One Millimeter Mindset

JULY 31, 2019

What do your customer retention stories sound like? Can you rely on the same stories you told to acquire new customers, to also retain them? Customer retention stories involve more than just how your products, features and services play out, over time. Then, take action here. is available on Amazon.com.

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One Millimeter Mindset

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Innovative customer retention should not be a rare occurrence. However, in many organizations, innovative is the last thing customers expect. First of all, customers continuously re-evaluate why they do business with us. And third, our actions consistently fall short of customer expectations. Here’s why.

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InMoment XI

JULY 24, 2024

Training and Workshops : Educational resources to empower your team with CX best practices. Strategic Insights: Strategic Insights Specialists are experts in knowing how to turn customer data into actionable insights. They provide strategies to turn customer feedback into actionable business plans that drive revenue and improve ROI.

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Technology Customer Experience ROI Consulting 195

ReviewTrackers

APRIL 1, 2019

Bank Customer Retention: Why It Matters. You’ve probably heard this more than a dozen times: retaining a customer is so much cheaper than acquiring a new one. According to Kantar , banks that lead in the customer experience index have a recommendation rate that is 1.9 times higher, and their customers are 2.1

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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

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

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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C3Centricity

AUGUST 6, 2024

To facilitate this cultural metamorphosis: Implement regular workshops that highlight the tangible benefits of customer-centricity Develop a comprehensive internal communication strategy Create a reward system that recognizes and celebrates customer-focused behaviours The payoff is substantial: companies prioritizing customer experience see up to 1.7

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Are competing customer retention cultures crippling your organization or association? First, competing customer retention cultures are sustained within traditional departmental silos and business models. Then, competing customer retention cultures are sustained by traditional workforce hiring practices.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Your employees are confused about their customer retention roles. Into customer experiences, customer success and customer retention. First, ponder whether your hiring processes focus on hiring employees to fulfill customer retention roles. . You have an A, B and then Z model.

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One Millimeter Mindset

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

When we abandon customers repeatedly throughout their relationships with our organizations and associations, they defect. Listen to my video o n Customer Abandonment. Then, consider the value of my keynotes and workshops on collaborative storytelling and customer retention. It doesn’t have to be that way anymore.

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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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ShepHyken

JUNE 30, 2024

How you’ve “always done it” may not meet the modern customer’s expectations. Shep Hyken is a customer service/CX expert, award-winning keynote speaker, and New York Times bestselling author. Learn more about Shep’s customer service and customer experience keynote speeches and his customer service training workshops.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

You can’t download a report about digital or technology trends without being assailed with stats and surveys outlining how great CX is key to keeping and gaining customers. Finally, he presents the concept of “customer Service as an Experience.” 7 Small-Business Strategies for Customer Retention by Kalin Kassabov (Inc.

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Verint

DECEMBER 28, 2017

One Millimeter Mindset customer retention moves you and your organization one millimeter outside your current comfort level. One of the biggest differences has to do with how we acquire and then retain customers. More importantly, One Millimeter Mindset customer retention is about today and tomorrow, not yesterday.

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ShepHyken

MAY 13, 2024

There are several suggestions on how to be customer-obsessed, but I was especially happy to see one of his major points in all caps: EXPERIENCE IS THE NEW BRAND. In this article, we explain why businesses must understand, calculate, track, and decrease their churn rate to retain customers and grow revenue. What Is Churn Rate?

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One Millimeter Mindset

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Move one millimeter beyond a comfortable client retention strategy, towards what is Possible. Hire me to speak or conduct a workshop at your next corporate or association event. Create a more engaged and profitable workforce relentlessly focused on customer success and customer retention. What are your next steps?

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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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ShepHyken

JANUARY 3, 2024

The employee experience (EX) drives a better customer experience (CX). Employee retention is just as necessary as customer retention. TAKE ACTION: Just as you focus on ways to get and keep customers, do the same for your employees. Connect with Shep on LinkedIn.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 23, 2024

Prioritizing the right CX management not only helps in retaining customers by improving their experiences, but also enhances the overall brand image and increases profitability. Some organizations find that focusing on retaining customers in volatile times can provide more revenue than sales.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Shep Hyken is a customer service/CX expert, award-winning keynote speaker, and New York Times bestselling author. Learn more about Shep’s customer service and customer experience keynote speeches and his customer service training workshops at www.Hyken.com. Connect with Shep on LinkedIn.

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Comm100

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Some of the business objectives you can use include customer retention, customer satisfaction, product purchases, purchase volume, purchase frequency, products returned, the number of dissatisfied customers and revenue. Identifying gaps in the customer experience. Conducting internal workshops.

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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. The ones that reflect each customer’s reality and your role in their success? Catalyze your mindset and skill sets!

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One Millimeter Mindset

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

If we continue to keep our heads buried in the sand, assuming “someone else” is taking care of our customers because we are too busy, then we are not creating remarkable and enduring client experiences. The types of experiences which fuel customer success and customer retention.

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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? Start moving one millimeter forward beyond what is comfortable, today.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 10, 2023

10 Questions Every Business Leader Should Ask About Customer Retention by Samuel Wilson (Forbes) Many of you can probably recall an experience of sitting in a big conference room with the quarterly review slides and questioning why growth isn’t higher. In the end, the author wants you to focus on a single goal: happy customers.

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ECXO

MARCH 5, 2024

By putting the customer at the heart of the process, businesses can ensure that their digital transformation initiatives lead to improved customer satisfaction. Happy customers are more likely to be loyal customers, leading to increased customer retention. It’s iterative.

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ECXO

APRIL 18, 2024

As the Chief Customer Officer, Jose worked tirelessly to instill a customer-centric culture in every corner of TechEase. He conducted workshops, held regular meetings with different teams, and even started a mentorship program to nurture the customer-centric mindset within the company.

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Michel Falcon Experience

APRIL 3, 2019

I’m going to teach you how to improve your customer experience by using customer journey mapping regardless of whether you are a million, or a billion dollar company. Not only that, I’m going to teach you how to host a customer journey mapping workshop for your company. But don’t take my word for it.

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One Millimeter Mindset

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Let’s move forward with a facilitated pandemic storytelling workshop. Instead, this internal customer discovery exercise allows you all to uncover what external clients really value. Retaining Clients leverages Innovative Customer Retention Strategies. And move forward with a facilitated pandemic storytelling workshop.

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One Millimeter Mindset

AUGUST 9, 2018

Engage me to speak or conduct an interactive workshop at your next corporate or association event. And discover what is possible, productive and profitable? Click here and let’s get started. Start moving one millimeter forward, today. Has what you read Today started you Thinking about tomorrow ? Contact me.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

” I’m intrigued by the article as it claims that one way to attract and retain these customers is through visual imagery. Shep Hyken is a customer service/CX expert, award-winning keynote speaker, and New York Times bestselling author. These are what McKinsey refers to as the “Zero Consumer.”

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 9, 2018

Customer Room is open for a week during each quarter, anybody can come and go as they please. Top executives are invited to come into the space and hold meetings and workshops. Whenever meetings and workshops are hosted, the room supports the idea of understanding and focusing on the customer and who they are.

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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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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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