CUSTOMER services

CUSTOMER services

 
Customer Care Excellence Cook, Sarah Kogan Page Ltd. , 2011 Customer Focus

Organizations that develop and sustain a customer focus have an essential competitive advantage in today's service economy. Customer-savvy companies understand that this hinges on fundamentally transforming the way a...

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Pay Attention! Thomas, Ann | Applegate, Jill John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2010 Customer Focus, Marketing

In Pay Attention!, Ann Thomas and Jill Applegate present a guide for addressing the customer service challenge in a modern age where consumers are more skeptical, demanding, and self-reliant. Things...

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Delivering Happiness Hsieh, Tony Business Plus , 2010 Business Biographies, Customer Focus

Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos and one of the most widely successful e-commerce vendors on the Internet, has quickly risen through the ranks of corporate America. He has established himself as one of the premier thought...

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The Power of Business Process Improvement Page, Susan AMACOM , 2010 Business Strategy, Productivity

Most aspects of business equate to a process. However, those processes are frequently not as efficient or effective as they could be. Business process improvement or BPI can help companies demonstrate greater customer...

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Service Innovation Bettencourt, Lance A. McGraw-Hill , 2010 Innovation

In Service Innovation, innovation strategist Lance A. Bettencourt shows marketers what they need to do to ensure that customers’ service needs are met. Based on the author’s nearly 20 years of...

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Your Call Is (not that) Important to Us Yellin, Emily Free Press , 2009 Customer Focus

Based on interviews with industry professionals at various levels as well as hard-to-believe but true reports of bad customer service, Your Call Is (not that) Important to Us investigates the inner...

 
 
What's the Secret? DiJulius, John R. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2008 Customer Focus

In What’s the Secret?, businessman and customer service consultant John R. DiJulius III reveals the success of his and other companies using Secret Service, hidden systems that use customer...

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Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit Inghilleri, Leonardo | Solomon, Micah AMACOM , 2010 Customer Focus

The key to a successful business is customer loyalty. Building enduring business relationships is a timeless strategy that transcends factors that are out of a service organization’s control, including technological...

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The Four Pillars of Profit-Driven Marketing Moeller, Leslie H. | Landry, Edward C. | Kinni, Theodore McGraw-Hill , 2009 Marketing

Traditionally, marketers have focused on the “four Ps”: product, price, place, and promotion. Marketing spending, however, can be a large expense for companies and it is often unclear whether that spending leads to the...

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Truth Upshaw, Lynn AMACOM , 2007 Marketing

It seems that the harder marketers sell, the less likely buyers are willing to listen. And the more marketers try to infiltrate the world of consumers, the more skeptical buyers become, ultimately questioning the...

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