Download or read book Exceptional Service Exceptional Profit written by Leonardo Inghilleri and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2010-04-14 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you could protect your business against competitive inroads, once and for all? Customer service experts Leonardo Inghilleri and Micah Solomon's anticipatory customer service approach was first developed at The Ritz-Carlton as well as at Solomon's company Oasis, and has since proven itself in countless companies around the globe--from luxury giant BVLGARI to value-sensitive auto parts leader Carquest and everywhere in between. Their experience shows that the most powerful growth engine in a tight market--and best protection from competitive inroads--is to put everything you can into cultivating true customer loyalty. Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit takes the techniques that minted money for these brands and reveals how you can apply them to your own business to provide the kind of exceptional service that nearly guarantees loyalty. Soon, you'll be reaping the benefits of loyal customers who are: less sensitive to price competition, more forgiving of small glitches, and, ultimately, who are "walking billboards" happily promoting your brand. Filled with detailed, behind-the-scenes examples, Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit unlocks a new level of customer relationship that leaves your competitors in the dust, your customers coming back day after day, and your bottom line looking better than it ever has before.

Download or read book Exceptional Customer Service written by Lisa Ford and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the going's tough, companies that survive will be those that build the greatest loyalty—by exceeding expectations. Yet, too often, companies ignore their customers' needs and wants. Today, industries like airlines, retail businesses, and restaurants are feeling consumer pushback. With new, updated examples from more than fifty companies—from Chik-Fil-A restaurants to the Ritz-Carlton hotel chain to online retailer Zappos.com—this book shows managers how to go from so-so service to amazing service. In today's market, customer service is a key competitive advantage. This book shows you how to expand your customer base when the industry is shrinking, use new media to reach consumers, and make a lasting, great impression on customers. When businesses are fighting to survive, creating a great experience for customers isnit just important—it's essential.

Download or read book Invisible Profits written by Robert Moment and published by Christian Books. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who will benefit from this customer service book Invisible Profits: The Power of Exceptional Customer Service. Everyone who has any interaction with potential customers and clients and existing customers and clients will benefit from this valuable customer service book. In this complete guide to exceptional customer service you will learn: (a) How to know exactly what your customer expects - and how to give it to them every time. (b) How exceptional customer service generates exceptional profits- and how to train this concept to your customer service team (c) How to create a positive work environment that benefits customers and employees and generates profits (d) How to manage stressful situations more effectively- you'll even learn how to deal with difficult coworkers ! (e) How to recognize customers' signs and behaviors so that you can meet their needs before they even know what they are. (f) Key tactics that will instantly calm emotional customers so you can solve their problems productively. Customers leave happy and become lifelong, loyal purchasers. Here are just some employment positions within corporations and small businesses that will benefit from this book: customer service representatives, billing specialists, call centers, service professionals, service professional firms, retail stores, field service representatives, account managers, sales professionals, small business owners, technical and support personnel and managers who want customer service training in order to reinforce their skills and train their staff.

Download or read book The Fred Factor written by Mark Sanborn and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2004-04-20 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true story of an ordinary mail carrier whose approach to work and life has the power to transform the everyday into the extraordinary—now in an updated twentieth-anniversary edition “This beloved business classic has inspired millions of people over the years, and today Mark Sanborn’s transformative insights are more timely and necessary than ever.”—Jon Gordon, author of The Energy Bus and co-author of The Coffee Bean Meet Fred. In this timeless and powerful book, Mark Sanborn, member of the Speaker Hall of Fame, recounts the true story of Fred, an ordinary USPS carrier who introduced himself one day shortly after Sanborn had moved to a new home in Denver. Fred, however, was no average mailman. As Sanborn came to discover, Fred was the kind of worker who exemplifies everything “right” with customer service. Did people want packages left on the porch or prefer a notice to pick them up at the post office? Fred made sure he knew the answer. When another delivery service left a package at the wrong house, Fred shepherded it safely to the intended recipient. Others might have seen delivering mail as routine work, but Fred seized the chance to find meaning in the mundane, competing with himself every day to find opportunities to make his customers smile. We’ve all encountered people like Fred. In this deeply inspiring book, Sanborn illuminates the four basic principles anyone can use to bring fresh energy and creativity to our work and life: how to make a tangible difference every day, build stronger relationships, create real value for others without spending a penny, and constantly reinvent yourself. In this updated edition, Sanborn speaks to the seismic changes that have transformed the world of work in recent years—with employees increasingly hungry for purpose in their jobs—and outlines the book’s fresh applications. By following his principles, you, too, can find more excitement, fulfillment, and success in your career—and in your life.

