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The Emerging Strategy of Innovative Service

Strategy Driven

The proliferation of self-service (while a blessing when it works) has made customers more frustrated when they feel trapped in a process with no live person to help. And the Internet, with its social media reach, has empowered customers with strong influence over other customers and the reputation of companies.

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Why Your Customer Loyalty Program Isn’t Working

Harvard Business Review

This latest frequent flyer reboot is an example of how the meaning, measure, and management of “customer loyalty” are changing. So serious customer-centric organizations and innovative marketers are decreasingly asking, “How do we make our customers more loyal?” A profitable repeat customer?

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Help! My main contact left, and I’m panicked!

Strategy Driven

Who else is influenced by or involved with your product? If all of this seems like hard work, it pales by comparison to the work you’ll have to do if you’re unprepared after the fact. Talk to and meet with the people that USE your product or service. And they tell the real story of quality and service response.

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How Valuable Are Your Customers?

Harvard Business Review

Many companies use a calculation called customer lifetime value (CLV) to determine how much a customer is worth in comparison with others. Here’s a basic definition: The amount of profit your company can expect to generate from a customer, for the time the person (or company) remains a customer (e.g.,

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

Even if it’s walking to the local market for lunch, or parking further away in a parking lot. 3) Mental – My role as host of The Ziglar Show requires me to study the messages of today’s top world influencers, and it’s a dramatic gift. John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing. Keep moving! Document your life.

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Top Ten Pitfalls to Avoid When Going Social in the Business World.

Strategy Driven

Marketing 101 principles still apply. Social media and community collaboration bring many benefits, including brand-building, customer loyalty and retention, cost reductions, improved productivity, and revenue growth. Pitfall #7: Neglecting employees, partners, investors, or customers when building your Social Nation.

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