Customer success is an emerging field that is rapidly gaining traction as more and more businesses recognise the importance of retaining customers and fostering long-term relationships. In the book "Customer Success: How Innovative Companies Are Reducing Churn and Growing Recurring Revenue," authors Nick Mehta, Dan Steinman, and Lincoln Murphy provide a comprehensive guide to this exciting new field, offering insights and strategies for companies looking to reduce churn and build long-term customer relationships.
"The Service Culture Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Your Employees Obsessed with Customer Service" by Jeff Toister is a practical guide for creating a customer-focused culture within an organisation. The book offers a range of tools and techniques for improving communication, setting service expectations, and building a team of customer service champions.
The Effortless Experience: Conquering the New Battleground for Customer Loyalty by Matthew Dixon, Nick Toman, and Rick DeLisi is a book that aims to provide businesses with strategies to create an effortless customer experience that increases customer loyalty and satisfaction. The authors conducted extensive research on customer interactions with various companies and analysed the data to identify what drives customer loyalty and satisfaction.
The Customer Experience Book: How to Design, Measure and Improve Customer Experience in Your Business by Alan Pennington is a comprehensive guide to understanding, designing, and improving the customer experience. The book describes the importance of putting yourself in the customer's shoes and understanding their needs and preferences in order to create a positive customer experience that fosters loyalty and repeat business.
Surrounded by Idiots by Thomas Erikson is a book about understanding different communication and behavioural styles, and how to communicate effectively with people who have different styles than your own. Erikson presents his ideas using the DISC model, which categorizes people into four different communication styles: Dominant, Influencing, Steady, and Conscientious.
The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane is a book that offers readers a comprehensive guide to developing and cultivating charisma. Cabane argues that charisma is not an innate quality that some people are born with, but rather a set of learned behaviours and practices that anyone can acquire with time and effort.