Chip Bell

Sprinkles is a book about unique customer service and the bottom line. Customers today crave special and unique. What do sprinkles do to a cupcake or cookie? They obviously make it special and unique. Innovative service is the same: it turns good to great service into special and distinctive service.
Customers like service that is good--meaning it successfully fulfills their needs or accomplishes the outcome they seek. But, they remember service that comes with an experience that gives them unexpected pleasure. Just like a good cookie made special with sprinkles, it's the extra touch!
This amazing little book is full of compelling stories of real customer service experiences that exceeded all expectations, breathtaking insights, and super-cool techniques that provide the perfect recipe for how to attract and retain the loyalty of todayʼs picky, fickle, and vocal customers.

In our increasingly connected world, customer service can make or break a business. Companies that excel keep customers coming back - and those who don't soon discover that word spreads fast. The difference is in how managers train, coach, and support frontline employees. Extensively revised with today's empowered, web-savvy consumer in mind, "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; and, recognize and reward good performance. The third edition features new chapters on: learning from lost customers; inciting passion and incentivizing service; fostering trust; and delivering great customer experiences online. In short, everything readers need to ensure their frontline employees become their company's biggest asset.

This latest edition of the classic Managers as Mentors is a rapid-fire read that guides leaders in helping associates grow in today’s tumultuous organizations. Thoroughly revised throughout with twelve new chapters, this edition places increased emphasis on the mentor acting as a learning catalyst with the protégé rather than simply handing down knowledge.

As with previous editions, a fictional case study of a mentor-protégé relationship runs through the book. But now this is augmented with interviews with six top US CEOs. New chapters cover topics such as the role of mentoring in spurring innovation and mentoring a diverse and dispersed workforce accustomed to interacting digitally. Also new to this edition is the Mentor’s Toolkit, six resources to help in developing the mentor-protégé relationship. This hands-on guide teaches leaders to be the kind of confident coaches integral to learning organizations.

In an era of economic stress, rapid change, and social networking, customers are distracted, disgruntled, and harder to please than ever. Picky, Fickle, Vocal, Wired, and Vain – they have very little tolerance for error and are ready to spread the word quickly over the internet when things go wrong. If a company’s customer service doesn’t adapt to these new conditions, they will get burned by bloggers and viral videos that can severely damage their reputation.
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A powerful and inventive guide to creating irrationally loyal customers There are a mountain of books about customer service, but very few as provocative and innovative as Take Their Breath Away. This practical book shows how to create and implement cutting-edge, inspiring concepts that raise the bar for the customer experience and help make the customer the central focus of the organization. This ingenious, real-world guide explores a variety of exciting, creative customer experience ideas using examples from remarkable customer-centric organizations. The key to a successful enterprise is value-added service, but the secret to great customer service is surprising customers with a value-unique experience. Take Their Breath Away provides ideas and insights for all who want to create a stunning, mind-blowing customer experience. This is not about "wow;" it's about "whoa!"

Amid a wealth of products and services, customers hear one message again and again: "Your business isn't that important." How do companies send that message? By giving customers boring and uninspired service. An organization's commercial success is incumbent upon making customers feel valued. Customer Loyalty Guaranteed shows companies how to awaken the "spirit to serve" in every employee with: Seven customer service personalities that build unbreakable customer loyalty, Leadership practices your organization must embrace to be a service superstar, and Ideas for maintaining remarkable service to retain customers over the long-term. Customer service gurus Chip R. Bell and John R. Patterson provide fresh ways to infuse your company with the passion that customers will connect to.