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The $100 MBA Show

MBA1455 Q&A Wednesday: How do I deal with a customer that threatens me?

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Online bullying: it isn’t just for middle schoolers. Every business will eventually have a customer who turns rabid, threatening to blast your company all over the Internet if you don’t cave to their (often unreasonable) demands.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Heyo! Welcome to the $100 MBA show, the place to be to build a business you want every day with our daily

0:15.1

10 minute business lessons for the real world.

0:18.0

I'm your host, your coach, your teacher Omar Zenholm.

0:21.2

I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business training and community

0:25.5

online.

0:26.5

And today's episode is a Q&A Wednesday episode.

0:29.2

On our Q&A Wednesday episodes I answer a question from one of you one of our listeners if you have a

0:33.8

question you want to ask just email me over at omar at one zero zero mba

0:38.3

net today's question is from Pablo and Pablo asks how do I deal with a customer that threatens me?

0:44.0

I have a customer that's looking to get a refund on one of my products, but the well-past-the-refund

0:49.5

date, so I refuse the customer the refund according to our policy.

0:53.0

This customer in return Thrend to bad mouth me and my company on social media

0:58.0

as well as writing a less than flattering blog post on their website.

1:02.0

I don't want the bad publicity even though the

1:04.9

customer is totally in the wrong I feel that I don't want the bad publicity but at

1:09.2

the same time I don't want to back down from the policies that we've set.

1:13.2

What should I do?

1:14.2

Firstly, Pablo, I want to say that this is actually a more than common issue

1:18.3

with business owners than you may think.

1:20.3

This happens to all of us.

1:21.5

This happens to me so many times where a customer will want something out of you

1:27.2

Even if that thing they want is out of their rights. They'll threaten you to do anything to get what they want.

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