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Amazon Takes Over The High Street! Are These Next?

Beyond Philosophy

Of course, the only reason they could buy Whole Foods is because the grocery chain founded in Texas in the late 70s has been suffering from declining same-store sales, among other challenges. Not coincidentally, Amazon is crushing clothing sales, too. Amazon is Thinking Out of the Box for Fashion Forward Customers. First the Women….

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Guest Blog: In the CX world, tracking these metrics is a way of life!

ShepHyken

seconds in 2008 with a mind boggling 19.19 A couple of years ago, these metrics had a proclivity towards transactions and sales. As much as success is about dreaming big, the path towards it is all about setting precise targets to hit or even surpass. Usain Bolt bettered his own 200 meters world record of 19.30 seconds in 2009!

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How to fix customer experience by keeping your promises

Toister Performance Solutions

The 2008 fiscal year had been tough for the chain of pizza restaurants. In early 2008, Domino's rolled out the Pizza Tracker™, an online tool allowing customers to track their pizza from the time it was ordered until it was delivered to their door. Same-store sales rose 14 percent in the first three months of 2010.

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Show and Sell: 3 Ways Customer Service can be Used as an Effective Marketing Tool

Fonolo

The Guest Education Centre is a call center that focuses on “product education” rather than sales. If you can show your network how much your existing customers trust you and enjoy buying from you, you increase the chances of convincing others in the sales funnel. After all, people are influenced by people.

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How Good a Liar Are You Really? Does Lying Affect Your Customer Experience?

Beyond Philosophy

Those that do lie in Customer Experiences do so for two reasons: Exaggerating what the benefits of the product or service to get the sale. I heard an interview on the radio after the 2008 stock market meltdown with brokers at a bar on Wall Street after the US government bailed them out. So, our first advice is not to lie to customers.

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Emotional Branding Case Studies to Emulate Great Customer Experience

Win the Customer

In 2008, new Old Navy president Tom Wyatt came in aiming to revitalize the brand. The ads sparked discussion and controversy, which boosted Dove’s sales. Here are some case studies in successful emotional branding that business leaders can emulate to acquire and maintain customers. Old Navy: The Power of Nostalgia.

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Is Father Christmas Real? The Power of Storytelling

Beyond Philosophy

For example, John McCain, a 2008 U.S. Even better is when the resolution has some critical results associated with it, whether that’s sales figures, increases in a key metric, or return on investment numbers. In addition, we share stories more than we do information we learned another way. Politicians love stories, too.