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Chick-fil-A's Secret to 15% Growth for 37 Years Straight
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Retención y relación con el clientePara no interrumpir los bloques de trabajo creativo profundo y al mismo tiempo mantener la percepción de atención al cliente, se debe enviar al final de la jornada un acuse de recibo breve indicando cuándo se dará una respuesta completa, evitando dejar al cliente sin respuesta.
And we do this stuff like some, even if the reply, this was an unlock for me years ago. I, in fact, I would advise everybody, turn your notifications off. Don't reply in the instant, unless your job is the customer service reply person. Um, but at the end, like every at lunch and at the end of the workday, like even when I'm in deep maker mode doing creative stuff, I pause and I skim through and I'm like, Hey, got it a bit, you know, I can't get to you that today. I'll get back to you tomorrow. Just an acknowledgement of receipt, simple, basic communication that says, Hey, I got you. I'm not…
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Sistematización de contactos personales no transaccionales para fidelizar clientes
Retención y relación con el clienteEl cuidado proactivo de los clientes suele olvidarse cuando hay mucho trabajo si se deja al impulso espontáneo. Para mantenerlo de forma consistente, se debe estructurar un sistema con recordatorios fijos y material prepreparado (como tarjetas con sellos y sobres listos) para enviar notas personales, proactivas y no transaccionales, sin fines de venta ni motivos de resolución de problemas.
It's proactive and it's personal. It's, it's to Ralph and it's about something happening in Ralph's world. No, I have got a system reminder. Once a month, it says, Hey, send three personal notes. I've got cards that are like, I've got my return address and a stamp on them and a little thank you note or a little, how are you doing thing? I've got a little variety of them and just guys three a month. And they're kind of pre-set up. This is the nothing went wrong. I just thinking to you, how are you doing? And so setting reminders, setting systems, pre that little deal. And the reminder means…
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Los tres comportamientos medibles de un 'raving fan'
Retención y relación con el clienteEl amor por una marca no se mide por opiniones subjetivas sino por tres comportamientos objetivos: compran con mayor frecuencia o amplían su contrato, pagan el precio completo sin depender de descuentos, y recomiendan activamente la empresa a otros.
So there are three behaviors of customers or clients in your setting. If your clients do these three things, they're a raving fan. This is not an opinion. No, did you have these behaviors, right? They buy more often. They come back. Second is they pay full price. So they come back without a discount and they tell others about you. But you stack these things and you say, okay, do they come back often enough, get a big enough package? Are they doing it without a discount? And are they telling people about us? And when you have that, dude, they're a raving fan.
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Retención y relación con el clienteTener clientes que aprecian el servicio no garantiza que lo recomienden, porque la gente no comparte datos técnicos ni sentimientos abstractos, sino historias. Para convertir a clientes satisfechos en promotores activos, es necesario diseñar deliberadamente experiencias o momentos memorables extraordinarios una o dos veces al año que les brinden una historia atractiva y digna de contar a terceros.
They legitimately love you, but they aren't telling anyone about you. What we've learned is there's the, just cause you have loving fans doesn't mean they're raving fans, raving fans rave. So, and, and it's sadly people don't tell facts. If you want them to talk about you, what we learned is people tell stories. So you have to create a story that they want to share or what we've termed a memorable That's the last year, memorable moments. And so you create these little moments that pop that are story worthy and interesting and And then, oh, again, once or twice a year for your customers, you…
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Celebrar los lanzamientos del cliente tras finalizar el proyecto sin intentar venderle de inmediato
Retención y relación con el clienteEn servicios B2B, organizar una cena o evento de celebración cuando el cliente finaliza o lanza su proyecto (incluso meses después de haber cobrado y salido del trabajo) refuerza profundamente la relación comercial. La clave consiste en posicionar al cliente como el héroe ('el Jedi') y a la empresa como el guía ('Yoda'), recordando anécdotas y mostrando su progreso sin enturbiar el momento pidiendo firmar el…
Sometimes it's six months after they've been off the job site and they host a dinner, They'll bring everybody together and they'll just reminisce on the project. And they bring in all the folks and they bring in the main client and they celebrate And they're like, man, we just love being on projects with you guys. This is our launch dinner to celebrate your launch. They've already been paid. They don't, they don't fit sour that moment by like, and would you sign the next contract It's just a pure dinner to celebrate them launch it. Um, so there are ways to do this launch moment that really…
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La fidelidad extrema nace de cómo el cliente se siente consigo mismo al usar la marca
Marca y posicionamientoLos fanáticos y defensores de marca no se crean por lo que piensan sobre la empresa, sino por cómo se sienten respecto a sí mismos cuando interactúan con ella. El producto sirve como un medio para proyectar y reforzar la identidad y estatus que el usuario desea experimentar.
