Digital Sales Transformation is about selling in a digitally transformed world. It changes how you sell and engage with your customer. Defining a Digital Sales Transformation blueprint to guide sales organizations to respond to this disruption as they struggle to catch up to their more digitally advanced customers is this book's core theme. Digital Sales Transformation in a Customer First World will be your constant companion as your execute your Digital Sales Transformation strategy. At over 500 pages, it is packed with actionable knowledge as a blueprint for your journey. It guides you to define your Ideal Customer Profile, to Understand the Customer's Business, to Build, Elevate and Expand Relationships, and how to Create and Communicate Value. It includes a framework to build an effective Executive Sponsor Program, to execute Account Based Marketing, and describes the role of Artificial Intelligence in enterprise B2B sales. It sets out Strategy, Sales Execution, and Sales Management methods for Sales Process, Opportunity Management, Account Management and overall Sales Team Performance Management, and it describes the technology to use in each case.

Written by some of industry's most knowledgeable thought-leaders, Insiders Know-How: Running Your Own Business is produced in an informative, conversational style with valuable, insightful advice and case studies taken from real business people running real businesses. Running your own business? This book has been written with you in mind. Insiders Know-How: Running Your Own Business is feature-packed with practical, easy to follow advice from experts and business professionals with years of experience at the helm of SME's and large corporations all over the world.

"Cancelled flights, damaged goods, botched bills, locked-up software--these are the service screw-ups that leave customers angry, disgusted...and determined to never buy from you again! But these mad-as-hell customers can be wooed back through skillful, planned ""service recovery."" And, surprisingly, customers who experience world-class Knock Your Socks Off service recovery become your most loyal customers--and are a source of continuing business for years to come. Building on the popular, breezy approach of the Knock Your Socks Off Service series, the authors provide managers with an upbeat primer on creating a first-class recovery system. Enlivened by John Bush's witty illustrations, the book explains: * The economics of recovery--what it costs when you lose customers, and how little it can cost to win them back * The processes, policies, and technology a company must have to ensure an effective, real-time recovery system * The manager's role in sustaining an outstanding recovery system--through training, coaching, empowering, supporting, inspiring, and rewarding great service providers."

What to Say to a Porcupine uses the format of Aesop's fables to illustrate fundamental principles of customer service in a quick and lighthearted way. What do a demanding colony of porcupines, an upscale restaurant run by hyenas, and a famous medieval knight have in common? They are all part of one of the most engaging books on customer service in existence. In this book, you'll explore how: great service is all about going the extra mile, as learned by a group of rabbits running an express mail delivery service in "By a Hare"; there's a better way to great your customers, as one grizzly honey-shop owner discovers in "Bear with Me"; and how to handle difficult conversations with customers in a positive, constructive manner, as demonstrated in this book's titular story "What to Say to a Porcupine." Each story is followed by a short discussion, illuminating topics ranging from the best tips for building customer relationships to how to motivate a service team. Fun, quick, and constructive, What to Say to a Porcupine provides all customer service professionals with easy-to-remember lessons for delivering superior customer service.