N2Growth Blog

MAY 3, 2017

Once a solid profile is established, it can be used to inform the strategic planning processes used to build a winning strategic plan. What segment of the market do they serve? Customer Loyalty: Is the firm preferred among its customers? How easy is it for a customer to shift to another provider? Technology.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 4, 2021

Any business looking to increase sales must prioritize delivering an exceptional customer experience. Your strategy should revolve around nurturing customer relationships. That said, you have to come up with innovative ways to boost your customer service. Don’t forget about email marketing.

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CRM Call Center Price Incentives 69

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 1, 2012

I recently had a WOW experience that completely coincides with your philosophy on customer loyalty versus satisfaction. Amazon’s actions breed return on proactive, memorable service – the WOW factor, social response, and customer word of mouth. In fact, I doubt this type of outreach is even on a marketing team’s mindset.

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Loyalty Marketing Customer Loyalty ROI 50

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 1, 2016

This month we are featuring Leading Voice Chip Bell , author, renowned keynote speaker on innovative customer service, and consultant/speaker to such organizations as Microsoft, Nationwide, Marriott, Lockheed-Martin, Cadillac, Ritz-Carlton, Caterpillar, Verizon, USAA, Harley-Davidson, and Victoria’s Secret. 2/2016: Chris Edmonds.

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Levitt Godin Customer Loyalty Airlines 150

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 3, 2022

“Productivity and innovation soar when employees are inspired by a purpose that aligns with their own values.” The first is directional : Purpose acts as a kind of North Star to help guide strategy and innovation. The third is reputational : Deep purpose engenders loyalty and trust among customers and others.

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Short-term How To Long-term Operations 120

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

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. The amazing thing is there are lots of innovative employees who have great ideas, but most of them go untapped.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2015

They say that information is power. Data examples include contact details and even the way customers pay for their goods and services. Data monetization is a lucrative market. The sector is large, but it could be bigger if more firms used the information they hold to increase their revenue. And you own a shopping mall.

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Loyalty Customer Loyalty Retail Tactics 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2015

REALITIES: Customers are smarter. Customers are social. Customers are mobile. The availability of online information about you AND your competition is instant. Customers expect an easy-to-buy process. Mobile Strategies: What are my customers using to communicate ideas, needs, and desires? About the Author.

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Competitive Advantage Trends Bottom-up Loyalty 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

3 Innovation is DOA. You need to re-energize innovation-fast. Make innovation the number one goal in the company (read: big incentives for achieving innovation goals). Train everyone (and I do mean everyone) in the tools and techniques of innovation. Throw a challenge down for an annual innovation award.

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CoachStation

AUGUST 26, 2022

Employee discretionary effort and focus are being challenged for many reasons, including the labour market and working from home. Additionally, teams with thriving workers also see higher customer loyalty. They are psychological “owners,” drive performance and innovation, and move the organisation forward.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It’s a genuine exchange of information. Always informal and humorous. It’s so unusual that customers will set the meeting, and then talk about how innovative it was. His website, www.gitomer.com , will lead you to more information about training and seminars, or email him personally at salesman@gitomer.com.

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Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Travel Seminar 51

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2014

They’re independent businesspeople who are now marketing their sales and personal development services using my intellectual property, both online and in the classroom. Create financial and distribution opportunities ONLY available to digital information dissemination. Instant success. I’ve certified more than 100 advisors.

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Succession Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Content 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2012

What are you doing to innovate it? What are you doing to change or enhance your customer’s experience? They don’t have to talk about their competition – Apple is the innovator. OUCH QUESTION: Is your brand, product, or service market superior, and you haven’t elevated yourself to that position? What’s up in your world?

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Brand Reputation Customer Loyalty Industry 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2013

For me, it’s value, information others can use, followers, reputation, image, re-tweets, customers, referrals, sales, and money. Twitter is intended for you to inform with value, influence, brand, and (on occasion) to converse or respond, not chit-chat. What’s in a tweet? For most people it’s a post and a prayer. Is that enough?

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Open-book Follow-up Customer Loyalty Reputation 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2013

Jeffrey Gitomer is the author of The Sales Bible , Customer Satisfaction is Worthless Customer Loyalty is Priceless , The Little Red Book of Selling , The Little Red Book of Sales Answers , The Little Black Book of Connections , The Little Gold Book of YES! Reprinted with permission from Jeffrey H. Gitomer and Buy Gitomer.

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Follow-up Customer Loyalty Seminar Books 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2012

Capitalizing on the growing demand for e-books, the exploding app market, e-reader popularity, and the global appetite for cool products,Apple went to market having no idea what an explosion of creativity they were unleashing. Take products to market? Get customers? Keep customers? Remember this ditty? Communicate?