And see the question your customer is asking is this. How do I feel about myself when I'm with you? Not how do I feel about you? How do I feel about myself when I'm with you? That is how you kick raving fans. It's how they, you're just the means that you, you're what they use to prove to themselves in the world. It's not Harley's awesome. It's I'm awesome because I ride a hog, right? Not Harley's awesome. I'm the man because of my bike. This is where customer insight is so critical. Like, don't forget, what do they want to feel like? Uh, they want to feel safe. Um, and actually the research…
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Mensaje y copywritingEn la narrativa y comunicación de marketing, el cliente debe ser siempre el héroe protagonista y la empresa debe asumir el rol de mentor o guía. Las personas no comparten historias para celebrar lo grandiosa que es una empresa, sino para mostrar sus propios logros y cómo la marca les ayudó a conseguirlos.
Um, I keep wanting to create these moments where I get to play the role of Luke Skywalker. And what we found is it doesn't work, man. No, they don't want to tell your story. They want to tell their story. So if you want to get them to talk, you have to create a story where your customer feels like the hero. You celebrate your customers. You don't celebrate yourself. So we're the mentor, the guide that helps them real. And we're so glad we could help. We're going to celebrate them and kind of be like, Hey, we're glad we could help these people be the Jedi.
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Retención y relación con el clienteEn la prestación de servicios y agencias no se debe asumir que el cliente comprende el impacto de las métricas técnicas (como tráfico o SEO); es necesario conectar explícitamente cada entregable o aumento numérico con el impacto directo en captación de clientes y facturación para justificar el valor del servicio y prevenir cancelaciones.
The first layer you want to think about is, as you mentioned, they have goals. It's not just, they want really good SEO numbers. They want their business to actually get more clients themselves. They want to see revenue growth. Can, and man, uh, I wish this wasn't true, but you can't assume they're going to connect Like you often have to connect the dots for them. For this behavior here turned into this client outcome for you here, which should be driving an extra bit of revenue for you here. And they're like, they show me these monthly reports with all our SEO numbers, but I don't see any…
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Celebrar la identidad que el cliente desea proyectar para generar recomendación orgánica
Marca y posicionamientoPara que los clientes compartan espontáneamente su experiencia, la empresa debe identificar qué tipo de persona desean ser y celebrar esa identidad en sus vidas. Cuando la marca destaca al cliente como protagonista de la forma en que él quiere ser visto, este atribuye su éxito a la marca y difunde la historia en su comunidad.
Which feeling do we want to create? What do we want to celebrate for them? What do your customers actually want? What kind of Jedi do they want to be? What do they want to feel? Celebrate that in their life. And man, that kicks them over the edge. They feel amazing. They attribute that to you. And that story goes viral in their community. Man, it is tremendously powerful what happens when people feel honored because they associate
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Fidelización mediante toques personales de baja frecuencia
Retención y relación con el clientePara transformar clientes satisfechos en promotores activos sin saturarlos ni resultar invasivo, basta con ejecutar 1 o 2 gestos personalizados al año por cliente (celebrar logros profesionales, menciones en prensa o detalles familiares clave), combinando atención directa (high touch) con herramientas escalables como CRM o IA (high tech).
What we actually say is once or twice a year, do one or two things in each category. That's it. So the next gear is personalized service. The second question they started asking is, do you care about me? Um, in fact, once or twice a year, right? Like, but little things, if they have kids, find out their kids' names, right? Um, you can do this for a team that says, Hey, we get you guys and your goals and congrats on your win. High touch kind of white glove concierge stuff. And then high tech tools that allow you to communicate at mass or customize efficiently And then high tech is going to be…
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Retención y relación con el clienteEn empresas técnicas, industriales o de manufactura, el fin del trabajo del proveedor coincide con el inicio de la productividad del cliente. En lugar de limitarse a entregar y facturar, organizar una celebración o evento en torno al lanzamiento del cliente transforma una transacción técnica en un momento memorable y generador de referencias.
So if you are more in this technical business to business zone, what we have found overwhelmingly the best win is, okay. So your work typically is to set up the customer's new thing. You are setting tools up in their hands. The end of your work is the beginning of their productivity. We invoice them. Not all the time, not for everybody, every, but once or twice a year, throw a party and celebrate their launch. Your end is their beginning. You often exist to get them launching the next level of the new thing. And so maybe it's a private party.
