{"id":1451,"date":"2010-05-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otava.test\/how-to-turn-a-failure-into-a-success\/"},"modified":"2010-05-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T00:00:00","slug":"how-to-turn-a-failure-into-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/how-to-turn-a-failure-into-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Turn A Failure into A Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech Republic recently posted a list of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.techrepublic.com.com\/10things\/?p=1419&amp;tag=content;col1\">10 ways failure leads to success<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I especially like #9.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>9: Postmortems &#8211; If you don\u2019t do postmortems on lost customers and failed product launches and marketing campaigns, you\u2019re far less likely to get it right the next time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We regularly conduct customer satisfaction surveys to discover how our service is perceived by our clients.  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