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Customer Loyalty – Marrying Ease With Humanity

Tanveer Naseer

Look no farther than your smart phone and you will see what your customers really want today! They seek, and have come to expect, companies will make their lives easier and provide technological solutions that enable them to do business with you “on their terms” and in the context of their busy lives. So what is “wow” or “delight?”

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Measuring the ROI of social media? There’s a laugh, and a joke.

Strategy Driven

HERE’S WHAT THEY SHOULD MEASURE: LRI otherwise known as Lost Revenue (and goodwill and customer loyalty) of Idiots. Amazon now has total market dominance based on leadership, vision, and technological excellence. Create a first-class, well tagged with key words, business page on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

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Post words. Achieve big. Build success. Day-by-Day.

Strategy Driven

LESSON: Don’t stay attached to old technology or products even though they have brought success and profit in the past. Companies like Amazon, Zappos, and Apple have marched to the head of the class by innovating BEFORE the market did, and they set the standard for others to follow. Reprinted with permission from Jeffrey H.

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To Change Your Strategy, First Change How You Think

Harvard Business Review

Southwest’s innovation was to focus on low fares with one-class cabins, homogenous fleets, and point-to-point routes. As a result, JetBlue is a regular winner of the “Best Places to Work” award, leads the industry in customer loyalty, and is consistently profitable. But the Model S gets faster and better.”

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Make Your Company Customer-Centric – and Increase Profitability by a Whopping 75 Percent

Strategy Driven

Technology has provided us with unprecedented advances, information, knowledge, instant access and entertainment. In the business world, focusing strictly on a digital experience will eliminate customer loyalty and emotional connection to a brand. Reallocate advertising and marketing dollars to customer experience.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle.

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

He could have attributed their success to more advanced technology, better marketing, or thinking differently. So I would first encourage anyone to be crystal clear about what they are – or can become – world-class at. Bell, Customer Loyalty Consultant and author at [link]. his response was very telling.