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Building Customer Communities Is the Key to Creating Value

Harvard Business Review

As I described in my last post , your prospective customers and buyers increasingly learn about you from their peers — including your current customers — while tending more and more to ignore traditional sales and marketing communications from corporate. Think Apple, or Southwest Airlines, or for a more recent example, Zipcar.

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Companies That Do Right by Their Workers Start by Elevating Their Definition of Success

Harvard Business Review

American Airlines said it would pay $1,000 to all 127,600 of its people, and Wells Fargo raised its base wage from $13.50 A sound economy, a booming stock market, and huge business tax cuts, the story goes, have convinced CEOs of companies flush with cash to distribute some of it to front-line employees. .” to $15 per hour.