Customer Success

From turf wars to low morale, most companies attempt to cure what ails them with the latest management fad - and fail. They are treating the symptoms while ignoring the true problem. Success starts with knowing the kind of business you're really in.

Not every client is a good client! In that first flush of life as business owners, we often say yes to anyone who wants to hire us. We think the most important thing is establishing a client base. As long as we're getting hired, that's a good thing, and it's all that matters. But after a while we learn an important truth: Not every client is a good client. In fact some of them are truly toxic.

In Obsess to Success, Cindy passes on all the ways she was able to build her success on a foundation of personal relationships. Whether it's giving gifts or making time to chat, remembering names or sharing meals, there are a thousand small ways you can take your business connections beyond the financial and into the personal. When you obsess about remembering the little things, big things will follow. Once they do, the possibilities are limitless.

Douglas Vigliotti uses a unique but simple sales philosophy backed by 12 years of selling experience, and easy-to-understand examples to show you how to provide solutions your customers actually want. Yes, solutions your customers want to buy from you. The Salesperson Paradox will show you exactly how to create, position, and provide these solutions. It's a solution selling playbook packed with instantly implementable sales tools, guides, and frameworks. It's sales coaching aided by sales training. It's sales strategy backed by sales tactics.

Your brand is the stories people share about you when you're not in the room, and it's these brand stories that determine if people buy from you, employ you, work for you, or invest in you. When the stakes are that high, wouldn't you want to take control of it? In Magnetic Stories, business storytelling expert Gabrielle Dolan reveals how you, too, can create and share stories that stick.

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. As a leader and manager, you'll find out how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

In The Human Principle: Service, Connection, and Success in Business, you will discover how to build a successful business by focusing on what truly matters—people. In a world often consumed by transactions and numbers, this book brings the focus back to the core of business: genuine human relationships. You will explore three key principles: a respectful and principled attitude, a service-first mindset, and the art of forming real connections.

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.

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!

Do you find it hard to get good service when you call an 800 number? Written with humor and honesty, this audiobook explains what's happening on the other end of the line. But it also offers solutions. The author appeals not only to customer service representatives (CSRs) but also to anyone who works with people. He shows how even the most mundane job can become an adventure if you practice the Three-Way CSR Conversation and let God serve others through you.

Thing First details UX Consultant Joe Natoli's no-nonsense approach to creating successful products, powerful user experiences and very happy customers. He shares countless lessons learned from more than 30 years as a UX consultant to Fortune 500, 100, and US government organizations—including a few he's learned the hard way.

Does your business feel lifeless in today's fast-paced marketplace? Tired of struggling to stand out? Can't seem to clarify your message? You may be a zombie and not even know it. Zombies are confused, haphazard, and indistinguishable. Businesses act like zombies when empty communications alienate customers, supporters, and partners. The Zombie Business Cure gets to the heart of many communication problems: identity.

Your reputation defines how people see you and what they will do for you. It determines whether your bank will lend you money to buy a house or car; whether your landlord will accept you as a tenant; which employers will hire you and how much they will pay you. It can even affect your marriage prospects.

Caveman marketing tactics no longer work. It used to be that if we took out enough ads, bought enough impressions, and had a persuasive message, we could wear prospective customers down until they eventually bought. But we are no longer in charge - they are. That is why we must change our marketing concept from the "Caveman Way" to the "WOO Way". A few marketers understand that the game has changed. Rather than hitting customers over the head with ad after ad, they go to potential customers where they are. Once there, they begin a relationship with them, in essence courting them.

When kindness becomes your primary goal, everything changes: how you look at life, what you get from it, and how others interact with and relate to you. The Profit of Kindness will help you master the art of building trusting, long-lasting relationships through open, nonadversarial interchanges that result in mutually beneficial outcomes.

Solid profits, a strong brand, steady customers - all of these can vanish when market shifts disrupt business as usual. So how do you keep from losing ground? How do you stay a step ahead of competitors? The solution is surprisingly straightforward: innovate tweak by tweak.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Communicate Excellence: A Guide to Authentic, Positive, Consistent Front Desk Communication and experience the compelling world of customer service and communication in dentistry and orthodontics.

TNTs are tiny noticeable things. They are all the little things that people don't need to do but do. Though small, they create the biggest, longest lasting impressions in people's minds; they show how much you care; they make and break relationships - yet they cost nothing. In Tiny Noticeable Things: The Secret Weapon to Making a Difference in Business, you'll learn how to use the explosive power of TNTs to get where you want to be in business and in everything you do.

Regardless of the sector your organization operates within or its size, increasing employee performance, building customer loyalty, and growing revenue are likely your top priorities. How can you continually improve your employees' morale and performance in a sustainable way? How can you stay ahead of your customers' ever-changing needs without spending a fortune on technology? In The Unstoppable Organization, Shawn Casemore will show you how to master the trilogy of success for unsurpassed performance as he shares insights, examples, and proven practices.

People often debate whether Agile and Lean are the same or different. This audiobook is made to introduce you to the core values and principles of both Agile and Lean methodologies and will hopefully answer some of the common questions about them.