Boost Your Business with Generosity

The customer experience is the key differentiator that separates businesses that enjoy years of sustained growth and success, and all the rest. Savvy business owners and managers know that in order to create great customer experiences, their businesses must offer memorable ones. One highly effective, if often overlooked, strategy is…
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Expertise and Empathy

Delivering a superior customer experience is a non-negotiable requirement for your business’s success. There are simply too many alternatives out there for a small business to survive regularly disappointing its customers, especially given the pervasive reach of Internet-based competitors. In many areas of the country, just about any consumer product…
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When a Problem Spirals Out of Control

One of the chief advantages of offering a superior customer experience is that you have far fewer customer service problems to combat. That said, there’s no way to entirely eliminate them because mistakes can and do happen, and some problems are completely external to your business. We must therefore admit…
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Courting and Keeping Your Customers

New customer acquisition is usually the most expensive component of a business’s relationship with its clientele. Broadly, it includes everything from the salaries paid to marketers and salespeople to the advertising. Consequently, acquisition is far costlier than retention, as the Harvard Business Review reports: “Depending on which study you believe,…
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First and Last Impressions

Emotion plays a significant role in the relationship between a business and its customers, coloring every moment from when they walk through the door to when they use leave again. Happiness and satisfaction, frustration and disappointment: nothing impacts customer-retention rates more than these feelings. And good interactions lead to more…
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