Zappos - Amazon - 02-25-10

Delivering Happiness Tony Hsieh – CEO [email_address] Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/ zappos Amazon February 25, 2010

A Little About Me (Tony)

Zappos at a Glance Corporate Background
Founded in 1999
1500 employees (half in Las Vegas headquarters, half in Kentucky)
#15 in FORTUNE MAGAZINE’s “100 Best Companies To Work For” in 2010
Second year in a row to make the list
Zappos is “Powered by Service”
Providing the best online shopping experience possible.
Fast, Free Shipping. Free return shipping. 365-day return policy.
Fast fulfillment. Expedited delivery. Fast, friendly & expert customer service.
Best selection
Over 1,000 brands
Millions of items in warehouse
100% of products inventoried (no drop ship).
Zappos is a service company that happens to sell clothing, shoes, handbags, eyewear, watches (and eventually a bunch of other stuff).

Recent Recognition: Nice, but we pay more attention to our customers
TV Stories
Oprah (2008/2009)
ABC Nightline (2008)
Fortune “100 Best Companies to Work For”
#23 (2009) – Highest ranking newcomer to list
#15 (2010) – Second year in a row to make the list
Fast Company “50 Most Innovative Companies”
#20 (2009)
BusinessWeek Top 25 “Customer Service Champs”
#7 (2009)

Customer service value proposition in action… Zappos is committed to WOWing every customer.
Customers come…
Over 12 million total purchasing customers
Over 5 million have purchased in the last 12 months
Customers come back…
On any given day, about 75% of purchases from returning customers
Repeat customers order >2.5x in the next 12 months

Power of repeat customers and word of mouth...

Customer Service: What customers first see
24/7 1-800 number on every page
Free shipping
Free return shipping
365-day return policy

Customer Service: What customers experience
Fast, accurate fulfillment
Most repeat customers are “surprise”-upgraded to overnight shipping
Friendly, helpful “above and beyond” customer service
Occasionally direct customers to competitors’ web sites

Customer Service: What we do internally
No call times, no sales-based performance goals for reps.
The telephone is one of the best branding devices available.
Run warehouse 24/7. Inventory all product (no drop-shipping).

Customer Service: It comes from our culture
4 weeks of culture, core values, customer service training for everyone in Las Vegas headquarters
We’ll pay you $2000 to quit
Culture Book
Interviews & performance reviews are 50% based on core values & culture fit
Twitter helps build company culture

Owning the 3 C’s
C lothing
C ustomer Service
C ulture

Clothing

Customer Service

Culture

Owning the 3 C’s: C lothing, C ustomer Service, C ulture C ustomer Service C lothing C ulture

Zappos Delivering Happiness (customers and employees)
“ People may not remember exactly what you did or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel.”

CULTURE
“ Committable Core Values”

Zappos Core Values
Deliver WOW Through Service
Embrace and Drive Change
Create Fun and a Little Weirdness
Be Adventurous, Creative, and Open-Minded
Pursue Growth and Learning
Build Open and Honest Relationships With Communication
Build a Positive Team and Family Spirit
Do More with Less
Be Passionate and Determined
Be Humble

COMMITTING TO TRANSPARENCY
“ Be real and you have nothing to fear”
Your culture is your brand
Don’t try to be someone you are not

Commitment to Transparency: Examples
twitter.zappos.com
“ Ask Anything” newsletter
Extranet for vendors
Tours & reporter visits
ZapposInsights.com
Zappos Insights Live events

Evolution of Zappos Brand Transcends shoes & service
1999 Selection
2003 Customer Service
2005 Culture and core values as our platform
2007 Personal Emotional Connection
2009 Delivering Happiness

TAKE A STEP BACK What is your goal in life?

WHAT IS YOUR GOAL IN LIFE? Grow Company Get a Great Job Boyfriend / Girlfriend Be Healthy Retire Early Make Money Find Soul Mate Run Faster Spend Time w/ Family Buy A Home Get Married Run A Marathon why? why? why? why? why? why? why? why? HAPPINESS why? why? why? why?

RESEARCH HAS SHOWN:
HAPPINESS
People are very bad at predicting what will bring them sustained happiness.
“ When I get ___, I will be happy.”
“ When I achieve ___, I will be happy.”

