Outrageous!: Unforgettable Service...Guilt-Free Selling - Softcover

Gross, T. Scott; Gross, Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814479863 ISBN 13: 9780814479865

Publisher: Amacom Books, 1998

Synopsis

OUTRAGEOUS! Unforgettable Service ... Guilt-Free Selling

Outrageous customer service is taking American companies by storm. From small-town chicken outlets to suburban furniture stores to corporate giants like Southwest Airlines, extraordinary customer service has become the key to business success.

Spearheading today's hard-serve, soft-sell message is T. Scott Gross, a confirmed believer in outrageous customer service and a wildly popular speaker on the subject. Gross believes that great service, not cut-throat selling, is what customers respond to best. And giving great service is a fun, guilt-free form of selling that anyone can learn to love -- even the most sales-phobic clerk on the company's front line.

Now Gross uncovers the secrets to delivering extraordinary customer service in Outrageous!, a new step-by-step guide to his original POS (positively outrageous service) program. Entertaining without being frivolous, instructive without becoming boring, the books shows business owners and service providers how to:

** build positive word-of-mouth to attract new customers ** use appealing opening lines that engage the customer ** get everyone in the organization to sell through service ** create a world-class service culture that lasts Outrageous! is loaded with lively, real-life anecdotes of extraordinary service, each told with a contagious dose of wit and enthusiasm. In fact, Gross's story-telling abilities are as superb in print as they are in person.

Great selling is a by-product of great service. And this book delivers a sure-fire approach to making serious profits -- and having serious fun -- through positively outrageous service.

T. SCOTT GROSS (Center Point, TX) is widely recognized in America's service industry as a customer service expert. He is a frequent and popular speaker/trainer on his original concept of 'positively outrageous service,' which has been adopted by hundreds of companies around the country, including Southwest Airlines (the customer-centric success story of the airways) and Doubletree Hotels. He recently received a special award from the National Speakers Association, naming him among the top three percent of professional speakers in the United States.

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Customer service is crucial to business, and Gross's highly successful "outrageous customer service" has made him a well-known, popular customer-service expert and speaker in America's service industry. He tells readers how to give great service that is fun and guilt-free as well. At his Texas Church's Chicken franchise, he gave free biscuits to every customer willing to "cluck" like a chicken, and he gave dinners away to the hungry. He wants businessowners to build positive, word-of-mouth advertising, use appealing opening lines that engage customers, get everyone in the organization to sell through service, and create a world-class service culture that lasts. His approach includes doing the unexpected, making it random, inviting customers to play, and making it memorable. With wit and enthusiasm, Gross presents real-life, lively anecdotes of extraordinary service. This entertaining, instructive, and inexpensive customer-service manual should be in all libraries.?Susan C. Awe, Jefferson Cty. P.L. System, Arvada, CO
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amacom Books
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814479863
• ISBN 13: 9780814479865
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 287