One Millimeter Mindset

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Customer retention is a business growth, expansion and sustainability strategy. However, in reality, customer retention is firmly in the hands of everyone else in the organization who usually is not part of the customer acquisition process. Retaining Customers involves All Hands on Deck.

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One Millimeter Mindset

JULY 4, 2019

What is your current customer retention strategy value? I offer these five customer retention strategy value blog posts for your reading pleasure. While retaining customers is an art form, the relentless pace of technology change challenges the norm. Storytelling Outcomes influence Post Sale Customer Expectations.

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One Millimeter Mindset

AUGUST 29, 2018

Ah, the impact of experience conflicts on the performance of our customer retention strategy. That “something” completely disrupts customer experience equilibrium. Perhaps experience conflicts are more important when detected prior to acquiring customers than they are when they occur during post-sale execution?

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2023

In today’s fiercely competitive business landscape, customer engagement plays a pivotal role in establishing enduring relationships with your target audience and fueling business growth. So, let’s explore these customer engagement ideas and discover how they can help you boost your business to new heights.

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One Millimeter Mindset

DECEMBER 19, 2018

These 18 ways create a more effective customer retention strategy. Or a sales engineering professional, a customer service professional, or any other professional engaged in acquiring and retaining customers. That habit creates a set of behaviors and expectations which impact how we best serve customers.

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One Millimeter Mindset

AUGUST 20, 2018

Customer retention experiences create a rich chronicle of just how it is to work with us, and our organizations. Yet, these bold, splashy stories, which our marketing departments love, leave the customer’s biggest question unaddressed: “Will you forget about taking good care of me, once I sign the contract?”. Think about it.

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One Millimeter Mindset

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

How would you rate your own customer retention performance? Listen in on my latest video about post sale customer abandonment, and how it negatively impacts customer retention. Listen in on my latest video about post sale customer abandonment, and how it negatively impacts customer retention.

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One Millimeter Mindset

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

When your sales CRM tells you what the next step to close the customer should be, do you ever ask yourself whether this step makes sense? Based on the quality of customer insights you have gleaned by going off-script in your conversations? Hire me to speak or conduct a workshop at your next corporate or association event.

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One Millimeter Mindset

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Engaged employees are not necessarily relentlessly curious employees. Because they are key to positive customer experiences. And they fuel customer success and customer retention. In general, employee engagement focuses on the value of perceived, and measured, employee-centric experiences. Here’s why.

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One Millimeter Mindset

OCTOBER 18, 2018

All throwing their professional efforts at the customer. Instead of in partnership with the customer. That is such an outdated customer retention model. For starters, this outdated concept of retaining customers is linear. Again, so the customer “fits” into the organization’s customer retention model.

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One Millimeter Mindset

JULY 3, 2018

Enjoy these top 5 collaborative workforce innovation and engagement picks from readers. Start moving one millimeter forward, towards Collaborative Workplace Innovation and Engagement, today! Engage me to speak or conduct an interactive workshop at your next corporate or association event. What are you waiting for?

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One Millimeter Mindset

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Why be surprised when customers defect, when small, but effective customized and personalized experiences impact customer retention? Isn’t it time to take a different approach to acquiring and, most of all, retaining valuable customers? Never miss another insightful post. Contact me.

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SurveySparrow

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Customer Experience conferences are always a source of joy for us, CX enthusiasts. The in-depth learning sessions, the opportunity to meet and have penetrative conversations with visionaries and of course, the hands-on workshops on cutting-edge technologies, etc. Customer Experience Strategies Summit (CXS).

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One Millimeter Mindset

AUGUST 27, 2018

A curious thing happens when you become relentlessly focused on creating innovative customer experiences. Simply by being engaged, tuned-in and interested. First, you become unforgettable to your customer tiers. Then again, your customers – including every internal customer inside the organization – become unforgettable to you.

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One Millimeter Mindset

JANUARY 7, 2019

Compelling storytelling fuels customer retention. After all, each story is about how working with you and your organization fuels their business growth, customer success and customer retention. Engage me to speak or conduct a workshop at your next corporate or association event. Subscribe to my blog.

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ClearAction

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

When you proactively retain customers, your non-customer-facing groups collaborate to prevent recurrence of prevalent issues that cause customer pain. Your Marketing team supports customer retention in balance with customer acquisition. Include cross-functional representatives in each workshop.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 7, 2024

Deloitte Shares Loyalty Trends and Best Practices for 2024 by Alicia Esposito (Retail TouchPoints) To drive customer retention and loyalty, most brands and retailers continue to rely on purchase discounts (77%) and loyalty program points (61%), according to Retail TouchPoints research. I’m often asked to define customer centricity.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 6, 2023

My Comment: I love a great list, and there will be a few of them on this weekly roundup of excellent customer service and CX articles. We kick off with an article that features a number of experts sharing their insights on how to spot and proactively manage problems, complaints, and anything the customer considers a “pain point.”

