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Why do you track customers’ referrals?

This is a guest post from Jeanne Bliss — customer experience expert and author of “I Love You More Than My Dog.” See the original post this is adapted from and more like it on her blog. Consider the customer referral as the true money question; it’s the final frontier of loyalty. If your customers…

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What are your customer experience bookends?

This is a guest post from Jeanne Bliss — customer experience expert and author of “I Love You More Than My Dog.” See the original post this is adapted from and more like it on her blog. Have you planned the beginning and ending moments of customer contact? First impressions last the longest. Does it…

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Memory creation is the currency of your brand

This is a guest post from Jeanne Bliss — customer experience expert and author of “I Love You More Than My Dog.” See the original post this is adapted from and more like it on her blog. Are you leaving customer memories to chance? Beloved companies identify the experiences they deliver. They know the memory…

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Your actions tell the story

This is a guest post from Jeanne Bliss — customer experience expert and author of “I Love You More Than My Dog.” See the original post this is adapted from and more like it on her blog. In a world where products and services are available in a hundred variations, beloved companies get a disproportionate…

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Food for thought: A business education in 20 courses

This guest post is from Andy Nulman — President of Just for Laughs and author of “Pow! Right Between the Eyes: Profiting from the Power of Surprise.” See the original post this was adapted from and more like it on his blog. Here’s a big statement to start your day: A dinner at Chicago’s Alinea restaurant should…

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Five competencies = engine for growth

This is a guest post from Jeanne Bliss — customer experience expert and author of “I Love You More Than My Dog.” See the original post this is adapted from and more like it on her blog. Here are the five customer experience competencies that will create a reliable customer experience across the organization and…

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How Dweezil Zappa delivers a great customer experience

This is a guest post from Mark Hurst — CEO of Creative Good and co-author of “Customers Included: How to Transform Products, Companies, and the World — With a Single Step.” You can also catch Mark speaking about “Customers Included” at SocialMedia.org’s upcoming Brands-Only Summit this October. See the original post this is adapted from…

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WOM Tip #229: Don’t just make it right, make it better

At Powell’s Books, if a customer tries to buy a used book that’s out of stock, they’ll send them a new one for the same price. That way, instead of waiting for the book to come back in stock, the customer gets upgraded. This is how a small bookseller competes with someone like Amazon. When…

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