Stages of customer loyalty Case: Jerry Singleton founded Montana Mountain Biking (MMB) 16 years ago. MMB offers one-week guided mountain biking expeditions based in four Montana locations. Most of MMB’s new customers hear about the company and its tours from existing customers. Many of MMB’s customers come back every year for a mountainbiking expedition; about 80 percent of the riders on any given expedition are repeat customers. Jerry is happy with this high repeat percentage‚ but he is worried
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Green Mountain Resort Green mountain resorts issues were related to staffing and problems with turnover. The management had worked hard to get employees that would be willing to stay no matter that the location of the resort was not the best area of the state. The employees did not have the availability of promotions and advancement. Once they were trained they would move to the larger resorts leaving behind the staff that was not properly trained yet. This is the main problem with staff turnover
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the last mountain gorillas that still live freely. Mountain Gorillas are an endangered species who live a peaceful life. But now‚ due to logging and hunting‚ their population is decreasing. Most of the mountain gorillas that are left‚ live in Rrowanda‚ a small country in Africa. There is a lot of work being done to try to protect these majestic creatures. These gorillas are soon going to be extinct‚ unless we stop and realize what we are doing to them. There are many reasons why mountain gorillas
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marketing operations of the Mountain Man Beer Company‚ a family-owned business he stands to inherit in five years. Mountain Man brews just one beer‚ Mountain Man Lager‚ also known as "West Virginia ’s beer" and popular among blue-collar workers. Due to changes in beer drinkers ’ taste preferences‚ the company is now experiencing declining sales for the first time in its history. In response‚ Chris wants to launch Mountain Man Light‚ a "light beer" formulation of Mountain Man Lager‚ in the hope of attracting
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(2013) (S2453406) Sierra Turner Points possible: 20 Date: ____________ This is your journal activity. Complete the prewriting steps below before moving on to the journal response. Read and Paraphrase Read the text below from The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday: Great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass‚ popping up like corn to sting the flesh‚ and tortoises crawl about on the red earth‚ going nowhere in plenty of time. Loneliness is an aspect of the land
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Summer Mountains Summer Mountain is an exquisite painting of a landscape in China. It is painted on a hand scroll made of silk with ink and pale colors. The painting is from the Northern Song dynasty 960-1127 in the 11th century. The painting was attributed to Qu Ding {Chinese‚ active ca. 1023-ca. 1056}("Attributed to Qu Ding: Summer Mountains (1973.120.1)". Included in this paper is why I choose this work‚ an assessments to its subject matter and content‚ and the works value in China and western
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The Way to Rainy Mountain The title of N. Scott Momaday’s "The Way to Rainy Mountain" encapsulates the theme of a journey that permeates the story. In the story‚ a young man journeys to the grave of his grandmother along the same route that her people‚ the Kiowas‚ took across America before settling on the southern Plains. The young man’s grandmother had never undergone the journey that she so often told stories about‚ and yet she seemed to have experienced it through the memories of others that
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Mountain Man Light – To be or not to be? The problem: Should MMBC launch Mountain Man Light? Mountain Man brand image: Quality taste‚ competitive pricing‚ higher-than-average alcohol content‚ “working man’s beer”‚ regional loyalty‚ generations in the family business. Customer Base: 81% male‚ 19% female. The large majority of drinkers is between 45 and 54 at 32%. 47% make less than 49.9K/year. The mountain man brand has a loyal following. Why? Grass roots marketing. Off premise consumption. Effective
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The Way to Rainy Mountain In Scott Momaday’s introductory paragraph of “The Way to Rainy Mountain” he uses figurative language to show his love for the land in Oklahoma. As a Kiowa‚ he describes the land with such intimacy‚ that it seems as if he owns the land and he is one with the land. He starts the paragraph with a descriptive image of the Wichita Range: “A single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma”. He describes the weather with extreme exaggeration‚ “winter brings blizzards‚ hot tornadic
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A Tale of the Ragged Mountain By: Edgar Allen Poe Whenever I hear someone say‚ “Edgar Allen Poe” I often get the same feeling. Most of his stories put me to sleep but there are few I like. This short story was okay‚ at times it could have put me to sleep but then there was interesting parts too. In the beginning of the story I believed that Mr. Bedloe really took a trip in the mountains and I remember‚ as I was reading‚ what would I do in his shoes. Mr. Bedloe just kind of went with it and
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