Woo, Wow, and Win

In this pioneering guide, two business authorities introduce the new discipline of Service Design and reveal why trying new strategies for pleasing customers isnt enough to differentiate your businessit needs to be designed for service from the ground up.Woo, Wow, and Win reveals the importance of designing your company around service, and offers clear, practical strategies based on the idea that the design of services is markedly different than manufacturing. Bestselling authors and business experts Thomas A. Stewart and Patricia OConnell contend that most companies, both digital and brick-and-mortar, B2B or B2C; are not designed for serviceto provide an experience that matches a customers expectations with every interaction and serves the companys needs. When customers have more choices than ever before, study after study reveals that its the experience that makes the difference. To provide great experiences that keep customers coming back, businesses must design their services with as much care as their products. Service Design is proactiveit is about delivering on your promise to customers in accordance with your strategy, not about acceding to customer dictates. Woo, Wow, and Win teaches you how to create "e;Ahhh"e; moments when the customer makes a positive judgment, and to avoid Ow"e; momentswhen you lose a sale or worse, customer trust. Whether youre giving a haircut, selling life insurance, or managing an office building, your customer is as much a part of your business as your employees are. Together, you and customers create a bank of trust; fueled by knowledge of each others skills and preferences. This is Customer Capital, the authors explain, and it is jointly owned. But its up to you to manage it profitably. Innovative yet grounded in real world examples, Woo, Wow, andWin is the key strategy for winning customersand keeping them.