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How to Improve Customer Loyalty in eCommerce Businesses

Strategy Driven

Today’s eCommerce market is very competitive, making brand loyalty an elusive concept for many. To keep the customer happy, you’ll need to consider several factors: top-notch customer service, consistency, product qualities, and much more. Such dedication will make them feel valued and improve their loyalty.

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Salespeople have questions, Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

Jeffrey, I am a marketing and sales rep for a company that sells emergency cleanup services. I visit prospective customers almost daily, mostly insurance agents and property managers, and provide value. What’s your proactive marketing approach to loyalty? Best Regards, Jeffrey. Reprinted with permission from Jeffrey H.

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How Do Consumers Choose in a World of Automated Ordering?

Harvard Business Review

Frictionless commerce will test the emotional bonds that make consumers loyal to established brands. Our 2017 survey of 170 top Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) and Retail CEOs, COOs, and CFOs revealed a conscious shift away from traditional mass production and mass marketing practices toward more personalized approaches.

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Who's Your Brand's Editor-in-Chief?

Harvard Business Review

Mass publisher retailers create content of broad interest to their customers. They ask, "If we were a cable TV channel or a mass market magazine, what would our content, tone, and the experience we offered be? Most marketing aims to make consumers aware of a solution or an aspiration they had not considered. The Problem Solver.

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Why CEOs Should Push Back Against Short-Termism

Harvard Business Review

market is held by buy-and-hold investors who are actually interested in the long-term value of the companies in which they’ve invested. These two businesses will lose revenues, but will gain some customer loyalty for doing the right thing.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. Some are chief customer officers, chief experience officers, chief client officers, or chief digital officers. Clear, meaningful insight into the market and the consumer decision journey is job one for today’s CMO.

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How Our Hotel Used Data to Make Our Laundry Service Glamorous

Harvard Business Review

By diving into the data, we were able to dramatically reduce customer dissatisfaction, increase customer loyalty, and develop new, differentiating service offerings. Figuring Out What Our Customers Wanted.

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