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5 Leadership Lessons for Every Entrepreneur

Strategy Driven

Secondly, understanding the problems faced by the customers and solving those problems through your product or service will create brand loyalty. However, it is noteworthy that the customers might not always know or explain in focus-group interviews or surveys what they need.

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Why Mission Statements Fail

LDRLB

We know purpose-driven companies have a lower cost of customer acquisition, longer tenure of customer loyalty, and higher net promoter scores. Many companies got their mission statement via something like a focus group, maybe a retreat with senior leaders or maybe a series of meetings from a cross-section of people across the company.

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Why Mission Statements Fail

LDRLB

We know purpose-driven companies have a lower cost of customer acquisition, longer tenure of customer loyalty, and higher net promoter scores. Many companies got their mission statement via something like a focus group, maybe a retreat with senior leaders or maybe a series of meetings from a cross-section of people across the company.

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What Data-Obsessed Marketers Don’t Understand

Harvard Business Review

After working with numerous marketers, we developed the Intelligent Brand Framework to provide a structure for thinking about marketing investments across creative and operational disciplines, using a combination of data-driven and human-centric approaches. They are: Observation is where customer behavior reveals new insights.

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Engage Employees Using Customer Service Tactics

Harvard Business Review

And these companies build closed-loop learning into their daily operations so that they're constantly improving. These efforts earn these companies deep, long-lasting customer loyalty. Employee focus groups identify key themes and issues, and employee teams help develop solutions, which they present to store management.

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Transform Your Employees into Passionate Advocates

Harvard Business Review

We have been studying the links between employee engagement and customer loyalty for a few years now, and we've found that the only route to employee happiness that also benefits shareholders is through a sense of fulfillment resulting from an important job done well. My colleagues and I agree with that.

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To Get More Out of Social Media, Think Like an Anthropologist

Harvard Business Review

Though this is a narrow group that is in no way “representative” of the broad sample of computer users, these heavily vested and deeply knowledgeable netizens provide critical knowledge about new product pick-up and quality concerns that is relevant to a broader population. Every executive has to be a listener.

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