Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Competitive Pricing With lower acquisition costs through wholesale purchases, businesses can offer more competitive pricing to their customers. This not only enhances market competitiveness but also fosters customer loyalty. Lower prices attract more consumers, leading to increased sales volume.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 3, 2017

Response: Is the management team accessible? Customer Loyalty: Is the firm preferred among its customers? How easy is it for a customer to shift to another provider? Technical Skills: Does the firm’s staff possess the knowledge-base and skills to bring it to the commuting environment next level?

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Yet many supervisors and managers on the road to becoming valuable and valued leaders fail to do so. Bernd Geropp provided How to become a better manager at work. Bernd shares: “As a manager today, it isn’t enough to just simply focus on results and the financial bottom line. What skills would you desire?

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Mark Sanborn

AUGUST 31, 2022

The person I talked to said he would pass my feedback on to the “District Manager.” There are many kinds of bad service and many reasons it happens, but among the worst is rude and indifferent behavior that doesn’t just communicate the customer or client isn’t appreciated, but that they’re not welcome.

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How To Customer Loyalty Loyalty Politics 76

The Practical Leader

JULY 6, 2021

The L-word makes many managers squirm. These are the same managers loudly pronouncing goals of higher employee engagement and increased customer loyalty. These managers use “leader-speak” about vision, values, engagement, or caring, but their rhetoric is often heartless. Love is the word of this issue.

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Leadership Customer Loyalty Letter Loyalty 75

Chart Your Course

MARCH 4, 2013

If businesses take the time to invest in their employees and allow them to build relationships with their customers, they will see the rewards in greater profitability, customer loyalty and employee engagement. Managers need leadership training that equips them to succeed. Front-line employees need training.

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Cost Customer Loyalty Loyalty Training 206

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2020

However, ensure that any larger incentives are not offered to every customer. Retain Existing Customers. Simply put, retaining customers is easier and cheaper than finding new ones. In fact, customer loyalty can make the difference between survival and sinking during a recession. Because of your next goal.

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Tips Customer Loyalty Incentives Loyalty 65

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 16, 2021

“Now that almost every good or service combines digital and physical, leaders need to be able to manage and drive both digital and physical in a company.” -Rob We are bombarded with digital disruption strategy and yet we hear little about the traditional skills like customer service, quality control, and logistics. Rob Siegel.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

Empowerment is an important skill to learn as a leader. Unfortunately, these skills do not often translate into engaging with employees. Managers are asked to carry a lot of responsibility in the workplace. Delegating these tasks to employees allows managers to focus on improving company morale and advancing workplace projects.

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Delegation Leadership Customer Loyalty Morale 229

Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Taking a large, national chain that had decreased in popularity for various reasons over a number of years and once again winning customers’ loyalty: extremely difficult. I think it’s really important to look at leadership as not just another step up the career ladder, but a opportunity to give back using your own unique set of skills.

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Resources Customer Loyalty Open-book Commitment 150

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Without leadership, a business goes nowhere because business basics like management, creating processes, demanding accountability, planning, and marketing, which are covered in other Facts in the book, never even come into play. In other words, I think leadership is the first step toward owning and operating a successful business.

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Automotive Customer Loyalty Open-book Definition 285

Eric Jacobson

JULY 30, 2023

Reputational : greater recognition as a trusted and reliable brand that in turn elicits greater customer loyalty. Question: What are the skills leaders need to develop in order to lead purposefully? These are: Motivational : attract and retain a more motivated and inspired workforce.

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How To Customer Loyalty Operations Objective 74

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Reputational : greater recognition as a trusted and reliable brand that in turn elicits greater customer loyalty. Question: What are the skills leaders need to develop in order to lead purposefully? These are: Motivational : attract and retain a more motivated and inspired workforce.

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How To Customer Loyalty Operations Objective 93

Women on Business

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In the movie, Buddy failed dismally to keep up with the production of Etch-a-Sketch toys against the skill and speed of the other elves in the workshop. What is your company most skilled in providing your customers? Building Customer Loyalty Building customer loyalty by being loyal to them.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Reputational : greater recognition as a trusted and reliable brand that in turn elicits greater customer loyalty. Question: What are the skills leaders need to develop in order to lead purposefully? These are: Motivational : attract and retain a more motivated and inspired workforce.

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How To Customer Loyalty Operations Objective 65

Eric Jacobson

JULY 5, 2022

Reputational : greater recognition as a trusted and reliable brand that in turn elicits greater customer loyalty. Question: What are the skills leaders need to develop in order to lead purposefully? These are: Motivational : attract and retain a more motivated and inspired workforce.

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How To Customer Loyalty Operations Objective 65

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

A leader’s message has a direct impact on their personal and corporate brand equity, how they manage a crisis, marketing initiatives, investor relations, press and public relations, team building and employee engagement, customer loyalty and virtually any other mission critical area of chief executive responsibility.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

Give me real leaders who possess courage, vision, and a bias toward action, and spare me the timidity of mediocre managers posing as leaders. 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.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Reputational : greater recognition as a trusted and reliable brand that in turn elicits greater customer loyalty. Question: What are the skills leaders need to develop in order to lead purposefully? These are: Motivational : attract and retain a more motivated and inspired workforce.

