Zappos built a billion dollar company through a customer-focused culture that prioritized customer service and relationships. They hire based on cultural fit rather than just skills and base performance reviews partly on living the company values. This creates a fun, transparent culture where employees are passionate about the customer's experience.
How Zappos Built a Billion Dollar Company Through a Customer Focused Culture
1. How Zappos Built a Billion Dollar Company Through a Customer Focused Culture Rob Siefker, Senior Manager, Customer Loyalty Team Gary McNeil, Vice President of Marketing, Parature
2. The Collapse of Demand Although there may be signs of a recovery… … customers are buying less – demand is recovering slowly
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4. The Shifting Focus: From Hunters to Farmers Falling Disproportionally on the Customer Support Function The focus has shifted to further monetizing the customer base… … placing new found responsibilities on the support function
5. The Changing Preferences of Your Customer If You Build it They Will Come The challenge isn’t driving customers to leverage self-service… … it’s keeping them there
Although there may be signs of a recovery Customer purchasing behaviors have changed – they’re simply buying less…and will be for the foreseeable future Transition – cs&s is changed
They represent what’s most important Top-line revenue Recurring revenue Costs – if not managed correctly Critical information to better inform sales, mktg, pd, and finance Leading KPI’s (key performance indicators) RR Repeat purchase X-sell oppty’s Up-sell oppty’s Product feedback Advocacy - positive and negative
Customer requirements are changing – in addition to becoming more web savvy overall preferences are migrating to web self-service models. While there’s an urgency premium associated with the phone, the reality is the customers marginally prefer the phone over web self-service Even in urgent situations, customers appear to trust the information they receive on-line and trust that ultimate resolution will occur Customer preference for the phone over self service occurs with end users 51+ years in age Web self service extends well beyond the X’ers and Millennial generations Net-net the challenge isn't getting your customers to the web – it’s keeping them there. Many CS&S functions find themselves in the loose-loose box – customers initially go to self-service channels, yet end up picking up the phone due to poor self-service experience. No tolerance for bad service They’re demanding a better customer experience: 24x7 support – (near real time response rates) Native language support Ease of use Consistency / familiarity Multi-channel support Web – KB Chat E-mail Discussion groups / forums Mobility Social media environments (cloud)
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