrols, cut staffing in the narcotics division and switched most officers from two-person to one-person patrol cars.
There are concerns, said Elaine Deck, a researcher at the International Association of Chiefs of Police, that staffing changes and shortages could affect public safety and the well-being of law enforcement officers. The LAPD, for example, is too short-staffed to investigate complaints against its officers, so that many complaints from 2005 may not result in punishment until this year.
"When you have single officers in vehicles, a lack of backup, slower response time, cuts in prevention programs and fewer school resource officers, things obviously could be affected," Deck said. Also, with fewer recruits entering the system and a large number of veterans exiting, officers' street knowledge -- critical to effective law enforcement -- is evaporating. It used to take 10 years to make sergeant. Now in many bigger departments, people are getting promotions after only two.
Staff writers Allison Klein and Del Wilber in Washington contributed to this report.
© 2006 The Washington Post Company
It will be so difficult to find someone to fill in the vacancies. Hey, can someone hire us hearing-impaired (HOH) people?? I'm sure we can join that... <sigh> only in our dreams.
I'm still trying to figure out how can Richard became a volunteer patrol officer in San Diego county? He's a lucky deaf fella. His boss said he needs more ppl like him. I wonder if it's just because of our acute visual sense?I SEE NEKKED PEOPLE! AIN'T SKEERED!!!!!
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We're having a hard time finding decent applicants. A friend of mine who's also retired is working as a BI. He told me that a large number of the applicants have horrible credit history.When I used to be somebody (I'm center top)
"A burning desire for social justice is never a substitute for knowing what you're talking about". -Thomas Sowell-
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Having this shortage of Police Officers is good for people like me who are qualified for the job. I have a clean record, never got a ticket, never did any drugs, don't drink, im in great shape, and been a Police Explorer for over 4 years. When I apply with a department, I will have a Bachelors Degree in Public Relations (Communications). I'm thinking about relocating to Dallas, TX and join the Dallas Police Department. Hopefully I get hired. What do you guys think of my chances?
03-28-06, 01:35 AM #6Originally Posted by NY BLUE 86When I used to be somebody (I'm center top)
"A burning desire for social justice is never a substitute for knowing what you're talking about". -Thomas Sowell-
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Yes I've worked at a supermarket for 3 years up until I left for college, and when I was there I got promoted.
03-28-06, 05:06 AM #8Cheech Guest
Wow, I thought Southern Nevada was in a rush to hire people. It looks like this is country wide.
03-28-06, 07:35 AM #9THE five-ohVerified LEO
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Yeah, it's a wide spread thing here in Florida. my department has openings they can't fill.
All that and I still can't get a job.
That's ok because I start on my degree in a month or so, then I'll be at it again.
I know the feeling. I am starting the shotgun approach in the South west.Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft. -
Theodore Roosevelt
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Then you have active duty cops like me with tons of experience & training who want to work, are capable of doing a number of jobs, but are not allowed to work & in fact will be forced out & retired due to on the job injuries.
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Might be wrong, but the portion of the article, "Changing duties" is the root cause of problems for the active LEO. You all just can't police anymore. The prevaling attitude now is "don't hurt anybody's feelings." Garbage.Facta non verba
"The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity and that's not fair!" Konrad Adenauer,
03-28-06, 10:28 AM #14Originally Posted by Stan SwitekWhen I used to be somebody (I'm center top)
"A burning desire for social justice is never a substitute for knowing what you're talking about". -Thomas Sowell-
03-28-06, 10:30 AM #15Originally Posted by mxwelchWhen I used to be somebody (I'm center top)
"A burning desire for social justice is never a substitute for knowing what you're talking about". -Thomas Sowell-
03-28-06, 06:41 PM #16Originally Posted by Magnum440
03-28-06, 08:38 PM #17Originally Posted by mxwelch
I assume you passed on the USMC idea?
Also a bad problem in North Carolina...
To me, their are two main reasons why good people won't apply:
1) Job danger
2) Pay
And their are a ton more reasons why good officers won't stay...
