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Looking to build and strengthen customer relationships? Your customers are everything as a brand. Without customers, you wouldn’t be able to continue running your business. Most brands put great effort into acquiring new customers, but there’s another strategy that has proven to be far more effective…. That is working to improve customer relationships. A study found that it is 6-7 times more expensive to acquire a new customer than it is to keep a current one. That might come as a surprise to some, but when you think about it, it’s very obvious. Working to acquire new customers is a tough job, with marketing investments needed. And even then, it’s not sure that you’ll acquire any new customers. With customer relationships, however, it’s a completely different ball game. ...

Looking to humanize your brand? Look no further! In marketing and business, people talk about acquiring customers, they talk about driving sales and many talks about building relationships with their customers. The latter is a huge deal for brands, and come with its own sets of incredible benefits. You yourself probably have a strategy in place for how you’re going to build your customer relationships. Unfortunately, though. there are a lot of misconceptions when it comes to building relationships with customers as a brand. The good news is that brands and marketers understand the importance of doing so, as it increases customer loyalty, customer retention, and ultimately lead to a greater spend. Here’s something that is huge news for you, though: The foundation for buildin...

How software systems can help restaurant businesses Operating as a cashier at a restaurant is hard. There are so many things to keep track of, and if you've ever worked with operations, or ”on the field” of a restaurant, you know how stressful the management and the daily operations are. As a cashier, the job can be very stressful. But like with most things, there are tools available that can significantly streamline the working process as a restaurant cashier. If you aren’t using tools to streamline your work and save time, you’re missing out on tremendous opportunities. Just like with anything, there are tools that can help make your job easier. For example, why would you use a spade to dig a ditch by hand when you have a hard job in front of you when you could use an excava...

There are certain areas of your business you need to pay more attention to in 2018 in light of the rapidly evolving entrepreneurial space, failure of which may result in business failure sooner or later. This is a fact known to many business owners. What many people, however, do not know is which particular areas exactly to focus on and improve. This can create a major dilemma. On the other hand, having clear-cut KPI makes troubleshooting and optimization a tad easier and the job of being a CEO or founder more enjoyable. In this article, I highlight 4 key areas of your business you need to pay more attention to in 2018 and going forward because as we know it is cheaper to pay attention than to pay dearly, but first:   1.Customers Customers, especially repeat customers ...

Are chatbots changing the customer service industry? Will chatbots revolutionize it in the future? When it comes to chatbots and new technology such as AI and VR, there are a lot of unanswered questions. That's because to most people, it's something very new. Customer service has always been an integral part of running a business venture. And throughout its long history, the discipline has remained largely unchanged. At its core, customer service was always concerned with a single goal – ensuring that the products and services which customers have purchased work as intended. In this sense, it may seem that there is little room for innovation in the field. After all, you will always have a customer or client submitting an issue on one side, and a customer service representative on ...

If productivity is lagging among your employees, it’s often a sign of a bigger problem: an unhealthy company culture. Disengaged employees drag the company down, while engaged employees are more productive and show up to work more often too. Yet, according to a Gallup poll, only about one-third of employees in the U.S. workforce feel engaged. You can help change that by implementing all sorts of employee engagement activities. It’s likely to make workers feel more valued and ultimately, more productive. Stop Micromanaging If you’re a micromanager, or if you have a micromanager working for you, you should know that one of the most effective ways to increase productivity is to halt that habit. Instead, encourage employees to take ownership of how they manage their own time. The best ...

Whether your business is struggling to meet goals or is performing well and ready to take it to the next level, one of the most important things for any company to do is continually expand and improve its product mix.  It’s vital to avoid letting your offerings grow stagnant and outdated, so let’s look at some of the biggest reasons to continue evolving and tinkering with your product mix to increase your bottom line and maintain your standing in your industry. Competition Competition within an industry is perhaps the most significant driving force behind innovations and improvements in a company's catalog. Earning customer loyalty is a difficult task, and once you've built a reputation of providing a quality product that your customers would recommend to a friend, you want to maintain t...

