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Amazing Business Radio: Nate Spears

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Shep and Nate also discuss how to continue to create personal interactions in this digital age and the future of customer support. In 2008, Nate and his business partner recognized an opportunity in the outsourced customer service space for a company that prioritized exceptional customer service above anything else.

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8 Key Stats to Prove Customer Experience Delivers ROI

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James Carville, political commentator and media personality coined the phrase, “The economy, Stupid,” for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. The slogan resurfaced in the 2008 campaign as “It’s the economy, stupid.”. Carville was talking to the team at the time to help them focus on the key messages for Clinton’s campaign.

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Guest Blog: Building a Human Powered, Technology-aided 21st Century Customer Experience

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This week we feature an article by Joseph Michelli who has written a new book about how Airbnb has used convenience and personalization to deliver an amazing experience. From those humble beginnings, Chesky and Gebbia partnered with their friend Nathan Blecharcyzk to streamline the web platform and officially launch Airbnb in 2008.

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Amazing Business Radio: Daniel Ramsey

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Appoint a Director of HR— humor Have this person find something funny or uplifting to share with the team at large once a day to keep morale up. He founded the company during the 2008 recession to help companies worldwide restructure to a remote workspace. Many businesses have slowed down.

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The Force Within

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I refer to that person as The Force Within. That person delivers Amazement within the larger group, which may not necessarily be operating at the same standard as he or she is. I wrote about this in my book The Cult of the Customer (Wiley 2008), and the example I used was that of an airline employee. Welcome to United.”

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Make This Small Change For Big Results

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Thaler and Sunstein, 2008, 2009). Let’s say you want your customers to get away from paper statements, which is far less personal and controversial than taking a kidney. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. We discuss this further in one of our weekly podcasts ‘Why are customers irrational?’. Sunstein, Cass R.

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Amazon Takes Over The High Street! Are These Next?

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Mortgage bonds that were sold in 2012 stand to create the “next big short,” much like the mortgage-backed securities that went belly-up due to the subprime home loans in 2008. When there is trouble, customers want to speak to a person about it, to feel that it is taken care of and resolved. Retail’s Big Advantage.