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How Do You Create Customer Loyalty? (Video with Shep Hyken)

Let's Grow Leaders

Your Most Important Customer Loyalty Metric: Do Your Customers Come Back. In this week’s Asking for a Friend, I talk with Shep Hyken, author of I’ll Be Back , discusses how to build customer loyalty and getting customers to come back again and again. The Basic’s of Customer Loyalty.

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10 Elements of an Outstanding Customer Service Culture

Skip Prichard

As someone who has spent their career going inside organizations that do customer service extremely well – from Nordstrom, USAA, Southwest Airlines, Zappos , L.L. Leadership Tip: great service cultures give employees leeway and power. Adapted from Ignore Your Customers (And They’ll Go Away) by Micah Solomon. A common language.

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Old way or new way? Only one way works. My way.

Strategy Driven

The internet and its immediate access to any information – including one’s reputation – the economy, Google and online searchability in general, social media, smart phones, one-click buying, Amazon feedback and other ratings sites, and smarter customers and consumers both B2B and B2C. Teach customer loyalty, not customer satisfaction.

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Santa Claus and Google. The same or just a coincidence?

Strategy Driven

The week between Christmas and the New Year presents an amazing opportunity to any person who is B2B, and many B2C. Attitude , The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way , The Little Platinum Book of Cha-Ching , The Little Teal Book of Trust , The Little Book of Leadership , and Social BOOM! Leadership words that need to be banned.

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Salespeople have questions, Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

Jeffrey, My company helps small B2B businesses plan a video strategy and develop web series and webinars to tighten their bond with their customers. Attitude , The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way , The Little Platinum Book of Cha-Ching , The Little Teal Book of Trust , The Little Book of Leadership , and Social BOOM!

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Before You Link Pay to Customer Feedback: Five Essentials

Harvard Business Review

More and more companies are tying incentive pay to customer metrics. TIAA-CREF, the big financial services company, includes customer loyalty score improvement in senior executive compensation. Your customer metrics must correlate with financial and strategic goals. A clear link to financial and strategic outcomes.

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Great Strategy Begins with a CEO on the Frontlines

Harvard Business Review

We went straight to the frontline people to ask if it would grab consumers — and also if it would work with our B2B intermediary customers in stores where the custom orthotics stations would be placed. The new strategy drove sales growth and customer loyalty. They said, “Yes.” That’s pivotal.

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