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When you can show concern about what matters to your customer, that's Business to Customer Loyalty, and you can bet on it, you've just acquired a customer for life.
Albert Houtum-SchindlerThe pendulum of cookery techniques became more significant than the actual experience. And when that happens, the customer's satisfaction becomes secondary to the chef's satisfaction. And in that case, you have an upside-down equation. Because the customer is the basis of our restaurant, first of all, and if the chef becomes the most important person at the table - even more so than the guests - then suddenly you're left with something that doesn't really work.
Mario BataliOur social mission as a manufacturer is only realized when products reach, are used by, and satisfy the customer . . . We need to take the customer's skin temperature daily.
Konosuke MatsushitaOnly your customers can define quality, because it's meeting your customers' expectations the first time every time. Simply put, it's performance to the standards of the customer.
Ed RobertsonTheir attitude is, 'okay, I am the customer. You are supposed to entertain me.' It's kind of a passive attitude they're taking, and to me it's kind of a pathetic thing. They do not know how interesting it is if you move one step further and try to challenge yourself with more advanced games.
Shigeru MiyamotoIf you innovate broadly, focus on the customer experience, and deliver everyday a great product, you will gain share.
Michael J. SilversteinAn underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of purchasing power is wages.
Henry FordRemember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.
Margaret AtwoodQuality and service are important, if you want to make a sale. If you want to keep a customer for life, keep your promises.
HeidiShampoo doesnโt have to foam, but we add foaming chemicals because people expect it each time they wash their hair. Same thing with laundry detergent. And toothpasteโnow every company adds sodium laureth sulfate to make toothpaste foam more. Thereโs no cleaning benefit, but people feel better when thereโs a bunch of suds around their mouth. Once the customer starts expecting that foam, the habit starts growing.
Charles DuhiggWhat the fashion system says and what the fashion customer says are really two different things.
Stefano GabbanaAuctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time building the product before getting our first customer, whereas with Stripe we made sure we had paying customers from the very start.
John CollisonAny seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.
John WanamakerYou're a pretty cool customer, huh?" says Agent Hunt. "I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage." Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.
Holly BlackOnly a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.
Bill GatesWhen people talk about successful retailers and those that are not so successful, the customer determines at the end of the day who is successful and for what reason.
Gerry HarveyEveryone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.
Angela AhrendtsYou know, if you make a customer unhappy they won't tell five friends, they'll tell 5,000 friends. So, we are at a point now where we have all of the things we need to build an important and lasting company, and if we don't, it will be shame on us.
Jeff BezosThink about how you will start and where you will go. Get the head with logic and the heart with visuals or stories. And think about your core customer and all the other stakeholders as well.
Scott D. AnthonyOur DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.
Steve JobsBecause its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two - and only these two โ basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are 'costs'.
Peter DruckerIt's very logical: There is proven ROI in doing whatever you can to turn your customers into advocates for your brand or business. The way to create advocates is to offer superior customer service.
Gary VaynerchukApproach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.
Brian TracyDemo: presentation of a specific set of capabilities needed to solve the customer's critical business issue.
Peter CohanAt the start of any program, asking questions is the most important part of the process. If you get [the customer's] requirements wrong, then you don't have a successful product.
Joe SutterOf course if you are launching a new business you can thinking about revenues, profits, and so on, but metrics such as customer satisfaction or employee retention might be meaningful if you are focusing more internally.
Scott D. AnthonyYou can never go too far wrong by thinking like a customer whoโs new to the business.
Richard BransonI think the most important thing that a company can do, not just in the customer space but the employee space, is to be completely open and completely honest. Don't pretend that you're doing something that you can not do. There's an old saying in Silicon Valley, "It's not a bug. It's a feature."
Paul SaffoThe two critical questions to ask are: "Who is my customer?" and "What value am I adding?" Unfortunately, many workers cannot answer these questions. They tend to blindly do things, and develop bad habits of doing things over and over for no good reasons.
Bill CapodagliThe golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
Orison Swett MardenHighly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it.
Timothy R. ClarkAm I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.
Donald A. NormanEverything you need to know about a customer has been written by them or about them. And it lives on the Internet. All you have to do is uncover it. And use it.
Jeffrey GitomerIf we have 99% [market] share of Ford Company, the question to us is 'How do we improve the customer satisfaction in order to get that additional 1% share?
Michael DellAs a customer service representative; I deal with people all day. Some really are guilty of not paying their bill.
Jon JonesSince I begrudgingly started my Instagram account and my social media exposure/connection. I say begrudgingly because I just didn't want to take the plunge, but when I realized it was just a direct connection to our customer and these women, I did it. I like listening to their stories and their feedback.
Eva Mendes