Customer Development

While referrals are important, they're not the endgame. Beyond Referrals helps you turn referrals into introductions, appointments, and sales - showing you how to turn referrals into introductions to the prospects who are eager to hear from you. Then, you'll learn proven ways to convert a high percentage of prospects into high-value clients.

Discover how to create exceptional customer service and a superior customer experience, learning from the greatest companies of our time.

There's a common strategy used by the fastest growing and most successful businesses of our time. These companies are building their entire customer experience around their digital products, delivering software that is simple, intuitive, and delightful, and that anticipates and exceeds the evolving needs of users. Product-led organizations make their products the vehicle for acquiring and retaining customers, driving growth, and influencing organizational priorities. They represent the future of business in a digital-first world.

Customer Experience programs are gaining momentum in small and large companies but most have been designed for the Business-to-consumer (B2C) model. When the approaches that work for B2C are applied in the Business-to-business (B2B) world, they fail. Based on 27 years’ experience consulting to major, global B2B companies including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Dell, VMware, EMC, Samsung, AT&T, Verizon, BT, Telefonica, Honeywell, Motorola, Accenture, Nokia, Siemens, Fujitsu and Xerox, Harry Bunn sets out practical approaches to getting it right in the B2B world. This book shows how ...

Para crear un negocio exitoso tienes que dejar de hacer acciones aleatorias de marketing y seguir un plan riguroso que garantice el rápido crecimiento de tu empresa. Tradicionalmente, crear un buen plan de marketing ha sido un proceso complejo que consume mucho tiempo, razón por la cual muchos deciden no hacerlo. En El Plan de Marketing de 1-Página, el emprendedor en serie y mercadólogo rebelde Allan Dib revela un nuevo enfoque en la implementación del marketing que facilita y simplifica la creación de un plan.

An indispensable guide for individuals seeking to gain a comprehensive understanding of the core concepts of marketing. The goal of this book is to provide a clear and concise overview of key frameworks and models that are essential for developing effective marketing strategies, making it an ideal resource for students, entrepreneurs, managers, and educators. Written in a crisp and easy-to-read format, the book covers a wide range of topics, including branding, product development, pricing strategies, and more. Besides covering the core marketing concepts, we show you how to leverage the ...

« I'm the founder of a B2B SaaS company, and came across Lean B2B in the early days of my journey. This was hands down one of the most insightful and enlightening resources that got me started. Loved the tactical advice and exercises sprinkled throughout the book. » - Joseph Quan, Twine Labs Co-Founder & CEO, Inc. 30 Under 30 A proven process to get from idea to product-market fit in B2B. Packed with more than 20 case studies, Lean B2B consolidates the best thinking around Business-to-Business (B2B) Customer Development to help entrepreneurs focus on the right actions each step of the way...

Brands have evolved over several centuries from simple tools for recognition to something much more nuanced and sophisticated in the modern age. Being an Agile brand means taking part in a relationship with consumers. While this means giving up some control over your brand, it rewards you with loyal long-term customers. The Agile Brand follows the story of branding from its beginnings to the authentic relationship with brands that modern consumers want, and gives practical examples of what you can do to modernize your brand in meaningful ways. In this latest book in the best selling Agile ...

Do you want to make money on your own by letting your creative side shine? If you want to make beautiful balloon garlands and learn the ins and outs of the business, then this book is for you! Here’s the deal: You may love the idea of starting your own balloon business, but you have no idea where to get started. Fortunately, this book will give you the road map you need to build a balloon business that you will love, and the best part is that you can start this business from the comfort of your own home.

Because if you’re reading this now, you’ve probably been dying for a reason to strike out on your own. To build out that side hustle that you’ve been too busy to grow. To turn that business idea you’ve been dreaming about into a full-time money-making reality.

Much in the same vein as Delivering Happiness, Looptail combines both Bruce Poon Tip's extraordinary first-person account of his entrepreneurial instincts to start and develop G Adventures, a highly-successful international travel adventure company, and along the way, he reveals his unusual management secrets that not only keep his employees fully engaged but also keep his customers extremely happy.

Dennis M. Wilson and Craig Peloquin have been helping small businesses, and for the last five years more specifically, independent restaurant owners across North America, get more customers and increase sales....

In our fast-paced society of today's world, many people rely on coffee to keep them energized. And what better way to help than to bring the coffee to them?! So why wait? Get started today on your dream business!

Stand aside, we’re coming through! That’s the cry of a new generation of technology vendors. They have a new approach to enabling success for their customers. And they’re thriving as a result. These vendors all have subscription pricing at the heart of their business. Each has learned that if customers don’t feel they’ve had success, recurring revenue doesn’t grow, and may even decline. What makes them different? They have absolute clarity about what the customer considers success to be. And they’ve built their business around enabling that success.

Workplaces are filled with all types of people, and some of them can be very difficult to get along with. By understanding difficult people and their behaviors, a savvy individual can resolve the awkward and problematic situations they create. Dealing with Difficult People looks at difficult behavior - what drives it and how to cope with it by managing aggression, avoiding awkward situations, and keeping calm. This third edition provides tools and techniques for dealing with difficult customers, difficult people in the digital sphere, and difficult bosses.

You’re about to discover how to shortcut the long “client selling cycle”…for a much shorter, easier one. We’ll show you and prove how offering Yelp claiming services is a gold mine. This new course covers the #1 reviews site as a marketing tool for business owners. We’re teaching the best door opener system yet. A low-cost entry for the clients but easy to stair-step your way to a bigger paid client. It is simple to outsource and set it and forget it.

Many businesses create an ideal consumer profile - aiming all their sales and marketing efforts toward this single type of person - and end up missing out on endless opportunities to sell their services or products. Award-winning business coach, speaker, and author Pamela Slim has helped thousands of entrepreneurs around the world start, sustain, and scale their businesses. She explains how to build strong diverse relationships, identify and connect with new partners, expand markets, generate leads, and find new customers in places you may never have considered.

Scott Wozniak leverages his decades of brand-building experience within some of America’s most-loved companies to show you how to create world-class customer experience. After years of battle-tested work, Scott realized that there was a set of systems that all the great brands used to create raving fans. He captured these practices in an engine diagram, a simple tool to help leaders become legends. If you use this approach, you can build a Customer Experience Engine that will create those same kinds of raving fans that always seem to dominate dinner-party conversations and water-cooler chats.

This book is your invitation to discover the essential skills every entrepreneur needs to thrive. The journey begins with the power of big dreams and the courage to lay strong business foundations. Readers learn how to transform raw ideas into actionable strategies that fuel real growth. Financial mastery is revealed as the heartbeat of every thriving venture, guiding owners through cash flow, payments, and protection. The book explores marketing magic, showing how even the smallest business can reach a global audience. Social media becomes a daily superpower, helping owners connect and ...

Get from idea to product/market fit in B2B Startups don’t have infinite runway. To reach product/market fit, they need a solid roadmap, effective strategies to learn from their market and customers, and a framework for deciding when to pivot, and when to persevere. The issue is that most of the advice they get is either incomplete, unrealistic, misguided, or it’s just not catered to the enterprise or B2B journey. Founders can create their own processes through patchwork at the cost of trial and error, but this can easily send them sideways. What startups really need is… A proven ...