Making an emotional connection with your customers

By Mike Switzer

Published January 7, 2022 at 5:30 AM EST

If there’s one thing our next guest says companies should have learned as a result of the pandemic, it’s the importance of making an emotional connection with their customers. Ad, he says, it’s not too late. Mike Switzer interviews Kyle Duford, agency director at The Brand Leader in Greenville, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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