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Loyalty Rules!
The Loyalty Effect
Apply Loyalty to your Business
Overview
Play to Win/Win
Be Picky
Keep it Simple
Reward the Right Results
Listen Hard, Talk Straight
Preach what you Practice
Loyalty Acid Test
Fred Reichheld: Author / Speaker
Loyalty Library
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Loyalty Rules!
Listen Hard, Talk Straight

The Internet is redefining competitive economics and raising the standards of excellence, but the basic rules of good communication remain constant. You cannot simply layer new communication tools on top of a fundamentally flawed, low-trust communication culture. The result will be
Case in Point: USAA, Inc.
Examples of Bain's Work
simply more communication. The key to better relationships, better businesses, and better lives is not more communication, but better communication.

Results of better communication
  • Helps partners focus more efficiently on the vital, few priorities where they can truly improve the value provided to their customers and to each other
  • Helps partners understand the big picture and coordinate actions
  • Candidly assesses their performance and shows them how to create better results
  • Builds trust by ensuring that information received is reliable, and that information shared will be used to build a better relationship, never abused for selfish gain
The communications networks at high-loyalty firms are based on four components essential to superior business relationships: listening, learning, acting, and explaining. As a loyalty leader it is your job both to learn and to teach the art of communication and how these four essentials work in a dynamic, self-sustaining, perpetual cycle.

Examples of Bain's work

Management Tools: Companies use Customer Relationship Management (CRM) to better understand customers in order to acquire, retain and grow the most profitable accounts.








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