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Customer Service Summaries

Customers come first. But as more and more businesses emphasize personal contact with their clients, they are raising the bar regarding what constitutes good customer service. Learn how to stay ahead of the pack.

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Achieve Sales Excellence
 

Howard Stevens and Theodore Kinni

Platinum Press, 2006

(8)

America's Service Meltdown
 

Raul Pupo

Praeger, 2010

(7)

Build It Big
 

Direct Selling Womens Alliance

Kaplan Publishing, 2005

(7)

Build Your Customer Strategy
 

James G. Barnes

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006

(8)

Clued In
 

Lewis P. Carbone

FT Prentice Hall, 2004

(8)

Creating Customer Evangelists
 

Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba

Dearborn, 2003

(7)

Creating Do-It-Yourself Customers
 

Peter C. Honebein and Roy R. Cammarano

Thomson/South-Western, 2005

(7)

Customer Care Excellence
 

Sarah Cook

Kogan Page, 2008

(7)

Dealing with the Customer from Hell
 

Shaun Belding

Kogan Page, 2005

(7)

Don't Just Relate - Advocate
 

Glen Urban

Wharton School Publishing, 2005

(6)

Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit
 

Leonardo Inghilleri and Micah Solomon

AMACOM, 2010

(9)

Futurize Your Enterprise
 

David Siegel

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999

(7)

Getting Naked
 

Patrick Lencioni

Jossey-Bass, 2010

(7)

Hug Your Customers
 

Jack Mitchell

Hyperion, 2003

(9)

Human Sigma
 

John H. Fleming and Jim Asplund

Gallup Press, 2007

(7)

In Search of Excellence
 

Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman

HarperBusiness, 1988

(9)

Managing Customers as Investments
 

Sunil Gupta and Donald R. Lehmann

Wharton School Publishing, 2005

(9)

Ownership Quotient
 

James L. Heskett et al.

Harvard Business Review Press, 2008

(7)

Positively Outrageous Service
 

T. Scott Gross

Kaplan Publishing, 2004

(7)

Reorganize for Resilience
 

Ranjay Gulati

Harvard Business Review Press, 2010

(9)

Selling to Major Accounts
 

Terry R. Bacon, Ph.D.

AMACOM, 1999

(8)

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Customer Service

It’s virtually impossible to overrate the significance of customer service. Countless businesses can point to superior customer service skills as the primary factor in their success. Though price is always a consideration, consumers value their relationships with businesses and expect to have a positive experience in purchasing goods or services. In the fierce battle for the consumer dollar, more companies are acknowledging the consequences of good customer service and tailoring their operations accordingly.

If you believe your business needs to polish up its customer service, you’ll find getAbstract extremely helpful. Our summaries break down every component of customer service and reinforce commonly held beliefs, such as the importance of building a loyal customer base. You may be able to bring customers through your doors with fancy promotions and cut-rate prices, but sustained success depends on repeat business.

Get Personal

When it comes to customer service, one recurring theme is that people long for the “good, old days” when they were greeted with a warm smile and friendly hello. With so much business transacted online now, consumers are grumbling more about the impersonal treatment they receive. Robots answer telephone calls; complaints about products and services appear to fall on deaf ears.

Our summaries tackle these issues – and a lot more. You’ll learn how to listen to your customers and train your staff members to be helpful and courteous and responsive to grievances. getAbstract will demonstrate that good customer service isn’t really complicated at all.

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