Аrе уоu а сhrоnіс оvеrsреndеr? Іf уоu stаrt еасh mоnth wіth grеаt іntеntіоns аnd sреnd ассоrdіng tо а sеt рlаn, but еvеntuаllу fіnd уоursеlf mаkіng mіndlеss рurсhаsеs јustіfіеd bу thаt еvеr dаngеrоus “а lіttlе wоn’t hurt” аttіtudе, уоu’rе lіkеlу fасіng аn еmрtу bаnk ассоunt аnd sеvеrе buуеr’s rеmоrsе bу thе еnd оf thе mоnth. Оnсе уоu rеаlіzе уоu’vе сhірреd аwау аt whаtеvеr сushіоn уоu hаd іn рlасе, уоu’rе lеft sсrаmblіng fоr mоnеу – оr wоrsе, usіng сrеdіt саrds tо соvеr уоur bаd mоvеs. Оvеrsреndіng іs оftеn а lеаrnеd bеhаvіоr thаt саn rеsult frоm еmоtіоnаl іssuеs (“І’m іn а bаd mооd, sо І’m gоіng shорріng”), fаmіlу uрbrіngіng (“І соuldn’t аffоrd muсh аs а kіd, but nоw І саn”), оr еvеn lіfеstуlе іnflаtіоn (“І gоt а rаіsе, sо І dеsеrvе а nеw саr”). Іt’s nоt аlwауs еаsу tо rесоgnіzе уоur о...

The most excellent gift technology has given us that we can quickly earn money by sitting in the comforts of our home. These days every other person is blogging about different topics and makes money out of it. Of course, to do such a thing, you also need to invest some of your time and money on it if you want to start your business through it. There are people who do believe that blogging will not get you anywhere when we talk about making it a source of income. That could be true if you do not have a proper plan and an idea in your mind. Emily Bell, editor-in-chief of Guardian Unlimited, says about blogging that it is a fantastic way to “try things out at the edge.” If you have just started to build your own business through blogging, you might find ebroker helpful. You cannot make...

Want to learn about other marketing goals than just the most obvious ones? We all have dreams of things we want to do and achieve. As a brand, you dream of building an empire or impacting as many lives as possible. But a dream is just a dream - a vague idea of what the future should look like. But when you clearly define that dream and put actions into play that will help you reach your dream, it becomes a goal. And all of a sudden, that huge dream isn’t too far away, because you know exactly what you need to do to get there, and that it is possible. You put one foot in front of the other and you start progressing. In other words, different from dreams, goals are clear and specific and include a plan of how they're going to be achieved. You’ve probably heard a million times tha...

A good web hosting can make all the difference between a successful and failed business. No matter how engaging or quality content you put out there, it will not matter if it does not reach your users. Website owners should focus on a good web host as well as the content they are publishing. Hostiserver.com helps your website grow and provides you with managed hosting services. Web hosting allows you to post your web pages to the Internet. Websites are hosted, or stored, on a special computer called a server. This server allows the Internet users, that are connected anywhere, to access your site whenever they put in your domain address. Many people do not know the importance of a web host and neglect it because it might seem unnecessary to them. It is essential to understand how ...

Spain is a real economic powerhouse on a global scale. With close to 47 million inhabitants it has cultural, trade and overall leverage in most spheres and areas. For business people looking to establish and start a business or expand their current operations, Spain is a lucrative and very intriguing market that deserves the utmost respect. Due to the country being in the European Union, it has all of the necessary infrastructure and legal systems that let businesses flourish without too much bureaucracy or barriers. Spain is the cultural epicentre of the entire Spanish-speaking world which has close to half a billion representatives in South and Central America along with the Philippines and the Caribbean. Chances are if your business succeeds in Spain, expanding to the mentioned r...

Millenary Watches is proud to announce the official launch of its website. Millenary Watches is an online retailer of luxury watches of the top brands, such as Rolex, Audemars Piguet, Richard Mille, Patek Philippe, and many more. MW has many years of experience in the watch industry, working in the industry for many years, both as a hobby and as a profession. Millenary Watches is built upon the successful watch blog @w.watches which is one of the largest watch blogs on Instagram, and through the many contacts they've built with the leaders in the industry, the MW team has built upon it to create an online watch shop that offers the best watches at competitive prices. Millenary Watches continue to use the Instagram marketing strategies that we teach on this website to reach their t...

I believe we all are deeply aware of the fact that offices are built to be productive; any workplace if idle suggests that decline is at the doorstep. However, luckily, I have noticed an increasing trend among people that they have started paying attention to their workplaces. From big shot companies to smaller, cozier setups everyone is focusing on the betterment of workplaces, and I believe this trend is paying off. The way you can make a client feel can play a decisive role in whether or not the client will visit again. 1.Light Matters Of course, you know that light matters, but are you aware of what kind of light we need? That's right, the one that doesn't harm our eyes. American Optometry Association has claimed that an average American spends seven hours in front of a comput...