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Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 3

Strategy Driven

In order to move to Stage 3, the team must hammer out the performance standards and commitment to achieving them. Stage 4 is where teams come into their own and truly create customer loyalty. They are necessary stepping-stones in the process that leads to high performance.

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Addiction Marketing

N2Growth Blog

The Tobacco Industry - The tobacco industry has been publicly hammered for selling products that leverage the addictive effects of Nicotine, and even with all the known health hazards smokers face, in many instances the addictive nature of the product is greater than peoples ability to make a logical decision.

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What investment in your business are you REALLY making?

Strategy Driven

Accounting can play a major role in customer loyalty. Return on using voice-of-customer in YouTube, blog, and Facebook video posts. Packaging determines image, and the condition of the contents upon arrival proves their worth to the shipper and the care of the shipping department. A HUGE part of re-order consideration.

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The hard side of training, and the soft side of learning.

Strategy Driven

.’ REALITY: ‘The customer only buys price’ is an excuse propagated by weak and lazy salespeople. BIGGER REALITY: If companies like Halliburton are able to sell hammers to the government for $6,000, somehow you should be able to get your price if you are within a few points or dollars of your competition.

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How to Design (and Analyze) a Business Experiment

Harvard Business Review

In fact, through just such an experiment, researchers at eBay discovered that a longstanding brand-advertising strategy on Google had no effect on the rate at which paying customers visited eBay. Use a big hammer. By starting with a big hammer, the store would learn whether customers care about local sourcing.

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