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Customers-Employees-Leadership: Distinguishing Between ‘Caring About’ And ‘Caring For’- And Why It Matters

Maz Iqbal

I invite you to consider that the strongest bonds, usually called loyalty, occurs where one human being experiences himself cared for (as a unique human being) by another human being. Caring About Employees v Caring For The Employee.

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2014 State of Customer Experience: Who Are UK’s 2014 Leaders And What Can We Learn From Them? (Part 3)

Maz Iqbal

Filed under: Brand , Case Studies , Culture , Customer Experience , Customer Philosophy , Customer Service , Employee Engagement , Leadership / Change / Transformation Tagged: brand promise , customer experience , customer loyalty , customer service , employee engagement , leadership , Nunwood 2014 CX Excellence , value propositions.

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Is The Way We Are Going About Customer Acquisition and Retention Dead Wrong?

Maz Iqbal

That you get points for using my name … That if you have a customer loyalty program, you get more points for asking me for my membership card so you can check to see if I can get a discount… But, I’ll tell you what makes the real difference.

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Tales of Customer Experience: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly?

Maz Iqbal

In so doing, these folks will make it easy and enriching for customers to do business with that organisation. And in the process the organisation will both generate customer loyalty and reduce waste – doing stuff that costs money but does not create value for customers from the customer point of view.

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If You Are Struggling In Calculating ROI And Getting Buy-In To Your CX Initiative

Maz Iqbal

If you are with me so far then it occurs to me that you have gotten insight into why it is that so few organisations cultivate genuine-meaningful-enduring loyalty between themselves and their customers and vice versa. The same question: why would any sane person feel any loyalty towards a ‘matcher’? Why suffer?

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A ‘Fresh’ Look at Customer Retention and Loyalty (Part II)

Maz Iqbal

The key points as I understand them are: You cannot have customer loyalty without cultivating employee loyalty and investor loyalty. Let’s recap Part I of this conversation. Because they are fundamentally and inherently interconnected.

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Customer / Leadership: What Is The Access To Cultivating Greatness?

Maz Iqbal

IVR) have they taken you to the heights of sales effectiveness and/or customer service delight? Let’s not forget the VoC feedback- has that unlocked the door to customer loyalty riches? Greatness does not lie on the road well travelled, greatness lies on the road less travelled.