The successful "Knock Your Socks Off" (KYSO) formula for wowing customers is back, adapted into a surefire strategy for winning sales by the illustrious consulting team of Gitomer and Zemke. The book will help salespeople succeed in today's complex and stiffly competitive sales environment.

Another knockout in the grand tradition of "Knock Your Socks Off Service"!

You may have your industry’s most prolific product or service in the marketplace, but your customers’ loyalty and checkbooks will only go as far as your customer service will allow. In the end, customers will not recognize the minor advantages of your superior product, but poor customer service will stand out like the Vegas strip on a moonless night. So the most vital question any manager or business owner can ask themselves today is, how well are you training, coaching, and supporting your company’s frontline employees?The invaluable, must-have Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service shows managers and supervisors how to: • Find and retain service-oriented people • Understand customer needs, expectations, and desires • Build a service vision • Design a user-friendly service delivery process • Involve and inspire employees • Recognize and reward good performance Fully updated with new chapters on: learning from lost customers; inciting passion and incentivizing service; fostering trust; and delivering great customer experiences online, this indispensable resource provides absolutely everything managers need to ensure their frontline employees become their company's biggest asset.

Outlines the skills and techniques of providing superior customer service.

Based on the popular, breezy approach of the Knock Your Socks Off Service series, the authors provide managers with an upbeat primer on creating a first-class recovery system--showing what it costs to lose customers and how little it can cost to win them back.

The 10th book in the "Knock Your Socks Off Service" series tells tales (101 of them) of memorable customer service, customer service heroes, and service providers who have gone "above and beyond" for their customers. With its humor, pragmatic observations, and stories, anyone at any service level will get a kick out this book.

Today’s customers are demanding service that is faster, better, and more personalized than ever before. How can organizations ensure that they are prepared to meet that challenge? The latest addition to the best-selling Knock Your Socks Off Service® series, 101 Activities for Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service provides readers with the practical tools and cost-effective training required to help meet their customers’ needs. Taking the unique position of seeing things from the customer’s perspective, this collection of fun and enlightening exercises teaches customer service managers and employees valuable ways to help their organizations provide world-class service, and helps them create an action plan for improvement. Written in the same accessible and humorous style that made Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service so popular, this companion guide covers such topics as: • how to say no • empathy vs. sympathy • service recovery • listening • email • telephone skills • customers from hell • winning words and soothing phrases • anticipting customer needs • building reliability • customer feedback • keeping a stress log • and more These simple but effective activities take only minutes, but deliver truly powerful, lasting results.

What's a little monkeying around among friends? In this celebration of friendship, sock monkey dolls spread cheer with their homemade smiles, and humor with their antics. Stuffed with character, these lovable little critters show with humor and pizzazz what we value most in our friendships-a certain "sole" connection filled with the magic of laughter and affection.

Pat answers to peevish questions and provocative customer comments, smart answers to even tougher questions, questions with no easy answers, and customers say the darnedest things.

Shannon Mullen has been demystifying great sex for women in the comfort of their own homes with her popular Safina sex salons. In The Best You'll Ever Have, she shares intimate confessions from these women-only salons and answers all the questions women really want to ask about their sexuality.This groundbreaking book illuminates subjects from how to find that mysterious G-spot to how to use popular sex toys. With chapters including 'Claiming the Clitoris', 'Tush Talk', 'The Secrets of the P-Spot'and 'Toy Stories', the authors leave no area of sexual curiosity unexplored, revealing what's hot about different positions, accessories, and lots more, including elegant illustrations. The Best You'll Ever Have features the actual voices of real women who share what they truly think and have genuinely learned about their bodies, turn-ons, turn-offs, and ways to make sex as fabulous as it should be. Straight-talking, hilarious, and deliciously confessional, this is must-have bedtime reading.