April is International Customer Loyalty Month! It should go without saying that April should not be the only month you give customer loyalty focus. There are huge business benefits to creating loyal customers. However, Customer Loyalty Month should serve as a reminder to review your customer programs and evaluate your KPIs for customer loyalty measurement.
To motivate you this month, and into the rest of the year, I wanted to share 25 great quotes for customer-centric organizations!
(If you were hoping for more tactical advice today, be sure to register for our upcoming webinar Leveraging Voice of the Customer to Amplify Business Results on May 9th at 2pm.)
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
~ Charles Darwin
Unless you have 100% customer satisfaction…you must improve.
~ Horst Schulz
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
~ Colin Powell
The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.
~ Roy H. Williams
Loyalty cannot be blueprinted. It cannot be produced on an assembly line. In fact, it cannot be manufactured at all, for its origin is the human heart-the center of self-respect and human dignity. It is a force which leaps into being only when conditions are exactly right for it-and it is a force very sensitive to betrayal.
~ Maurice R. Franks
There is a big difference between a satisfied customer and a loyal customer.
~ Shep Hyken
The purpose of a business is to create a customer who creates customers
~ Shiv Singh
Customer satisfaction is worthless. Customer loyalty is priceless.
~ Jeffrey Gitomer
Loyal customers, they don’t just come back, they don’t simply recommend you, they insist that their friends do business with you.
~ Chip Bell
Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you.
~ Heather Williams
Merely satisfying customers will not be enough to earn their loyalty. Instead, they must experience exceptional service worthy of their repeat business and referral. Understand the factors that drive this customer revolution.
~ Rick Tate
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
~ Zig Ziglar
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
~ Peter Drucker
Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You’d be amazed how many companies don’t listen to their customers.
~ Ross Perot
The more you engage with customers the clearer things become and the easier it is to determine what you should be doing.
~ John Russell
If you’re not serving the customer, your job is to be serving someone who is.
~ Jan Carlzon
Know what your customers want most and what your company does best. Focus on where those two meet.
~ Kevin Stirtz
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
~Henry Ford
Every company’s greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.
~ Michael LeBoeuf
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
~ Tom Peters
Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they’ll come back. We have to be great every time or we’ll lose them.
~ Kevin Stirtz
The customer’s perception is your reality.
~ Kate Zabriskie
Good customer service costs less than bad customer service.
~ Sally Gronow
You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day.
~ Jeffrey Gitomer
A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
~ Michael LeBoeuf
While loyal and satisfied are not synonomous, having satisfied customers is critical to building a loyal base. One strategy that helps build a loyal customer base is to implement a Voice of the Customer (VOC) program. With a well implemented VOC program, best-in-class organizations are able to grow their loyal customer base by listening and deeply understanding the needs of their customers. When you're able to tease out insights from customer feedback and make meaningful changes, the effects are seen in customer retention rates and top-line revenue numbers.
Cvent is hosting a webinar with Aberdeen Senior Researcher, Omer Minkara, on May 9th. During the event, Omer will share key fidnings and tactics from his most recent report, Leveraging the Voice of the Customer to Amplify Business Results, to help organizations build a best-in-class VOC program. Join us to hear Omer's thoughts!