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Retención y relación con el clienteEl marketing y la creatividad no pueden compensar una falta de confianza generada por fallos operativos; la consistencia y la excelencia en la experiencia de entrega son la prioridad fundamental para crear clientes recurrentes.
Um, yeah, it's operational excellence, man. We say it's first in sequence and in priority. If we don't get this right, it doesn't matter how fancy we do the other stuff. It's what's killing their brand and more and better at the good triple their advertising quality and volume. And they would still be held back by this factor. The first question they ask is, can I trust you? And if they don't trust us, nothing else matters. You cannot out party out market out play our out creative, a lack of trust. Like it's just, it's the first hurdle you got to clear or nothing else happens.
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Retención y relación con el clienteCrear pequeños momentos memorables de forma descentralizada y constante (como un evento o detalle memorable al mes por sucursal) genera un efecto acumulativo de recomendaciones entre amigos que puede sostener un crecimiento anual constante sin depender de grandes campañas nacionales ni patrocinios masivos.
They don't do national ad campaigns very much, very little. Here's what it is. Every restaurant does one memorable moment every month for their customers. That's the goal. And these little bitty stories, their customers tell their friends. That's it. But there are over 3,000 restaurants as the time of this recording that have a little moment. They buzz and tell their friends. And they tell their friends. And every month, there's just another little group of them telling their friends. And those little aggregate moments of those people have been like, dude, check this out. Check this one…
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Marca y posicionamientoUn presupuesto publicitario multimillonario y anuncios atractivos no bastan para generar clientes verdaderamente leales («raving fans»). Si se descuida la experiencia de cliente y la entrega de la promesa de marca, la inversión publicitaria pierde efectividad frente a modelos basados en satisfacción y retención.
But, man, legendary marketing does not make for a legendary brand. But, man, I just keep poking at them for this because they have world-class marketing and advertising. And yet, they don't have any raving fans. Their brand promise and brand experience and customer-client interaction, when you actually measure their customer behavior, oh, they don't show up on any. They have legendary advertising, and they don't have raving fans. And man, in my opinion, they're blowing tons of money. They could pull some of that budget back, put it into the client experience stuff we're going to talk about…
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Marca y posicionamientoUn presupuesto publicitario multimillonario y anuncios atractivos no bastan para generar clientes verdaderamente leales («raving fans»). Si se descuida la experiencia de cliente y la entrega de la promesa de marca, la inversión publicitaria pierde efectividad frente a modelos basados en satisfacción y retención.
But, man, legendary marketing does not make for a legendary brand. But, man, I just keep poking at them for this because they have world-class marketing and advertising. And yet, they don't have any raving fans. Their brand promise and brand experience and customer-client interaction, when you actually measure their customer behavior, oh, they don't show up on any. They have legendary advertising, and they don't have raving fans. And man, in my opinion, they're blowing tons of money. They could pull some of that budget back, put it into the client experience stuff we're going to talk about…
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Descontar precios atrae lealtad al precio y erosiona márgenes
Oferta y precioVender mediante descuentos recurrentes atrae clientes cuya lealtad es al precio y no a la marca, empujando al negocio hacia una carrera a la baja ('race to the bottom') donde los márgenes se pulverizan y se vuelve obligatorio un volumen masivo para ser rentable.
Man, if they're a raving fan, they're not coming to you because you just hit a discount and sales go up. If they're coming to you because you're the cheapest, because your price is better, their loyalty is not to you. And by the way, that hurts you in the long run. And it's because do it now or you'll lose your 20% off. And so that's a rough place to be. That gets you in the race to the bottom where you just kind of grind your margins away. And now we got to go for massive volume to make any money.
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Marca y posicionamientoLa confianza del cliente no se destruye principalmente por un fallo grande aislado, sino por un patrón acumulativo de pequeños incumplimientos; entregar un 90 % de consistencia es suficiente para que una marca sea percibida como poco fiable.
And they said, well, no one thing's a big deal, but a pattern of little things will break trust. But yeah, inconsistent excellence earns no trust. And people think that it's down all the time, but the survey was like, it's only down like 20% of the time, but because it's only down 10% or whatever, 10% of the time, everyone's still sick because it's inconsistent because you can't rely on it. 90% excellent is enough to make you famously broken. It's an all or nothing proposition.
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Retención y relación con el clienteHacer seguimiento del rendimiento de los clientes y crear iniciativas de reconocimiento (como premios al mejor percentil de desempeño o celebrar públicamente sus aumentos de facturación) refuerza la adopción y retención. Al destacar el éxito del cliente, se hace evidente de forma natural el impacto de la herramienta o componente técnico que hizo posible ese resultado sin necesidad de hacer una autopromoción agresiva.
