| Preface |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction |
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Attention All Companies at the Crossroads: Are You Making Money Yet? |
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Can You Really Know Customers? |
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Start with the Most Promising |
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The Quest for Customer Chemistry |
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Eight Ways to Rank Customers |
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Let Your Best Customer Pick Your Next Customer |
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How Start-Ups Can Rank Customers Before They Have Any |
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Employees Enter the Customer Chemistry Equation |
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Teach Employees to Focus on Best Customers and Prospects |
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Build a Workplace Where Chemistry Can Grow |
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Train Employees to ``Get It'' |
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Share Your Best-Customer Profile with Employees |
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Teach Employees to Be Detectives |
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Help Employees Stay Focused |
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The Customer-Chemistry Team |
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Capitol Concierge Best Practices |
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Engaging Customers in a Continual Conversation |
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Never Stop Learning About Your Customers |
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Make Every Customer Contact Count |
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Opportunities for Customer Contact |
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The Mechanics of Customer Contact |
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How to Reach Your Best Customers |
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Create Top-of-Mind Marketing Campaigns |
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Top-of Mind Marketing Is a Mind-Set |
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Top-of Mind Marketing Is Personal |
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Top-of Mind Marketing Is Timely |
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Capitol Concierge Best Practices: The Top-of Mind Marketing Campaign |
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Top-of Mind Marketing Online |
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Top-of Mind Marketing Is Value Added |
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The Top-of-Mind Marketing Budget |
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How to Enhance the Chemistry |
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Treat Your Best Customers Like Your Best Employees-Recognize and Reward Them |
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Customers Need Recognition |
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Customer Loyalty Programs |
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Designing a Loyalty Program for Service Firms |
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135 | (2) |
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Capitol Concierge Best Practices: Saying Thanks |
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Doing Something Special-Customer Events and More |
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When the Relationship Doesn't Work |
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Say Good-Bye to Bad Customers and Dysfunctional Relationships |
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Circumstances for Saying Good-Bye |
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The Customer Chemistry Checkup |
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Take the Pulse of Your Relationships |
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Taking the Pulse in a Changing Economy |
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The Five Ws (Who, What, Where, When, and Why) of Staying in Touch |
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Seven Proven Pulse-Taking Methods |
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Creating Your Own Economic Indicators |
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Conclusions, Predictions, and Chemistry Checkup Quiz |
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186 | (1) |
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Customer Chemistry and the New Economy: Our Predictions |
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Customer-Chemistry Checkup |
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| References |
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| Suggested Readings and Resources |
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| Index |
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