Five Star Service, One Star Budget

Five Star Service, One Star Budget
Author: Michael Heppell
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780273707929

This book provides readers with strategies and advice on providing top quality customer service at very low cost to their organisation. It aims to help readers make their customer and colleagues happier; develop their careers; grow their customer base; get repeat orders and referrals. Table of contents: * The service star * Wee wows * The top three referability habits * The emotional bank account * Putting on the Ritz * 99 percent of people are good * Designing fantastic customer service * Beware the silent customer * RADAR thinking * RADAR thinking at work * Send cards * The customer is always right - not! * Feel, felt, found * What's in a smile? * One chance to make a first impression * I honestly don't care about your problems * Empowering service * Creativity gives better service * It's not what you say * It's your best friend - the awkward customer * Be individual, encourage individuals * Prepare for and relish competition * The difference between one, some, many and all * Super script * Voicemail, answering machines and automated call queue systems * Telephone services * Advanced telephone service * Tiny steps to giant strides * What's in a name? * Hills and valleys * Good ideas verses desirable ideas * Ring the bell * Spanners and heros * Know your competition * Speed it up!

Five Star Service

Five Star Service
Author: Michael Heppell
Publisher: Pearson UK
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2015-09-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1292100230

The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed. Create magic moments that get you noticed, remembered and referred. Providing excellent customer service is the surest way to greater success for your organisation and a more successful career for you. And it's not half as difficult or time consuming to achieve as you might think!

Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit

Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit
Author: Leonardo Inghilleri
Publisher: AMACOM
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2010-04-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814415393

What if you could protect your business against competitive inroads, once and for all? Customer service experts Leonardo Inghilleri and Micah Solomon's anticipatory customer service approach was first developed at The Ritz-Carlton as well as at Solomon's company Oasis, and has since proven itself in countless companies around the globe--from luxury giant BVLGARI to value-sensitive auto parts leader Carquest and everywhere in between. Their experience shows that the most powerful growth engine in a tight market--and best protection from competitive inroads--is to put everything you can into cultivating true customer loyalty. Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit takes the techniques that minted money for these brands and reveals how you can apply them to your own business to provide the kind of exceptional service that nearly guarantees loyalty. Soon, you'll be reaping the benefits of loyal customers who are: less sensitive to price competition, more forgiving of small glitches, and, ultimately, who are "walking billboards" happily promoting your brand. Filled with detailed, behind-the-scenes examples, Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit unlocks a new level of customer relationship that leaves your competitors in the dust, your customers coming back day after day, and your bottom line looking better than it ever has before.

10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget

10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget
Author: Wise Bread Writers
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 160239704X

A treasury of top-selected submissions to the popular personal finance blog WiseBread.com shares insights on how to enjoy life while living responsibly, in a resource that organizes entries under such headers as shopping in bulk, saving money while going green, and reducing one's mortgage and rent costs. Original.

Fast Projects

Fast Projects
Author: Fergus O'Connell
Publisher: Pearson UK
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2013-11-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0273747460

We are all faced with projects going off the rails, veering far from what we initially set out to do, costing ten times as much and taking far too long to complete - this is just part of everyday working life. Honing our general skills in project management seems like the obvious answer, but Fast Projects promises a quicker and easier solution - cutting the time to get projects done in the first place. Learning to operate within a short schedule not only cuts costs and improves revenue and cash flow, but it also sets you aside as a sharper and slicker operation. How to build, shorten and execute a realistic plan in the shortest time possible is covered in detail along with a specific focus on ensuring you have clearly defined goals and are making accurate project predictions with a successful tracking progress. Using worked examples and tried and tested techniques, Fast Projects is your practical guide to ensuring projects not only succeed, but are delivered early. If you want to get the most out of your team and take control of your workload, resources and time, this book is for you.