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How To Customer Loyalty Operations Objective 65

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

They are realizing if employees and managers are unhappy, they are going to leave. The Zappos vision statement is, “Delivering happiness to our customers, vendors and employees.” Happiness has created unparalleled customer loyalty to the extent 80% of their customers return to purchase again.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The main result of that connection will be improved customer loyalty. When customers are loyal and happy, they tend to talk about you and recommend your brand to people they know. Focus your brand on your customers, and you will reach a broader target audience.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

Great Customer Service is Not Grumpy, Grouchy or Gross. Most businesses spend more time and energy trying to find new customers than retaining and making their current ones happy. If you take care of your customers they tell their friends about your business and will in the long run end up spending more money.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 21, 2015

In a survey conducted by a BIG benefits management company (a management and human resource consulting firm), they asked 365 CEO’s and sales management executives, “What are the three key factors that separate high performing sales professionals from moderate to low performing sales professionals?”. Totally bogus.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 9, 2014

Don’t forget their managers who force them to use an uncomfortable ‘system,’ a non-sales helpful CRM, and hold their salespeople accountable for their actions and numbers. Teach customer loyalty, not customer satisfaction. Dead and over. This accentuates my rule of, ‘the more the more.’

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Utilize an inventory management system. However, multichannel retail and distribution can lead to several difficulties such as wasted stock, overselling, and customer complaints. Fortunately, multichannel inventory management software can be utilized to manage inventory and fulfill orders in a multichannel structure.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2016

Poor management – acting in their own self interest, can’t sell better than you. Conflicts with coworkers or management – too much who-struck-John. Your poor sales skills. That’s a training, sales skills and intensity issue. Boss is a jerk – for one reason or another he or she hasn’t earned your respect.

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Belief Systems Customer Loyalty Seminar Bottom-up 50

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2016

Great salespeople accept every lemon thrown at them by management, customers, and accounting – and use those lemons to open up a lemonade stand. Excellent Communication Skills. Sales skills. I’d rather have attitude and brains than selling skills any day. Great salespeople take “no” as “not yet.”

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Succession Open-book Customer Loyalty Learning-by-Doing 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2015

Presentation skills are one fifth of the sales process. The other four being your selling skills, your product knowledge, knowledge of the customer, and your attitude. Most salespeople study presentation skills and positive attitude skills THE LEAST. Why then are you not studying presentation skills?

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Audience Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Skills 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Executives we talk to assume that if they’re good managers, then being a good coach is like your shadow on a sunny day. This would be good news, if it were so, since more and more top executives are expecting managers to coach their subordinates. Nor is it a skill that is automatically acquired in the course of learning to manage.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2015

Customers expect an easy-to-buy process. My good friend, Sandy Carter, is one of IBM’s General Managers, and their social selling evangelist. The availability of online information about you AND your competition is instant. Mobile is not an option – it’s an imperative. 24-7-365 is the new 9-5. Reprinted with permission from Jeffrey H.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2015

In order to make your message transferable, in order to engage your prospective buyer in a way that they want to do business with you, and before you develop your sales skills, and your presentation skills, you must deepen your belief in your company, your product or service, and yourself. I say it because it’s true. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Conflict needs to be managed, measured, and meaningful. Train everyone on the team in conflict management skills. #3 One toxic employee can destroy years of customer loyalty. One toxic employee can chase dozens of customers away every day. Make it clear that the absence of conflict is not o.k.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

If your sales mission statement is deep, and honest, then your sales results will be incredible based on your integrity, not based on your sales skills. It is your mission. Reprinted with permission from Jeffrey H. Gitomer and Buy Gitomer. About the Author.

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Mission Statement Customer Loyalty Ethics Seminar 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 19, 2014

Finding the decision maker and speaking with that decision maker intelligently are not just critical, they’re also skills that can be career building or career ending. It’s second to one other barrier: “Once I find the decision maker, what do I say?”. But I caution you, it is not a be-all end-all. Gitomer and Buy Gitomer.

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Customer Loyalty Follow-up Competitive Advantage ROI 51

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 19, 2015

Maybe it will help you in your awareness and decision-making process as you try to elevate your sales skills – or your sales results, or even your sales team – to a level of superior. It’s not relevant to the salesperson or not engaging enough to the customer. FORTH FAILURE: Senior management has not endorsed or used the process.

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System Process Open-book Customer Loyalty 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2013

” Rather than manage my time (something I have always found both impossible and improbable), I will allocate 30-minute time segments to projects and tasks in order to ensure I have allotted time for completion. They range from organization to money to personal skills to relationships to sales. Shape the future. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 18, 2012

However, when teams of employees are into the game of making their customers raving fans, magic occurs, and they start enjoying the game. They define teams as a small number of people with complementary skills who are equally committed to a common purpose, goals, and working approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.

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