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Thanksgiving 2018, What Creates Customer Loyalty

Thanksgiving 2018, What Creates Customer Loyalty

Posted On: Friday, November 16, 2018

Too often we forget what creates customer loyalty: what it is about a business and its leaders or owners that resonate with a community and causes them to take action when needed.

In a small town in Orange County California, customers are having a chance to demonstrate how a community responds to a business owner faced with the illness of his partner.

I visited this shop in years past and experienced the friendliness of the husband and wife who own the shop and wait on customers. This story, captured here by CBS in this video, I read first in the Washington Post. It has been covered by news outlets around the country.

Clearly we are hungry to be be reminded of kindness, caring and community.

Gael O'Brien

Gael O’Brien is a catalyst for leaders leading with purpose and impact. She is an executive coach, culture coach, and TEDx speech coach with a corporate and public affairs background. Gael is President of Strategic Opportunities Group. In addition to publishing The Week in Ethics, she is a columnist for Business Ethics Magazine, an Advisory Board member at the Hoffman Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University and a Senior Fellow at The Institute for Social Innovation, Babson College. 

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