Hug Your Haters, Jay Baer
Hug Your Haters, Jay Baer
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Hug Your Haters
How to Embrace Complaints and Keep Your Customers

Author: Jay Baer

Narrator: Jay Baer

Unabridged: 5 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 03/01/2016


Synopsis

Technology has evaporated the barriers of complaint. With smart phones and always-on Internet access, consumers complain more often and across more channels, many of them public. This requires a completely new system for instantly finding, evaluating, and addressing these complaints.

Jay Baer and Edison Research conducted a landmark study of more than 2,000 consumers and found that not all complainers ("haters") are created equal. In fact, there are two vastly different categories of haters: Offstage Haters and Onstage Haters.

The book includes The Hatrix, a detailed examination of the differences between these Offstage and Onstage haters. The book reveals:
How, where and why people complain (by demographic and by channel)
How and when consumers expect a response when they complain
The advocacy impact of answering (or ignoring) a customer
Differences in complaint type and expectations by industry
Supported by dozens of interviews with large and small companies, social networks and review websites, psychiatrists, and legal experts, Hug Your Haters gives readers a step-by-step process to magnify the impact of happy customer interactions, and to minimize the impact of haters and complainers.

Customers expect more from business than ever before, and the importance of real-time customer service has never been greater. Hug Your Haters explains this new reality and shows readers how to embrace complaints and turn bad news into good.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bianca

Jay Baer’s new book, Hug Your Haters, reminds me of some valuable advice I received early in my retail career (retail is one of my past lives). I was taught that a “hater’s” understanding was the truth I had to work with – regardless of the facts. If that’s what they believe, that’s what I need to a......more

Goodreads review by Jacob

Another in the title-tells-it-all category. Still, Baer makes a good case. A primary differentiator in companies is how they respond to complaints. It separates good service from bad, and I reflect on my own experiences. For instance, I was Amazon's biggest fan. I owned their fanciest e-readers, was......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy

Extremely helpful book very well-written, backed by solid research and data. Everyone should read this book! We all have haters. How do we respond? It's a fundamental question that will shape our future.......more

Goodreads review by Audrey

Will be rereading this in the future. An excellent resource for customer service......more