Customer Care Excellence: How to Create an Effective Customer Focus

by Sarah Cook

Overview

Customer loyalty is essential to the long term financial success of your business, but with more choice then ever before, customers today have high expectations of the products and services they use. To continue to meet - and even to exceed - these high expectations, you need a top notch customer services system in place, and Customer Care Excellence will enable you to achieve just that.

In clear, practical language, this book takes you through how you can develop and sustain a customer-service focus within your company. Emphasizing both strategic and practical aspects of customer care, Customer Care Excellence explains how gaining customer commitment and motivating employees to deliver an excellent service at all your company's touch points can ensure successful results and satisfied customers.

This fully revised and updated edition includes new material examining the impact of social networking on customer behaviour and the emotional connection customers have with the brand, explaining how you can create a memorable customer experience. Author Sarah Cook takes you through the practical steps necessary to create a culture of customer focus and, crucially, shows how employee engagement leads to customer engagement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780749457051
Publisher:	Kogan Page, Ltd.
Publication date:	11/30/2010
Series:	Customer Care Excellence: How to Create an Effective Customer Care
Edition description:	Sixth Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Sarah Cook is a management development consultant who specialises in customer care. She is currently Managing Director of the Stairway Consultancy. Sarah previously worked as a marketing manager for Unilever and as Head of Customer Care for a retail management consultancy.

Table of Contents

** Chapter - 01: An introduction to customer care; ** Chapter - 02: How managers need to drive and support a service strategy; ** Chapter - 03: Listening to customers; ** Chapter - 04: Implementing a service excellence strategy; ** Chapter - 05: Empowerment and ownership; ** Chapter - 06: The internal customer; ** Chapter - 07: Training and development for customer service; ** Chapter - 08: Communications; ** Chapter - 09: Recognition and reward; ** Chapter - 10: Sustaining a customer focus

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Offers useful advice on maintaining loyalty within an ever more sophisticated and demanding customer base... Informative and useful for anybody involved in customer relations." — Business Age

Editorial Reviews

"Offers useful advice on maintaining loyalty within an ever more sophisticated and demanding customer base... Informative and useful for anybody involved in customer relations." — Business Age

From the Publisher