I just know you cant spell Brass without ASS,....oh and i am not sorry for hurting anyones feelings
03-29-06, 12:09 AM #20Originally Posted by LawEnforcementForumsWhen I used to be somebody (I'm center top)
"A burning desire for social justice is never a substitute for knowing what you're talking about". -Thomas Sowell-
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Overseas Marketing: Finding The Right Talent Is Tough
While business is robust globally, in some countries, such as Russia, Mexico and Singapore, finding people to successfully lead the marketing mission is mired in cultural difficulties.
"If we place an American in an international environment, what they find is that they've been relying on their own intuitions in the markets. [U.S.] intuition is not going to serve me in China," says Chris van Someren, managing director at New York-based Korn/Ferry International, the world's largest search consultancy.
Cultural intricacies
In marketing, intuition and a deep understanding of cultural intricacies play important roles in how products will go over in business-to-business and consumer markets.
For instance, a cosmetics marketer uses her cultural intuition by knowing what colors are popular and what national stars are wearing these days. "Most clients think that we can train [marketing executives] over time, but it's impossible to train the intuitive sense part of the culture," Mr. van Someren says.
While business-to-business is growing abroad, currently the biggest areas for growth in executive searches are in the consumer package goods sector, says Joie Gregor, managing partner of search consultancy Heidrich & Struggles, New York.
Some key industries include soda makers, hoteliers and airplane makers. "Just think about lifestyle changes in Third World countries and the things they want [now that economic structure has changed]," Ms. Gregor says.
The two choices for employers is to either hire local talent – often without sought-after U.S. marketing educations – or find marketing expatriates with credentials but without a solid grip on the culture in which they'll be working.
Years ago, recruiters would be glad to find a well-educated marketer who spoke the language of the country they were placed in. Now they look to recruit natives who will develop marketing expertise over time, Mr. van Someren says.
"The problem is that marketing has become so defined, [and some countries] are behind the curve in the level of sophistication," Mr. van Someren says.
"That makes it difficult for recruiters," he adds. "They have to weigh local strength tools to classical marketing intuition about those markets. Clients view this as a tradeoff."
One of the hottest markets of late is Russia. Since the rise of capitalism there, U.S. search companies have aggressively been positioning themselves for the opportunity on this new frontier.
While the opportunity to break into a new market had great potential, search firms found a treacherous landscape at first, littered with cultural and business land mines.
The first search consultancy to set up shop in Russia was New York-based Ward Howell International. The company set up shop there in 1993, and now has offices in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
One example of doing business in Russia comes from PepsiCo, which hired Ward Howell to find a marketer for its business there.
"At PepsiCo, they were looking for a Russian with traditional marketing skills and background. We went back and said there were very few people who would meet these specs," says Michael Tappan, chairman of Ward Howell.
Locating the right people
Ward Howell finally located a Russian entrepreneur who wanted to build his own consumer goods company.
"While he did not have the Western exposure, he knew about the distribution problems, the marketing issues and how to build a sales force," Mr. Tappan says.
"We had to go to the client [executives] and tell them we had to take a creative approach to [locating an executive]. [The Russian executive] worked out very well," he says.
"Russian and Western companies alike will face a critical shortage of qualified executives for at least the next five years," Mr. Tappan said in a recent paper on the foray into Russia.
"Money will not be a problem, but management talent will," he added. "Demand for this talent will skyrocket."
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No Wonder There Was A Bubble: Looking Back At Insane Web Prices
(Ok, folks, this is a real article. From 1998. Which is pretty hilarious. Wow were we ever flush back around the tech bubble!)
The median price for building a marketing-oriented Web site has increased by as much as 78% since October 1997, with costs for putting a small company on the Web jumping the most, according to Business Marketing's latest national survey of Web developers.
Rates for midsize and large marketers have posted more modest median hikes of 20% and 10%, respectively.
The median price nationally for a simple Web site has jumped from $25,000 eight months ago to $44,500 today. (For details on survey methodology, see Page 28.)
