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A Complaint Is a Gift: Using Customer Feedback As a Strategic Tool
A Complaint Is a Gift Using Customer Feedback As a Strategic Tool Author:Claus Moller, Janelle Barlow What the biggest bargain in market research? Your customers' complaints! — Customer complaints can give businesses a wake-up call when they're not achieving their fundamental purpose - meeting customer needs. They are a feedback mechanism that can help organizations rapidly and inexpensively shift products, service style, and market focus. Busine... more »sses that don't value their customers' complaints suffer from costly, negative word-of-mouth advertising.
Presenting dozens of real-life striking examples of poor - and excellent - complaint handling, Barlow and Moller show that companies must view complaints as gifts if they are to have loyal customers.
A Complaint Is a Gift is a "how-to" book for those who want to turn complaints into a strategic tool to increase business and customer satisfaction. It is filled with practical guidance:
- How to behave as if complaints are gifts
- How to use communication principles to handle upset customers
- How to respond to written complaints
- How to create a complaint-friendly organization
- How to handle personal criticism, and more« less