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How not to do Christmas cards

[caption id="attachment_350" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] And the prize for the worst Christmas card this year goes to ... My milkman! Why? Here are my reasons: No name on the envelope ? doesn?t my milkman know my...

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How to perform a marketing follow-on

[caption id="attachment_348" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] Last year I responded to my husband's request for a metal watering can for his birthday.  That's OK, it's easy to go to Google, type in 'metal watering cans' and choose a website from...

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Taking the customer services journey

[caption id="attachment_350" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] The October issue of my email newsletter, Scribbles, was about sales and marketing, and which is more important. (Click here to read it.) I received some really interesting feedback to that...

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The power of being positive ? part four

[caption id="attachment_350" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] Here is the final section from the sample chapter of my book (working title One in Ten ? How to Survive Ten Years in Business). The chapter is about how the...

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Using relationship marketing with customer loyalty

[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] In my past post about customer loyalty, I mentioned that "Loyalty requires working on these satisfied customers, giving them excellent, high quality service, forming a relationship with them to find out...

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The definition of a brand

[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] A brand is perceived in many ways by the customer, and by the company. There are many misconceptions like a brand is the logo: a name, symbol, colour, font, slogan or...

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What do you think of thought leadership?

[caption id="attachment_350" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Chantal"][/caption] According to one internet source, it is ?? about delivering new ideas and content to your target publics based on deep insights into the business issues and challenges they face.? Craig...

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What’s added value in marketing?

[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] In one of the questions I answered in LinkedIn, one responder asked me what I meant by added value. He thought it referred to the difference between the cost price and...

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Is jargon really necessary?

[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] I've gone back to school again. Getting a qualification in the subject I work in seemed imperative if I am to do justice to Chantal's clients, so I've signed up to...

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How customer loyalty is preferred over satisfaction

[caption id="attachment_361" align="alignleft" width="85" caption="Alice"][/caption] If you make your customers happy, then they are satisfied; but that is not the same as loyalty. Loyalty requires working on these satisfied customers, giving them excellent, high quality service,...

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