Customer Insights

Buyer Personas is the marketer's actionable guide to learning what your buyer wants and how they make decisions. Written by the world's leading authority on buyer personas, this audiobook provides comprehensive coverage of a compelling new way to conduct buyer studies, plus practical advice on adopting the buyer persona approach to measurably improve marketing outcomes. Listeners will learn how to segment their customer base, investigate each customer type, and apply a radically more relevant process of message selection, content creation, and distribution.

Customer Service Success, The 6 Keys To Deliver A World-Class Experience, offers you new solutions to the age-old challenges that you face in your business every day…How do you keep your customers happy so that they never leave you? How do you get your clients excited to come back to your businesses time and time again? How do you create raving fan customers that will tell all of their friends, family and colleagues that they must to do business with you? This book will answer all of these questions for you and more in a simple, easy-to-follow format that is entertaining and educational. ...

Working Backwards is a practical guidebook and a corporate narrative, filled with the authors’ in-the-room recollections of what “Being Amazonian” is like and how it has affected their personal and professional lives. They demonstrate that success on Amazon’s scale is not achieved by the genius of any single leader, but rather through commitment to and execution of a set of well-defined, rigorously executed principles and practices - shared here for the very first time.

The subscription business model is hot - from software to music to movies to diet programs, investors and public markets want businesses that create recurring payments from unlimited customers. The old sales and marketing methods can handle attracting new customers for growth; however, only in the last five years has a discipline emerged that views growth in relation to retention, not just sales.

The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us—and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work. While human lives are endlessly variable, our most memorable...

Creating impactful customer experiences is at the core of a company's business model. However, the principles behind it are often misunderstood and driven by intuition rather than grounded in scientific knowledge. The Customer Science Handbook provides a systematic, powerful, and practical approach to designing transformative customer experiences. Building on decades of research from psychology, behavioral economics, and marketing, this book offers insights into the forces that shape customer behavior. It reveals proven principles employed by leading marketing companies and demonstrates how...

The former Executive Vice President of Walt Disney World shares indispensible Rules for serving customers with consistency, efficiency, creativity, sincerity, and excellence. Lee Cockerell knows that success in business--any business--depends upon winning and keeping customers. In 39...

Based on six years of research, Harvard Business School professor Thales Teixeira shows how and why industries are disrupted, and what established companies can do to respond--as well as what potential startups must master if they hope to gain a competitive edge. As it turns out, there is a...

Talk Triggers is the definitive, practical guide on how to use bold operational differentiators to create customer conversations, written by best-selling authors and marketing experts Jay Baer and Daniel Lemin. Word of mouth is directly responsible for 19% of all purchases, and influences as...

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.

This book is designed to help growth-minded people like you see the power and potential they have to make an impact by changing the customer experience for their businesses and brands for the better.

In 2019 direct payments to farmers, known as farm subsidies, reached a record level of $22,447,200,000 and in 2020 it will set a new record exceeding $38 billion. Farming in the U.S. is not headed for a dip in the road; it’s not headed for a ditch; it’s headed for a cliff. And what will also be carried over that cliff is our environment and most directly, our watersheds and drinking water. Can anything be done? To begin, we should understand what and who got us into this policy nightmare. The University of Illinois had researched U.S. grain standards to drive higher quality and increase...

In the past, medicine worked like this: a patient looked for a doctor who evaluated him carefully. After the evaluation, the doctor said to the patient: Are you willing to abandon everything that has made you sick so far? Only then do I accept to be your doctor. Now, I ask you: Is your company willing to abandon all the bad processes and bad strategies that have given your customers a bad experience? The big problem is that, in many cases, we look for doctors, pharmacists and software resellers and, what they want most, is to recommend medicines and CRM systems for a temporary cure, or ...

Most marketing fails for one simple reason: businesses talk, but they do not listen. Audience X-Ray Vision shows marketers, entrepreneurs, and business owners how to uncover what their audience actually wants, needs, and responds to, using modern AI tools and strategic listening techniques. Instead of guessing topics, chasing trends, or copying competitors, this book teaches readers how to see clearly into customer behavior and build content that converts. This practical guide introduces a structured approach to audience intelligence, combining data-driven analysis with real-world marketing...

Contents: Part I: Customer Journey Mapping – An Overview Chapter 1: Introduction to Customer Journey Mapping Chapter 2: Key Concepts of Customer Journey Mapping Chapter 3: The Benefits of Customer Journey Mapping Chapter 4: Gathering Customer Insights Chapter 5: Creating Your Customer Journey Map Chapter 6: Tools and Resources for Mapping Chapter 7: Analyzing and Interpreting Your Map Chapter 8: Implementing Changes Based on Your Map Chapter 9: Lessons Learned Chapter 10: Future Trends in Customer Journey Mapping Chapter 11: Conclusion and Next Steps Part II: Customer Journey Mapping – ...

Whether you're a manager, owner, or employee, Customer Service Training 101 gets you up to speed fast. The completely revised and updated third edition addresses every aspect of face-to-face, phone, online, social media, and self-service interactions. Using scenarios, guidelines, and practice exercises, this inspiring training manual explains what to say and do, what to avoid, and why interactions go astray.

Customer Data and Privacy: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you understand the tangled interdependencies and complexities and develop strategies that allow your company to be good stewards, collecting, using, and storing customer data responsibly.

How would your company act if every customer were your mom? How do we cut through the rigmarole of business to give customers the treatment they desire, and employees the ability to deliver it? Customer experience expert Jeanne Bliss recommends making business personal to get the traction you...

Almost every business depends on its customers, and yours is probably no different. Without the customer, there is no order, and without the order, there is no profit. It’s easy to see how a business could quickly fold without great customer service at its core. Making sure your customer service is as good as it can be is now much easier with this audiobook, Customer Service: The Ultimate Guide to Learning the Art of Customer Experience Excellence.

Gain the tools you need to provide excellent customer service. You will find within easy-to-understand and simple-to-apply techniques for improving your customer's experience.