Knock Your Socks Off Service Recovery

Knock Your Socks Off Service Recovery
Author: Ron Zemke
Publisher: Amacom Books
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780814470848

Based on the popular, breezy approach of the Knock Your Socks Off Service series, the authors provide managers with an upbeat primer on creating a first-class recovery system--showing what it costs to lose customers and how little it can cost to win them back.

Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service

Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service
Author: Ron Zemke
Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780814407653

Outlines the skills and techniques of providing superior customer service.

101 Activities for Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service

101 Activities for Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service
Author: Performance Research Associates
Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2009-06-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814414451

Today’s customers are demanding service that is faster, better, and more personalized than ever before. How can organizations ensure that they are prepared to meet that challenge? The latest addition to the best-selling Knock Your Socks Off Service® series, 101 Activities for Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service provides readers with the practical tools and cost-effective training required to help meet their customers’ needs. Taking the unique position of seeing things from the customer’s perspective, this collection of fun and enlightening exercises teaches customer service managers and employees valuable ways to help their organizations provide world-class service, and helps them create an action plan for improvement. Written in the same accessible and humorous style that made Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service so popular, this companion guide covers such topics as: • how to say no • empathy vs. sympathy • service recovery • listening • email • telephone skills • customers from hell • winning words and soothing phrases • anticipting customer needs • building reliability • customer feedback • keeping a stress log • and more These simple but effective activities take only minutes, but deliver truly powerful, lasting results.

Knock Your Socks Off Selling

Knock Your Socks Off Selling
Author: Jeffrey H. Gitomer
Publisher: Amacom Books
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780814470305

The successful "Knock Your Socks Off" (KYSO) formula for wowing customers is back, adapted into a surefire strategy for winning sales by the illustrious consulting team of Gitomer and Zemke. The book will help salespeople succeed in today's complex and stiffly competitive sales environment.

Service Recovery

Service Recovery
Author: Ron Zemke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1995
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781563271502

How do you fix a broken customer? Spend an hour with Ron Zemke's Service Recovery and discover the steps to take after a product or service breakdown to satisfy your customer. Zemke's guidelines are easy to implement at all levels of a company. You'll learn the economic rationale for service recovery and the recovery guidelines for strategic advantage.

Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service

Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service
Author: PERFORMANCE RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2011-10-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814417566

Who would’ve thought that a practical, fun, easy-to-read customer service book would capture the hearts of hundreds of thousands of readers? Now, celebrating its 20th anniversary, Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service has been completely revised and is better than ever! Still the go-to guide on providing the kind of outstanding service that keeps customers coming back, the fifth edition combines powerful tools and techniques with real-world examples and all-new chapters on using social media for communication and service recovery, owning service encounters, responding positively to negative feedback, and more. The book provides readers with proven tips and strategies for: • Exceeding customer needs and expectations • Determining the right times to bend or break the rules • Becoming fantastic fixers and powerful problem-solvers • Using the RATER factors to wow your customers • Understanding cultural and generational differences • Becoming a listening post • Coping effectively with “customers from hell” With people surrounded by more choices and information than ever before, true customer loyalty has become increasingly difficult to attain. Combining timeless wisdom and up-to-the-minute methods, Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service is the book no customer service professional can afford to be without.

Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service

Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service
Author: Performance Associates, Inc
Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814417558

In this trusted customer service classic, the renowned business training and consulting services practice Performance Research Associates, Inc. lays bare the truth all companies have come to accept but few know what to do with: companies that emphasize customer service make more money and keep customers longer than those that don't. For over two decades, Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service has combined this timeless wisdom with powerful tools, real-world examples, and the latest methods to provide customer service professionals an indispensable guide. With lighthearted examples and to-the-point solutions, the book provides readers with proven tips and strategies for exceeding customer needs and expectations, determining the right times to bend or break the rules, becoming fantastic fixers and powerful problem-solvers, using the RATER factors to wow your customers, understanding cultural and generational differences, and coping effectively with your most challenging customers. Plus, the revised fifth edition delivers new information on using social media for communication and service recovery, owning service encounters, responding positively to negative feedback, and more.What is quality customer service--and how do you consistently deliver it for your customers? Discover the answers in this go-to guide for helping customer service professionals deliver outstanding service that keeps customers coming back.

Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service

Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service
Author: Performance Associates, Inc
Publisher: Amacom Books
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780814430019

Written in the same accessible and humorous style that made this book a classic, this title features brand-new chapters on important topics such as understanding cultural and generational differences in customers, plus fresh anecdotes and never-before-seen illustrations by cartoonist John Bush.

Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service

Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service
Author: Chip Bell
Publisher: AMACOM
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2013-05-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814432050

You may have your industry’s most prolific product or service in the marketplace, but your customers’ loyalty and checkbooks will only go as far as your customer service will allow. In the end, customers will not recognize the minor advantages of your superior product, but poor customer service will stand out like the Vegas strip on a moonless night. So the most vital question any manager or business owner can ask themselves today is, how well are you training, coaching, and supporting your company’s frontline employees?The invaluable, must-have Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service shows managers and supervisors how to: • Find and retain service-oriented people • Understand customer needs, expectations, and desires • Build a service vision • Design a user-friendly service delivery process • Involve and inspire employees • Recognize and reward good performance Fully updated with new chapters on: learning from lost customers; inciting passion and incentivizing service; fostering trust; and delivering great customer experiences online, this indispensable resource provides absolutely everything managers need to ensure their frontline employees become their company's biggest asset.

Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service

Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service
Author: Chip R. BELL
Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2007-05-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814400515

Today’s customers demand service that isn’t just beyond the norm, but makes its mark in their minds and in their hearts. This updated edition of Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service provides readers with up-to-the-minute advice on how they can create world-class service both in their operations and through their people, whether they work with customers face-to-face, on the phone, or in e-space. Revamped with new examples, stories, and research, and featuring cartoons by John Bush, the book gives readers practical, proven ways to: * find and retain service-oriented people * get to know customers intimately * build a service vision * train and coach * create and maintain a service management process that aligns people, systems, and customers * involve and empower employees * recognize and reward good performance. Filled with examples from service standard-setters such as Fed-Ex, QVC, and others, Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service shows how to create great service on a day-to-day, real-time, every-time basis.