Synopses & Reviews
Review
[Five Stars] "People involved in company strategy or customer service should drop what they are doing and read this five-star book now. For others, it provides an excellent perspective on the value of customer service. Strategic Customer Service is the best book on customer service, in terms of concepts and practical solutions, I have read in a long time. Goodman's wonderful, well-integrated stories are the frosting on the cake." --Grazadio Business Report
Review
Selected by Customer Service Newsletter as one of the best customer service books of 2009: "If your company's goal is to create a customer experience that builds relationships and increases customer lifetime value, Goodman's book offers the research data to support such an effort and a blueprint for achieving it."
Synopsis
The success of any organization depends on high-quality customer service. But for companies that strategically align customer service with their overall corporate strategy, it can transcend typical good business to become a profitable word-of-mouth machine that will transform the bottom line. Drawing on over thirty years of research for companies such as 3M, American Express, Chik-Fil-A, USAA, Coca-Cola, FedEx, GE, Cisco Systems, Neiman Marcus, and Toyota, author Goodman uses formal research, case studies, and patented practices to show readers how they can:
• calculate the financial impact of good and bad customer service
• make the financial case for customer service improvements •
systematically identify the causes of problems
• align customer service with their brand
• harness customer service strategy into their organization's culture and behavior
Filled with proven strategies and eye-opening case studies, this book challenges many aspects of conventional wisdom—using hard data—and reveals how any organization can earn more loyalty, win more customers...and improve their financial bottom line.
About the Author
John A. Goodman (Arlington, VA) is Vice Chairman and co-founder of TARP Worldwide, an organization Tom Peters has called “America’s premier customer service research firm.”
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