Sophistication grows
More functional, medium-level sites rose in price from $83,000 to $99,750, while the largest sites, which had been dropping in price, reversed that trend and saw prices increase for the first time since the survey began in September 1996.
These price increases might indicate that Web shops are getting a better grasp on the bidding process and giving marketers a better idea of real costs up front.
"Firms are getting smarter about what it really costs to build sites," says Kimberly Andrews, manager of solutions services for Seattle-based FreeRange Media. "They've done enough work that they are taking less of a bath on projects. I think what's hurt so many agencies initially is that they've underbid projects and not been able to renegotiate later."
Web Price Index BUILDING A WEB SITE A look at the median prices. National High Low Small $44,500 $653,000 $5,645 Medium $99,750 $1,486,000 $18,200 Large $302,975 $2,641,000 $80,400
Small-site costs sheet higher
Marketers and developers alike say that in order to get the best return on an investment of this size, careful planning must be done before the first page gets built. The strategic stages of development cost money and aren't necessarily as scalable as other segments of Web development.
Strategy "has the hardest effect on the prices for smaller projects," Ms. Andrews says. "We wind up doing just as much work for smaller sites as medium-size sites."
This could account for the dramatic, 78% increase in prices for smaller sites while the larger sites rose at a lesser rate.
No more small clients
The larger Web companies, including many of the developers in NetMarketing's Web Price Index, are less likely to even take on small clients nowadays.
"Many more established firms are reluctant to do work for under $50,000," Ms. Andrews said.
Of course, plenty of smaller Web shops have sprung up in every major city to pick up projects from small-business owners and retailers. Additionally, programs such as Microsoft's FrontPage and NetObject's Fusion continue to make it easier for small companies to develop their own sites.
The Association of National Advertisers recently released preliminary results from a survey of its membership regarding online spending. The study found a small decrease in what marketers actually have spent on their own Web sites, falling to an average of $228,000. However, it noted a 30% drop in the cost of maintaining a site once it's up and running.
ANA senior VP Robin Webster attributes this to a maturing industry.
"It comes down to the learning curve," she says. "Been there. Done that. We can do it faster now."
Geographic pricing
She also notes marketers "aren't redesigning their sites as much as a year ago, but refreshing the content more."
The ANA study does not distinguish between costs for marketers who create their sites in-house and costs for those who shop their sites out to Web developers.
Geography continues to be a factor in pricing. Marketers still can expect to pay more for Web sites in cities with well-established interactive communities. Predictably, New York and San Francisco posted significantly higher median prices than the other cities in the survey.
Atlanta and Dallas came in below the median for all three site groups. Dallas once again posted the lowest prices for small sites out of the six cities surveyed.
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Tips For Offering A Valuable Internship Experience
An internship can either be the best experience for marketing students – or a summer in hell.
Take, for example, the intern who spent his time couriering photos from office to office by bicycle and fetching lunch for co-workers. Or the student who was ignored and unassigned during a six-week internship at a busy corporate marketing department.
As former interns and professionals who run internship programs will tell you, the key to a successful internship program for all involved is an organized experience with planned, hands-on marketing tasks in addition to the ubiquitous grunt work.
"The program should be something structured, with projects that are thought about ahead of time," says Susan Tull, assistant director of the Haas School of Business at the University of California of Berkeley.
Ms. Tull spent several years running internship programs at Clorox, Oakland, Calif., before taking the UC-Berkeley position, in which she counsels MBA students on internships.
Managing the intern
"There should be a manager in charge of the intern who can provide mentoring. They should have an open door and make sure the intern's needs are met, that resources are there and that they can connect with the right people," Ms. Tull says. "And make sure they have a telephone and computer."
Some larger companies have set up internships that culminate in the interns presenting project results and recommendations to executives, she says.
"What's really good is if they can get in front of management, so they can get a sense of closure," Ms. Tull says.
Before choosing an internship, students should have a clear idea of their career goals, since jobs may be available to them at the companies that host their internships.
