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How Franchise Owners Can Use Customer Service to Outdo the Competition and Grow Their Business

Strategy Driven

With the bar set so low for customer service, franchise owners are well positioned to jump ahead of the competition. Their franchisor has already developed proven systems and desirable products. They’ll awaken customers from their lifeless transaction trance and prime them for excitement, loyalty and spending.

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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

Finally, leaders must develop a culture that communicates the organization’s vision and strategy. These crews kept roughly 75 percent of their illicit profits, passing the remainder up as a type of franchising fee. Staying in the family required unyielding loyalty and a code of silence.

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Don’t Eliminate Tension, Harness it

Steve Farber

1 place to work in Minnesota for four consecutive years, and more than 3,000 people – franchise owners, employees, and club members – have gotten the company’s running man logo tattooed on their skin. It’s hard to beat tattoo loyalty. It’s been tabbed as the No.

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Your Company Is Not a Family

Harvard Business Review

He went on to advise managers to ask themselves, “Which of my people, if they told me they were leaving for a similar job at a peer company, would I fight hard to keep at Netflix? Do you think that current players, seeing that kind of loyalty, might want to play for the Spurs? Organizational culture Talent management'

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Sales Bonuses Are Supposed to Motivate, So Don’t Waste Them on Easy Targets

Harvard Business Review

One technology company targeted a 50:50 pay mix for salespeople in new customer acquisition (CA) roles, but a 70:30 mix for salespeople in account management (AM) roles. Franchise sales have nothing to do with salespeople. Within an industry or company, pay mix often varies across sales roles. Free sales come in two forms.

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Social Media Is Too Important to Be Left to the Marketing Department

Harvard Business Review

But marketing managers simply are not trained to deal with questions or complaints about service, product performance, or other nonmarketing requests. Develop a social care team that can address all areas of social information efficiently and effectively. From this research, organize a new system.

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What Social Entrepreneurs Can Teach Your Company's Future Leaders

Harvard Business Review

They too have struggled to operate in complex environments, and have developed the skills and expertise to overcome these challenges. Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite. However, the core skills they need are different.