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.
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Based on the bestselling A Complaint Is a Gift (over 275,000 copies sold), this accompanying workbook offers actionable tools that help individuals and organizations transform even the most extreme complaints into gifts that drive their business forward. 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. Built to be interactive and immersive, the workbook teaches a set of practices, approaches, and tools that anyone can use to navigate fraught customer-facing interactions. It allows readers to practice Janelle Barlow’s updated, more efficient three-step formula and enables employees to handle complaints with increased emotional resilience rather than taking them as personal attacks. A Complaint Is a Gift Workbook is packed with the necessary tools to view and treat complaints as a source of innovative ideas that can transform your business.
Jeden niezadowolony klient powie o tym średnio dziewięciu innym osobom. Dlaczego odpowiednie reakcje na reklamację są tak ważne i jak mogą wpłynąć na reputację całej firmy? Jak umiejętnie i skutecznie mówić 'nie', aby nie urazić klienta? Jak zareagować, gdy niezadowolony klient straci cierpliwość i zacznie krzyczeć? Jak spowodować, aby zgłaszający reklamację poczuł się klientem, a nie petentem? Na te pytania znajdziesz odpowiedź w tej książce. Najpotężniejszym narzędziem w zdobywaniu rynku jest bowiem dobra opinia klientów. Przyciągamy klienta do firmy, jeśli profesjonalnie podchodzimy do jego zgłoszeń reklamacyjnych. Koszt pozyskania nowego klienta jest ponad pięć razy większy niż zatrzymania obecnego. Klient ma zawsze rację to lektura dla każdego przedsiębiorcy i menadżera, któremu zależy na budowaniu dobrych i długotrwałych relacji z klientem oraz na kreowaniu wizerunku przyjaznej firmy.