How do you keep your customers coming back-and get them to bring others?

If you need the best practices and ideas for making your
customers loyal and profitable--but don't have time to find
them--this book is for you. Here are nine inspiring and useful
perspectives, all in one place.


This collection of HBR articles will help you:

- Turn angry customers into loyal advocates

- Get more people to recommend you

- Boost customer satisfaction by satisfying your employees

- Focus on profitable customers--whether they're loyal or not

- Invest in the right CRM technology for your business

- Mine customer data for more effective marketing

- Increase your customers' lifetime value

This collection of cutting-edge articles will help organizations understand how to build customer loyalty through unique relationship-building strategies such as partnerships, branding, and superlative customer service. Contents include: Co-opting Customer Competence by C.K. Prahalad and Venkatram Ramaswamy; Get Inside the Lives of Your Customers by Patricia B. Seybold; The Old Pillars of New Retailing by Leonard L. Berry; Want to Perfect Your Company's Service?: Use Behavioral Science by Richard B. Chase and Sriram Dasu; Don't Homogenize, Synchronize by Mohanbir Sawhney; Firing Up the Front Line by Jon R. Katzenbach and Jason A. Santamaria; Preventing the Premature Death of Relationship Marketing by Susan Fournier, Susan Dobscha, and David Glen Mick; and See Your Brands Through Your Customers' Eyes by Chris Lederer and Sam Hill.

Stop pushing products--and start cultivating customer relationships.

If you need the best practices and ideas for marketing today--but don't have time to find them--this book is for you. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place.

This collection of HBR articles will help you:

- Figure out what business you're really in

- Collaborate with customers to meet current and future needs

- Create products that perform the jobs people need to get done

- Get a bird's-eye view of your brands' strengths and weaknesses

- Tap a market that's larger than China and India combined

- Deliver superior value to your B2B customers

- End the war between sales and marketing