Customer Development

The Black Code is a practical guide for Black business owners. It focuses on improving customer service, professionalism, and operational excellence within their businesses. Drawing from personal experiences and cultural insights, the book addresses common challenges faced by Black-owned businesses and provides actionable strategies to overcome them.

Solid profits, a strong brand, steady customers - all of these can vanish when market shifts disrupt business as usual. So how do you keep from losing ground? How do you stay a step ahead of competitors? The solution is surprisingly straightforward: innovate tweak by tweak.

Customer Success is Key is a story about how a small company supercharged its business model with a connected products strategy, transformed itself from a traditional manufacturer into an Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider and cultivated over $2 million dollars of recurring revenues with game-changing cloud services. This audiobook offers real lessons, learned the hard way by a pioneering small manufacturing company that forged ahead with a bold IoT initiative.

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....

Like the ocean, the marketplace constantly changes and today's cresting reward becomes tomorrow's crashing risk. Before you venture out, take a lesson from the experts: big wave surfers. Like successful entrepreneurs, they rely on preparation, passion, and persistence - and they relish a challenge. So it's no surprise that countless surfers have pioneered products and launched thriving businesses (GoPro cameras, O'Neil, Reef, Quicksilver).

Did you know that there's magic behind the most truly loved brands today - like Apple and Zappos and Lululemon and Lady Gaga - and it's the result of a secret chemistry? They used this chemistry to create a love potion that people "drank" and then shared with everyone else. Quietly passed from one CEO to another for decades, the secret knowledge of this science and how to use it has been a fiercely-protected competitive advantage of the world's most successful businesses.

In the world of professional services, relationships are the new field of advantage; one that offers longer-lasting success in business and quality in life. Professional life presents tremendous challenges, not just in the context of the skills and intelligence we are expected to apply but, more importantly, in the context of the relationships that arise in the course of our daily work. These relationships determine our sense of self-worth, our well-being, and the success of the business in which we operate.

In the wake of economic downturn, foreign competition, spiking oil prices, and even war, American business throughout this decade has been thrust into crisis. To improve their performance, corporations everywhere have adopted a wide range of tools and techniques, yet many continue to struggle. Going Lean points to a better way.

In The Customer Connection: Life Lessons from Behind the Chair, you’ll embark on a transformative journey into the world of a seasoned “hairapist,” where the salon chair becomes a unique vantage point for understanding human nature.

In today’s revolutionary market, the classic sales model is both out-of-date and dangerous. Often, it seems like you don’t just have to run to keep up, you have to continually sprint, market, and discount. That’s exhausting, but there is another way. The best and most successful organizations don’t follow this chaotic strategy. They slow down and design world-class solutions that optimize sales for the long term. This is the approach we call "slow selling".

Con internet ha cambiado el mundo de los negocios. Con esta nueva era se nos abre un abanico de posibilidades casi infinitas… si uno domina las técnicas necesarias para adaptarse al nuevo medio. En este libro aprenderás un método eficaz para convertirte en un imán viviente para atraer nuevos clientes. A través de Mario Corona, uno de los mayores expertos mundiales en la materia, descubrirás que "vender ya no vende" y que la clave imprescindible para crecer y crecer y crecer, como empresario o emprendedor, es ayudar a cuantas más personas, mejor.

Every year, managers at companies large and small are finding it harder to compete with the likes of Google and Amazon, who are stealing their customers and cornering every conceivable market and service. There is, however, a way for companies to survive - and win - in this era of digital behemoths. Choose Your Customer is a powerful customer-targeted guide that can help managers level the playing field against their biggest competitors.

कोणत्याही उद्योगाचा केंद्रीभूत घटक म्हणजे ग्राहक. आपल्या नावीन्यपूर्णतेने ग्राहकांच्या समाधानाची खात्री करून घेणं कोणत्याही उद्योजकाला क्रमप्राप्त आहे. मात्र त्याकरता कोणकोणत्या दिव्यांतून जावं लागतं, काय काय करावं लागतं, याचा वस्तुपाठ म्हणजे ही कहाणी. ऐका, मिलिंद कुलकर्णी यांच्यासह!

Easy Small Business Ideas guides listeners through powerful customer-generating studies and lessons published in Harvard Business Review and Forbes. Easy Small Business Ideas makes it easy to ascend to the top five percent of your industry, and beyond. Listen to this audiobook to get more business today.

Vous allez créer votre petite entreprise ou vous la dirigez déjà : ce guide pour bien démarrer et pour croître est fait pour vous. Parsemé de témoignages d'entrepreneurs et de conseils d'experts concrets, il vous accompagne et vous offre des réponses pratiques pour construire votre succès sur le long terme. Pour fidéliser et conquérir des clients, trouver les bons partenaires ou vous tenir informé des évolutions de votre marché, LinkedIn et Twitter se révèlent des outils clés, à condition de bien les utiliser !

People often debate whether Agile and Lean are the same or different. This audiobook is made to introduce you to the core values and principles of both Agile and Lean methodologies and will hopefully answer some of the common questions about them.

Companies like Facebook and Twitter have redefined social interaction. But what if "machines" like automobiles, bicycles, health monitors, appliances, instruments, and anything else you can connect to the Internet, could all become members of your social network, collect data you care about, and feed it back to you at just the right time?

As we are constantly on our electronic devices, we have come to distrust curated media and traditional PR. Stephen Denny and Paul Leinberger have found that people now want to make their own decisions based on raw footage, real-time updates, and unfiltered livestreams. How, then, do marketing executives and others gain consumer trust? These Fortune 500 consultants present the answer in Unfiltered Marketing.

Uma história sobre o misterioso comportamento dos consumidores: quem são, por que os perdemos e como trazê-los de volta. Uma nova abordagem para compreender o que o cliente realmente quer, hoje e no futuro. Os clientes podem ser um verdadeiro mistério–e para desvendar seu comportamento é preciso pensar como um detetive. Neste audiolivro, David S. Duncan conta a história da rede fictícia de cafés Tazza, que está perdendo sua clientela mais fiel às vésperas de abrir o capital na bolsa.

How to build loyalty, generate word-of-mouth, and keep customers coming back - This Ultimate Success Bundle offers key tips, tricks, and information you need to learn how to keep customers coming back. By elevating the customer experience, you’ll make them happy, and happy customers come back time and again. Learn to increase your value in the eye of customers, the dos and don’ts of a positive customer experience, how to build loyalty, generate word of mouth, and encourage customers to come back by crafting the perfect customer experience in this step-by-step guide.