HAPPINESS:
There is a SCIENCE behind many aspects of business including:
conversion
psychology of buying
direct marketing
customer acquisition metrics
repeat customer behavior, etc.
What if you spent just 10% of your time studying and learning the SCIENCE of HAPPINESS ?
How much HAPPIER could you be?

WHAT IS YOUR GOAL IN LIFE? Grow Company Get a Great Job Boyfriend / Girlfriend Be Healthy Retire Early Make Money Find Soul Mate Run Faster Spend Time w/ Family Buy A Home Get Married Run A Marathon why? why? why? why? why? why? why? why? HAPPINESS why? why? why? why?

A Few Different Frameworks of HAPPINESS

Perceived Control
Perceived Progress
Connectedness
Vision / Meaning
(Being part of something bigger than yourself)
A FEW DIFFERENT FRAMEWORKS ON HAPPINESS:

Maslow’s Hierarchy:

Rock Star
(Pleasure – chasing the next high)
Flow
(Engagement – time flies)
Meaning /Higher Purpose
(Being part of something bigger than yourself)
3 TYPES OF HAPPINESS time time time

RECOMMENDED BOOKS:
PEAK
Chip Conley
TRIBAL LEADERSHIP
Dave Logan, John King & Halee Fischer-Wright
FOUR HOUR WORK WEEK
Tim Ferriss
HAPPINESS HYPOTHESIS
Jonathan Haidt

Put a little Zappos in your day… …some links to check out…
Follow me on Twitter: @zappos
http://twitter.com/zappos
http://twitter.zappos.com (public mentions, employees)
http://bit.ly/twitterbetter - “How Twitter Can Make You a Better (And Happier) Person”
http://blogs.zappos.com (photos & videos of culture)
http://about.zappos.com (more information about us & core values)
http://www.zapposinsights.com (video Q&A, book recommendations)
http://jobs.zappos.com (job opportunities)

Put a little Zappos in your day… …to contact me or get a tour…
Email [email_address] for:
A copy of this presentation
Copies of our culture book
(need physical mailing address)
Email [email_address] for:
Tour of our offices when you’re next in Las Vegas
(takes about 45-60 minutes)
We’ll pick you up from the airport or your hotel in a Zappos Shuttle!

Profits Passion Purpose GREAT BUSINESS

HAPPINESS time time time GREAT BUSINESS Profits Passion Purpose Pleasure Passion Purpose

What % of your time do you want to spend learning about the SCIENCE of HAPPINESS?
How can the SCIENCE of HAPPINESS help your business, your brand, and yourself?

If the research shows that
vision / meaning / higher purpose
leads to happiness…
What is your higher purpose?

Delivering HAPPINESS

Delivering Happiness Tony Hsieh – CEO [email_address] Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/ zappos For Zappos HQ Tours, email: [email_address]

Legal and Financial Disclaimer
P.S. You might be wondering why we need to have a legal and financial disclaimer in this presentation, but you are still reading, so our lawyers, auditors and accountants would really like to make sure we make the following clarifications.
Although an audit was underway and almost done, the financial information presented in this slide show was unaudited. We made every effort to present the best information we had at the time.
Gross merchandise sales is a non-GAAP metric. We use it to express the total demand across all of our web sites and stores. This number measures the dollar value of the orders placed in the year before accruing for certain items such as returns, and it ignores certain timing cut-offs that are required by GAAP for revenue recognition purposes. If we were a public company, we would have to reconcile gross merchandise sales to the nearest GAAP metric (net sales), but we are currently a private company so the gross merchandise sales number should be viewed just as an interesting number that we want to share with our friends.
This presentation contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they ever materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements and assumptions. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the risk of economic slowdown, the risk of over or underbuying, the risk of consumers not shopping online or at our web site at the rate we expected, the risk of supplier shortages, the risk of new or growing competition, the risk of a natural or some other type of disaster affecting our fulfillment operations or web servers, and the risk of the world generally coming to an end. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including statements of expectation or belief; and any statement of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Zappos.com assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.
Congratulations on making it through all the fine print. If you enjoy fine print, look for openings on our legal and finance team at jobs.zappos.com .

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