Dangerous Customer Service


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Dangerous Customer Services provides real help for real people in the real world. This is a guide for managers on the realities and practicalities of great customer service. An accessible guide, Dangerous Customer Service shows the reader how to cover the basics - what customers expect from a service and what they will take for granted - and how to create the magic that transforms that serivice into an extra special personal experience. Exercises and real-life examples will help the reader to learn and develop essential facets of customer services including loyalty, training your customer and services across cultures.




The Customer Service Revolution


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In The Customer Service Revolution, DiJulius points out how numerous companies have made Customer service their biggest competitive advantage, are dominating their industries, and have made price irrelevant. As a result of this Customer service revolution, people are being treated differently, better, and in a way like never before. This is a result of how companies and management are treating their employees and how employees are treating each other and the Customer—which ultimately permeates into people’s personal lives at home and in their communities. Can the way you run your business or treat your Customers have an effect on the world at large? John DiJulius will show you just that! Drawing on years of experience consulting with the top customer service companies around the world and in his role building his first business, John Robert’s Spa, into one of the top 20 salons in the US, DiJulius will show you exactly how to create your very own Customer service revolution and make price irrelevant.




Wired and Dangerous


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Customers today are picky, fickle, and vocal, and all about me vain. They now have an enormous variety of services and products to choose from, with unprecedented access to information and reviews.




CUSTOMER Plus


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"In today's competitive and technology driven world, organizations are starting to go back to the basics - single-minded focus on customers and service experience. The world is shifting from "mass-production" to "mass-customized" to make sure that each customer can be managed as an individual for which the business exists. There are millions of books being written about the customer and experience and service, as the concept takes the centerstage. Neeraj has managed to peel the layers of management jargon and complexity and highlight the core of the customer service. The concepts are narrated in simple and easy to comprehend manner. The book almost feels like a conversation with a cherished friend, which leaves the reader with a pleasant feeling after each chapter. Recommended for everyone in the customer facing role! Mr. Maneesh Gaur Head - Expansion and Business Development Marks & Spencer (India) Customer Plus is simple collections of fundamentals of doing great business. It’s a must read for everyone in service sector, students as well as practicing professionals. The examples are instructive and entertaining and talk straight to the point. Mr Ambar Mazumdar CEO, Chanalai Group of Hotels and Resorts , Phuket Thailand This book decodes the steps to achieving excellence in customer service. It provides lot of actionable intelligence in a simple conversation way. It is compelling and shows the benefits of Listening to customer and employees! It connects well and persuades effectively with research findings. Mr Jagdeep Thakral General Manger IHG Hotels Pyeongchang, South Korea The book raises a series of fundamental questions throughout the journey for example: why employee & customer first is a great strategy? The book in itself is unique in its presentation, and succeeds to persuade, why to keep customer at center of the company business strategy. Mr Satvir Singh Director Of Studies at National Council for Hotel Management & Catering Technology It's is a great write up with sharing the case study, learning by conversation. Most effective tools we spoke about is agility which most know yet is a misunderstood concept these days in management studies. All the best for bringing the learning to the platform where seeding leaders will benefit from it. Mr Sanjay Kaushik Chief Operating Officer The Raviz Hotels & Resorts




Surviving Customer Service


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Surviving Customer Service is the preeminent book of it's kind. Being the only makes that designation easier. Chris Zell has condensed years of customer service experience into a tome that lays out what to expect once you cross the portals into the world of customer service. Turns out, not much. In a land filled with back-stabbing workers, ineffective management, uncaring corporations and the slime that keeps this netherworld together, customers, you should enter with your eyes open, heart pre-hardened, and liver prepared for serious post-work drinking. Zell gives you the weapons to navigate through the soul-sucking landscape that you will long to escape. He'll tell you how to deal with managers (treat them like mushrooms - keep 'em in the dark, feed 'em shit); co-workers (create a fake identity because if they find out who you are the real trouble begins); and customers (have you played the 'Why?' game with a kid? They're that annoying).




Advances in Services Innovations


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The book documents the state-of-the-art in Services Science. It combines contributions in Service Engineering, Service Management and Service Marketing and helps to develop a roadmap for future R and D activities in these fields. The book is written for researchers in engineering and management.







The Customer Service Survival Kit


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Issues with customers can send even the most seasoned service professionals into red alert. Discover how to effectively communicate your way out of any difficult spot. By providing clear techniques, behavioral science insights, case studies, situation-specific advice, and actionable practice exercises, workplace communication expert Richard Gallagher has created a resource that can help anyone master the delicate art of communication. In The?Customer Service Survival Kit, you’ll find tangible tips and tricks to help you discover: how to lean into criticism, how to avoid trigger phrases that can make bad situations worse, the secret to helping people feel heard, how to safely deliver bad news, and how to become immune to intimidation--among many other skills. The Customer Service Survival Kit recognizes that the worst customer situations demand more of front-line employees than good intentions and the right attitude. With the help of these valuable insights, lessons, and indispensable problem-solving tools, your organization holds the key to radically improving its customer service reputation.




Customer Service For Dummies


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Customer Service For Dummies, Third Edition integrates the unbeatable information from Customer Service For Dummies and Online Customer Service For Dummies to form an all-in-one guide to customer loyalty for large and small businesses alike. The book covers the fundamentals of service selling and presents up-to-date advice on such fundamentals as help desks, call centers, and IT departments. Plus, it shows readers how to take stock of their customer service strengths and weaknesses, create useful customer surveys, and learn from the successes and failures of businesses just like theirs. Karen Leland and Keith Bailey (Sausalito, CA) are cofounders of Sterling Consulting Group, an international consulting firm specializing in quality service consulting and training for such clients as Oracle, IBM, Avis, and Lucent.




Transform Customer Experience


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Your customers are your future. Smartphones, social media and the internet have given customers access to more information than ever before. If your business fails them, they will switch to your competitor and never return. So how do you keep them? By mapping their journeys, identifying potential hazards and reshaping your business with customer experience (CX) at its heart. From services to products, online to in-person, small-scale to multinational, your customers’ loyalty depends on how you interact with them. Transform Customer Experience is your ultimate guide to putting your customer first. Author and CX expert Isabella Villani shows how you can implement a customer strategy from planning to execution. Transform Customer Experience offers real-life insights into effective strategies for developing and implementing Customer Experience (CX) programs in a range of corporate, governmental and non-profit environments. • Shows you how to address dimensions of diversity in the customer base • Outlines customer journey mapping • Discusses the implications of customers’ omnichannel engagement • Addresses the importance of positive employee experience in establishing a supportive CX culture. Transform Customer Experience explains why you need to embed customer experience in your organisation and shows you how to do it.