What happens when you combine blogs, Google and millions of dissatisfied customers? An e-mob.
Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
The salesman thanks the customer for patronizing his shop and asks him to come again. But the socialists say: Be grateful to Hitler, render thanks to Stalin; be nice and submissive, then the great man will be kind to you later too.
500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? I said that is the most expensive phone in the world. And it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard. Which makes it not a very good email machine.
There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow...It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.
Real teams are much more likely to flourish if leaders aim their sights on performance results that balance the needs of customers, employees, and shareholders.
In an organization of any significant size, the executives cannot create the future single-handedly. They must develop the enterprise in a constellation of teams within the overall team if they hope to bring the special talents and resources to bear on the challenge of creating superior customer value and sustaining a competitive advantage in the eyes of its customers.
Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.
The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.
I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.
Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.
Customer service is the new marketing.
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
You cannot improve one thing by 1000% but you can improve 1000 little things by 1%.
Memorable customer service can only take place in a human-to-human situation.
There are many who subscribe to the convention that service is a business cost, but our data demonstrates that superior service is an investment that can help drive business growth. Investing in quality talent, and ensuring they have the skills, training and tools that enable them to empathize and actively listen to customers are central to providing consistently excellent service experiences.
A rose on time is more valuable than a $1,000 gift that's too late.
The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first.
We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.
Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
Follow the customer, if they change, we change.
Be helpful - even if there's no immediate profit in it.
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back.
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