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One Millimeter Mindset

MARCH 18, 2019

Let alone experiences leading to customer success and customer retention? I survey the STEM professionals and left brain thinkers I speak to and conduct workshops for. Yet, the same two-thirds of these workshop attendees tell me that the people sitting around the table do not know who they are and what they do.

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ClearAction

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Your influence: You’re collecting customer experience insights every moment in databases of all kinds. When you data mine CX insights and inspire managers to use it for every growth effort , you’ll see much higher performance in these growth metrics: CX-Inspired Growth leads to Right the First Time.

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Calabrio

MAY 10, 2019

I’m excited to share that Calabrio is sponsoring the Gartner Customer Experience & Technologies Summit 2019 on 22-23 May in London. Here are my recommendations for must-see sessions: The Basics of Customer Experience. No CX strategy or tech investment will be successful without a talented and engaged team.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This article shares some great insights and findings. For example, Gen Z prefers to solve their own problems (self-service customer support), and 52% of Gen Z won’t buy from a brand with bad self-service. Our customer service and CX research confirm this. If you like this type of information, you’ll enjoy this article.

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SurveySensum

JANUARY 26, 2024

The customer journey is dynamic and multifaceted, encompassing stages from awareness and consideration to purchase and post-purchase engagement. Each of the customer journey stages allows businesses to craft tailored experiences, ensuring that the customer feels seen, heard, and valued.

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One Millimeter Mindset

AUGUST 8, 2018

Think of the implications of this professional innovation strategy on customer success and customer retention. Then, share the insights with the client. Thus, we engage clients during conversations. Engage me to speak or conduct an interactive workshop at your next corporate or association event.

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One Millimeter Mindset

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Most importantly, these someones are responsible for creating aggregated customer experiences critical to customer retention. When our workforce is full of nameless, faceless “someones” whom we do not know – but our customers sure do – our customer retention strategy falls short of best serving those customers.

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One Millimeter Mindset

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Or, tell these stories, compellingly, while acquiring or retaining customers. Consider the impact of our not having time to capture these stories on productivity, profitability and customer retention? I will be honored to customize my keynotes and workshops to your next event. Never miss another insightful post.

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One Millimeter Mindset

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Here are 8 zinger blog posts to catalyze your professional innovation, workforce engagement and customer success during Q4. Confusing Customer Service Delivery with Customer Experience Delivery? A Hopscotch Client Retention Strategy will not boost Customer Success. Never miss another insightful post.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Retaining those customers for the long haul is equally, if not more, essential. A high customer retention rate is a testament to a company’s customer-centric approach, resulting in increased profits, positive word-of-mouth, and enhanced brand reputation. Educate and Empower: Empowered customers are loyal customers.

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One Millimeter Mindset

AUGUST 22, 2018

This week, I am engaged in what I love and what I do best. Providing compelling speaking programs and workshops focused on professional innovation, workforce engagement and customer success for customer retention. Never miss another insightful post. As well as our professional development. Contact me.

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One Millimeter Mindset

AUGUST 1, 2018

Truth be told, customer success storytelling is more than a content marketing and demand generation exercise. Consider that the customer success stories an organization tells involve more than just external customers. Compelling stories become the reasons new hires seek to be engaged within that organizational culture.

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One Millimeter Mindset

JANUARY 3, 2019

It is never too early to focus on retaining customers. Because if you do not make customer retention a simultaneous part of your customer acquisition process, then you will be worrying about retaining customers down the road. Because a customer’s retention experience starts long before that customer is acquired.

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One Millimeter Mindset

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Consequently, professional experience is customer-focused, rather than self-serving. Far too many of us equate customer retention only with retaining customers in our own customer bases. Regardless of our professional disciplines, each of us utilizes our professional experience to better serve customers. .

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One Millimeter Mindset

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Regardless of whether you and I collaborate on a new, innovative professional development path for you, leveraging the profitability of workplace collaboration, or creating a more collaborative, organization- and association-wide customer retention strategy. I will be honored to customize my keynotes and workshops to your next event.

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One Millimeter Mindset

JULY 5, 2018

And is this inconsistency reflected in the rate of customer churn and customer retention, mid year? Too many professionals wait until the official “numbers” are available to realize that they blew it with their customers. I do not need to be reminding you of best practices in customer experience and customer retention.

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One Millimeter Mindset

AUGUST 13, 2018

We are “consciously” prompted to act, instead of intuitively pondering what is best in relation to each customer. Over time, our love of these tech platforms turn us into Pavlov’s dogs: reacting to stimuli, rather than being proactive because we are intuitive and insightful. That is what customer retention is all about.

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One Millimeter Mindset

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Often, the insights and input reflected by a team’s professional diversity become mission-critical. But also in acquiring and retaining customers. Or have practical and historical insights to not only reduce costs, but also to introduce innovations. Not only in completing the project. Do you know who they are? Contact me here.

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One Millimeter Mindset

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

These employees, in-house and virtual, are the wizards who are responsible for customer experience, customer success and customer retention. Your “someones” are part of the equation adding up to the aggregated client experiences responsible for customer retention. Never miss another insightful post.

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