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Why They Don't Buy: The Science of Selling Online [Hardcover]

Max Mckeown (Author)
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The Financial Times Series December 4, 2001
How do you convert clicks to orders? If you want to have online customers, then customers must want to have your online buying experience. So, what do you need to do to build a profitable, differentiated and world-beating customer experience online? It's not enough to be on the web, and it's not enough to build a great site - however functional or funky. You have to meet and exceed every expectation of the newly demanding, wired and wireless customer, and what's more, you need to catch up now. This is the science of selling online. In "Why They Don't Buy", online customer guru Max McKeown delivers a complete practical program for designing and building the ultimate online customer experience. Read this book and you will discover how to:*understand your powerful, new, evolved online customers *figure out the difficult stuff which customers want, and that you can give them *get a team together to deliver the desired end-to-end experience *keep it fresh and stay in business."This book is a wake-up call to online retailers. More than just a set of checklists, McKeown attempts to create a framework for approaching the business of selling online." "Book of the week: Marketing "

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Book of the week: "Marketing "This book is a wake-up call to online retailers. More than just a set of checklists, McKeown attempts to create a framework for approaching the business of selling online. Always exhorting the reader to look through the customer's eyes, the book sets out a series of exercises for teams to go through, creating a set of goals and deliverables for their site -all directed at generating better sales. Online retail is getting better, but it's a hard slog and most practitioners are having to invent processes and strategies for themselves. Even if you don't buy 100% into the framework the book sets out, there's a great deal of useful stuff here that will ultimately save readers time having to figure it out for themselves." "McKeown is keenly aware of the small but significant characteristics of a website that help it stand out for the customer." "Start and Run your Business", April 2002

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How do you convert clicks to orders?

If you want to have online customers, then customers must want to have your online buying experience. So, what do you need to do to build a profitable, differentiated and world-beating customer experience online?

It's not enough to be on the web, and it's not enough to build a great site—however functional or funky. You have to meet and exceed every expectation of the newly demanding, wired and wireless customer, and what's more, you need to catch up now.

This is the science of selling online. In Why They Don't Buy, online customer guru Max McKeown delivers a complete practical program for designing and building the ultimate online customer experience.

Read this book and you will discover how to:


* understand your powerful, new, evolved online customers
* figure out the difficult stuff which customers want, and that you can give them
* get a team together to deliver the desired end-to-end experience
* keep it fresh and stay in business.

Excellence is not dead. It got speeded up and turned around, but it is more important than it has ever been. Not excellence in the eyes of the business—that won't save you; it needs to be excellence in the eye of the customer.

If you want to do business with an online customer and make a profit at the same time, you will have to learn a lot. You can learn through hard personal experience or through the experiences of hundreds of others, whose expertise has been collected and structured in this book.

Following the steps in Why They Don't Buy will ensure that e-customers hearts, heads and credit cards are won over by focused and effective creativity. You will start to increase margins, roam across borders and maximize returns per online customer. So, here is a book on how to design companies, products, user interfaces, marketing and packaging to attract, amuse, interest, satisfy and retain the e-customer. It's your complete toolkit for implementing an end-to-end online customer strategy.


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Financial Times/Prentice Hall; 1st edition (December 4, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0273656740
  • ISBN-13: 978-0273656746
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,528,180 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Max is a new breed of management guru. Brilliant, original and entertaining, he could become the most listened-to British business thinker of the new era. From CEO round-tables to conferences with thousands of people, Max McKeown makes an impact wherever he goes.

Mckeown shows how to survive and even thrive in an age of uncertainty. Old plans won't help; simply hoping for the best won't work. Combining cutting edge strategy and management science with pragmatic wisdom, wit and pop culture, he pinpoints how the most resilient leaders continue to inspire all-important, trust-filled, make-a-difference energy from their people.

Max is a compelling communicator. He explains how to tap into potential and demonstrates that excellence always costs less than mediocrity. Presentations and workshops are based on hope, integrity and purpose as the sanest route to profit, a full night's sleep and genuine customer friendships.

He works as a strategy, innovation and leadership coach for the most admired companies in the world. He has been elected to the Customer Service Hall of Fame, been nominated as a Star of Human Resources by Personnel Today, and been featured on national and international radio, television, and newspapers.

He has written six books, including The Strategy Book, Adaptability, The Truth About Innovation, Unshrink, and E-Customer.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Beyond CRM! Beyond Web Design!, February 6, 2002
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This review is from: Why They Don't Buy: The Science of Selling Online (Hardcover)
Loved it! I read e-customer (this is the follow-up) and enjoyed the passion but this is a whole different league.

In terms of detail and practicality this has it all. It presents five-implementation steps for the e-customer programme from (1) how to understand your e-customer; (2) figuring out what difficult stuff he wants that you can give him; (3) getting a team together to deliver what he wants (a council of ideas); (4) delivering an end 2 end experience that delivers what he wants; to (5) keeping it fresh and stay in business.

I am sure there will be other books but this one deserves a place on the bookshelf of every business person with customers! Max appears from his web site ...to be very popular outside the USA and with a book of this quality he deserves more of your attention!

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