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Ron Zemke (Author), John A. Woods (Editor)
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January 25, 1999
"Why should my employees and I care about delivering great service? How can I learn more about customer needs and desires? How do other companies deliver superior service? How do I build long-term relationships with customers? The litany of customer service questions goes on and on...Best Practices in Customer Service is a one-stop resource designed to help anyone involved in customer service answer these questions and more. With 35 chapters written by customer service experts, it illustrates best practices in customer service and provides the tools readers need to implement those practices in their own companies. From classic issues like customer retention to contemporary concerns like providing customer service on the Internet, it helps readers: * fully understand the connection between excellent customer service and organizational performance * deliver a higher level of customer service at a lower cost * develop a customer base that fuels growth and profitability."

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  • Reading level: Ages 17 and up
  • Paperback: 425 pages
  • Publisher: AMACOM; 1 edition (January 25, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0814470289
  • ISBN-13: 978-0814470282
  • Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.3 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #151,438 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Ron Zemke is co-author of the original Service America, and is also the key author in Amacom's successful Knock Your Socks Off Service series. Knock Your Socks off books have sold over one million copies worldwide.

 

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4.0 out of 5 stars Practical and Tactical, January 25, 2006
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The role of customers is increasingly the focus of businesses. The primary goal of business today is to satisfy the expectations and needs of its customers. Only by sustained performance of meeting customers' needs can a company guarantee its long-term success. Profit, writes the author, is only a measure of how well a company has achieved its customer-satisfaction goal.

The question that is posed is "How do you consistently satisfy your customers?" Answer: By understanding and delivering what customers want, by treating customers with respect in all circumstances, by responding fully to problems that arise, and by continuing to meet customers' needs after they have made their purchases.

This book is a collection of essays collected to help readers learn how to:
· Better satisfy their customers by viewing the firm through their eyes
· All employees must understand the importance of customer service
· Handle disappointed customers such that they will return even after the negative experience.
· Fulfill the evolving needs of the customers after they make their purchase.

This book is designed to give the reader more than just the how-to part. These essays will also include the "why." Through case studies and expert insight, the reader should have a stronger understanding for what are best practices in customer service, and see why customer service is so critical to a company.
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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Practices, March 15, 2007
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There are some really good articles in here. This is a compliation of articles and such about this subject. I do a lot of work in my consulting business with employee retention and creating customer loyalty...in other words the best customers tend to do business with the best employees and that customers don't do business with a company, they do business with an employee in the company. If that employee leaves, generally the customer does as well.
A concept lost on many businesses today.
There's a few good pieces on that subject in here. I enjoy reading what other's think about this.
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5.0 out of 5 stars customer first, August 29, 2000
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Treat colleagues as customers ,then smile and be helpful and supportive ,caring,innovator, sociable good listener, creative patient .
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trapeze buddies, trapeze buddy, authentic coaching, service action steps, buddy report card, reevaluation stage, transactional standards, authentic coaches, calming upset customers, delivering great service, predictive expectations, idea generation sessions, champion customers, best service providers, retention tactics, customer service professionals, market mavens, problem resolution process, telephone reps, team delay, mature customers, service recovery, purchase cycle, departure process, telephone representatives
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Vital Signs, Expert Reasoning, New York, World Wide Web, Stakeholder Input, Success Through Service, Training Exercise, Southwest Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Innovation Success, Web Advisor, Case Example, Jim Sterne, Knowledge Builder, Let Customer, Ron Zemke, Total Score, Inspiring Customers, Jody Hoffer Gittell, John Goodman, Performance Research Associates, Turning Oops, United States, Mary Smith, San Francisco
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