Um, one of the other key ways to do this is you just track their business progress. And when they have a business win, you show up and celebrate them for their business win. Um, but they hit their business goal and you're just like, dude, we just want to make a big Um, and one of the things they did was institute an award for the top 20% of physicians in each And one of the things they did, the key, one of their key people, they needed these physicians to actually engage and use the tool very often. So they just honored the top physicians in the space. And what do you know, Ralph, it just so…
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La excelencia inconsistente genera el mismo nivel de desconfianza que el fallo continuo
Retención y relación con el clienteEn la relación comercial y operativa con los clientes, la confianza es binaria; entregar excelencia solo de manera intermitente o fallar esporádicamente en aspectos básicos destruye la fiabilidad al mismo nivel que un mal desempeño constante.
And here's, the, hard, painful truth. Um, partial trust to their partial excellence doesn't create partial trust. It's an all or nothing proposition. inconsistent excellence creates the same amount of trust as consistent failure. You don't get partial for partial. Uh, you trust or you don't, there's no half trust.
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Activar la reciprocidad de forma no transaccional fomenta la recompra
Retención y relación con el clienteAportar valor o tener gestos genuinos sin pedir nada a cambio activa la ley de la reciprocidad, lo que fortalece la relación con el cliente y aumenta las probabilidades de generar compras recurrentes.
And I think it's just so like, you're obviously you're evoking the law of reciprocity here without asking for an ask. I mean, once again, it's non-transactional, like you're legitimately doing it. And oh, by the way, it's probably pretty damn good for repeat business.
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Medición y experimentosChick-fil-A mantuvo 37 años consecutivos con al menos un 15% de crecimiento anual (duplicando tamaño aproximadamente cada 5 años hasta acercarse a los $24 mil millones) gastando únicamente entre un 3% y un 5% del presupuesto publicitario de McDonald's en EE. UU., el cual supera los $1.5 mil millones.
But if you kind of read the indirect reports, experts say they spent over $1.5 billion in advertising and marketing in just the domestic U.S. So McDonald's on a good year grows 2%, which is pretty awesome. There are $24 billion in sales last I checked. Chick-fil-A last year was their 37th year in a row that they had at least 15% growth. In fact, last year was close to 17%, a little over. Man, they roughly double every five years. And so this little bitty regional brand who spends three to 5% of McDonald's spend on marketing and advertising has a 8x growth rate beyond them and just keeps doing…
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Medición y experimentosChick-fil-A mantuvo 37 años consecutivos con al menos un 15% de crecimiento anual (duplicando tamaño aproximadamente cada 5 años hasta acercarse a los $24 mil millones) gastando únicamente entre un 3% y un 5% del presupuesto publicitario de McDonald's en EE. UU., el cual supera los $1.5 mil millones.
But if you kind of read the indirect reports, experts say they spent over $1.5 billion in advertising and marketing in just the domestic U.S. So McDonald's on a good year grows 2%, which is pretty awesome. There are $24 billion in sales last I checked. Chick-fil-A last year was their 37th year in a row that they had at least 15% growth. In fact, last year was close to 17%, a little over. Man, they roughly double every five years. And so this little bitty regional brand who spends three to 5% of McDonald's spend on marketing and advertising has a 8x growth rate beyond them and just keeps doing…
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Medición y experimentosUna ubicación de Chick-fil-A genera más de 8 millones de dólares brutos al año operando únicamente 6 días por semana, triplicando el promedio por local de McDonald's (~2.6 a 3 millones de dólares en 7 días).
value of an individual Chick-fil-A franchise, like gross sales wise, is typically is doubled out of a McDonald's. They have cleared more than 8 million per location on how old it's ridiculous. And it's about 3 million for McDonald's and that. They're like 2.6, 2.7 million per location. So there's, they're almost triple McDonald's size. And by the way, that's in six days to their seven. It's like, if you did a day to day comparison, it's almost quadruple.
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Medición y experimentosUna ubicación de Chick-fil-A genera más de 8 millones de dólares brutos al año operando únicamente 6 días por semana, triplicando el promedio por local de McDonald's (~2.6 a 3 millones de dólares en 7 días).
value of an individual Chick-fil-A franchise, like gross sales wise, is typically is doubled out of a McDonald's. They have cleared more than 8 million per location on how old it's ridiculous. And it's about 3 million for McDonald's and that. They're like 2.6, 2.7 million per location. So there's, they're almost triple McDonald's size. And by the way, that's in six days to their seven. It's like, if you did a day to day comparison, it's almost quadruple.
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