
The Customer Advocate and The Customer Saboteur
Linking Social Word-of-Mouth, Brand Impression, and Stakeholder Behavior
Michael W. Lowenstein
Member Price: $25.00
List Price: $25.00Keywords
- customer satisfaction
- brand
- social networks
Description
The Customer Advocate and the Customer Saboteur offers a comprehensive overview and sets of actionable insights into this new world of customer-led communication and behavioral influence:
Praise for The Customer Advocate and the Customer Saboteur
"Michael Lowenstein offers excellent insights and methods any business can apply to achieve high customer advocacy from its customer base."
- Professor Philip Kotler, Northwestern University
"Proactive endorsements of customers and employees are earned by making deliberate decisions about how you run your business. Michael Lowenstein's book gives readers dedicated to company growth through customer advocacy the specifics and tools to 'earn the right' to those endorsements."
- Jeanne Bliss, noted customer experience expert and author (www.customerbliss.com); co-founder, Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA)
"The Customer Advocate and the Customer Saboteur is fantastic! Michael eloquently presents customer service theories and research techniques that reinforce what we all already know but now intimately understand so we can confidently expand our best practices. I have gone back to the material several times since initially reading this masterpiece to clarify and tweak current programs as well as justifying the implementation of new customer relationship building initiatives. Since our nation now relies on the service sector to support the economy, this book and Michael Lowenstein are a block in the foundation of our economic recovery. Read this book; your customers, your employees, and the nation will benefit.”
- Chris Zane, Founder/Pres, Zane’s Cycle; author of Reinventing the Wheel; the Science of Creating Lifetime Customers
“Social Customers can have an enormous impact on brand value. Michael Lowenstein's The Customer Advocate and the Customer Saboteur synthesizes solid research and compelling examples to show how to capitalize on advocacy behavior while minimizing the potential for damage from ‘badvocacy.’ Essential reading for customer-centric business leaders!”
- Bob Thompson, Founder/CEO, CustomerThink Corp.