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Paul Stewart, Janelle Barlow And

9781458777614: Branded Customer Service: The New Competitive Edge

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ISBN 10: 1458777618 ISBN 13: 9781458777614

Editorial: ReadHowYouWant, 2012

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By the author of the bestselling A Complaint Is a Gift (more than 100,000 copies sold) The first book to combine the dynamics of customer service with the psychology of branding-two of the most powerful concepts in business A comprehensive, practical guide that offers strategies, exercises and real-world examples of branded customer service in action Branding is an integral part of modern business strategy. But while there are dozens of books on branding products and marketing campaigns, nobody has applied the logic and techniques of branding to customer service -- until now. Branded Customer Service is a practical guide to moving service delivery to a new level so that brand reinforcement occurs every time customers interact with organizational representatives. Janelle Barlow and Paul Stewart show how to infuse an entire organization with brand values and create a recognizable style of service that reflects brand promises and brand images.

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According to this turgid primer, service with a smile is no longer enough. With today's glut of interchangeable commodities and cynical consumers, every aspect of customer service must reinforce the brand image promulgated by the marketing department. Thus, employees of Fabulous Freddie's gas stations try to work the word "fabulous" into every conversation with customers, while Abercrombie and Fitch hires college-age salespeople who look like their catalogue models. CNBC commentator Barlow, author of A Complaint Is a Gift, and consulting colleague Stewart, regale readers with anecdotes about snippy, sullen, ignorant sales associates who undermine brand loyalty and, worse, waiters and customer service reps whose carefully scripted cheerfulness and solicitude leave customers with a sour aftertaste of inauthenticity. Their ideal, derived from complexity theory conceits about the self-organizing behavior of flocking birds, is to get the typical high-turnover, minimum-wage service worker so imbued with the brand's essence that it emerges in spontaneous, emotionally real encounters in which "service representatives and customers dance together in brand space." Their suggestions include lots of human resources exercises in which employees ponder and internalize the brand messages expressed in advertising, as well as acting lessons, penmanship instruction, "personal image and professional presence training," humor classes, seminars in reading body language, and exhortations to "live the brand" at work and at home. A case study of a makeover of a Bahamas resort, in which employees were instructed to translate the hotel's marketing themes into the local island patois and create their own posters, dances and songs about them, gives readers a good sense of the book's softly totalitarian approach to customer service.

Biograf�a del autor

Janelle Barlow is president and owner of TMI US. Her clients include Hewlett-Packard, Chevron, Exxon, Genentech, Avon Cosmetics, Kaiser Permanente Hospitals, and many others. She also sits on the board of the National Speaker's Association. For more information.Paul Stewart is a Director of TMI New Zealand, which is part of the international human-factor based business solutions company TMI International. TMI works to create Exciting Company Cultures, applying concepts in organizational development, operational processes, internal marketing and communications.He was previously chief economist for the ANZ Banking Group (NZ) Ltd. And has held key executive roles specializing in operationalizing corporate strategy through brands and organizational culture. Now he works with a range of companies in integrated brand, culture development and emotional intelligence. He also mentors and advises executives from a number of leading New Zealand organizations.

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