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What if you could guarantee your customers an amazing experience, and then deliver on that promise every time? The Guaranteed Customer Experience is a step-by-step guide to earning customer-driven growth. Discover how experience guarantees can help you win more customers, improve retention, and restore trust after service failures.

Customer success is all about employing certain "soft" skills and techniques that are guaranteed to help you win over everyone's trust, respect and sponsorship. And anyone, at any level can master these skills.

It is commonly believed that the work of a waiter consists of taking orders and carrying dishes properly. However, this book aims to give new meaning to the profession and show that the true value of a waiter lies in their ability to help us have a nice time while we recharge our energies.

A "one-size fits all" approach to customer service is no longer viable. Businesses competing on service need to understand and cater to customers' racial, ethnic, religious, generational, and geographic differences in order to meet or exceed customers' service expectations. Crafting the Customer Experience for People Not like You explains how companies, brands, and products struggling to differentiate themselves in a sea of sameness can foster long-term loyalty and brand preference with exceptional and customized customer service.

Are you ready for the age of the never satisfied customer? McKenna explains how to manage companies in the "real time" world, drawing upon his experience as an entrepreneur and his work with over 300 start-ups.

The global Covid-19 pandemic forced every customer service agent from their contact center into their home. Work-from-home was proven to be a viable and secure operating model of customer service operations almost overnight. But why did the contact centers continue with 8-hour shifts and team-leaders tracking agents on web-cams, as if their agents were still commuting to an office? GigCX applies the lessons of the gig economy (Uber, Airbnb etc) to customer service. Agents can earn more, enjoy their job more, and companies requiring customer service can pay less than if they outsourced to a ...

What do fleas, betrayal, and bankruptcy have to do with building a technology business? Everything. In Standing on Shoulders: From Fleas and Failure to Building a Culture of Service in Tech, Sam Sapp shares his raw, unfiltered journey from near-collapse to creating a company built on faith, resilience, and service. From the sting of broken partnerships to the grind of clawing back from bankruptcy papers, from ransomware stand-offs to rebuilding trust in technology, Sam’s story is as much about people as it is about IT. This isn’t a how-to manual.

From the mid-90s to the present, ING Direct grew from a mere concept to an ocean-spanning global enterprise, now managing over $75 billion in assets and with over 7 million customers, earning unprecedented levels of consumer trust and affinity. The Orange Code is a story about conventional wisdom, and how to win by ignoring it completely.

This is the kind of book that you don’t read once; you read it forever.—Jay Baer, president of Convince and Convert and author of Hug Your Haters: How to Embrace Complaints and Keep Your Customers Social media has changed customer service forever. It has shifted power from brands to consumers, requiring a different way of thinking about customer engagement. Dan Gingiss has interviewed dozens of business leaders on his podcast, Focus on Customer Service. From those conversations and his own real-world experience at multiple Fortune 300 companies, Gingiss has developed a series of best ...

Conversation Marketing will help you connect your brands, not just to the minds of your consumers, but to their hearts. Slick slogans and catchy ads may still work in some instances, but today's discerning consumers demand more. They want information and a reason to connect with a brand before they act. They want a conversation.

80% of companies say they give great service… Only 8% of customers say those companies give great service 3 in 5 Americans would try a new brand or company for a better service experience Customer service has gotten so bad that 7 in 10 Americans said they were willing to spend more with companies that they believe provide excellent customer service These statistics are as scary as being stuck on It’s A Small World for anything more than a minute. But they do not have to define you and your company. You can create a service powerhouse in your company that your competitors will never copy...

Cleveland Clinic has long been recognized for driving some of the best clinical outcomes in the nation, but it was not always a leader in patient experience. How did Cleveland Clinic turn itself around so effectively and so quickly? More important, how can you do the same with your organization? Service Fanatics reveals the strategies and tactics the Clinic applied to become one of today's leading patient-experience healthcare organizations - methods that seamlessly translate to any business seeking to improve its customer experience.

The leader's guide to building a service powerhouse using the approach that made Mayo Clinic the number one health-care system in America.

Brand advocates are your most loyal, passionate, and engaged customers, and your best marketers. They don't just buy your products - they sell your products for you. Brand Advocates teaches you how to turn your enthusiastic customers into a powerful and sustainable marketing force. Through a step-by-step playbook and real-world examples, you'll learn exactly what it takes to build and activate your "Advocate Army", from identifying your advocates to energizing them and tracking results.

In 2022, Jonas Berggren started publishing his popular ‘Transform Customer Service’ newsletter on LinkedIn. In 2024, Mark Hillary suggested that the concept of the newsletter could become a book - this book. The CX (R)evolution explores the technologies and digital transformation affecting modern customer experience (CX) strategy. Customer experience is not rocket science. It’s about dedication, empathy, and treating customers as individuals rather than statistics. Everyone involved in any aspect of designing CX today agrees on one thing, the industry is changing faster than ever. ...

For decades, a fundamental flaw has flourished in the strategic operating model of the modern corporation—a Great Distancing from the needs and expectations of customers. For some, such as Blockbuster, AOL, and Kodak, this flaw has been disastrous. Meanwhile, those that have woven the customer deeply into their culture have prospered—with increased revenues and more fulfilled employees.

Magnetic: The Art of Attracting Business is a look at how consistently successful businesses are able to attract a steady and ever-increasing flow of customers. This innovative text examines a range of simple, powerful strategies that businesses of any size or type can use to attract new customers. The key is to do those things that harness the power of the single most important factor in buying decisions: positive word of mouth and referrals from happy existing customers.

There's always been that one quiet kid in the back of the class. Perhaps they're a little shy, branded a misfit - maybe they dress a little funny...but they're always watching, always listening. That's me. I'm that kid. I've learned much by playing the role of an avid observer, and feel I must break my silence if only for a spell. Sitcoms have thrived on the silly subject matter of telephone support for decades, exposing the most despicable acts of customers and corporations alike.

Fast Coaching introduces a super-quick and super-effective approach to personal growth for use in families, schools, sport, and business. Continue & Begin, the rapid results method described in Fast Coaching, is now used worldwide by thousands of professionals as their preferred fast-coaching technology. Continue & Begin achieves results in just a few minutes! Fast Coaching strengthens self-worth and busts through limiting belief patterns.

If your growth depends on attracting and retaining the right kind of people, this little book is for you. The Ideal Client Experience will literally save your business. It will create stable customer growth. It will increase retention of clients and team members. It will make you happy. Why? Because you love your people and you never want to drop the ball again.