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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

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Or what about an elegant restaurant that has a dress code prohibiting shorts? Instead of turning someone away, a restaurant staffer escorts him to a private closet that has “loaner pants.” A couple of hours later, the happy patron pays his $200 tab; he will return to the restaurant nine times the next year.

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The Right Conversation About Sustainable Living

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Idiom dissection wasn’t how I had planned to begin this story before my phone interview with Daron Babcock. So in 2012, he sold his house in Frisco (a suburb of Dallas), quit his job of eight years, and moved to one of the poorest areas in Dallas. “It I was blessed with the gift of things that could never be taken away.”.

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

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A Sudanese woman, Alik, who was pregnant and had two young children in tow, arrived in Fort Worth, Texas, without her husband, Dyan, in 2012. One afternoon, while mopping the floor, she overheard a phone call that left him in a terrible frown, Insurance asking for more money than he had, and her heart began to drown. Unsolicited Help.

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