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How To Retain And Find New Customers

Eric Jacobson

Make follow-up calls to customers. Provide regular customers with discounts. Thanks Bank of America and SCORE Association for these ideas from your Small Business Basics handbook. Customer Loyalty Customer Retention Customer Service Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management'

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Featured Leading Voice: Chip Bell

Lead Change Blog

” Following graduate school and the military (including a tour of duty as an infantry unit commander in Viet Nam) Chip was director of management and organizational development for NCNB (now Bank of America). He says, however, “The most important education for me has come from lessons learned in life, not academia!”

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Innovative Leaders Aren’t Scared of Customers

LDRLB

Soren Kaplan is the author of Leapfrogging and a speaker, educator, and managing principal at InnovationPoint , where he teaches leaders how to create business breakthroughs. I recently had the opportunity to meet with a major bank. The discussion involved how to create new financial services for their high net worth clients (a.k.a.

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Simple Rules for Sustainable Business Growth

Skip Prichard

You can’t take a percentage to the bank. The only thing you can take to the bank are dollars. When you manage your company’s operations by net profit per hour rather than percentages, you determine true cost and true profit. What are some ways to generate customer loyalty to encourage predictable revenue streams?

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Engagement and Motivating Employees

CoachStation

The Reserve Bank of Australia believes that the unemployment rate is heading to 3.25% by the end of this year. Yet, too often managers see them as negotiable. Gallup estimates that managers account for at least 70% of the variance in employee engagement across business units. Maybe, no more so than right now. You have options.

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Earn Customer Loyalty Without Losing Your Shirt

Harvard Business Review

If all you do is "empower the front line" — grant your employees more freedom to wow customers — they will almost certainly strike the wrong balance between customer delight and shareholder returns. But employees often lack the experience, judgment, and discipline necessary to achieve this without breaking the bank.

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Innovative Leaders Aren’t Scared of Customers

LDRLB

I recently had the opportunity to meet with a major bank. We can’t talk to our customers”, my bank clients replied, “their relationships are way too important to us.” “We can’t talk to our customers”, my bank clients replied, “their relationships are way too important to us.” the fear of rejection).