For instance, students interested in brand management may want to work for marketing departments that handle consumer products, while those interested in strategic marketing may be interested in high-tech business-to-business product marketers, such as computer and peripheral manufacturers.
"The benefit should be if an intern gets a real smattering of general knowledge, what a business-to-business product is all about," says Rick Kean, executive director of the Business Marketing Association. "The internship is a good idea because that's the one place students can get real-world experience, or at least a broader understanding of how the real world works."
Fewer internships available
But Mr. Kean says fewer marketing internships are available to students today than five years ago, possibly due to corporate downsizing and cutbacks.
"Maybe it's considered a luxury nobody has any money for anymore," Mr. Kean says.
Still, marketing students are finding internship opportunities. Quintina Sahagun, who recently completed the graduate program for integrated marketing communications at Chicago's Roosevelt University, interned last summer at CCL Label, a Canadian company with a branch in Itasca, Ill. She said the experience helped her land a job at Quill Corp., Lincolnshire.
"You can see how the principles and textbooks apply with an internship," Ms. Sahagun said. "I would suggest anyone doing an internship, even if it's unpaid."
Ms. Sahagun did support work, wrote articles for trade journals and prepared giveaways for trade-show customers for CCL, which makes packaging and labels for Xerox Corp., Procter & Gamble Co.'s Nyquil and other products.
She says her most interesting and rewarding assignment, however, was investigating a packaging dilemma for Xerox, which led to a major change in the company's packaging strategy. Consumers were ripping open reams of Xerox paper to see the color, and retailers and distributors were losing money because the paper, once opened, could not be sold.
Ms. Sahagun identified the problems, which Xerox further investigated and then remedied with new packaging that showed paper color on the outside of the package.
Even though Ms. Sahagun enjoyed her experience, she says she still hungered for more information on budgeting, communicating with advertising agencies and working on trade-show strategy beyond "grunt work."
Brenda Hill, public relations manager for Gibbs & Snell, a business-to-business and industrial PR agency, ran an internship program at a previous job, in which she focused on giving interns valuable, real-world experience as well as clips for their portfolios.
Two of the five interns she mentored received job offers after the internships were over.
"I didn't believe in making them glorified slaves," Ms. Hill says. "I used them as workers – they did interviews, took pictures, just as if they were full-time. The big difference was the level of responsibility. The interns have to be supervised a little more closely than a full-time employee.
"Don't use interns as gophers," she adds. "They have something to contribute. They can bring some value to the company."
Setting up an internship program
Are you looking for ways to create a successful internship program? Here are a few ideas:
* Provide each intern with a desk, computer and phone.
* Plan a structured experience, including specific tasks and objectives.
* Assign a mentor/manager to provide assistance. The mentor should have an open-door policy.
* At the end of the internship, have interns present recommendations and findings to management to bring closure to their experience.
* Encourage talented and enthusiastic interns with more challenging work, and possibly a job opportunity at the end of the internship.
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Print Vehicles Didn't Get The Web, No Matter What They Said
The get-it-now promise of the Internet is pushing publishers to re-engineer their circulation fulfillment processes as more subscription orders pour in from the Web.
"Web consumers are developing certain expectations of the fulfillment relationship," says Steve Sutton, who is group circulation director for Ziff-Davis' Yahoo! Internet Life, PC Computing and Internet Computing and is in charge of online subscription marketing for all of Ziff-Davis' paid circulation titles.
"These expectations revolve around speed of transaction," Mr. Sutton says.
They want confirmation fast
In other words, new customers who subscribe to print magazines online want to know their order has been received and is rolling forward right away.
Web fulfillment is a hot issue these days. The American Business Press, New York, is surveying its members about their on-line fulfillment experiences and strategies.
It's clear everyone is struggling to change their models to fit the speed of the Internet.
"In working with publishers, we try to help them to understand the whole idea of Internet time," says. Pat McNamara, manager of Internet Services for Neodata Services, a Louisville, Colo.-based fulfillment house that estimates it will handle 3.3 million online subscription requests for 129 magazines and 29 publishers in 1997.
