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  • The 39 Essential Rules for Delivering Sensational Service
  • By: Lee Cockerell
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  • Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
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Summary

The former EVP of Walt Disney World shares indispensible rules for serving customers with consistency, efficiency, creativity, sincerity, and excellence.

Lee Cockerell knows that success in business - any business - depends upon winning and keeping customers. In 39 digestible, bite-sized chapters, Lee shares everything he has learned in his 40-plus-year career in the hospitality industry about creating an environment that keeps customers coming back for more. Here, Lee not only shows why the customer always rules, but also the rules for serving customers so well they'll never want to do business with anyone but you. For example:

  • Rule #1: Customer Service Is Not a Department
  • Rule #3: Great Service Follows the Laws of Gravity
  • Rule #5: Ask Yourself "What Would Mom Do?"
  • Rule #19: Be a Copycat
  • Rule #25. Treat Every Customer Like a Regular
  • Rule #39: Don’t Try Too Hard

As simple as they are profound, these principles have been shown to work in companies as large as Disney and as small as a local coffee shop; from businesses selling cutting-edge technologies like computer tablets to those selling products as timeless as shoes and handbags; at corporations as long-standing as Ford Motors and those as nascent as a brand-new start-up. And they have been proven indispensible at all levels of a company, from managers responsible for hiring and training employees, setting policies and procedures, and shaping the company culture to frontline staff who deal directly with clients and customers.

Chock-full of universal advice, applicable online and off, The Customer Rules is the essential handbook for service excellence everywhere.

©2013 Lee Cockerell (P)2013 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

"At Zappos, many of our business decisions revolve around the customer. Lee Cockerell understands the importance of a great customer experience and shows you how to deliver happiness to your customers." (Tony Hsieh, New York Times best-selling author of Delivering Happiness and CEO of Zappos.com, Inc.)
"These Rules rule. If you play by these rules you will win." (Carl Sewell, Chairman of Sewell Automotive Companies and author of the million-copy best seller Customers for Life)
" The Customer Rules is easy to read and understand, but profound in so many ways! If companies and leaders would follow this advice their customers and business would be significantly better." (Al Weiss, Former President, Disney Parks and Resorts, Worldwide)

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Terrific tips and advice.

wonderful advice on delivering customer service and maintaining standards. Can be applied to any role

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A great help!

I appreciate that the author has done the narrating for the audiobook. He has provided me with some great information that I will endeavour to use in my life!

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Outstanding

As a company director I am passionate about customer delivery and giving the best service possible. This book is everything you need to understand, and then improve upon, the importance of good customer service. Expertly written and superbly delivered, I cannot recommend this audio-book highly enough. Highly Inspirational

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Lee is a true professional

You can’t go wrong with Lee. He has a tremendous amount of real life experience working with real life customers. I’ve all of Lee’s books and was never disappointed.
Highly recommend!

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Great book - simple set of rules that any company can follow with lots of examples of how they work.

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