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Why Your Business Should Embrace Fair Chance Hiring Now

HR Digest

This approach not only broadens the talent pool for businesses but also aligns with the growing legislative trend of “ban the box” laws, enhancing workforce diversity and potentially increasing employee loyalty. This shift highlights the effectiveness of these laws in opening employment opportunities.

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Innovative Leaders Aren’t Scared of Customers

LDRLB

Behind this fear was the concern that loyalty might be jeopardized if they approached their customers with questions about their needs and desires. During an organization’s start-up days, it’s much easier to strike up conversations with the market since there’s not much to lose. “We can’t talk to our customers,” they replied.

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How Blockchain Can Help Marketers Build Better Relationships with Their Customers

Harvard Business Review

Blockchain has important implications for marketing and advertising. But according to The CMO Survey , only 8% of firms rate the use of blockchain in marketing as moderately or very important. This combination creates a natural barrier to entry and has likely caused marketers to take a “wait and see” approach.

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Personal Needs vs. Customer Relationships

Strategy Driven

Indeed, if a department attracts new customers, it wins the lion’s share of the marketing budget, but it is well documented that it costs some companies five to ten times more to attract new customers than to retain an existing one. ’ What is too often lost is the nuance – human. .’ The Powerful Role of Trust.

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Accelerating Customer Adoption at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

Whether your goal is to tap this enormous, underserved market for a revolutionary new product, or to impact as many people as possible with a novel healthcare intervention , the question is the same. How can you accelerate customer adoption of the best solutions? They encourage viral marketing through early adopters.

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Why Amazon’s Grocery Store May Not Be the Future of Retail

Harvard Business Review

To become the new normal, a technology has to make it beyond the early adopters – typically 10 to 15% of retail shoppers – and appeal to the less tech-savvy majority. To encourage the use of apps, some retailers, including Starbucks, are starting to offer inducements such as extra loyalty points.

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Before You Link Pay to Customer Feedback: Five Essentials

Harvard Business Review

TIAA-CREF, the big financial services company, includes customer loyalty score improvement in senior executive compensation. On the macro level, you can estimate the value of achieving customer loyalty leadership in terms of market share gains or revenue growth. One direct marketer learned this the hard way.