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Podcast Interview: Why advocacy matters to mall-based specialty apparel retailers

Laura VanTine, a Managing Consultant with IBM Global Business Services talks with Maureen Stancik Boyce, PhD, an Associate Partner and the Distribution Sector Team Leader for the IBM Institute for Business Value
IBM Institute for Business Value study
Industry: Retail services
Last updated: 15 Jan 2009
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In apparel retailing, a mature and intensely competitive market with increasingly diverse and well-informed customers, competitive differentiation is more important and more difficult to sustain than ever. However, attracting and keeping loyal customers depends upon it. A new IBM Institute for Business Value survey of more than 4,000 U.S. apparel consumers identifies the attributes that drive customer advocacy. These attributes can help apparel retailers find new ways to differentiate their businesses and pursue customer-focused initiatives and investments with greater precision and success.

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Laura VanTine
Guest:Maureen Stancik Boyce, PhD, Associate Partner and the Distribution Sector Team Leader for the IBM Institute for Business Value.
Length:10 mins, 45 secs
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