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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. When it’s with a customer! Packaging determines image, and the condition of the contents upon arrival proves their worth to the shipper and the care of the shipping department.

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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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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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