Tough Customer

Tough Customer
Author: Sandra Brown
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2021-12-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982177128

Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010.

How to Deal with Difficult Customers

How to Deal with Difficult Customers
Author: Dave Anderson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2013-05-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118761618

Praise for How to Deal with Difficult Customers "The application of the ten key strategies in this book will help every sales professional learn how to deal with the truly difficult and how to avoid creating unnecessary difficulties. It's written with the same wit, humor, and inspiration that have made Anderson's prior books so effective." --Margaret Callihan, President, Chairman, and CEO, SunTrust Bank, Florida "Anderson knocks another one out of the park with How to Deal with Difficult Customers! The problem is real; Anderson's solutions make sense and, as always, he makes you laugh in the process." --Mike Roscoe, Editor in Chief, Dealer Magazine "I could not put this book down. It's a salesperson's bible, offering clear and concise how-to advice. If you're in the selling profession and want to sell more, you should read this book . . . twice." --Warren Lada, Senior Vice President, Saga Communications "An individual executing the ideas within this book will change their own life and their organization. No one has the gift like Anderson to articulate the importance character plays in maximizing potential." --Mike Tomberlin, CEO, The Tomberlin Group "Throw out all your other sales manuals. Anderson's new book will change the way you look at customers, the way your salespeople look at themselves, and, quite frankly, the way you look at the sales process." --Dan Janal, President, PRleads.com "What are you waiting for? We all have difficult customers. If you're tired of leaving money on the table because you can't handle them, read this book. If your good customers are turning into difficult customers, read this book. If you want to deliver results year-in and year-out, read, re-read, and apply the lessons of this book." --Randy Pennington, author, Results Rule!

Negotiating with Tough Customers

Negotiating with Tough Customers
Author: Steve Reilly
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2016-06-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1632659506

A guide to holding your ground with hardball negotiators, from a “talented advisor with a rare ability for connecting people with ideas” (Patrick Lencioni, bestselling author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team). Negotiation is the middle ground between capitulation and stonewalling—a back-and-forth between two parties trying to reach agreement. If a price or other term is non-negotiable, there is no give and take, just “take it or leave it.” You may think you are negotiating, but if the other side isn’t playing, you aren’t either. Regardless of the industry, situation, or product, the two most common mistakes negotiators make are: 1) they give ground too easily, and 2) they get nothing in return. When dealing with tough customers, it is even more important to be able to defend your position and bargain for reciprocal concessions. Negotiating with Tough Customers provides proven methods for holding your ground against (seemingly) more powerful negotiators. But it goes further, making sure that when you do give ground, you get equal or better value in return. Using a cooperative, collaborative approach in a hardball negotiation just doesn’t work. Tough negotiators will play win-win, but only if they have nothing to lose. Negotiating With Tough Customers will make you a better salesperson by making you a better negotiator . . . and vice versa.

If It Wasn't for the Customers I'd Really Like This Job

If It Wasn't for the Customers I'd Really Like This Job
Author: Robert Bacal
Publisher: Bacal & Associates
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2011-02-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1452803803

Bacal provides a practical guide to dealing with nasty, hostile, angry, and even abusive customers. He gives you the skills and confidence to deal with the most troublesome of customers.

Dealing with Difficult Customers

Dealing with Difficult Customers
Author: Noah Fleming
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2017-11-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1632658895

Ignore a valid complaint and you could be the next viral sensation for all the wrong reasons. But give in to every demand and you may be consumed with the often petty complaints of your worst customers and wind up pandering to them with freebies, discounts, and special attention. That will cost you time and money, and perhaps worse, do little or nothing to solve the root problem. Dealing with Difficult Customers will show you: How to stop using gimmicks and trick promotions to encourage repeat business and the alternatives that will keep your customers salivating for more. How “Hungry Hippos” and “Problem Children” are sapping your employees time and energy and what to do about them. The behaviors that turn great customers into dissatisfied critics and how to change them.

Tough Choices

Tough Choices
Author: Carly Fiorina
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2011-02-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1857884345

By accepting the CEO job at Hewlett-Packard, an iconic company that had lost its way, Carly Fiorina confirmed her status as the most powerful businesswoman in America. But she also made herself a target for everyone who disliked her bold leadership style and resented her rapid rise. For six years, as she led HP through drastic changes and a controversial merger, Fiorina was the subject of endless analysis, debate and speculation. Yet in all that time, the public never really got to know the person behind the persona. Tough Choices finally reveals the real Carly Fiorina, who writes with brutal honesty about her triumphs and failures, her deepest fears and most painful confrontations – including her sudden and very public firing by HP's board of directors. Tough Choices shows what it's really like to lead a major corporation in a time of great change while trying to stay true to your values. It's one woman's inspiring story, along with her unique perspective on leadership, technology, globalisation, sexism and many other issues. "Superb... certain to be a hit. Ms Fiorina is at her best when recounting the travails of a woman in a male-dominated culture. She is also good in her psychological descriptions of the constant betrayals that occur in corporate bureaucracies. The woman that emerges from these pages is cultured, sensitive and vulnerable, even as she acts tough." —The Economist

Exceptional Customer Service

Exceptional Customer Service
Author: Lisa Ford
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2009-08-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1440504350

When the going's tough, companies that survive will be those that build the greatest loyalty—by exceeding expectations. Yet, too often, companies ignore their customers' needs and wants. Today, industries like airlines, retail businesses, and restaurants are feeling consumer pushback. With new, updated examples from more than fifty companies—from Chik-Fil-A restaurants to the Ritz-Carlton hotel chain to online retailer Zappos.com—this book shows managers how to go from so-so service to amazing service. In today's market, customer service is a key competitive advantage. This book shows you how to expand your customer base when the industry is shrinking, use new media to reach consumers, and make a lasting, great impression on customers. When businesses are fighting to survive, creating a great experience for customers isnit just important—it's essential.

Uncommon Service

Uncommon Service
Author: Frances X. Frei
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2012
Genre: Customer relations
ISBN: 1422133311

Offers an organizational design model for service organizations, covering such topics as funding mechanisms, employee management systems, and customer management systems.

Lion Taming

Lion Taming
Author: Steven L. Katz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Conflict management
ISBN: 9781402202179

The lions, in Katz's taxonomy, are the people in any workplace with power,uthority, and responsibility, and those trying to get more power anduthority. For the rest of us, he offers guidance on communicating andorking more effectively with leaders and bosses who are tough (not to mixhe metaphor) customers. Katz's dust jacket biography notes