Download or read book 5 Star Service written by Michael Heppell and published by Financial Times/Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the book that will show you how to ensure customers are raving about your products and services and come back for more. Five Star Service 2nd edition is an easy read, high impact title from the bestselling author of How to Be Brilliant, Michael Heppell. In this book he gives you over 100 instant tips, 50 examples of the best practices, over a dozen brand new techniques and multiple strategies to equip you with a winning edge to knockout your customers and help you · Delight your customers every time · Deliver remarkable results that will keep them coming back for more · Win more customers without spending a fortune · Get repeat orders and referrals from everyone you encounter Whether it’s studying the Disney parking system or enrolling students at colle≥ going behind the scenes in the world’s top hotels or becoming the office hero, Five Star Service will show you how to wow your customers, colleagues and cohorts.

Download or read book Delight Your Customers written by Steve Curtin and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the hidden ways to raise your organizations’ customer service experiences from ordinary to extraordinary. If you want to know how strong your company’s customer service is, ask your employees to describe what their work entails. Then pay attention to whether they simply list their duties and tasks or if they speak to the true essence of their job--to create delighted customers who will be less price sensitive, have higher repurchase rates, and enthusiastically recommend the company or brand to others. The latter should be every employee’s highest priority, because when it’s not, your customers are merely the recipients of a transaction, not an experience, and transactions do not make for a lasting impression or inspire loyalty. In Delight Your Customers, customer service expert Steve Curtin makes a compelling case that customer service managers need to shift from monitoring service activities to modeling, recognizing, and reinforcing the behaviors that create happy and returning customers. Things such as: Expressing genuine interest Offering sincere compliments Sharing unique knowledge Conveying authentic enthusiasm Providing pleasant surprises Delivering service heroics when needed Simply based on their own personal experiences, everyone knows that great customer service is rare. So why wouldn’t you want to provide a unique, caring, and beneficial experience for all your customers to rave about with others? With the real-world stories, examples, and strategies shared in Delight Your Customers, you can take the customer service experience you offer from ordinary to extraordinary.

Download or read book Define and Deliver Exceptional Customer Service written by Kelly Henry and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not just about customer service. It's about how to run a business. It doesn't matter the business size or type because treating customers should be the same. It should be exceptional.

Download or read book The Ten Principles Behind Great Customer Experiences written by Matt Watkinson and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to create a competitive advantage for your business by offering a customer experience that’s second to none! By following a simple “ten principles” format, this book will show you how to constantly improve and build your business. The combination of psychological theory, real world case studies, worked examples and template documents provides the ‘what, why and how’ necessary to make good ideas stick and get them into practical usage, so you can enhance your customers’ experiences and keep them returning again and again. Featuring lessons from a host of winning companies such as Facebook, Lush Cosmetics, Gü puddings and John Lewis, the book is littered with uncomplicated ideas which are simple to implement and accessible to anyone.

