The Allegiance Engage Summit 2010 will be held on May 16 – 19, 2010 at the Chateaux Resort at Silver Lake in Deer Valley, Utah.

In this blog post, the author discusses how if you listen to customer feedback, it can show you where and how to gain a competitive advantage, and even improve your customer loyalty and engagement.

The National Credit Union Association (NCUA)’s Corporate Stabilization Program will have a significant impact on credit unions. There will be a cost to every credit union, but no one yet knows exactly how much or how many times credit unions will be asked to contribute. At some level the challenge facing credit unions is the same challenge we are all facing: How can we get by with less? Read this article to learn about at least one way to make that happen.

There are a number of well known and popular ways that companies try to measure their overall customer satisfaction and loyalty. Traditional, overall satisfaction questions are still widely in use and provide a good idea of overall customer sentiment. However, they’re typically only a stepping stone on the way to engagement. And this blog entry explores why.

There is a direct connection between employee engagement and customer engagement, otherwise known as “The Spillover Effect”. In this blog post, Dr. Gary Rhoads, Allegiance Loyalty and Engagement Expert, discusses this link, and some research that shows why and how the work environment, combined with employee attitudes, can have a significant impact on a customer’s perception of quality.

In the current economy, there is a very real and growing concern about how to gain and to keep customers. In stressful times such as these, many companies tend to pull away from their customers, and may even cut back on ‘satisfaction and loyalty’ programs to try and improve their bottom line. This, unfortunately, is a mistake because it cuts at the very heart of what we all need to be doing during this time – engaging customers to the point that they are willing to ride out tough economic times with us, rather than viewing us as yet another business that really doesn’t care about its customers.