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The Heart of Hospitality is the essential guide to creating exceptional customer service and hospitality for guests of all generations, including millennials, boomers, and more.

The on-demand digital economy and the higher-than-high standard set by companies like Amazon have created a new kind of consumer—a NOW Customer. They are always on (and always online) and expect rapid resolutions and engaged interactions from their brands at all times and across every touchpoint.

The fact is, product-centered pitching simply doesn’t cut it anymore. Buyers don’t want to hear about your product’s features—they want to hear about how it can solve their problems or help them reach their goals. In The Revenue Acceleration Playbook, sales and marketing expert Brent Keltner introduces a proven go-to-market framework to increase personalization and authenticity across every step of the buyer journey—from initial buyer engagement and prospecting, to closing new deals and expanding customer relationships, to growing target market segments.

The first edition of A Complaint Is a Gift introduced the revolutionary notion that customer complaints are not annoyances to be dodged, denied, or buried but are instead valuable pieces of feedback—not to mention your best bargain in market research. Complaints provide a feedback mechanism that can help organizations rapidly and inexpensively strengthen products, service style, and market focus. Most importantly, complaints that are well received create customer loyalty.

More than ever before business success depends on standing out from the crowd and delivering authentic experiences that turn your customers into advocates for your business. Bold tells the stories of 14 companies that prove that brand building is now about completely rethinking the customer experience and redefining the relationship you have with your customers. Each inspiring story is told by the executives involved who were brave enough to pursue audacious goals, challenge industry norms and win.

At its heart Lessons from the Mouse presents 10 lessons that guide listeners in applying excellence in their own organizations, careers, and lives. Whether being used as a tool for increased organizational effectiveness or a guide for the college grad or new entrepreneur, Lessons from the Mouse offers timeless, straightforward advice.

In The Power of Value Selling: The Gold Standard to Drive Revenue and Create Customers for Life, sought-after trainer and sales leader Julie Thomas delivers an exciting new take on buyer-centric selling to modern buyers. In the book, you'll learn value-based selling techniques to become a trusted business advisor who instills confidence in buying decisions despite unpredictable business environments.

If there’s anyone who can prevent a bar or restaurant from going belly-up, it’s Jon Taffer. Widely considered the greatest authority in the food and beverage, hotel, and hospitality industries, he runs the biggest trade show in the business and has turned around nearly 1,000 bars and at least that many restaurants.

For over thirty-five years, Peter Merrett has been transforming luxury hotels, commercial properties, and their teams from status quo to best-in-class. He has revitalized the hearts of some of the world’s most recognized brands by showing that bringing wonder back to life, leadership, and service is far more powerful than any mission statement, KPI, or employee handbook.

Rickson Dsouza, one of Dubai’s most accomplished life insurance advisors, knows the answers because he’s lived them. In Take CONTROL, Rickson shares the powerful, proven framework he used to transform his life and career, offering listeners an actionable guide to achieving the same. The CONTROL system is a blueprint for commission-based professionals who want to unlock exponential growth, serve their clients with excellence, and build a business that aligns with their dreams.

Onboarding is the most important part of the customer journey, yet many B2B companies fail to act proactively at the start of the relationship. Instead, customer success teams are stuck making heroic efforts to save accounts and fighting fires when customers inevitably run into problems or get stuck. In Onboarding Matters, Donna Weber shares the Orchestrated Onboarding™ framework that she implements with leading B2B companies to turn onboarding from a missed opportunity into a competitive advantage.

How do underdogs close huge deals they have no business winning? How do rainmakers pull off a sale before the RFP is ever issued? They don't do it with a logical argument or even the best PowerPoint presentation. They do it by turning their pitch into an emotional experience that makes the customer think, "This just feels right." This book is your blueprint for tapping into a clients gut feeling and bringing home the win. Go Big or Go Home is the greatest collection of the most memorable pitches in film, sports, business, and philanthropy.

The digital landscape has changed buyers’ habits. Sales professionals now need to develop relationships with decision-makers through social networks to reach them early in the decision making process. Social Selling provides a practical, step-by-step outline for harnessing the skills and techniques necessary to achieve this, including developing a high quality community, building trust, developing authority and influence, and connecting with changemakers. It also discusses enterprise implementation of a social selling strategy and much more.

We are just witnessing the start of the radical changes in retail that will revolutionize shopping in every way. As Amazon and other disruptors continue to offer ever-greater value, customers' expectations will continue to ratchet up, making winning (and keeping) those customers all the more challenging. In The Shopping Revolution, Barbara E. Kahn, a foremost retail expert and professor at the Wharton School, examines the companies that have been most successful during this wave of change and offers fresh insights into what we can learn from their ascendance. 

Even skilled salespeople buckle in tough selling situations—getting defensive with prospects who challenge them on price or too quickly caving to discount pressure. These fight-or-flight responses are something salespeople learn to avoid when building their emotional intelligence. Sales...

The world of marketing is undergoing major change. Sophisticated algorithms can test billions of marketing messages and measure results, and shift the weight of campaigns - all in real time. What’s next? A complete transformation of marketing as we know it, where machines themselves design and implement customized advertising tactics at virtually every point of digital contact.

Among today’s most successful businesses are those that have significantly transformed our daily routines. This focus on the consumer experience, not solely on product, has enabled them to drive remarkable growth and customer loyalty and, in many cases, to create totally new marketplace categories. Seeing the How invites you to reimagine your brand, company, or idea through the lens of consumer experience. It gives today’s disruptors a path to offering consumers a new and better way to do what they do, clearly demonstrating how to see opportunities, and how to seize them to great advantage.

Proven customer engagement approaches for winning in the most important moments driving profitability and growth - customer retention and expansion. 

More than ever, customer relations and engagement are key components of a company's success. Companies that are intent on tracking their customer's ever-changing requirements and improving their services know the best business management model begins with customer focus and ends with customer satisfaction.

The team behind the data management platform that helps fuel Salesforce - the number one customer relationship management (CRM) company in the world - presents this indispensable guide to data-powered marketing. You’ll discover the three principles for building a successful data strategy and the five sources of data-driven power. You’ll hear how top companies put these data-driven strategies into action. And if you’re wondering what the future holds, you’ll receive seven forecasts to better prepare you for what may come next.