BUSINESS Essential

BUSINESS Essential
Author: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 702
Release: 2015-03-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1408114054

The abridged, updated edition of international bestseller BUSINESS: The Ultimate Resource. This essential guide to the world of work and careers is crammed with top-quality content from the world's leading business writers and practitioners. Now in a handy paperback format, it is ideal for time-pressed managers, small business owners and students alike. A free eBook will be available for purchasers of the print edition. This book includes: Actionlists: more than 200 practical solutions to everyday business and career challenges, from revitalising your CV to managing during difficult times. Management library: time-saving digests of more than 70 of the best and most influential business books of all time, from The Art of War to The Tipping Point. We've read them so you don't have to. Best Practice articles: a selection of essays from top business thinkers. Business Dictionary: jargon-free definitions of thousands of business terms and concepts. Gurus: explanations of the lives, careers, and key theories of the world's leading business thinkers

Marketing and Selling Professional Services in Architecture and Construction

Marketing and Selling Professional Services in Architecture and Construction
Author: Basil Sawczuk
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2009-11-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1405181877

This practical book on selling and marketing will help architects, engineers, project managers, facilities managers, surveyors, and contractors ‘sell’ themselves to prospective clients. As clients become more sophisticated at both local and international level, and as competition in the construction industry increases, both contractors and consultants have to take a more professional approach to selling themselves. This is especially true for PFI bids where vast resources are committed to winning multi-million pound contracts. Through a simple-to-follow process, illustrated with plenty of diagrams and checklists, Marketing & Selling Professional Services in Architecture & Construction sets out the seven key aspects of selling and marketing professional services. It is full of applicable ideas and examples and is well structured to enable readers to dip into the section relevant to their current needs.

Selling For Entrepreneurs ePub

Selling For Entrepreneurs ePub
Author: Kathryn Lennon
Publisher: Pearson UK
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2012-12-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0273746944

Ditch outdated sales thinking and get 21st century selling techniques for 21st century sales volume: Think and act like your customer and get more sales Get fabulous sales and still be a nice person Selling For Entrepreneurs helps the reader learn from people just like them -entrepreneurs - with passion and enthusiasm for the subject, but without the training or patience for “traditional” selling, who have lived through the rejections and knock-backs to tell the tale! It details every aspect of the sales process, from planning to presentation to closing. As well as learning nuts and bolts of selling, you’ll find out how to: Develop the self-image to give you the edge in every sales situation Concentrate on the customer's emotional factors to ensure better sales results Identify your customer's most pressing concerns Position your product or service to fill those needs.

MANAGING NEW VENTURES

MANAGING NEW VENTURES
Author: ANJAN RAICHAUDHURI
Publisher: PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2010-08-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 8120341562

This book not only introduces the fundamental concepts of entrepreneurship but also presents the critical issues that an entrepreneur needs to be familiar with for launching, nurturing, managing and harvesting new ventures. The book explains sequentially the life-cycle of a venture, and discusses topics such as opportunity identification, planning, start-up issues, managing growth and harvesting. Case studies are presented featuring real-life dilemmas faced by Indian entrepreneurs in the manufacturing and the service industries, to make the readers familiar with the eco-system confronting Indian entrepreneurs. The book is ideally suited for students who wish to venture into entrepreneurship as well as for professionals with interest in policy making, investing or consulting. Key Features : A list of learning objectives for each chapter and a set of questions at the end are given to assist students. Profiles of two leading entrepreneurs are given after each chapter to examine the relevance of the concepts discussed in the book. India-centred approach of this text makes it unique and interesting.

The Trouble with Keeping Mum

The Trouble with Keeping Mum
Author: Rosie Wallace
Publisher: Headline
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2012-08-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755390229

When Annie finds out she's pregnant, aged 44, it comes as a bit of a shock - after all, she's been celibate for five years. As a divorced single-mother caring for both a teenage son and an elderly parent, Annie has enough on her plate without having to look after a new baby as well - especially as she still hasn't figured out who the father is. There are two candidates in the running: her ex-boyfriend Tariq and Andrew, the widowed leader of the Scottish Parliament. With Annie's job as Health Minister placing her firmly in the public eye, she needs to solve the problems of her tangled personal life before the press cotton on - and she needs to solve them fast.