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‘Good’ Is Not Enough

Lead Change Blog

Nearly three-quarters of a customer’s loyalty is determined by how that customer is treated. And, certainly not if you want to build a devoted customer base that will become avid extensions of your sales and marketing departments. Focus on adding strategies that foster customer loyalty and consistently exceed their expectations.

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'Good' Is Not Enough

Lead Change Blog

Nearly three-quarters of a customer’s loyalty is determined by how that customer is treated. And, certainly not if you want to build a devoted customer base that will become avid extensions of your sales and marketing departments. Focus on adding strategies that foster customer loyalty and consistently exceed their expectations.

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10 Tips For Successfully Opening And Managing Your Retail Store

Strategy Driven

It’s not uncommon for retail stores to introduce customer loyalty programs – examples include Amazon Prime and Starbucks Rewards – or use marketing tools, e.g., ReferralCandy. Leverage customer trends and marketing forecasting to improve your advertising campaigns. That’s how you can make your business flourish.

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Why Email Marketing is King

Harvard Business Review

In a business world obsessed with gaining more customer intelligence, you would think that email marketing would get more respect. For that, we have Forrester data: only about $1.5 But its low cost only makes the argument stronger that email marketing is the most cost-effective advertising method available today. It is 3.76.

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The Logic Behind Amazon’s Prime Day

Harvard Business Review

The purchase loyalty engendered by this program is reflected in the big difference between Prime vs. non-Prime customer spending. Quite simply, Prime has saturated the Whale Buyer market and is now hunting for smaller volume customers to fuel growth. One click assures home delivery in two days or less.

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Online Shopping Isn’t as Profitable as You Think

Harvard Business Review

Census Bureau, ComScore, eMarketer, and Forrester. Their economics greatly resemble those of mail order catalogs—in fact, many e-commerce businesses continue to use catalogs in their marketing mix—and they aren’t all favorable. Still, market maturation often forces sustained expenditures just to hold ground. Growth rates first.

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