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8 New Ways To Focus On Customers For Trust And Profit

Startup Professionals Musings

Customer expectations of a relationship and personalization are stretching every business today, and pervasive use and confidence in social media by customers can override all your image building and marketing messages. Supplement this feedback with more formal modern satisfaction surveys, like the Net Promoter Score.

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7 Keys To Sustainably Enriching Your Customers’ Lives

Startup Professionals Musings

In this age of instant and global communication via social media and the Internet, I see more and more evidence that delighted customers should be your top priority. Business and customer satisfaction data measurements are required, in addition to subjective assessments of team progress, tradeoffs, and investment decisions.

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7 Advantages That Local Small Business Owners Enjoy

Startup Professionals Musings

With most small businesses set up as sole proprietorships or LLCs ( Limited Liability Corporations ), net income flows more directly into your personal income. This can be a key source of personal satisfaction, as well as the ultimate success factor and legacy. Personal income is related to operations versus equity.

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6 Keys to Becoming an Influencer for More Business

Startup Professionals Musings

People follow influencers on social media to find what they buy, who they vote for, and which social causes they support. Actively participating in social media is the place to start, including blogging and positively responding to customer feedback, to build a growing crowd of followers.

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4 New Customer Loyalty Rules Drive Business Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Many startups and mature businesses have not yet accepted the fact that customer satisfaction and loyalty in this “always connected” age are about more than product and service quality. But to engender loyalty, you have to be delivering a good experience and keeping satisfaction high. Customer upsell: Sell more to existing customers.

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Customer Experience Controls Business Growth Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Many startups and mature businesses have not yet adapted to the fact that customer satisfaction in this “always connected” age is more than product and service quality. But to engender loyalty, you have to be delivering a good experience and keep satisfaction high. Customer upsell, selling more to existing customers.