Customer Science

Successfully grow your business and improve customer and employee happiness with this New York Times bestseller book written by the CEO of Zappos. As the CEO of one of Fortune Magazine's "Best Companies to Work For," Tony Hsieh knows that keeping people happy is the key to professional growth...

The New Science of Customer Relationships: Delivering the One-to-One Promise with AI is a science-based and insightful new approach to integrating the latest generative AI technologies into your company's customer communications. Analytics and marketing experts Thomas Davenport and Jim Sterne walk you through the technology and tools you need to understand, the data you need to collect, the processes you need to implement, and the ethics you need to observe to build an industry-leading customer relationship framework.

A Practical Guide to Deploying AI Agents to Streamline Operations, Enhance Customer Service, and Reduce Costs is your comprehensive companion for integrating AI agents into your workflows—whether you're running a startup, scaling a small business, or optimizing an enterprise.

Take your passion for event planning to the next level with in-the-trenches advice and tools you need to start, run, and grow a successful business. From writing a solid contract to finding reliable vendors, our experts help you identify your niche, teach you how to scout potential clients, evaluate the competition, market your business, and more.

If leaders aren't integrating their digital offerings into a philosophy of customer success, they will be defeated in the next decade because technical excellence and other traditional competitive advantages are becoming too easy to imitate. The Customer Success Economy offers examples and specifics of how companies can transform. It addresses the pains of transforming organizational charts, leadership roles, responsibilities, and strategies so the whole company works together in total service to the customer.

From Michael LeBoeuf, the best selling author of Working Smart and the audio programs Working Smarter, Imagineering, and The Perfect Business, comes How to Win Customers and Keep Them for Life. With a hardhitting, action-ready rewards-and-incentives ideology, this is the ultimate program to building a successful business through customer satisfaction.

Personalized is a playbook for delivering true personalization at scale. In this book, Boston Consulting Group's Mark Abraham and Harvard Business School's David C. Edelman describe Five Promises of Personalization. Personalized is a playbook for delivering true personalization at scale. With detailed examples across industries—including retail, health care, banking, technology, and travel—this book will help executives learn how to put personalization at the center of their strategy, accelerate growth, and capture their share of the $2 trillion personalization prize.

The vast majority of word of mouth happens offline, in everyday conversations. In The Science of Customer Connections, Karrh offers simple concepts plus practical guidance for individual professionals, teams, and complex organizations to be part of those conversations in ways that grow their business.

There's a Customer Born Every Minute reveals the lost wisdom of famous entrepreneur and showman, P. T. Barnum. Barnum was much more than a showman; he was a dedicated businessman and entrepreneur with a razor-sharp mind. In this delightful and absorbing new edition, Joe Vitale reveals the secrets of Barnum's success and shares the 10 key business practices that Barnum developed and lived by.

Unlock the secret to turning one-time buyers into lifelong fans with Using AI to Improve Customer Retention and Loyalty Programs. In this game-changing guide, Catholic Deacon John O’Maley – a West Point graduate, former U. S. Army Ranger Captain, and P&G marketing alumnus – reveals how businesses of all sizes can harness artificial intelligence to boost customer loyalty. Discover how AI is transforming the way companies engage customers, from predictive algorithms that anticipate churn before it happens, to personalized recommendations and chatbots that delight customers 24/7.

For thousands of years, customers have been individual humans, families or organizations. But soon, generative AI enabled software and hardware machines will start to act as customers. First they will shop for us, later they will act for themselves. You can’t take them to dinner, and they won’t fall for your slogans, but they might help grow your market – if you know how. Companies are already being called on the phone by software that sounds like a person. Cars will buy their own fuel and tires. That smart speaker in every home can become the housekeeper and shopper for the family it serves.

AI has changed marketing and sales forever. Your buyers no longer need you to know everything about you. They’re armed with AI copilots, curated insights, synthesized reviews, and side-by-side comparisons—all before they ever reach out. Instantly, your prospects can prompt to learn every detail about you, your solutions, successes, failures, competitors—everything delivered to them organized and definitive. They will never again reach your sales process curious. They'll be confident in what their AI told them about you.

Unlock the transformative power of AI and propel your business into the future—even if you're new to AI! Are you hesitant about integrating AI into your business, unsure of the right tools, or worried about staying competitive? This guide addresses your concerns, offering clear, actionable steps to harness AI's potential without disruption.

Mr. Shmooze is the parable of a man who reveals the secret shared by all superstar salespeople. Selling, in its most exquisite form, is not about "taking", nor is it about "persuading". Selling, believe it or not, is about "giving". Mr. Shmooze gives for a living. He starts by listening and he quickly comes to understand what people really need. His customers love him because he gives more than he takes. They trust him because he is passionate about their interests.

Experiencia del cliente impulsada por IA: el futuro de la excelencia en el centro de llamadas. Una guía completa para operaciones de alto rendimiento. Hace treinta años, el servicio al cliente priorizaba la velocidad y la eficiencia sobre la satisfacción y la empatía. Con el tiempo, observé y lideré su evolución de un centro de costos a una ventaja estratégica en empresas grandes y pequeñas.

She's tied to the shop for a crime she didn't do, serving customers their wishes and nightmares, searching for the three missing puzzle pieces as she does so. Though it may take her years, she's determined to win her freedom before she becomes just another unwitting customer.

Without customers, we don’t have a business. But what can, or should, we do if one of our customers is cranky? Answer: Learn why people behave how they do and how you can respond so that you can be happier and more effectively help solve your customer’s problems without getting pulled into their drama, whatever that is.

By using strategies and technologies as the flywheel to orchestrate systems of listening, understanding, and predicting, as well as taking action and learning from those interactions at scale, businesses can easily put the customer and employee first, not only meet the ever-changing customer and employee expectations, but also leapfrog their competition. They predict empathy is the next frontier in technology. This book is aimed at sparking an industry-wide conversation about how exponential technologies like AI and cloud can enable a more empathetic world.

The Art of Selling Rocket Science is a rare series of books written specifically for sales and marketing of technical services, including engineering, architecture, construction, applied science, information technology, and management consulting. These books support our main theme that the marketing and sales of complex, technical services are distinctly different from simpler consumer services. The professionals who provide these services earn their livings by developing solutions to complex problems, yet are also asked to participate in selling their services to customers.

The AI Revolution in Customer Service and Support is a practical guide for professionals who want to harness the power of generative AI within their organizations to create more powerful customer and employee experiences.