Business Customer Success

Like it or not, professional relationships are impacted - positively or negatively - by the ability to communicate. Customers are won or lost, employees are encouraged or demotivated, professional networks are expanded or extinguished - all by how well we communicate. We Need to Talk reveals key strategies to help you build trust, win respect, and sidestep common minefields when communicating gets critical.

Our professional relationships are the most important asset we have when it comes to growing our careers and our businesses. Most people think of this as “networking”. But in today’s hyperconnected market, the most cost-effective and high-return route to new, repeat, and referral business is through our existing networks, not through adding more social media “friends” and “connections”. This transformative guide from relationship marketing expert Zvi Band shows you how to deepen your personal connections to achieve your professional goals.

The success of your business depends on the success of your marketing efforts. If you can identify what customers want, need, and can afford - and give it to them - you will achieve outstanding results.This indispensable guide contains 21 powerful marketing ideas you can use immediately.

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.

Instead of prescribing rigid scripts and protocols, The 5 Principles of IT Customer Service shows the listener how to live a more compassionate and empathetic life as a pathway to delivering exceptional customer service. Ignoring the dictates of most customer service books, The 5 Principles of IT Customer Service focuses instead on the timeless principles of pride in your work combined with compassion and empathy for our customers and colleagues, excellent listening skills, and an ability to treat all people with dignity and respect.

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".

There is a common misconception that being good at sales necessitates aggressive closing or finding ways to effectively bring in clients. Think again! Author and sales trainer Jim Doyle explains how the best sellers have a commitment to their customers that goes way beyond being customer focused. Servant Heart Sellers, as he calls them, are obsessed with making sure the products they sell make a difference for their customers, not just closing the deal. This commitment changes everything about their sales approach.

A serial entrepreneur shows how to harness customer demand to fuel your startup’s growth Rob Snyder followed all the usual business school advice for launching a startup—he did his research, ran experiments, raised millions in venture capital—but his company struggled to get off the ground...

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.

The global COVID-19 pandemic has radically changed how business-to-business companies interact with their customers. The traditional face-to-face meeting has quickly become a thing of the past - the virtual customer engagement model is the new normal. To secure existing and future revenue streams in the virtual B2B sales environment, companies must equip their commercial frontline with the confidence, skills, and tools necessary for effectively engaging customers virtually.

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 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.

Selling is 85% emotional and 15% logical. Forget everything you've been taught about selling -- forget the hardsell, forget negotiation strategies, forget those closing techniques. In The Inner Game of Selling, Ron Willingham debunks the familiar myths about "sales skills," showing that those...

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.

While employees may possess the knowledge and skills to do their jobs, they are unaware of what best-selling customer service author Steve Curtin calls job purpose: how their specific tasks contribute to the organization’s reason for being. They understand what to do and how to do it, but not why they do it. Curtin offers a fresh tool to overcome this challenge. Instead of just having assignments to work on, they now have a purpose to work toward. Service quality goes from transactional to exceptional.

This book reveals the 10 proven principles you can use to make immediate and impactful improvements to your customer experience, regardless of your product, service, industry, and size. You'll learn how to tap the greatest asset sitting dormant in your business right now - your existing customer base. With powerful real-life examples and ideas you can get started on straight away, this book will get you excited about creating memorable experiences for your customers that get them raving about your brand and delivering you a steady stream of new customers.

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.

Like the ocean, the marketplace constantly changes and today's cresting reward becomes tomorrow's crashing risk. Before you venture out, take a lesson from the experts: big wave surfers. Like successful entrepreneurs, they rely on preparation, passion, and persistence - and they relish a challenge. So it's no surprise that countless surfers have pioneered products and launched thriving businesses (GoPro cameras, O'Neil, Reef, Quicksilver).

Imagine walking into any room and instantly picking up on the true feelings, intentions, and motivations of the people around you. If you’ve ever struggled to read social cues, decode mixed messages, or sense when someone’s being dishonest, you're not alone. But what if you could understand people deeply, connect effortlessly, and navigate any situation with clarity and confidence? This audiobook is your practical, step-by-step guide to mastering the hidden language of human behavior—so you can stop second-guessing and start reading people like a book.

Quality service impacts sales and returns positively. This book teaches how to be successful and profitable in your business by offering exceptional customer service, and it also explains thе main rеаѕоn whу mаnу ѕuссеѕѕful соmраniеѕ make excellent customer service аn imроrtаnt еlеmеnt in thеir agenda. What you’ll learn in this book will work great for business owners, entrepreneurs, and training of customer service specialists.