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by Leah Buley

The User Experience Team of One prescribes a range of approaches that have big impact and take less time and fewer resources than the standard lineup of UX deliverables. Whether you want to cross over into user experience or you’re a seasoned practitioner trying to drag your organization forward, this book gives you tools and […]

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by Chip R. Bell

“Chip Bell’s unique perspective, lively illustrations, and practical advice result in one terrific resource for anyone eager to tap a customer’s ingenuity for creating breakthrough results.” –Jeanne Bliss, founder and CEO, CustomerBliss; and cofounder, Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA)Organizations need to offer customers breakthrough products, services, and solutions to effectively compete in today’s innovation-hungry economy. […]

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by Don A. Dillman, Jolene D. Smyth, and Leah Melani Christian

The classic survey design reference, updated for the digital age For over two decades, Dillman’s classic text on survey design has aided both students and professionals in effectively planning and conducting mail, telephone, and, more recently, Internet surveys. The new edition is thoroughly updated and revised, and covers all aspects of survey research. It features […]

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by Brent Adamson, Matthew Dixon, Pat Spenner, and Nick Toman

Four years ago, the bestselling authors of The Challenger Sale overturned decades of conventional wisdom with a bold new approach to sales. Now their latest research reveals something even more surprising: Being a Challenger seller isn’t enough. Your success or failure also depends on who you challenge. Picture your ideal customer: friendly, eager to meet, […]

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by Timothy F. Bednarz

Customer Service Representative’s Roles & Responsibilities clearly defines the specific roles and responsibilities of a customer service representative. It helps customer service representatives to competently perform their tasks and assignments to improve service and increase customer satisfaction. Its unique advantage is to educate your employees to develop effective service skills by clearly understanding their specific […]

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by Giff Constable

With a foreword from Steve Blank, Talking to Humans is a practical guide to the qualitative side of customer development, an indispensable skill for vetting and improving any new startup or innovation. This book will teach you how to structure and run effective customer interviews, find candidates, and turn learnings into action.

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by Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Gregory Bernarda, and Alan Smith

The authors of the international bestseller Business Model Generation explain how to create value propositions customers can’t resist Value Proposition Design helps you tackle the core challenge of every business ― creating compelling products and services customers want to buy. This highly practical book, paired with its online companion, will teach you the processes and […]

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by Richard A. Krueger and Mary Anne Casey

This updated edition of Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research walks readers step by step through the “how-tos” of conducting focus group research. Using an engaging, straightforward writing style, authors Richard A. Krueger and Mary Anne Casey draw on their many years of hands-on experience in the field to cut through theory and […]

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by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf

More than 100,000 entrepreneurs rely on this book. The National Science Foundation pays hundreds of startup teams each year to follow the process outlined in the book, and it’s taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and more than 100 other leading universities worldwide. Why? The Startup Owner’s Manual guides you, step-by-step, as you put the Customer […]

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by Dan Olsen

The missing manual on how to apply Lean Startup to build products that customers love The Lean Product Playbook is a practical guide to building products that customers love. Whether you work at a startup or a large, established company, you all know that building great products is hard. Most new products fail. This book […]

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by Robin L. Lawton

Mastering Excellence is for leaders with high expectations, a vision of the possibility and urgency to improve the lives of many others. Robin Lawton provides you with a new way to think about work and customers, and an elegantly simple framework with tools you can immediately apply to transform your organization and your role in […]

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by Geoffrey A. Moore

The bible for bringing cutting-edge products to larger markets—now revised and updated with new insights into the realities of high-tech marketing In Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey A. Moore shows that in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle—which begins with innovators and moves to early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards—there is a vast chasm between […]