Alfred Lin: branding happiness

Alfred Lin delivers a keynote address at Real Estate Connect. Copyright 2009 Inman News

SAN FRANCISCO -- Figuring out your company's culture and deciding when it's necessary to change are two key steps to building a successful company and keeping it alive with a strong brand, said Alfred Lin, chief operating officer and chief financial officer of Zappos, arguably one of the best branding companies to use the Internet as its sales door.

At the Real Estate Connect conference on Thursday, Lin outlined many steps and values that all companies -- whether its shoes or real estate -- should follow. With a culture that employs a dream team of visionaries, scientists and artists, and where customers are happy because the employees are happy, Zappos's success has been largely driven by repeat customers. Customers will make 10 million Zappos purchases a month, and repeat customers will make 2.5 more purchases in the next 12 months.

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