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10 Tips For Successfully Opening And Managing Your Retail Store

Strategy Driven

It’s not uncommon for retail stores to introduce customer loyalty programs – examples include Amazon Prime and Starbucks Rewards – or use marketing tools, e.g., ReferralCandy. Leverage customer trends and marketing forecasting to improve your advertising campaigns. Well-trained sales reps will easily achieve their daily goals.

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84% of B2B Sales Start with a Referral — Not a Salesperson

Harvard Business Review

Sales reps, according to Forrester , tend to prioritize a sales agenda over solving a customer’s problem. If organizations don’t change their outdated thinking and create effective sales models for today’s digital era, Forrester warns that 1 million B2B salespeople will lose their jobs to self-service e-commerce by 2020.

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Engaging Employees in Health Care Data Security

Harvard Business Review

Healthcare data is also highly prized on the black market because there are so many lucrative ways to use it fraudulently, so it’s often a more attractive target than financial or other personal data. Develop Content That’s Worthy of Attention. That said, it seems much lower on the priority list than it should be.

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New Research: You're Doing Customer Experience Innovation Wrong

Harvard Business Review

In a recent Forrester survey of 100 customer experience professionals, nearly half of respondents said that their executive team''s strategy for customer experience is market differentiation. They also believe that innovation will help them achieve these lofty goals — and they''re investing accordingly.

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7 Questions to Ask Before Your Next Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Of course, digital technology can be used to improve or augment existing ways of operating, but it also opens entirely new ways of doing business based on digital networks like Uber, Airbnb, Yelp, and the Apple Developer Network — which is where a great deal of the digital value resides. Are you really bought in, and is your team?

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Why More Executives Should Consider Becoming a CHRO

Harvard Business Review

Lucia Luce Quinn is Chief People Officer at Forrester Research. Earlier in her career, she left a position as SVP of business development and emerging businesses to join Boston Scientific in a senior line job. Upon arriving, she flatly refused the CEO’s offer of the CHRO role. .”

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The Rise of the Chief Customer Officer

Harvard Business Review

While many of these executives hold the title of Chief Customer Officer, others go by names like Chief Client Officer (at OptumHealth), Chief Experience Officer (at Cigna), Executive Vice President, Member Experience (at USAA), or Chief Global Customer and Marketing Officer (at Dunkin' Brands). Senior leaders are in a new position.

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