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Legendary service : the key is to care
\"The only book you need to raise customer service to a world-class level--from bestselling author and leadership guru Ken Blanchard Written as an entertaining customer-service \"parable,\" I Care--Do You? offers an easy-to-implement model based on the importance of caring for both internal and external customers. Ideal for both managers seeking to raise the level of their employees, as well as self-driven customer service professionals, this powerful guide combines practical advice with the rationale behind it to increase customer loyalty through sincere customer care.Ken Blanchard is Chief Spiritual Officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, a global management training and consulting firm he cofounded in 1979. Victoria Halsey is Vice President of Applied Learning for The Ken Blanchard Companies. Kathy Cuff is a Senior Consulting Partner for The Ken Blanchard Companies\"-- Provided by publisher.
Book
Creating Enduring Customer Value
One of the most important tasks in marketing is to create and communicate value to customers to drive their satisfaction, loyalty, and profitability. In this study, the authors assume that customer value is a dual concept. First, in order to be successful, firms (and the marketing function) have to create perceived value for customers. Toward that end, marketers have to measure customer perceived value and have to provide customer perceptions of value through marketing-mix elements. Second, customers in return give value through multiple forms of engagement (customer lifetime value, in the widest sense) for the organization. Therefore, marketers need to measure and manage this value of the customer(s) to the firm and have to incorporate this aspect into real-time marketing decisions. The authors integrate and synthesize existing findings, show the best practices of implementation, and highlight future research avenues.
Journal Article
Can your customer service do this? : create an anticipatory customer experience that builds loyalty forever
\"There comes a time when business owners, managers, and startups can't see objectively where their weaknesses lie. Whether they are already at the top of their game and want to stay there, are concerned about diminishing sales and increased competition, or are building something brand-new, Micah Solomon's unique lens as a \"customer service sleuth\" will help businesses assess whether they are delivering the goods and services they have always intended\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Understanding Customer Experience Throughout the Customer Journey
Understanding customer experience and the customer journey over time is critical for firms. Customers now interact with firms through myriad touch points in multiple channels and media, and customer experiences are more social in nature. These changes require firms to integrate multiple business functions, and even external partners, in creating and delivering positive customer experiences. In this article, the authors aim to develop a stronger understanding of customer experience and the customer journey in this era of increasingly complex customer behavior. To achieve this goal, they examine existing definitions and conceptualizations of customer experience as a construct and provide a historical perspective of the roots of customer experience within marketing. Next, they attempt to bring together what is currently known about customer experience, customer journeys, and customer experience management. Finally, they identify critical areas for future research on this important topic.
Journal Article
Leading loyalty : cracking the code to customer devotion
\"In business, if people merely like you, you're in trouble. They need to love you! Learn how building loyalty and modeling great customer service behavior to develop frontline teams is the key to building raving fans\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Statistical methods in customer relationship management
Statistical Methods in Customer Relationship Management focuses on the quantitative and modeling aspects of customer management strategies that lead to future firm profitability, with emphasis on developing an understanding of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) models as the guiding concept for profitable customer management. To understand and explore the functioning of CRM models, this book traces the management strategies throughout a customer's tenure with a firm. Furthermore, the book explores in detail CRM models for customer acquisition, customer retention, customer acquisition and retention, customer churn, and customer win back.
Statistical Methods in Customer Relationship Management:
* Provides an overview of a CRM system, introducing key concepts and metrics needed to understand and implement these models.
* Focuses on five CRM models: customer acquisition, customer retention, customer churn, and customer win back with supporting case studies.
* Explores each model in detail, from investigating the need for CRM models to looking at the future of the models.
* Presents models and concepts that span across the introductory, advanced, and specialist levels.
Academics and practitioners involved in the area of CRM as well as instructors of applied statistics and quantitative marketing courses will benefit from this book.
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Repositioning the customer support services: the next frontier of competitive advantage
Purpose
This paper aims to analyze the present status of customer support services (CSS) and advocate the re-positioning of support services from an administrative cost center to a strategic profit center. Authors demonstrate how customer support or after sales services can be a source of competitive advantage and revenue generation for firms.
Design/methodology/approach
The study adopts a conceptual approach grounded in theoretical foundations of service dominant logic, customer loyalty and customer centricity along with practical illustrations from the industry.
Findings
Following the tenets of theory, review of existing research and analysis of the industry practices, the authors propose a new framework to enable the repositioning of customer service function. The key propositions include establishing customer support as separate business unit and insights center, introducing a new role of a C-level chief customer support officer to lead the customer support unit, adopting a customer-centric culture and process, enabling frontline IT support and investing in frontline employee skills development.
Research limitations/implications
Academics should examine the potential of customer support, where the strategic importance is low at present, leading to customer dissatisfaction. The new approach and positioning of customer support calls for a new direction for research in this area focusing on enablers, challenges and further implications. To succeed in this competitive era, firms should be conscious of the value of customer service and undertake concrete actions to generate value for all stakeholders.
Practical implications
Industry can use the new framework and re-position CSS of the organizations. The CSS unit can be different from other business units in the organizations. The CSS would evolve and emerge from the live customer insights. CSS unit can be managed by the C level chief CSS officer. Customer-centric culture would be developed and front line processes can be made customer-oriented by the officer. Thus, this paper and framework would provide new customer-centric directions to the organizations for effective functioning.
Originality/value
This is the original piece that has emerged from the experience and expertise of the authors.
Journal Article
Customer Experience Journeys
Customer experience management research is increasingly concerned with the long-term evolution of customer experience journeys across multiple service cycles. A dominant smooth journey model makes customers’ lives easier, with a cyclical pattern of predictable experiences that builds customer loyalty over time, also known as a loyalty loop. An alternate sticky journey model makes customers’ lives exciting, with a cyclical pattern of unpredictable experiences that increases customer involvement over time, conceptualized here as an involvement spiral. Whereas the smooth journey model is ideal for instrumental services that facilitate jobs to be done, the sticky journey model is ideal for recreational services that facilitate never-ending adventures. To match the flow of each journey type, firms are advised to encourage purchases during the initial service cycles of smooth journeys, or subsequent service cycles of sticky journeys. In multiservice systems, firms can sustain customer journeys by interlinking loyalty loops and involvement spirals. The article concludes with new journey-centered questions for customer experience management research, as well as branding research, consumer culture theory, consumer psychology, and transformative service research.
Journal Article