Tony Hsieh
Tony Hsieh
Tony Hsiehis an American internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is the CEO of the online shoe and clothing shop Zappos. Prior to joining Zappos, Hsieh co-founded the internet advertising network LinkExchange, which he sold to Microsoft in 1999 for $265 million...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
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After what seemed like an eternity, we finally reached the summit just as the sun was rising. I couldn't believe that we had actually done it. We were standing at the highest point in all of Africa, looking down at the clouds below us, with the sun directly in front of us, its rays welcoming us to the beginning of a new day. It didn't seem like this was something that humans were meant to experience, yet here we were
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Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
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I believe that there's something interesting about anyone and everyone - you just have to figure out what that something is.
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SEO expertise is a core need for today's online businesses.
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You've gotta love the game. To become really good, you need to live it and sleep it.
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Our belief is that if you get the culture right, most of the other stuff, like great customer service, or building a great long-term brand or empowering passionate employees and customers, will happen on its own.
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Every employee can affect your company's brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.
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Your brand is your culture.
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Branding Through Customer Service Over the years, the number one driver of our growth at Zappos has been repeat customers and word of mouth. Our philosophy has been to take most of the money we would have spent on paid advertising and invest it into customer service and the customer experience instead, letting our customers do the marketing for us through word of mouth.
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Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.
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The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.
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Help shape the stories that people are telling about you.
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Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.
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Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself).