Significantly improve customer attraction, acquisition, and retention with this groundbreaking six-step program for creating exceptional customer relationships. Follow this formula and your customers will follow you! While many customer service books discuss customer loyalty, the concept of customer imprinting has never been introduced into the customer service conversation—until now. Customer Relationship Imprinting reveals why some businesses have fiercely loyal customers who will pay much more for the same goods and services instead of doing business with their competitors. Barnett demystifies the success secrets of these top customer-centric businesses so that you can infuse the main ingredients of customer imprinting into your organization. The result? You’ll not only strengthen customer bonds—you’ll create an amazing internal employee culture. With so much confusion on how to provide great customer service, Customer Relationship Imprinting provides a clear path to delivering extraordinary service consistently. You’ll discover: The three sectors of impact that can elevate or devastate your business How to trade transactional flings for loyal customer relationships What Relational Velcro is and how to use it to maximize meaningful customer interactions Who Service Architects are and how to empower them to build a strong brand framework And much more! Practical tools, insightful stories, and a team-reading option make Customer Relationship Imprinting a must-have book for service professionals, CEOs, and managers from all segments of business.

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Relationship marketing is considered by most major corporations to be one of the keys to unlocking the full power of e-commerce in the 21st century. In order that customers and consumers can be targeted effectively, a lasting relationship with each and every one is required. For this to be effectively achieved, there is a need for long-term strategy and technological investment. But where do businesses start? This practical guide is designed to set any organization on the path to planning CRM strategy and offers advice to ensure long-term success. This second edition is revised to take account of research since the first edition, and contains examples.

This book offers a novel perspective on starting-up new business ventures through examining the process by which they become part of the existing business environment. The book highlights the importance of inter-organizational business relationships. Asserting that new ventures need to interact and connect with customers and suppliers, alongside policy actors and universities, Starting up in Business Networks demonstrates how beginning a new venture demands initiating and developing business relationships. Noting a lack of prior research into the process by which start-ups embed into an existing business network, this book presents examples from countries such as Sweden, Italy, the Netherlands and China to analyse the emergence and evolution of start-up business networks.

This new edition, which includes a new free CD-ROM, features new and updated case studies and extra material on data management in the financial-services sector.

Increasing disruption, diminishing returns, and demanding customers require business leaders to create more value, remain relevant, and stay ahead of competition. CEOs must evolve a "value creation" culture for the company in order to properly balance the interests of customers, employees, investors, and the marketplace. People who succeed, succeed because they create value, but they do so unconsciously. Creating value consciously makes you create more value and destroy less value. Doing something good or improving the well-being of someone creates value. You buy and re-buy a product on a value basis. Value dominant logic is relevant to all of us. Value creation is used in all fields, but is not well understood. This book takes value creation to the next level, showing how value is basic to human endeavor and is not focused on enough even when we try to create value. Most books on value creation focus on creating monetary value for companies. This book suggests that value is greatly created and enhanced by creating value for others. To create value for customers, one must first create value for the providers, including employees, suppliers, and the society at large. The goal is to improve the quality of life and well-being. This book provides ways of implementing these thoughts and educates readers about value and how to create it.

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Ava is drawn back to her hometown just weeks before her 21st birthday and she has no idea why. After meeting alpha wolf Caleb, she's content with the small town living she'd known before, but her best friend Kelly will reveal Willow Falls is a town with many faces.When Ava's mother reveals a secret prophecy, she is faced with a future far removed from the one she expected.She must navigate her new love while facing a responsibility she doesn't feel prepared for. Whether she is ready or not, everything she knows about Willow Falls is changing - including her.