A Complaint Is A Gift, 3Ed: How to Learn from Critical Feedback and Recover Customer Loyalty
Publisher,Berrett-Koehler Pub
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Format, Paperback
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No. of Pages, 224
Shelf: Non-Fiction Books / Business Finance & Accounting / Customer Service
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The third edition of this bestseller (over 275,000 copies sold) builds on the tested formula that helps organizations recognize the value of complaints using updated examples and concepts in the age of COVID-19.
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.
This new edition condenses the tried and true eight-step formula into a tighter, more efficient three-step formula. From her work with clients, the author has updated industry-specific complaint examples and added in new concepts, such as a process that enables employees to handle complaints with increased emotional resilience—something that is sorely needed since dealing with increasingly difficult customers is a common occurrence in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Handling complaints doesn’t have to be a negative, soul-crushing experience. Janelle Barlow gives the right tools to treat each of them as a source of innovative ideas that can transform your business.
About the author
With a Ph.D. earned at the University of California, Berkeley, Janelle’s academic interests range from International Relations, Political Science, Psychology, and Education. She knows how to conduct statistical research studies. However, her career interests mainly include translating the research conclusions reached by well-known academic and commercial research institutions into practical tools for Customer Service Representatives, managers, and indeed, the entire company. She firmly believes that external customer service—and complaint handling—are only as good as internal customer service and complaint handling.
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