Treat Me Like A Customer

Be As Successful at Home As You Are at WorkSo many professionals work non-stop to secure the next rung on the corporate ladder. Why then do they struggle to enjoy their success even at the peak of their career? According to entrepreneur Louis Upkins, by using a simple customer-service principle, you can learn how to be just as successful at home as you are at work. Fulfill your calling as a parent and spouse by treating those closest to you as well as you would treat your customers.Powerful stories and clear, practical teaching help leaders at every level reorder their priorities and bring their lives back into balance in this Treat Me Like a Customer eBook. You will learn: • How to balance the demands of work and home • What your loved ones really want • How to regain trust and build integrity • Why a good fight isn’t the end of the world • How to protect your family from competition By applying these and other tactics explained by Upkins, you will reconnect with your family and experience the same success at home that you enjoy at work.

Originally published: Montreal: Bongo Beat, 2009.

Angeline has been working at Kyle's General Store for five years. She has seen it all: crazy, stupid and even mean customers torment her on a daily basis. She has worked in over five different departments with stories for each. There is a chapter where she gives advice on how to survive retail, and shares pet peeves for the departments she has worked in. Join her down memory lane as she tells her stories about crazy customers and the stupid questions they ask. Also, if you think the customer is always right then you've never worked at a place like Kyle's before.

This is a two book collection. Tales From Behind the Counter:Angeline has been working at Kyle's General Store for five years. She has seen it all: crazy, stupid and even mean customers torment her on a daily basis. She has worked in over five different departments with stories for each. There is a chapter where she gives advice on how to survive retail, and shares pet peeves for the departments she has worked in. Join her down memory lane as she tells her stories about crazy customers and the stupid questions they ask. Also, if you think the customer is always right then you've never worked at a place like Kyle's before. Mina's Department Store Stories:The customer is not always right! If you have ever worked retail then this is the book for you, department store style. The customers are crazy and the situations are hilarious. It will provide you with tips on how to make a retail worker happy with you. And show you what a day is like in a department store as well as show you stories of rude, crazy and even the stupid things customers say to retail workers. Some will make you laugh and some will make you want a drink. Get ready and let's dive into the wacky world of department store stories

From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

What you need to know about your customers Now more than ever, every interaction you have with customers iscritical. Customers today have unlimited information at theirfingertips—and can influence the purchase decisions andbehaviors of millions of others. With this comes a shift in thebalance of power, and every company must come to terms with thefact that the customer is in control. Interacting with customers inthe way they want is an essential business strategy and in manyindustries, the key to business success. Executives still refer to B2B and B2C business models, as thoughcompanies control demand by going to customers with products andservices. But as Bill Price and David Jaffe (authors of The BestService is No Service) show, a new business model is emergingin which the customer directs the relationship. It is becoming aworld of "Me2B"—one in which the customer, not the business,dictates the terms of engagement. In order for your business tothrive, you must create positive experiences to fulfill a range ofcustomer needs. Though the mediums for customer engagement continuously evolve,Price and Jaffe show that customer needs remain unchanging. InYour Customer Rules!, they define a critical hierarchy ofseven needs that your company can meet and apply as amethodology. Throughout this practical guidebook, Price and Jaffe shareexamples of companies who succeed by meeting these seven needs,including Amazon, Apple, IKEA, Nordstrom, USAA, Shoes of Prey,Vente-Privee, and Yamato Transport, as well as those that didn't.Your Customer Rules! offers tailored advice for companies atevery stage, from nimble startups to legacy firms with establishedcustomer service practices—and everyone in between. With a simple, elegant solution for driving lasting value forcustomers, Your Customer Rules! is a clear guide forstrengthening customer relationships and competing on more thanprice. It is essential reading for executives at alllevels—business owners, marketing managers, and anyone whoworks directly with customers.

Block presents models of stewardship, both for entire companies and for individuals, to produce reforms in such areas as human resource practices, performance appraisal, and the role of staff groups.

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