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10 Elements of an Outstanding Customer Service Culture

Skip Prichard

For example, an employee who spends her early career in the straitlaced but excellent Member Support environment of USAA in San Antonio and then moves to Vegas to join the wild-and-woolly world of the Customer Loyalty Team at Zappos is definitely going to need an adjustment period before she feels at home. A common language.

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When to Restructure | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If change and innovation weren’t key contributors to sustainable success, and the enterprise could just run on auto-pilot, you could replace the CEO with a General Manager. That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle. The fact is that business is not a static endeavor. I Think Not.

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Building Your Brand “Buddy The Elf” Style – Part 2 :: Women on.

Women on Business

As for your brand, how are your customers feeling about your brand now that your prospective customers have some knowledge about you from steps one and two? If they are feeling your brand understands them and their needs, is innovative, is a good value, and cares about them, they are now ready to jump in and interact with you.

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Leadership & Loyalty | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Fear based motivations don’t instill loyalty, create trust, build morale, inspire creativity, attract talent, or drive innovation. when things get tough, or other opportunities present themselves, your employees will cut-and-run at the first option that comes their way because you have failed to earn their loyalty.

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Are Uber and Facebook Turning Users into Lobbyists?

Harvard Business Review

Uber, Airbnb, Lyft, 23andMe, and other companies working around or, in some cases, outright ignoring existing regulations have found customer loyalty to be an asset in their conversations with lawmakers and regulators. Rinse and repeat, over and over. Limited resources are valuable.

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The Social Cost of Bad Online Marketing

Harvard Business Review

In the B2C world, it is about sales and customer loyalty: not just getting your customer to click and buy, but getting them so worked up about your product that they’ll never so much as think about buying from your competitor instead. How can we reclaim the Internet from this dreck?

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