Win a Customer for Life by Employing the 5 R’s of Customer Loyalty

 

The 5 “R’s” of Customer Loyalty

Ensure Your Company is 5 “R” Customer Compliant

Following the 5 R’s of Customer Loyalty Will Enable Your Company to Attract and Keep Customers for Life

 

Ensure Your Company is Customer R-Reliable

 

Top Steps to Ensuring Your Company is R-Reliable

The First “R” of Customer Loyalty Is Setting High Quality Customer Standards (External) and Goals (Internal) and then Delivering on that Customer Promise for Each and Every Customer Interaction as well as the overall & long-term customer relationship

 

Example of How a Company Demonstrates Customer R-Reliability

 

 

Example of How a Company Demonstrates Customer R-Reliability (continued)

 

 

Ensure Your Company is Customer R-Responsive

 

Top Steps for Your Company to Become Customer R-Responsive

 

The 2nd “R” of Customer Loyalty Is Ensuring That Customer’s Expectations Are Met: Needs, Concerns, Quality, Cycle Time Expectations, etc.

 

Example of How a Company Demonstrates Customer R-Responsiveness

 

Example of How a Company Demonstrates Customer R-Responsiveness (continued)

 

Ensure Your Company is Customer R-Recognizable

 

Top Steps for Your Company to Become Customer R-Recognizable

The 3rd “R” of Customer Loyalty Is Ensuring That Your Brand and Company has Distinctive and Positive Characteristics such that it drives positive emotions (driving repeat business, customer referrals, word-of-mouth adverting, etc. 

 

Example of How a Company Becomes Customer R-Recognizable

 

Example of How a Company Becomes Customer R-Recognizable (continued)

 

Ensure Your Company is R-Relationship Oriented

 

Top Steps for Your Company to Become Customer R-Relationship Oriented

The 4th “R” of Customer Loyalty Is Ensuring That Your Brand and Company develops a high quality and mutually beneficial relationship with your customers based on mutual respect, customer insights, an ongoing and open dialogue and a model that encourages a partnership between your brand & company and your customers 

 

Example of How a Company Demonstrates That It Is Customer R-Relationship Oriented

 

Example of How a Company Demonstrates That It Is Customer R-Relationship Oriented (continued)

 

 

Ensure Your Company is Customer R-Rewarding

 

Top Steps for Your Company to Become Customer R-Rewarding

The 5th “R” of Customer Loyalty Is Ensuring That Your Brand and Company rewards mutually beneficial customer behavior (greater share of wallet, spend, brand partnership activities, etc.) such that it drives further and longer-term customer loyalty.

 

Example of How a Company Demonstrates Customer R-Rewarding

 

Example of How a Company Demonstrates Customer R-Rewarding (continued)

 

Is Your Company Ready to Take the 5 “R” Pledge?

SUMMARY: If you take the pledge above to adhere to the 5 R’s of customer loyalty, you will enhance your ability to attract and retain customers for life. Key to this is developing the capabilities to be best in class for each “R” and ensuring that you are (cost effectively) maintaining a major qualitative advantage in each customer R vs. your competitors.

The Formula for Creating a Positive Chain Reaction with Your Customers and Clients To Win & Keep Them for Life

Introducing the Theory of Customer-Relativity

Theory Of Customer Relativity

Danger – Critical Mass With Your Customers Ahead !

Relativity – Treat Customer Like Family

Treating customers, clients and guests like your close relatives will create lasting customer loyalty lasting many generations.

Memorable Guest Experience Formula

Critical Mass Formula for Customer Excellence

Derived Benefits from the Customer-Relative Relativity Formula

Following the customer theory of relativity formula can net your company a distinctive customer competitive advantage

Family Like Customers

Critical Mass Formula for Customer Excellence

Listen Intently – Family & Customers

Listen intently to your customers for improvement gifts in order to improve upon your product and service delivery

Welcome – Family & Customers

Fulfill Special Requests – Family & Customers

Discovering and fulfilling unmet customer needs is a golden opportunity for you to grow your business

Made to Feel Welcome – Family & Customers

Leveraging gathered insights can help you surprise & delight your customers by anticipating and pre-delivering (without having to be requested) on customer needs and preferences

Gather & Leverage Needs & Preferences to Surprise & Delight Your Guests

Make Your Guests Feel at Home – Family & Customers

Delivering on a company environment that drives a feeling of belonging, contentment, ‘connectedness’ will endear your customers to your company and brand and make them loyal for life

Ensure the end-to-end guest experience ‘chain’ is optimal, memorable, etc.

Mapping, analyzing and applying continuous improvement to the end-to-end guest experience on an ongoing basis will ensure each step of that experience chain is high quality and optimal

Hire & Maintain World-Class (1-in-10,000) Customer Ambassadors who treat customers like family

Summary

Top 3 Keys to Delivering an Exceptional Customer/Client Experience

1. Hire passionate ‘customer ambassadors’ and empower them to drive your customer & client experience. These ambassadors are typically extremely difficult to find and are generally a 1-in-1,000 find, but if you know you have found one when many of your public reviews mention this person by name as delivering exceptional (family like) customer service.

2. Adopt a customer/client first set of policies and practices that empower your entire team to make right any customer perceived imperfection, unmet need, etc. in the delivery of your products and/or services. This is similar of how you would go out of your way to ensure your relatives are comfortable when visiting as guests.

3. To support #2 above, develop a listening & learning system to collect, retain and then deliver on expressed customer/client needs, wishes, preferences, etc. Ritz-Carlton does this extremely well with their guests and it shows in terms of attained customer satisfaction levels.

Summary:

By employing an E=MC² formula and treating your customers comparable to your relatives, you will create a positive chain reaction experience unlike any other and enable your company to leapfrog your competitors. This formula has worked for numerous companies employing those 1-in-a-thousand customer ambassadors who care about customer with all their heart as they do they own relatives.