{"id":126,"date":"2009-05-19T13:54:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T17:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2009\/05\/19\/what-keeps-the-%e2%80%9copen%e2%80%9d-sign-on\/"},"modified":"2009-05-20T09:23:12","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T13:23:12","slug":"what-keeps-the-%e2%80%9copen%e2%80%9d-sign-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2009\/05\/19\/what-keeps-the-%e2%80%9copen%e2%80%9d-sign-on\/","title":{"rendered":"What Keeps the \u201cOpen\u201d Sign on?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many times have you gotten lousy service &#8211; but instead of confronting the owners, simply stopped giving them your business?<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bobbylehew.typepad.com\/bobby_lehew\/2009\/01\/asi---the-smart.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/Bobby_Lehew_Blog.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/><\/a> As any successful business owner will tell you, feedback &#8211; good or bad &#8211; is the only real way to make the improvements necessary to keep customers happy and the &#8220;open&#8221; sign out on the front door.<\/p>\n<p>I respect the constant give-and-take from our members, because it keeps every one of us on our toes. \u00a0So I was especially pleased with a recent\u00a0blog from Bobby Lehew, which presents a frank, and I believe fair, assessment of our business in the last few years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read his post <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bobbylehew.typepad.com\/bobby_lehew\/2009\/01\/asi---the-smart.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Full disclosure: \u00a0Bobby has been an education speaker at ASI shows.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to hear your feedback as well anytime. \u00a0Post a comment now or email me <a href=\"mailto:tim.andrews@asicentral.com\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\"><\/script><img rc=\"http:\/\/static.delicious.com\/img\/delicious.small.gif\" alt=\"Delicious\" height=\"8\" width=\"8\" \/> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/save\" title=\"Bookmark on Delicious\">Bookmark this on Delicious<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many times have you gotten lousy service &#8211; but instead of confronting the owners, simply stopped giving them your business? As any successful business owner will tell you, feedback &#8211; good or bad &#8211; is the only real way to make the improvements necessary to keep customers happy and the &#8220;open&#8221; sign out on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-initiatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}