Library and Bookstore
The Consumer Noize Library and Bookstore
It's never quiet in this library -- selected reference works for people serious about navigating the borderless consumer marketplace; how to build consumer trust-- or how to lose it..
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Barlow,Janelle and Moller, Claus: A Complaint Is a Gift: Recovering Customer Loyalty When Things Go Wrong
Barlow and Moller on why complaints can be a valuable feedback mechanism to help organizations rapidly and inexpensively strengthen their products, service style, and market focus. .- learn more -
Blackshaw, Pete: Satisfied Customers Tell Three Friends, Angry Customers Tell 3,000 : Running a Business in Today's Consumer-Driven World
Pete Blackshaw on how to establish and maintain credibility for brands by being authentic, listening and responding to customers, and forming relationships built on openness, transparency, and trust. - learn more -
Covey, Stephen M. R: The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything
Stephen M. R. Covey on just how vital trust really is to getting anything done. The lack of trust is a major issue for business, for politics and for society at every level. - learn more -
Friedman, Thomas L.: The World is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the 21st Century
NY Times journalist Thomas L. Friedman on how "globalization 3.0" belongs not to major corporations but increasingly to individual entrepreneurs who are competing--and winning--not just for low-wage manufacturing labor but, increasingly, for the highest-end work as well. - learn more -
Rule, Colin.: Online Dispute Resolution For Business: B2B, ECommerce, Consumer, Employment, Insurance, and other Commercial Conflicts
Written for managers, employees, union representatives, and others who are looking for a better way to handle conflict in their businesses and organizations.. - learn more -
- And More to Come -
The BBB International Torch Awards program recognizes two businesses and one individual in three categories: Marketplace Excellence, Advancing Marketplace Trust, and Consumer Leadership. This year's awards were held on April 20, 2010.
ODR and Consumers 2010 Forum
2 - 3 November 2010
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Marriott Vancouver Airport
Click here for the Forum agenda.
"Experian, is this really "social responsibility"?”
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Plus:
"Toyota...a global market leader, tying itself in knots.”
"Excellent Customer Service -- from T.S.A.”
"Toyota: The first duty of love is to listen”
"Trust in social media; in the eye of the beholder?"
"Toyota and Google: When You Lose Your Teflon Coating"
"It's about trust, stupid"?

