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Reichheld, a director of Bain & Co., a strategy consulting firm in Boston, takes an old-fashioned concept?loyalty?and shows its relevance to customer retention and long-term profit growth. His position seems obvious, but its import has been lost amid the rapid turnover in the current business climate. He notes that major companies replace half their customers in five years, half their employees in four and a half and their investors in less than one. To cou (more…)

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“This is the future of marketing. Read it and profit.” — Prof. Don Shultz, Northwestern University

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“This is the future of marketing. Read it and profit.” — Prof. Don Shultz, Northwestern University

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Current research with case studies from leading companies such as FedEx, StrideRite, and Cingular to reveal how marketers can benchmark market-proven programs to successfully track customer activity, build enduring loyalty programs, and treat customer communication as a profit center.
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How Today’s Marketing Leaders Have Bypassed the “Experts” to Craft Effective, Inexpensive Customer Loyalty P (more…)

Customer Service: Career Success in the Service Economy, 4e provides a systematic process for building service skills that all business people need. Presented in a friendly, conversational manner, the book is filled with examples that demonstrate the link between service skills and career achievement. This edition emphasizes the impact of customer loyalty on business growth and discusses how to measure a company’s ration of promoters, or Net Promoter Score. Throughout the book (more…)

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Management consultant Griffin here addresses the failure of the “market share” theory. Presenting case studies-Home Depot’s customer intimacy standard; Sharp Electronics’ sales doctor approach-she stresses the need to develop customer loyalty programs. Griffin deftly examines pricing, value, customers’ purchasing cycles, positioning and targeting to create repeat purchasers. She ponders: What “exactly” does a company do that engenders loyalty? A Florida pic (more…)

It is no longer enough to concentrate on customer satisfaction; companies must graduate to customer loyalty. This Management Briefing identifies the four stages of a company’s evolution toward building lasting customer loyalty, and it summarizes the key management principles that must guide the transition. The book also provides a seven-step roadmap and audit to help readers: ** increase customer retention rates and convert one-time buyers into lifelong customers ** achieve a (more…)