{"product_id":"2940012826480","title":"The Customer Advocate and The Customer Saboteur: Linking Social Word-of-Mouth, Brand Impression, and Stakeholder Behavior","description":"Over the past decade, the concept, and effective execution, of off-line and online social (and business-related) informal peer-to-peer communication has become extremely important to marketers as, increasingly, business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) customers have shown distrust, disinterest, and disdain for most supplier messages conveyed through traditional media.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- How we got here\u003cbr\u003e- How objective, original, credible, authentic and effective brand, product, or service word-of-mouth programs can be initiated and scaled\u003cbr\u003e- How contemporary and actionable measures can be applied to assess strategic and tactical customer experience and relationship effectiveness\u003cbr\u003e- Why advocacy is the ultimate customer loyalty behavior goal\u003cbr\u003e- How to identify drivers of, and minimize, customer sabotage\u003cbr\u003e- How employee behavior links to customer advocacy behavior\u003cbr\u003e- How social word-of-mouth is addressed differently around the world\u003cbr\u003e- How the core concept of advocacy can be expected to morph going forward through more proactive marketing and leveraging of customer behavior\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for The Customer Advocate and the Customer Saboteur:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Michael Lowenstein offers excellent insights and methods any business can apply to achieve high customer advocacy from its customer base.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Professor Philip Kotler, Northwestern University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Jeanne Bliss, noted customer experience expert and author (www.customerbliss.com); co-founder, Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA)","brand":"ASQ Quality Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079142752496,"sku":"2940012826480","price":68.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012826480_p0.jpg?v=1763573093","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012826480","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}