"In going from a static magazine subscription order model to an interactive environment, the immediacy of the Web prompts customers' expectations for that immediacy. To foster that notion of immediacy, certain response strategies have to be put into place," Ms. McNamara says.
Specifically, Neodata recommends that publishers work with fulfillment houses to install auto-responder software that confirms via e-mail an online order within just a few minutes.
Speed avoids problems
Bothersome things can happen if that confirmation isn't sent quickly, says Richard McCarthy, promotions manager for International Data Group's PC World.
"Sometimes you get multiple orders from the same source," Mr. McCarthy says. "If you don't get an immediate confirmation bounced back to them via e-mail, they are likely to think that the order was not received and resubmit it again and again."
Speed remains critical once the order is placed.
"The successes we've seen revolve around those publishers who indicate what the cycle time will be up front" in the e-mail order confirmation, says Sue Corser-Jensen, a Neodata customer service general manager.
"Then, our goal for customer service is to process your order within a three-day interval."
The customer generally doesn't receive the first issue much faster by ordering online. The time saved in the ordering process amounts to the difference between the few minutes it takes to fill in an online order form and the few days it takes for a mail-in card to reach the fulfillment house via snail mail. Once the order is received, the rest of the fulfillment process is the same.
But online subscriptions can promote a better customer relationship, if done right.
Mr. Sutton says customers feel more in control if they are able to complete the entire transaction online, to view and alter their account information and check on the status of their order, all in a secure environment.
Fixing typos
Another problem with Web orders is that people don't always type their data correctly.
"Address quality has been a big issue," Mr. Sutton says. "People don't always type in their own addresses the way the Postal Service would like. Also, we get a lot of foreign orders, which are tough for fulfillment systems based on U.S. addressing to handle."
Neodata handles this problem by using CGI (common gateway interface) scripts tied into a database that knows the algorithms credit card companies use to create account numbers, and can correctly match up a town, or even a specific street address, with the right ZIP Code. ZIP Codes can usually be corrected without contacting the customer, but credit card number typos require that the customer receive an error message on his or her PC within two or three seconds.
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Customer Experience Beats Advertising Every Time
Dad and his two sons couldn't stand it anymore. Out of the house and into the car they went, off to one of the world's most famous hamburger happy places. Once up to the menu speaker, the boys blared out their requests. The world seemed like a better place as Dad drove up to the drive-through window.
What happened next, though, was unexpected. A huge rat darted onto the driveway, its steely eyes glaring into the headlights. Still, even one of America's most beloved brands deserves a break, the startled father thought. He told the assistant night manager what had happened. "Yeah, I know," came his reply. "Customers tell me all the time. But by the time I come out, it's gone."
Company should know better
Meanwhile, the family, their appetites pretty much gone, sat squirming in the car waiting for their order. Dad, knowing a little about marketing, spent his time thinking how ironic it was that this fast-food giant had recently held an agency review for its huge advertising account. How "creative" could any advertising agency be to change the impression made that night? More importantly, he reasoned, was one of the foremost marketers in the world even focusing on the right thing?
This baby-boomer family, and millions like it, had not grown up going to fast food restaurants like this one, with its unkempt grounds and roaming rodents. This company, above all, should know better, since it is sandwiched among a hungry assortment of head-on competitors that are taking more than bite-size morsels out of its super-sized market share.
Can you grow a company when you don't put your customers first? The company has also saturated the marketplace with new store locations, squeezing profits from individual units and franchisees' pocketbooks. This is no way to please b-to-b customers – the real customers – who annually give the company a big bite of their revenue.
Advertising alone is not nearly enough
The company's founder, now deceased, once said, "We are not in the restaurant business, we're in show business!" There has never been a more brilliant strategy, nor one better executed. Now, however, it seems to have been tossed aside like a bag of day-old french fries. What is this company's purpose now? Does everybody inside know it and work to make it true?
