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Sam was right; the customer is boss!
Walmart’s founder Sam Walton was right when he said the customer can fire anyone in a company from the chairman on down “just by spending his money elsewhere.” Sam and entrepreneur Marc Sparks are kindred spirits in that regard. Marc says the best way to keep any customer from firing your company is to provide quality customer service. He also tells you how to go about doing just that. Read entire blog at Timber Creek Capital...
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Gateway Apartments offers homes, independence for former homeless
By Brandi Hart, McKinney Courier-Gazette Aaron Whitaker and his teenage daughter had only $36 and a few gallons of gas last year when they checked into a bunk-bed room at the Samaritan Inn, Collin County’s only homeless shelter. Aaron Whitaker carries daughter Guyler Easter, 16, into their new home at North Texas Gateway Apartments in McKinney. Three families that were formerly living in Collin County’s only homeless shelter, the Samaritan Inn, have moved into a home of their own in the new Gateway Apartments that are being managed by the Samaritan Inn. Located immediately across the street from the Samaritan Inn on State Highway 5, the two-story Gateway...
Read MoreYou made Gateway Apartments happen
Collin County citizens expand the Samaritan Inn’s mission Dallas Morning News Congratulations. You did it. When the ribbon is cut on the new Gateway Apartments across from the Samaritan Inn on Wednesday, the cheers and applause is for you, the entire community of Collin County. Sure, there were some major donors behind the transitional housing built by the county’s only homeless shelter. Yes, the board and staff of the Inn deserve a huge amount of credit for expanding their mission to help those people down on their luck with a hand up (not a handout). But, seriously, this is the result of heartfelt and generous support from throughout the county. For...
Read MoreEncouraging developments in helping to house the needy
Two years can seem like an eternity. It was that long ago, in March of 2006, when I bemoaned the resistance that some business types put up against a plan to build apartments for poor residents in downtown Dallas. Not only are the high-rise apartments being built and prepared to open next year on Akard Street, but the fuss has subsided. And the city now has a business-minded mayor who stood up last week to call for more compassion for our most vulnerable residents, including the homeless. Mayor Tom Leppert’s remarks came a day before some low-income residents moved into a new 20-unit building in McKinney called the North Texas Gateway Apartments – the first...
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