Take Their Breath Away: How Imaginative Service Creates Devoted Customers
Unless you have a patent on the rocket car or the secret formula for chewing gum that makes you smarter, you probably haven't cornered the market on the products or services you provide. In fact, no matter what kind of product or service you sell, there's probably someone else trying to sell it faster and cheaper. In order to get ahead and stay ahead, you have to keep customers coming back by giving them something they can't get anywhere else.

Take Their Breath Away shows you how to create exuberantly devoted customers by providing peerless, mind-blowing customer experiences that leave them stunned. Like casting a magic spell, inventive customer experiences transform people from simple buyers into faithful brand advocates. In an era when value-added has gotten way too expensive, value-unique can provide a fresh approach to getting bottom-line impact.

Using real examples, this provocative guide shows you how the best brands create unique, customer-endearing practices that lead to irrational loyalty. The book reveals twelve amazing and imaginative strategies, explaining how they work and how to implement them. Whether you operate a giant corporation, a small business, or the department down the hall, these strategies will amaze you and surprise customers.

There is a huge difference between good customers and those who are truly, passionately devoted to a brand or organization. The kind of customers you really want are those who forgive your brand when it makes mistakes, recommend your business to everyone else, and defend it when others are critical. Those aren't just customers; those are devoted followers-and they can make all the difference between chasing after your competitors or leaving them in the dust.

Take Their Breath Away gives you the inspiration, practical strategies, and creative ideas to enchant, surprise, and treat your customers to something more than just an encounter. Learn to take your customers' breath away and they'll take your brand to heart.

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Take Their Breath Away: How Imaginative Service Creates Devoted Customers
Unless you have a patent on the rocket car or the secret formula for chewing gum that makes you smarter, you probably haven't cornered the market on the products or services you provide. In fact, no matter what kind of product or service you sell, there's probably someone else trying to sell it faster and cheaper. In order to get ahead and stay ahead, you have to keep customers coming back by giving them something they can't get anywhere else.

Take Their Breath Away shows you how to create exuberantly devoted customers by providing peerless, mind-blowing customer experiences that leave them stunned. Like casting a magic spell, inventive customer experiences transform people from simple buyers into faithful brand advocates. In an era when value-added has gotten way too expensive, value-unique can provide a fresh approach to getting bottom-line impact.

Using real examples, this provocative guide shows you how the best brands create unique, customer-endearing practices that lead to irrational loyalty. The book reveals twelve amazing and imaginative strategies, explaining how they work and how to implement them. Whether you operate a giant corporation, a small business, or the department down the hall, these strategies will amaze you and surprise customers.

There is a huge difference between good customers and those who are truly, passionately devoted to a brand or organization. The kind of customers you really want are those who forgive your brand when it makes mistakes, recommend your business to everyone else, and defend it when others are critical. Those aren't just customers; those are devoted followers-and they can make all the difference between chasing after your competitors or leaving them in the dust.

Take Their Breath Away gives you the inspiration, practical strategies, and creative ideas to enchant, surprise, and treat your customers to something more than just an encounter. Learn to take your customers' breath away and they'll take your brand to heart.

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Take Their Breath Away: How Imaginative Service Creates Devoted Customers

Take Their Breath Away: How Imaginative Service Creates Devoted Customers

Take Their Breath Away: How Imaginative Service Creates Devoted Customers

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Unless you have a patent on the rocket car or the secret formula for chewing gum that makes you smarter, you probably haven't cornered the market on the products or services you provide. In fact, no matter what kind of product or service you sell, there's probably someone else trying to sell it faster and cheaper. In order to get ahead and stay ahead, you have to keep customers coming back by giving them something they can't get anywhere else.

Take Their Breath Away shows you how to create exuberantly devoted customers by providing peerless, mind-blowing customer experiences that leave them stunned. Like casting a magic spell, inventive customer experiences transform people from simple buyers into faithful brand advocates. In an era when value-added has gotten way too expensive, value-unique can provide a fresh approach to getting bottom-line impact.

Using real examples, this provocative guide shows you how the best brands create unique, customer-endearing practices that lead to irrational loyalty. The book reveals twelve amazing and imaginative strategies, explaining how they work and how to implement them. Whether you operate a giant corporation, a small business, or the department down the hall, these strategies will amaze you and surprise customers.

There is a huge difference between good customers and those who are truly, passionately devoted to a brand or organization. The kind of customers you really want are those who forgive your brand when it makes mistakes, recommend your business to everyone else, and defend it when others are critical. Those aren't just customers; those are devoted followers-and they can make all the difference between chasing after your competitors or leaving them in the dust.

Take Their Breath Away gives you the inspiration, practical strategies, and creative ideas to enchant, surprise, and treat your customers to something more than just an encounter. Learn to take your customers' breath away and they'll take your brand to heart.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780470485323
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 04/29/2009
Sold by: JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Chip R. Bell is founder and Senior Partner of The Chip Bell Group, a consulting firm that helps organizations create sustainable long-term customer devotion. He has served as a consultant or trainer to such major brands as Ritz-Carlton, the USAA, Hertz, Microsoft, and GE.

John R. Patterson is founder and President of Progressive Insights, a Chip Bell Group alliance partner. With more than twenty years of leadership experience, his consultingpractice focuses on helping organizations create and sustain incredible customer experiences.

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Table of Contents

Introduction A Call for Imaginative Service.

PART ONE TWELVE TAKE-THEIR-BREATH-AWAY STRATEGIES.

Chapter 1 Animation.

Chapter 2 Reinvention.

Chapter 3 Decoration.

Chapter 4 Camouflage.

Chapter 5 Concierge.

Chapter 6 Partnership.

Chapter 7 Cult-Like.

Chapter 8 Luxury.

Chapter 9 Air.

Chapter 10 Air Defense.

Chapter 11 Scout’s Honor.

Chapter 12 Firefighter.

PART TWO THE TAKE-THEIR-BREATH-AWAY EXECUTION PLAN.

Chapter 13 Insight: Understanding Your Customer.

Chapter 14 Oversight: Assessing Your Launch Pad.

Chapter 15 Spotlight: Choosing a Take-Their-Breath-Away Strategy.

Chapter 16 Foresight: Unearthing Potential Customer Stressors.

Chapter 17 Green Light: Launch Lessons for Leaders.

Notes.

About the Authors.

Thanks!

Bibliography.

Index.

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