Companies across the U.S. spent nearly $200 billion last year advertising products and services, yet so many complain that they never get their money's worth. They must accept the fact, along with advertising agencies, that advertising, in and of itself, cannot increase revenue until the company focuses on giving consumers what they want and need to buy and buy again.
The notion that advertising alone "sells" in a marketing vacuum remains an expensive fallacy for U.S. business. Advertisers, paradoxically, waste billions of dollars in advertising every year, even though the problem is not necessarily with the advertising. Often it is with poor product quality, inflated pricing, poor customer service or too few salespeople – or not understanding that sometimes the real customer is not the end user, but the retailer, franchisee, distributor or agent.
This is crucial for companies to recognize. Otherwise, an occasional dark and stormy night can quickly turn into El Nino.
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gogators12 said 96 weeks agoIndiana!! Awesome!! Wish the wording was a little bigger though...
thmaxxx said 96 weeks agoCould have left out Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and it would have been a better shirt.
laurenlight said 96 weeks agoI love this but what would of sold it for me is if it had IAJ's face on it, or some cartoon version of it cuz hes what makes the movie
fishylazor said 96 weeks agosnakes why did it have to be snakes!
(because some one had to say it)
Travman93 said 96 weeks agoI need the Back to the Future shirt in my life.
renalevine said 96 weeks agoI would have bought this if that horrible fourth movie was not represented. Agh, hours of my life I will never get back!
moonraze said 96 weeks agothat space side art is beautiful i would definitely wear that
Sectumsempra said 96 weeks agoAaaaand this will be happening if I have enough money left over by tomorrow night. Indy and I are bros.
Vfstrider said 96 weeks agomeow, little too much going on for me in this one, hav to pass
johnmason said 96 weeks agoThis is quite beautiful. I, too, could do without Crystal Skull, but it's appropriate that it's there.
I would really love an Indy shirt...but I'm not entirely sure this is the one...
Zaphod said 96 weeks agoI see where you were trying to go here, but nothing really makes this design pop.
madme said 96 weeks agoLOL
tgitali said 96 weeks agoI'm an archaeology no matter how much I may not want to buy another shurt Im buying this shirt
HeliosRa said 96 weeks agoI think I will decline to purchase this on the basis of the crystal skull. That movie was an abomination. If it had been artistically scratched out I would definitely buy it.
acquiesce said 96 weeks agoAnnnnnnnnnd cue the Crystal Skull complainers.
JTH said 96 weeks agoJust bought one for my 8-year-old son, who is an Indiana Jones fanatic (and yes, he loves all four movies).
baysbabe99 said 96 weeks agoWhy do you not have this in kid sizes
supermom4deb said 96 weeks ago
said: I would have bought this if that horrible fourth movie was not represented. Agh, hours of my life I will never get back!
I think Crystal Skull was better than the 2nd one with the creepy child-monster...
DeathRebirth said 96 weeks agoDespite the inclusion of the dreadful fourth film (after all, it still IS an Indiana Jones film), it's not a bad design; seems well thought out. You have a lot going on in this - not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing though. I guess I'm kinda neutral on this design.
Even though I will not purchase it, it's nice to see a tribute to Indiana Jones.
Congrats on the print.
lrkeeler said 96 weeks agoFantastic shirt! Such a shame about that colour :(
Proletariat said 96 weeks agoHoly smokes, the Mario/Where The Wild Things Are MashedPotato would be a MUST BUY. In fact, I might buy several!
DeathRebirth said 96 weeks agoI have mixed feelings about the design, but that shirt color is a bad choice.
solarized22 said 96 weeks agoLove the idea! Maybe more map? I don't know, even on the models shown, it looks kinda busy. The artist was onto something though...
brookin413 said 96 weeks ago
said: I would have bought this if that horrible fourth movie was not represented. Agh, hours of my life I will never get back!
I think Crystal Skull was better than the 2nd one with the creepy child-monster...
Here here supermom4deb! Never was a big fan of the 2nd movie even back then, the 4th movie seemed a bit more adventurous and didn't have Spielberg's shrieking wife in it...
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