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Download Customer Loyalty Marketing Seminar 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. By reaching new customers in current markets?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 7, 2012

Ask your informal network of connections to recommend customers. Jeffrey Gitomer is the author of The Sales Bible , Customer Satisfaction is Worthless Customer Loyalty is Priceless , The Little Red Book of Selling , The Little Red Book of Sales Answers , The Little Black Book of Connections , The Little Gold Book of YES!

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White Paper Reputation Customer Loyalty Seminar 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2016

Executive teams often struggle to land innovations that will significantly grow the business. A chronic problem is their emphasis on searching for breakthrough innovation — the creation of a truly new, highly valued product or service that could redefine their industry and lead to unprecedented revenue growth. Insight Center.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

There was a time when the entry of an online alternative in a market would scare the hell out of small offline retailers. The time changed, markets evolved, competition became even harsh, and marketplaces required more innovative ways to make money than the mere commissions. Take Amazon for example. marketplace model today.

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Retail Supply Chain Software Marketing 108

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2018

Then, by applying tools like artificial intelligence, the online retailers are able to create more-personalized customer experiences, fostering levels of satisfaction, connection, and customer loyalty that traditional retailers just can’t compete with. Data-Driven Marketing. Insight Center. Sponsored by Google.

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Brand Retail Customer Loyalty Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

At Dorchester Collection of ultra-luxury hotels, we use big data and analytics to help us improve our guest offerings and marketing. But once Metis noted this lack of customer loyalty, it was up to us to figure out why, and what to do about it. We began by studying the market. Data-Driven Marketing.

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Hotels Loyalty Fashion Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

The company’s market value has more than halved to an 11-year low as it acknowledged overstating profits by hundreds of millions of dollars. More than any other retailer of scale, Tesco had committed to customer research, analytics, and loyalty as its marketing and operational edge.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2020

There was a time when the entry of an online alternative in a market would scare the hell out of small offline retailers. The time changed, markets evolved, competition became even harsh, and marketplaces required more innovative ways to make money than the mere commissions. Take Amazon for example. It indeed is.

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Supply Chain Retail Software Marketing 74

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2012

"The study shows that owners of vehicles that fail an emissions test are 11 percent less likely to return to that facility the following year, which implies that those same customers also are less likely to use that business for future repairs and routine service," according to Working Knowledge. Yes, that sounds like a sci-fi nightmare.

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Environment Advertising Customer Loyalty Ethics 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

telling a manager to maximize current profits, market share, future growth profits, and anything else one pleases will leave that manager with no way to make a reasoned decision. The old "efficient markets" idea that stock prices perfectly measure future returns has long been discredited.)

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Short-term Long-term Objective Customer Loyalty 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

The common thread is that today''s model of capitalism overemphasizes short-term financial data and neglects information that gets at the true sources of sustainable value creation — things like innovation, brand equity, customer loyalty, and key stakeholder relationships. But there are other reasons too.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Corporate investment in artificial intelligence is predicted to triple in 2017 , becoming a $100 billion market by 2025. consumers already prefer chatbots to humans for customer relations. Improving customer loyalty and retention. AI systems that use data about people should involve informed consent.

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Process Company Supply Chain Software 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

By diving into the data, we were able to dramatically reduce customer dissatisfaction, increase customer loyalty, and develop new, differentiating service offerings. Figuring Out What Our Customers Wanted. The innovation team concluded that we were neither seeing nor valuing our guests’ clothing as they did.

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Hotels Fashion Budgeting Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Rather than focusing their efforts on improving the company's products or customer experience, employees tend to devote more time and energy to explaining or criticizing the metric itself. The creativity that should be going toward finding innovative ways to wow customers often finds a different and more dangerous outlet.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. Some are chief customer officers, chief experience officers, chief client officers, or chief digital officers. Clear, meaningful insight into the market and the consumer decision journey is job one for today’s CMO.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. Fostering innovation. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

The linked system consisted of two short surveys — one sent to employees and the other to customers — right after a transaction. Many companies love customer feedback, but only a handful have devoted as much energy to employee feedback systems. Measuring Marketing Insights. Insight Center. Turning data into action.

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Survey Retail System Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs are ripe for some kind of disruptive innovation that would make them easier to use. No single party controls the data or the information. Each node stores and forwards information to all other nodes. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. Distributed Database. Peer-to-Peer Transmission.

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Loyalty Customer Loyalty Travel Hotels 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Facebook has similarly leveraged the News Feed for general purpose voter information tools on Election Day in the United States. Grossman argues for lower government barriers to disruptive business models, with stronger commitments from companies to provide data to fuel regulations informed by these companies’ actual impact.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Dan Lyons’s book Disrupted is an often-delightful tour through startup culture, based on the author’s experience working at online marketing firm HubSpot. Today’s standard marketing playbook looks a lot like what Lyons describes in his book. How can we reclaim the Internet from this dreck?

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