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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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Are you a social sales pacesetter? Or are you losing business to one?

Strategy Driven

Often referred to as pacesetters, companies that have chosen to embrace and engage cloud, analytics, mobile, and social strategies are cleaning the clock of their competitors who have chosen the path of cautious resistance or even abstinence. Why are formerly non-social companies suddenly scouring and analyzing social data?

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The phone is smart. How smart is the user?

Strategy Driven

Guidelines of phone use have significantly changed because of technology availability. That was a technological EON ago. Your phone holds technological mysteries and magic that can make your hours pay higher dividends once you master them. Remember your early texts – a-b-c-(oh crap)-2. Cellular phones are smart these days.

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What’s the difference? What’s the weakness?

Strategy Driven

Customers can investigate, shop price, compare prices and values, and buy with one click – anyplace in the world. Social media is the largest one-on-one sales reference on the planet, and like the Internet, it’s keeping business (and salespeople) honest. And it’s making smarter customers. Ultimate and instant access.

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Leading Effectively When You Inherit a Mess

Harvard Business Review

Recruited from outside the organization, she faced multiple problems: The business was losing money, costs were bloated, customer loyalty was fading, and key talent was defecting. When referring to the significant challenges of her new organization, she consistently spoke in third-person references — they, them, those people.

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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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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

A new operating model also requires a governance structure and leadership model so leaders know how they will exercise operational control and inspire employees—and hold themselves accountable for doing both. How do they ensure someone owns each customer experience or “journey” on an end-to-end basis?