Extreme Trust, Don Peppers
Extreme Trust, Don Peppers
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Extreme Trust
Honesty as a Competitive Advantage

Author: Don Peppers, Marth Rogers

Narrator: Marth Rogers, Don Peppers

Unabridged: 9 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 06/18/2013


Synopsis

If you accidentally try to order the same song twice from iTunes, you’ll be warned that you already own it. Not because it would be illegal or unethical for Apple to profit from your forgetfulness. There’s a clear business reason: the leaders of iTunes realize there’s no better way to make you trust them than to be totally honest when you least expect it.

In the age of the Web, smartphones, and social networks, every action an organization takes can be exposed and critiqued in real time. Nothing is local or secret anymore. If you treat one customer unfairly, produce one shoddy product, or try to gouge one price, the whole world may find out in hours, if not minutes. The users of Twitter, Yelp, Epinions, and similar outlets show little mercy for bad behavior. The bar for trust­worthiness is higher than ever and continuing to rise.

Don Peppers and Martha Rogers argue that the only sane response to these rising levels of transpar­ency is to protect the interests of customers proac­tively, before they have a chance to spread negative buzz—even if that requires spending extra money in the short run to preserve your reputation and cus­tomer relationships in the long run. The payoff of gen­erating extreme trust will be worth it.

The authors show how this trend is playing out in many different sectors. Among their insights:
Banks will soon have to stop relying on overdraft charges, because depositers will expect advance warnings of low balances.
Retailers will be expected to remind shoppers when they have unused balances on their gift cards.
Credit card companies will have to coach customers on avoiding excessive borrowing.
Cell phone providers will win more business by helping customers find the cheapest calling plans for their usage patterns.
Health insurers will make recommendations based on improving long-term health, not increasing their revenue.

The companies that Peppers and Rogers call “trustable” remember what they learn from each inter­action, and they use these insights to create better and better customer experiences. They focus on win­ning the long-term battle for trust and loyalty, even if the dollar value of that trust is hard to quantify.

For instance, in 2009 Best Buy launched Twelp­force, a service that responds to customer questions and problems via Twitter. It’s manned part time by more than two thousand employees. In its first year of operation Twelpforce responded to nearly thirty thousand inquiries—which not only improved cus­tomer service but also helped educate and motivate the associates who participated. The short-term profit might be small but the impact on trust is enormous.

With a wealth of fascinating research as well as practical applications, this book will show you how to earn—and keep—the extreme trust of everyone your company interacts with.

About Don Peppers

Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, Ph.D., are the founding partners of Peppers & Rogers Group and 1to1® Media, the world’s premier customer-focused consultancy and award-winning publishing company, now part of Carlson Marketing Worldwide. In addition to hundreds of trade and academic articles appearing in publications including Harvard Business Review, they are the coauthors of the bestselling “1to1” series of business books, available in 17 languages. In addition, they have written a comprehensive graduate-level textbook, Managing Customer Relationships. Their most recent book was the highly-successful Return on Customer, challenging companies to measure business success entirely differently, and documenting the customer base as a revenue-producing asset for businesses, capable of driving a company’s long-term economic worth. Peppers and Rogers have been cited on numerous lists of thought leaders and business gurus, and serve on several boards.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jay on October 16, 2014

This felt similar to a few business books I've read recently, and I think it was books about businesses being "friendlier" to their customers. While friendliness isn't the same as trustworthiness, it is close to their concept of proactive trustworthiness, or trustability. Friends are more trustable.......more

Goodreads review by Shubham on March 12, 2018

The idea of trust present in the book is good. But it lacks in content. The theory presented in the article could easily have been written as a blog entry or an article. Throughout the book, the same idea is repeated again and again. And hence you don't get any new insights after completion of 25% o......more

Goodreads review by Heather on March 21, 2012

As a marketing director in retail, we have come to learn that honesty and integrity are THE only priorities when it comes to interacting with our consumers. This book reinforced our mission and helped to refocus our efforts where it would have the most reach and impact. A great read for any business......more

Goodreads review by Kacey on May 23, 2012

After reading this book I realized - the more things change the more they stay the same - all customers really want is to feel like the companies they do business with have their best interests in mind. Now the question is, which companies will rise to the challenge and become "trustable"? The secon......more

Goodreads review by Jenina Jill on June 15, 2013

It was a great book on the reality of today's technology playing a critical role in business & building on people's inherent social nature.......more