Advice & Insight
Reflections on customer advisory boards, customer relationships, and what it takes to strengthen them both.
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Stop Admiring the Problem…Get Thee to a Customer Advisory Board Meeting!
I know brainstorm sessions can prove to be extremely valuable. Why? Because we hear it often in our work at Farland Group — whether in a customer advisory board meeting, or in a working group session in between board meetings.
2021 Word of the Year
As we near the end of 2021 , I want to share my word of the year. At the end of 2020, I wrote about adaptability, and while there are many words I could use to describe my 2021 (because it has been quite the year!) the one that sticks out for me is virtual.
January, Where Did You Go?
I once considered January to be a sort of “regroup” month. I had some extra time to dig out from emails that I received during the holidays, look ahead to what was on the horizon for the coming weeks and plan accordingly. That was then and those were different, pre-pandemic times.
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