Download or read book The Effortless Experience written by Matthew Dixon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows that the best way to create customer loyalty is with service so good, so over the top, that it surprises and delights. But what if everyone is wrong? In their acclaimed bestseller The Challenger Sale, Matthew Dixon and his colleagues at CEB busted many longstanding myths about sales. Now they’ve turned their research and analysis to a new vital business subject—customer loyalty—with a new book that turns the conventional wisdom on its head. The idea that companies must delight customers by exceeding service expectations is so entrenched that managers rarely even question it. They devote untold time, energy, and resources to trying to dazzle people and inspire their undying loyalty. Yet CEB’s careful research over five years and tens of thousands of respondents proves that the “dazzle factor” is wildly overrated—it simply doesn’t predict repeat sales, share of wallet, or positive wordof-mouth. The reality: Loyalty is driven by how well a company delivers on its basic promises and solves day-to-day problems, not on how spectacular its service experience might be. Most customers don’t want to be “wowed”; they want an effortless experience. And they are far more likely to punish you for bad service than to reward you for good service. If you put on your customer hat rather than your manager or marketer hat, this makes a lot of sense. What do you really want from your cable company, a free month of HBO when it screws up or a fast, painless restoration of your connection? What about your bank—do you want free cookies and a cheerful smile, even a personal relationship with your teller? Or just a quick in-and-out transaction and an easy way to get a refund when it accidentally overcharges on fees? The Effortless Experience takes readers on a fascinating journey deep inside the customer experience to reveal what really makes customers loyal—and disloyal. The authors lay out the four key pillars of a low-effort customer experience, along the way delivering robust data, shocking insights and profiles of companies that are already using the principles revealed by CEB’s research, with great results. And they include many tools and templates you can start applying right away to improve service, reduce costs, decrease customer churn, and ultimately generate the elusive loyalty that the “dazzle factor” fails to deliver. The rewards are there for the taking, and the pathway to achieving them is now clearly marked.

Download or read book Great Customer Connections written by Richard S. Gallagher and published by Amacom Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To provide the ultimate in customer service, every member of the service team needs to turn customer interactions into "peak experiences." Filled with effective techniques that borrow from principles of psychology, Great Customer Connections presents a unique step-by-step program that lets you: connect with customer's individual personalities; use the "secret phrases" that make customers feel great; tell them anything without upsetting them; stop having to say "no" - permanently; and defuse any crisis and take command of each interaction - even with your most difficult and unclear customers."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Legendary Service The Key is to Care written by Ken Blanchard and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2014-04-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take Care of Your Customers--or Someone Else Will! Legendary Service Great customer service is a concept organizations love to be known for. Yet most people consider the service they receive to be average, at best. Successful companies make the connection between legendary customer service and a thriving business--they recognize that the way employees treat customers is directly related to the way managers treat employees. Kelsey Young is an optimistic but disillusioned sales associate working her way through college. Her world opens up when one of her professors challenges her to create a culture of service at her workplace by putting the five components of Legendary Service into practice. Although Ferguson's, the store where Kelsey works, certainly isn't known for service excellence, Kelsey believes she can make a positive difference. She quickly learns that culture change isn't easy--and that her role as a frontline employee is more significant than she ever could have imagined. In characteristic Blanchard style, Legendary Service: The Key Is to Care is a quick and entertaining read for people at all organizational levels in every industry. When applied, its lessons will have a profound impact on the service experience your customers will receive. Whether a CEO or a part-time employee, every person can make a difference--and customer service is everyone's job. PRAISE FOR LEGENDARY SERVICE: "Read this book and establish a service culture in your organization." -- Horst Schulze, Chairman/CEO, Capella Hotel Group "Legendary Service has great learnings for people at all organizational levels: for executives and managers, the value of a service culture; and for frontline staff, the reality that they are the face of the company and can make a difference. Legendary service--it's everyone, always." -- Mark King, CEO and President, TaylorMade Golf "Everything I know about service I learned from my career at Hilton Hotels, Marriott International, The Walt Disney Company, and Ken Blanchard. The One Minute Manager dramatically changed my thinking 32 years ago. Legendary Service will teach the next generation how to deliver sensational service. Buy it, study it, implement it." -- Lee Cockerell, Executive Vice President, Walt Disney World (Retired & Inspired), and author of Creating Magic and The Customer Rules "Kathy Cuff and Vicki Halsey have created a fantastic customer service model called ICARE. When you add their voices to that of the master storyteller Ken Blanchard, you have a masterpiece entitled Legendary Service. It is a must-read for everyone who, like me, has a passion for service." -- Colleen Barrett, President Emeritus, Southwest Airlines, and coauthor of Lead with LUV "Ken Blanchard has done it again and delivered the right book at the right time. Legendary Service provides the essentials of hospitality and servant leadership in a way that everyone can adopt--right now--today!" -- John Caparella, President and COO, The Venetian, The Palazzo, and Sands Expo "Ken, Kathy, and Vicki show us how to change everyday service events into memorable experiences. Their book is a must-read for anyone unwilling to accept mediocrity." -- Leonardo Inghilleri, coauthor of Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit

