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Fred Reichheld's 2006 book The Ultimate Question - that question being, "How likely is it that you would recommend this company to a friend or colleague?" - challenged the conventional wisdom of customer satisfaction programs. It coined the terms "bad profits" and "good profits" and pointed to a faster, much more accurate way of gauging customers' real loyalty to a company. Richard Owen and Laura Brooks are co-developers, along with Reichheld, of the methodology behind answering the question.

The most successful salespeople understand that they are fundamentally storytellers. The reality is that to succeed in sales, you need to master the art of customer conversation. Being remarkable and memorable in your conversations is very important - but it goes beyond great delivery. You must be able to articulate value. The Three Value Conversations provides the tools and methods you need to differentiate yourself and your solutions from the competition, elevate value to the right decision maker, and maximize all sales opportunities across the entire long lead buying cycle. 

Cleveland Clinic has long been recognized for driving some of the best clinical outcomes in the nation, but it was not always a leader in patient experience. How did Cleveland Clinic turn itself around so effectively and so quickly? More important, how can you do the same with your organization? Service Fanatics reveals the strategies and tactics the Clinic applied to become one of today's leading patient-experience healthcare organizations - methods that seamlessly translate to any business seeking to improve its customer experience. 

In Prescription for Excellence, Michelli provides an inside look at an organization that has become the envy of its industry - and explains how you can dominate your own industry by using the same approach. 

The team behind the data management platform that helps fuel Salesforce - the number one customer relationship management (CRM) company in the world - presents this indispensable guide to data-powered marketing. You’ll discover the three principles for building a successful data strategy and the five sources of data-driven power. You’ll hear how top companies put these data-driven strategies into action. And if you’re wondering what the future holds, you’ll receive seven forecasts to better prepare you for what may come next.

Don’t be daunted by a challenging economy and fierce competition. Even in the toughest environment, innovative, highly profitable businesses abound. And yours can be one of them with Now, Build a Great Business! This essential success kit from business heavyweights and acclaimed authors Mark Thompson and Brian Tracy is filled with straightforward, powerful strategies to ignite growth in your business.

When you think of a great business, you often think of its clients. They’re not just happy customers; they’re raving fans who’ll take time out of their day to tell you or anyone within range just how much they love that business. They’ll line up before dawn for its latest product offering, create buzz, and treat the brand as a personal status symbol. Does your business have super-fans like this? Do you want them? If so, ...And the Clients Went Wild! is your essential marketing toolbox.

Today's customer has discovered that they can often find the best price, service, and quality without ever leaving the comfort of their pajamas. What can you offer that your customer can't get online? And if competing with the Internet isn't enough, you also have to battle national retailers, deep-discount megastores, and big-box merchants. Convincing the customer to choose you over all other options has become more challenging - and more important - than ever.

In Customer Mania!, Ken Blanchard, one of America's biggest bestselling authors and inspiring business leaders, writes of the key to customer service—creating a people-oriented, performance-driven, customer-first organization. Customer service is the single most pressing problem for business...

In Empowered, Forrester’s Josh Bernoff - coauthor of the pioneering book Groundswell - and Ted Schadler explain how to transform your company by unleashing the force of HEROes: highly empowered and resourceful operatives. Your company needs them because, in the age of twitter, iPhones, Facebook, YouTube, your customers now step up to the counter armed with more data and access than ever before - often overmatching your team.

How to Be a Fierce Competitor is the definitive “how-to” guide for understanding how to spot opportunity and then capitalize on it. This practical resource for business leaders and managers shows exactly how the savvy few who rise to the top stay focused and alert.

With a detailed breakdown of the fundamentals of social skills, this comprehensive guide offers a profound insight into the lost art of communication. Being able to communicate clearly with others is an essential skill for building relationships and succeeding in life. Now, this audiobook arms you with the tools you need to become the master of any social situation and supercharge your ability to connect with others.

Lifelong learning has become a multibillion-dollar business, with more than 60 million adults currently engaged in webinars, webcasts, in-house training, continuing education classes, and more. But it is also an industry in flux, as newcomers topple old-guard organizations that can’t keep pace with the need for instant access to materials and flexible delivery methods, as well as demands for community and connection.

Are you ready for the age of the never satisfied customer? McKenna explains how to manage companies in the "real time" world, drawing upon his experience as an entrepreneur and his work with over 300 start-ups.

What makes the world's most successful individuals so good at their jobs? What do they do that others don't? The Connectors answers those questions with the kind of straightforward wisdom that business strategists so often overlook. Forget marketing tactics or business school best practices. Those are handy, but it's really people - and the relationships you build with them - that form the cornerstone of long-term success, sales growth, and excellence.

The Relationship Revolution is a practical, behind-the-scenes look at what it truly takes to build, scale, and sustain high-impact 1:1 Account-Based Marketing. In an era defined by complexity, crowded markets, and rapidly shifting expectations, organizations need more than campaigns—they need meaningful, human-centered engagement with the accounts that matter most. Grounded in nearly two decades of global marketing experience, this book blends proven frameworks, personal stories, award-winning programs, and modern innovations like AI.

Every buyer tells you what they need. Almost none of them tell you the real reason they're buying. After 25 years of closing deals, from cold calls to a billion-dollar account, sales veteran Shirit Oren has learned one thing that separates good salespeople from great ones: the ability to hear what buyers cannot say. The Need Behind the Need is a field guide to the skill most sales books skip. Not scripts. Not funnels. Not hacks. The skill of uncovering the hidden operational, financial, and personal needs that actually drive buying decisions—and building your entire sales motion around them.

De klantenreis beschrijft het proces van behoefte tot gebruik en biedt inzichten over hoe je klanten kunt binden, met een belangrijke rol voor social media.

Для создания успешного бизнеса недостаточно иметь хороший продукт и вкладывать средства в его продвижение. Нужно «встречать» потребителя в каждой «точке контакта» с вашим предложением — от возникновения потребности до оценки состоявшегося опыта — и выстраивать маркетинговую стратегию, учитывая особенности поведения клиента в каждой такой точке.

"Staying On Track" is a practical guide on how to grow your business. It provides real-world examples of how the author’s company went from one office and eighteen people to a global operation with staff in six countries and thirty-four US states. Frank Marini shows the true definition of customer focus in all aspects and departments of a company in this pragmatic explanation of how he guided Railbookers Group, where he serves as president and CEO, through a rapid period of growth and achievement.