Extreme Trust: Honesty as a Competitive Advantage
Written by Don Peppers and Marth Rogers
Narrated by Don Peppers and Marth Rogers
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About this audiobook
In the age of the Web, smartphones, and social networks, every action an organization takes can be exposed and critiqued in real time. Nothing is local or secret anymore. If you treat one customer unfairly, produce one shoddy product, or try to gouge one price, the whole world may find out in hours, if not minutes. The users of Twitter, Yelp, Epinions, and similar outlets show little mercy for bad behavior. The bar for trustworthiness is higher than ever and continuing to rise.
Don Peppers and Martha Rogers argue that the only sane response to these rising levels of transparency is to protect the interests of customers proactively, before they have a chance to spread negative buzz-even if that requires spending extra money in the short run to preserve your reputation and customer relationships in the long run. The payoff of generating extreme trust will be worth it.
The authors show how this trend is playing out in many different sectors. Among their insights:
Banks will soon have to stop relying on overdraft charges, because depositers will expect advance warnings of low balances.
Retailers will be expected to remind shoppers when they have unused balances on their gift cards.
Credit card companies will have to coach customers on avoiding excessive borrowing.
Cell phone providers will win more business by helping customers find the cheapest calling plans for their usage patterns.
Health insurers will make recommendations based on improving long-term health, not increasing their revenue.
The companies that Peppers and Rogers call “trustable” remember what they learn from each interaction, and they use these insights to create better and better customer experiences. They focus on winning the long-term battle for trust and loyalty, even if the dollar value of that trust is hard to quantify.
For instance, in 2009 Best Buy launched Twelpforce, a service that responds to customer questions and problems via Twitter. It's manned part time by more than two thousand employees. In its first year of operation Twelpforce responded to nearly thirty thousand inquiries-which not only improved customer service but also helped educate and motivate the associates who participated. The short-term profit might be small but the impact on trust is enormous.
With a wealth of fascinating research as well as practical applications, this book will show you how to earn-and keep-the extreme trust of everyone your company interacts with.
Don Peppers
Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, Ph.D., are the founding partners of Peppers & Rogers Group and 1to1® Media, the world’s premier customer-focused consultancy and award-winning publishing company, now part of Carlson Marketing Worldwide. In addition to hundreds of trade and academic articles appearing in publications including Harvard Business Review, they are the coauthors of the bestselling “1to1” series of business books, available in 17 languages. In addition, they have written a comprehensive graduate-level textbook, Managing Customer Relationships. Their most recent book was the highly-successful Return on Customer, challenging companies to measure business success entirely differently, and documenting the customer base as a revenue-producing asset for businesses, capable of driving a company’s long-term economic worth. Peppers and Rogers have been cited on numerous lists of thought leaders and business gurus, and serve on several boards.
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Reviews for Extreme Trust
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Honesty is such a missing piece of the puzzle, so glad to see a book emphasizing honesty. Don and Martha hit in on the head that honesty is so absolute key.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Happy to read a Marketing book aimed at helping more businesses to tell the TRUTH in advertising and all interactions with their consumers. Honest and integrity has been at the top of my list when creating any and all marketing programs for my retailers. Great read, real case studies and suggestions for any company who already knows the importance or needs to learn.