Customer Success

In the wake of economic downturn, foreign competition, spiking oil prices, and even war, American business throughout this decade has been thrust into crisis. To improve their performance, corporations everywhere have adopted a wide range of tools and techniques, yet many continue to struggle. Going Lean points to a better way.

Driven to Delight offers an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at CEO Steve Cannon and his leadership team's ambitious, multi-pronged strategy to elevate the company's customer experience to best-in-class across all brands and industries.

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.

Persuasion is not a sales skill - it’s a blunt instrument of last resort that sellers use when they don’t know how to influence the choices their buyers make. It’s the weapon of choice for mindless, uninspired sellers: the sales zombies who have stopped learning and stopped improving. Wouldn’t you rather learn how to master the art of selling in, by listening to what your buyers really want?

In our increasingly complicated and data-driven world, many new developments are so complex that only experts comprehend their nuances. But what they don't grasp is how to tell the world about them. Communicating technical content to nontechnical listeners has fast become a critical 21st-century skill. Explaining what you do and why it's important drives funding, policy decisions, media exposure, public awareness, and customer adoption.

Exceptional customer service is no accident! Great service providers know what to do, teach their employees how to do it, and then consistently deliver first-class service. Now, you can get the world’s top customer service authors to coach you and your team into excellence. Bring the exceptional customer service of Starbucks, Nordstrom’s, or the Ritz Carlton into your organization with training from the best of the best in customer service training and development.

Proven customer engagement approaches for winning in the most important moments driving profitability and growth - customer retention and expansion.

Guide the conversation. Closing is a process, not an event. In the closing process, there are inevitably many conversations with a variety of potential clients. Closing the Sale will teach you how to influence good decisions to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes from these conversations. Turn talking into decision making. For clients, decision making can seem daunting. They may often favor the noncommittal "maybe" over the decisive "yes" or "no".

You've probably already realized that storytelling is ubiquitous today and that it's hard to imagine marketing without it. In this guide, you will first get an overview of what storytelling actually is and why it is an important part of a successful marketing strategy. In addition, you will learn in the theory section how a classic story is structured, to what extent this structure can be integrated into business practice and what alternatives there are.

A start-up comes to market with a new product. Using cost-effective digital marketing, they get their solution in front of those customers. Growth happens exponentially. VCs and the media pile in. Then growth slows. Eventually, the whole thing peters out, usually three years from launch. How do you prevent this from happening to your start-up? Future Demand explores the realities of how start-ups grow beyond their eager early users, providing evidence and insight into how to build your brand among the much larger group of customers who’ll buy from you in the future.

Learn how to mix up your own version of customer service success, how to define, match, and exceed your customer's expectations, how to reinforce and reward the behaviors you want repeated, and more.

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.

Nick Mehta and Robin Van Lieshout deliver an actionable playbook on how to cultivate meaningful communities that fuel quantifiable business growth. In the book, you'll learn how to capitalize on this new growth strategy to scale your company and develop excitement around your products and your firm. The authors outline the ten foundational Laws of Community, explaining why community development does not need to be expensive and how to integrate community in the heart of your customer journey.

The Zappos Experience takes you through - and beyond - the playful, offbeat company culture Zappos has become famous for. Michelli reveals what occurs behind the scenes at Zappos, showing how employees at all levels operate on a day-to-day basis while providing the "big picture" leadership methods that have earned the company $1 billion in annual gross sales during the last ten years - with almost no advertising. Michelli breaks the approach down into five key elements.

Salespeople need answers, fast! Now, one book brings together all the proven, tested, instant answers they'll ever want: Little Red Book of Sales Answers. This is the legendary Jeffrey Gitomer, the world's #1 sales presenter and author of the inspirational 250,000-copy best seller Little Red Book of Selling. This new book goes beyond anything Gitomer's ever done, offering 99.5 quick, fun-to-read, real-world answers guaranteed to make sense, and make money!

The best companies and most successful salespeople live by a three-word mantra - "it's all about them" - because when they relentlessly focus their brand on their customers instead of themselves, their businesses flourish. All About Them shows listeners how to use this simple but extremely powerful influencing technique. Bruce Turkel, who has advised some of the world's greatest companies, including American Express and Bacardi, lays the groundwork by relating his personal journey of discovery to the "All About Them" principle.

Far away from Silicon Valley, in familiar, traditional, even unglamorous fields, ordinary people are unleashing extraordinary advances that amaze customers, energize employees, and create huge economic value. Their secret? They understand that the work of inventing the future doesn't belong just to geeks designing mobile apps and virtual-reality headsets or to social-media entrepreneurs hoping to launch the next Facebook. Some of today's most compelling organizations are doing brilliant things.

Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek best-selling author and leader of one of America's top sales training companies, Todd Duncan reveals the 10 most deadly mistakes salespeople make, and offers insight on how to avoid them. Duncan addresses the catastrophic mistakes that are commonly made, such as selling your product before knowing your customer or making unplanned calls on unknown customers, with clarity and directness.

From my humble beginning as a market trader's daughter to a fashion stylist in Paris, I have carved out a career that most people could only dream of. Over the years, thousands of people have asked me for the secrets of my “Sue-cess” and it's only now that I feel the world is ready to understand. Charity Shop Sue's Tools for Management and Success is a guide that will illuminate your path to becoming a better manager and a better human person.

What do many successful businesses and leaders have in common? They're the first names that come to mind when people think about their particular industries. How do you achieve this level of trust that influences people to think of you in the right way at the right time? By developing habits and strategies that focus on engaging your audience, creating meaningful relationships, and delivering value consistently, day in and day out. It's the winning approach John Hall used to build Influence & Co. into one of “America's Most Promising Companies”, according to Forbes.