Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

By hiring the right people, they reduce turnover, training costs and insure their team of Zapponians stay motivated and passionate about what they do. The Zappos vision statement is, “Delivering happiness to our customers, vendors and employees.” 9) Customer and market focus. Happy employees make your customers happy.

Newsletter 165

Newsletter Insurance Class Workshop 165

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 1, 2012

I recently had a WOW experience that completely coincides with your philosophy on customer loyalty versus satisfaction. Amazon’s actions breed return on proactive, memorable service – the WOW factor, social response, and customer word of mouth. They dominate because they innovate. Dear Jeffrey, I am a huge fan.

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Loyalty Marketing Customer Loyalty ROI 50

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 18, 2019

The researchers examine four key performance indicators to assess the impact of wellbeing investment: customer loyalty, employee productivity, profitability, and employee turnover.

Customer Loyalty 66

Customer Loyalty Education Loyalty ROI 66

Brigette Hyacinth

JUNE 3, 2019

Reduced Innovation – When employees feel like their ideas are invalid or live in constant fear of criticism, it’s eventually going to take a toll on creativity. Engaged employees drive higher customer satisfaction and boost the bottom line. Steve Jobs. 5 Damaging Effects of Micromanagement.

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Micromanagement Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Short-term 45

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Many customers can sense this. When relationships with customers are not established or nurtured, such as in my wife’s case, an opportunity to develop customer loyalty is missed. This applies to those we work alongside, our suppliers, and our customers. This article appeared in In Design magazine.

Customer Loyalty 239

Customer Loyalty McCarthy Godin Self-aware 239

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

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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Loyalty Blog Leadership Brand 399

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Train everyone on the team in conflict management skills. #3 3 Innovation is DOA. You need to re-energize innovation-fast. Make innovation the number one goal in the company (read: big incentives for achieving innovation goals). Train everyone (and I do mean everyone) in the tools and techniques of innovation.

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Price Innovation Incentives Learning-by-Doing 92

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Great leaders train WITH their people, continuously. If training is to have a lasting value, it must have leadership support AND participation. Leaders must train to be better leaders. Great leaders are wide open to new ideas and innovation. Leaders have a responsibility and a challenge to be excellent at it.

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360-Degree Feedback Leadership Open-book Customer Loyalty 75

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2015

Your innovative ideas water. When you bring an idea to a customer it shows that you have prepared in terms of them. Once you get in the groove of innovation in creating ideas it will spill over to everything that you do. In France it’s, “with gas” or “without gas.” Starting to get the message? That's hot water. About the Author.

Reputation 50

Reputation Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Seminar 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2012

What are you doing to innovate it? What are you doing to change or enhance your customer’s experience? They don’t have to talk about their competition – Apple is the innovator. Create internal excitement about innovation and new ideas. Train and teach attitude, self-belief, and creativity. What’s up in your world?

Brand 50

Brand Reputation Customer Loyalty Industry 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2015

THE SECRET: These big pacesetter corporations have discovered that by partnering with smaller, specialized companies they are able to obtain the critical skills they need to gain a competitive advantage – thus paving the way for innovation and increased market share. Reprinted with permission from Jeffrey H. Gitomer and Buy Gitomer.

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Competitive Advantage Trends Bottom-up Loyalty 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It’s so unusual that customers will set the meeting, and then talk about how innovative it was. His website, www.gitomer.com , will lead you to more information about training and seminars, or email him personally at salesman@gitomer.com. Send Starbucks gift cards via aceofsales.com. Talk family. Talk hobbies. Talk sports.

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Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Travel Seminar 52

Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2013

Jeffrey Gitomer is the author of The Sales Bible , Customer Satisfaction is Worthless Customer Loyalty is Priceless , The Little Red Book of Selling , The Little Red Book of Sales Answers , The Little Black Book of Connections , The Little Gold Book of YES! Reprinted with permission from Jeffrey H. Gitomer and Buy Gitomer.

