Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Customer Relations

The Harry Potter books are the bestselling books of all time. In this fascinating study, Susan Gunelius analyzes every aspect of the brand phenomenon that is Harry Potter. Delving into price wars, box office revenue, and brand values, amongst other things, this is the story of the most incredible brand success there has ever been.

Do you need to deliver an effective service to challenging and unreasonable internal or external clients? Do you worry that you'll lose business or take a reputational hit if you don't do so well enough? This book introduces a valuable set of tools through which to build, maintain and manage your client-facing relationships.

Learn the powerful techniques of NLP to enhance your influence and gain the competitive edge in any sales pitch. This practical guide to using NLP in sales includes real life examples to illustrate techniques that have amazed sales people with many years experience. It also contains easy to follow exercises and tips to practice in real situations. This book will enable you to use powerful NLP techniques to increase sales, develop trust & rapport, handle any challenge and close a sale elegantly and effectively. Focusing on the sales person as facilitator, this book will also reveal the six...

'Brilliant Customer Service' reveals how to keep the emotional scale tipped in your favour, why silence is never golden, how to turn complaints into opportunities, and provide a brilliant customer experience with little or no money. It includes real case studies from different types of businesses to illustrate the ideas.

Overall WINNER - CMI Management Book of the Year 2014

WINNER - Innovation & Entrpreneurship Category at the CMI Awards 2014

Create a great customer experience whoever you are.

Customers are powerful. They have a loud voice, a wealth of choice and their expectations are higher than ever.

This book covers ten principles you can use to make real world improvements to your customers' experiences, whatever your business does and whoever you are.

For managers, leaders...

Corporate clients are demanding more value from their external advisors, and consolidating their business around a smaller number of firms. These trends are forcing a variety of service providers--from consulting firms to large banks--to confront a series of difficult challenges:

• How do we create an 'all-for-one, one-for-all' culture in which the whole is greater than the sum-of-the-parts and we succeed in leveraging our global network to deliver value to clients?"
• How do we mobilize the right people, resources, and ideas--across a multitude of organizational and geographic...

Praise for Selling Luxury

"Genevieve and Robin have brought together their talents to create a book that gives all Sales Ambassadors the fundamentals in selling and building customer loyalty."
--Hamida Belkadi, CEO, De Beers Diamond Jewellers, USA

"Selling Luxury is filled with ways of exceeding each client's expectations through offering a service that surprises and delights."
--Aaron Simpson, Group Executive Chairman, Quintessentiall

What does it take to sell high-end luxury creations to the richest clients in the world? In Selling...

A step-by-step guide to designing and implementing an amazing customer service culture

In today's competitive business environment, keeping customers happy is the key to long-term success. But some businesses provide much better customer service than others. It's not always clear what works and what doesn't, and implementing new customer service practices midstream can be a difficult, chaotic task. Business leaders who want to transform their business culture into one of customer service excellence need reliable, proven guidance.

Unleashing Excellence gives you...

Make customer feedback work for your business.

Customers are speaking loud and clear through a miriad of mediums. Evidence shows that customers will no longer stand for the hurried and complacent service that has become the norm. They are looking for a positive, memorable experience. Organizations that provide that level of service will earn their loyalty. Customers base their decisions on nothing more than a positive or negative review of your product and/or service.

Pay Attention paves the way. Your company wins when you:

• Understand Customer...

Tips on making your call center a genuine profit center

In North America, call centers are a $13 billion business, employing 4 million people. For managers in charge of a call center operation, this practical, user-friendly guide outlines how to improve results measurably, following its principles of revenue generation, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. In addition, this new edition addresses many industry changes, such as the new technology that's transforming today's call center and the location-neutral call center. It also helps readers determine whether it's cost-efficient to...

"Larry's thoughts on customers, culture and talent are immensely valuable for any business, anywhere in the world."
--Sheldon S. Wiseman, President & CEO, Amberwood Entertainment Corp.

"For Larry the relationship between customers and profitability is intuitive and effortless. By reading his book you will be galvanised to do something about it at a time when it couldn't matter more."
--Amanda Mackenzie, Chief Marketing Officer, Aviva

"Larry Hochman understands the business zeitgeist exceptionally well. The Relationship Revolution brings together what...

Strong customer-focused companies have a clear, relevant promise which they obsessively deliver day-in, day-out. At the same time, they relentlessly drive the market by evolving the offer in the face of market developments and opportunities. Because they meet customer needs better than the competition, again and again, they are able to generate sustainable, profitable, market-leading organic growth. The problem the book addresses is how to achieve this. The authors identify five key steps using their framework for success:

• Offer a clear, relevant customer promise
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The customer plays a pivotal role in a business organization. Be it a service provider or product manufacturer, the business survives in the pockets and on the goodwill of its customers.

Praise for Mike Russill, Vice-President, Retail, Sunoco Inc. Catherine Neville, President, Quality Management Institute Dan Plashkes, President, S&P Data Philip C. Brown, Senior Vice-President, Telebanking and Alternate Channels, Bank of Montreal Brenda Anderson, Executive Director, International Customer Service Association J.A. Sinex, III, Manager, Global Integrated Services Team, External Affairs, DuPont Breakthrough Customer Service Best Practices of Leaders in Customer Support -An impressive array of experts and industry winners provide a virtual road map through the major changes...

Practical strategies for better customer service based on the principles
of servant-leadership
Individuals in the workforce and the clients they serve are the fundamental building blocks of every company in America. Executives talk about customer service; but their employees are the ones who make it happen (or not). Author Ray Pelletier reveals the vital importance of a happy workforce in creating a happy client. By caring for employees, managers create an environment in which employees can care for customers. This book shows senior leaders, managers, and supervisors how to...

In Loyalty Myths, the authors have assembled 53 of the most common beliefs about customer loyalty - all of them wrong or misconceived Each of the beliefs in this book is debunked with real-world examples. While other books speak in platitudes; this book is the only one to validate each proposition with real data.

Granted unprecedented access to customer records from a variety of multi-national corporations. Through these records, Ipsos Loyalty was able to precisely track the impact of this customer-centric construct on actual purchasing behavior. The authors'...

The Third Edition of A GUIDE TO CUSTOMER SERVICE SKILLS FOR THE SERVICE DESK PROFESSIONAL explores the changing role of the service desk professional. Each chapter expands upon a particular skill required to provide effective customer support and provides proven techniques for implementing the concepts. Research, references, and resources have been updated in each chapter, and ITIL vocabulary and concepts are reflected throughout the text. New information is also incorporated, such as a discussion of general trends currently affecting the information technology industry and technology trends...

Customer satisfaction and loyalty are key differentiators between the better and poorer performing businesses in most markets. Satisfaction drives loyalty and loyalty drives business performance. This new edition of How to Measure Customer Satisfaction takes readers step-by-step through designing and implementing a CSM survey, highlighting blunders that are commonly made and explaining how to make sure that the measures produced are accurate and credible. It also covers ways of gaining understanding and ownership of the CSM programme throughout the organization and clarifies the business case...

'Scoring Points' tells the story of how Tesco Clubcard was conceived, launched and developed. It shows how Tesco made customer loyalty marketing work, when almost every other loyalty programme failed.

With more choice than ever before, customers today have high expectations of products and services. Businesses need a top-notch customer services system in place, and Customer Care Excellence explains how to achieve just that.

In clear, practical language, this book explains how to develop and sustain a customer-service focus within a company. Emphasizing both strategic and practical aspects of customer service, the author explains how gaining customer commitment and motivating employees to deliver excellent service can ensure successful results and satisfied customers.

This...