Download or read book What s the Secret written by John R. DiJulius, III and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's the Secret? gives you an inside look at the world-class customer service strategies of some of today's best companies. You'll learn how companies like Disney, Nordstrom, and The Ritz-Carlton get 50,000 employees to deliver world-class customer service on a consistent basis- and how your company can too. Packed with insider knowledge and a wealth of proven best practices, author John DiJulius will show you how your company can emulate the world's best customer service providers.

Download or read book The Customer Service Revolution written by John R. DiJulius and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Customer Service Revolution, DiJulius points out how numerous companies have made Customer service their biggest competitive advantage, are dominating their industries, and have made price irrelevant. As a result of this Customer service revolution, people are being treated differently, better, and in a way like never before. This is a result of how companies and management are treating their employees and how employees are treating each other and the Customer—which ultimately permeates into people’s personal lives at home and in their communities. Can the way you run your business or treat your Customers have an effect on the world at large? John DiJulius will show you just that! Drawing on years of experience consulting with the top customer service companies around the world and in his role building his first business, John Robert’s Spa, into one of the top 20 salons in the US, DiJulius will show you exactly how to create your very own Customer service revolution and make price irrelevant.

Download or read book Quest for the Best written by Stanley Marcus and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Quest for the Best is not just a nostalgic look, however, at the age of handcrafted elegance. Marcus gives good advice on how consumers can educate themselves about the best, demand it, and get it. He describes his own experiences with the best in chapters such as "The Things You Love to Touch" and "Bed and Board." Witty, urbane, but always accessible, Marcus is a joy to read."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Brilliant Customer Service written by Debra Stevens and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keep them coming back for more Brilliant Customer Service is your guide to help you deliver exceptional customer service and keep your customers coming back time and time and again. It’s for anyone involved in any organisation – whether you run your own business, manage people or you are a customer facing employee. It doesn’t matter what your budget is, you’ll find lots of simple changes you can implement right now to build a highly successful customer service strategy. BRILLIANT OUTCOMES · Identify your customers real needs and how best to meet them · Build trust and long term loyalty with your customers to stay ahead of the competition · Make sure you are remembered and recommended

Download or read book Award winning Customer Service written by Renee Evenson and published by Amacom. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Award-Winning Customer Service" offers scores of quick tips for readers looking to improve and then maintain their company's level of customer service. The book is filled with practical advice on planning and goal-setting, effective communication, leadership, and other topics.

Download or read book Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy written by Harvard Business Review and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most companies waste billions of dollars on technology. Don't be one of them. If you need the best practices and ideas for unleashing technology's strategic potential--but don't have time to find them--this book is for you. Here are eight inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place. This collection of HBR articles will help you: - Clarify corporate strategy with your IT department - Fund only IT projects that support your strategy - Transform IT investments into profits - Build one technology platform for your entire organization - Adopt new technologies only when their best practices are established - Use analytics to make smart decisions at all levels of your company - Integrate social media into your business