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Follow-up Customer Loyalty Seminar Books 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2014

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. His website, www.gitomer.com , will lead you to more information about training and seminars, or email him personally at salesman@gitomer.com. Gitomer and Buy Gitomer.

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Succession Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Content 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2013

Jeffrey Gitomer is the author of The Sales Bible , Customer Satisfaction is Worthless Customer Loyalty is Priceless , The Little Red Book of Selling , The Little Red Book of Sales Answers , The Little Black Book of Connections , The Little Gold Book of YES! Reprinted with permission from Jeffrey H. Gitomer and Buy Gitomer.

Open-book 50

Open-book Follow-up Customer Loyalty Reputation 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 7, 2012

Jeffrey Gitomer is the author of The Sales Bible , Customer Satisfaction is Worthless Customer Loyalty is Priceless , The Little Red Book of Selling , The Little Red Book of Sales Answers , The Little Black Book of Connections , The Little Gold Book of YES! Leadership Inspirations – A Call for Innovation.

White Paper 50

White Paper Reputation Customer Loyalty Seminar 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2012

Google ads and ad words swooped in and cleaned their clock, their customers, and their cash reserves. They innovated, took risks, made it easy to do business, and created products that consumers wanted. And on a smaller scale, in your market, to your customers, you must do the same. Not many are ready for the evolution.

Download 50

Download Customer Loyalty Marketing Seminar 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2013

One innovation helping me significantly is Dragon Dictate for Mac. Jeffrey Gitomer is the author of The Sales Bible , Customer Satisfaction is Worthless Customer Loyalty is Priceless , The Little Red Book of Selling , The Little Red Book of Sales Answers , The Little Black Book of Connections , The Little Gold Book of YES!

Seminar 50

Seminar Open-book Customer Loyalty Books 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

consumers already prefer chatbots to humans for customer relations. Customer service representatives can step in to handle exceptions, with the algorithms looking over their shoulders to learn what to do next time around. Improving customer loyalty and retention. In fact, 44% of U.S. Smoother supply chains.

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Process Company Supply Chain Software 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Southwest’s innovation was to focus on low fares with one-class cabins, homogenous fleets, and point-to-point routes. From the start, Southwest cofounder Herb Kelleher saw his competition not as other airlines but as alternative forms of transportation, whether cars, buses, or trains.

Airlines 14

Airlines Strategy Business Model Metrics 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2016

A milk company in Zhejiang province is developing strategies to attract customers based on their value of promoting healthy lifestyle. They’ve invest considerable financial resources in R&D to develop more innovative and healthier products. Research by Dan Ariely (Duke University) is particularly insightful in this respect.

Incentives 8

Incentives Management Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. Nike embedded sustainability into its innovation process and created the $1 billion-plus Flyknit line, which uses a specialized yarn system, requiring minimal labor and generating large profit margins. Some 62.4%

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Hiring my trainer made all the difference, and pretty soon I was reaping the rewards of resistance training again. I have a history of going a little overboard with the “healthy physical habits” – for example, weekly fasting or excessive training for athletic competitions, etc. Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders.

Succession 316

Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

.” And yet the lean startup methodology, born in Silicon Valley as a way for startups to tune in to customer needs with limited resources, has been gaining major momentum inside big companies like General Electric, Alaska Airlines, Telefonica, 3M, and W.L. ’ Sometimes you need to be reminded of that.”

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Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 15, 2014

I must confess I am not a great fan of the popular focus on long lists of leadership competencies and their use in everything from leadership training to executive recruiting. Building Customer Loyalty. Innovation. to encourage innovation, even at the expense of quarterly returns. Aligning Performance for Success.

Leadership 368

Leadership Goleman Long-term Emotional Intelligence 368

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Still, a lot of companies haven't reorganized their businesses to execute, manage, and measure social care strategically with well-trained staffs. Establish a baseline for gauging the extent to which expanding social care would improve customer service and lower costs. The Social Solution to Innovation Challenges.

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Balanced Scorecard McKinsey Media Metrics 9