Customer Marketing

Despite what the old adage says, the customer is not always right. Even companies that can seemingly do no wrong-like the coffeehouse giant Starbucks-have only recently started to figure this out.

In Customer Service Is Dead, author, serial entrepreneur, and customer-service expert Mitche Graf draws on 35 years of experience developing best-in-class customer-care departments and improving communications in businesses of all sizes to offer you new and innovative methods for reinventing customer-service policies and training employees in your business to improve customer satisfaction, focus on the customer experience, and maximize business growth.

While everyone was bemoaning their alleged laziness and self-absorption, the Millennial generation quietly grew up. Pragmatic, diverse, and digitally native, this massive cohort of 80 million are now entering their prime consumer years, having children of their own, and shifting priorities as they move solidly into adulthood. Millennials with Kids changes how we think about this new generation of parents and uncovers profound insights for marketers and brand strategists seeking to earn their loyalty.

Are customers failing to see what sets your brand apart, pushing your prices (and margins) down? Healthy prices and profits are a company’s lifeblood, critical for funding current operations and future growth. Yet too many businesses look alike and are then forced to compete on price alone. Instead, they should aim for clear, sustainable differentiation, owning the market as the enduring Go-To brand. Theresa M. Lina will help you escape the commodity trap.

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.

Understand the art and science of why people choose you. Your message is your greatest tool to influence others to choose you. The problem is, most people fail because they don’t know how to position and sell themselves. Their message gets lost in the noise. Because our brains are wired to pay attention to certain things, when you build your message on three key (research-backed) strategies, you will bypass the brain’s defenses, stand out from the crowd, and influence decision makers to choose you...every single time. This audiobook tells you how.

What if every business owner or manager could combine cutting-edge technology with the warmth of personal connection to keep customers coming back for more and sending their friends and family? Drawing lessons from the industry-leading business practices at One Medical, a brand transforming the customer experience in healthcare, All Business Is Personal gives readers tools to blend the powerful benefits of today’s rapidly improving technology with individuals’ unique talents, all in the name of providing only the best for their customers.

Uncopyable Sales Secrets teaches a foolproof system for creating an uncopyable attachment with your prospects and clients so that you can fill your sales pipeline, close more deals, and build a loyal customer base.

This comprehensive guide builds listeners' understanding of customer psychology and buying behavior in the new digital-first world. It provides best practices for engaging customers using a variety of methods.

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.

Customer service goals have been articulated, messages drilled, and incentive programs created. But many employees still deliver lackluster service. What does it take to get them functioning as stellar frontline representatives of the company? Rather than offering another set of tactics for improving customer service, this audiobook takes a novel approach by rooting out the real reasons employees aren’t delivering the service they should.

In their best-selling business classic Lean Thinking, James Womack and Daniel Jones introduced the world to the principles of lean production, principles for eliminating waste during production. Now, in Lean Solutions, the authors establish the groundbreaking principles of lean consumption, showing companies how to eliminate inefficiency during consumption.

Delight Your Customers reveals three truths common to all exceptional customer service experiences and presents seven behaviors that, when demonstrated by employees, distinguish extraordinary customer service from the ordinary transactional customer service to which consumers have become accustomed. With real-world stories and many examples from a variety of industries, this audiobook is a resource that will help listeners everywhere take their customer service from ordinary to extraordinary!

Customer experience has become the primary method of competitive differentiation between most brands today. While most companies claim that customers and their needs drive decisions and priority within their organizations, when it comes time to prioritize customer needs, it can often be more difficult and less clear exactly how and what to do.

Customer service is the single most pressing problem for business managers and people in any service or sales operation, especially at the retail level. In fact, many experts believe that you build a business from the customer up.

The goal of this book is to hand you easy-to-implement ideas that can help you get fully enrolled in your early childhood program, with a waiting list. And not just any old ideas - these are the 77 best ideas and strategies we use consistently. Kris Murray has helped hundreds of owners grow their enrollment by 15 to 300 percent in just a few months, so it’s possible for you too. In fact, she has included some of their case studies and results from using the ideas in this book, to provide you with proof and inspiration.

This Sumoreads analysis offers supplementary material to The Challenger Customer to help you distill the key takeaways, review the book's content, and offers insight into the writing style and overall themes. Whether you'd like to supplement your understanding, refresh your memory, or simply decide whether or not this book is for you, we're here to help. Absorb everything you need to know in less than 45 minutes.

Great companies distinguish themselves from the competition by providing their customers with something truly special, something beyond price point that can't be duplicated: unique, outstanding customer service experiences.

For many companies, large and small, customer data is a noisy mess. There are problems across the ecosystem from partners to page views and from KPIs to campaign tracking. But the biggest problem is not the technical data silos but the human ones. In The Age of Customer Equity, marketing expert with a passion for analytics Allison Hartsoe helps you cut through the noise and gives you the tools you need to humanize your customer data to connect to the right customers at the right time.

In today's fast-paced economy, no manager or investor can afford to ignore the practical strategies and highly applicable insights offered in this path breaking audiobook.