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Grover S: You Can't Make This Shit Up

You Can't Make This Shit Up

UNRAVELLING THE MYSTERIES OF CUSTOMER INTERACTION

Most retention advice quietly teaches the same lesson: make it harder to leave. Add friction to cancellation, hide the export button, create bundles customers cannot untangle, and call the result loyalty. But customers can feel the difference between being valued and being managed. The Customer Lock-In Playbook shows how to build staying power the honest way: through usefulness, reliability, and trust, so customers remain because they want to, not because they are trapped.

Arvind Solenne breaks down what really drives repeat behaviour - product market fit, service quality, habit formation, switching benefits, and trust protection - and shows how these forces interact. You will learn to spot when switching costs are doing the work your product should be doing, how to design renewal and cancellation experiences that reduce regret, and how to use customer data strategy for personalisation that feels fair rather than creepy. Along the way, you will get practical diagnostic tools and decision lenses you can apply to pricing, onboarding, support, and policy design.

This is a book for founders, product and marketing leaders, and customer experience teams who want sustainable customer loyalty without dark patterns. If you are tired of retention tactics that inflate numbers while shrinking goodwill, this playbook will help you replace coercion with clarity, short-term grabs with long-term relationships, and brittle dependence with earned advantage.

How Businesses Build Loyalty Without Trapping People

The Customer Lock-In Playbook

Two coffee shops, same block, same prices. One has a line out the door. The Guest Mindset shows you why - and how to become that business.

Price can be undercut. Product can be copied. What a bigger, better-funded competitor structurally cannot copy is the specific, felt experience of walking into your business and feeling like a genuine guest instead of a transaction. The Guest Mindset is a practical, no-budget-required playbook for building that experience deliberately, so it shows up in repeat visits, referrals, and reviews - not just good intentions.

Written for small business owners in any customer-facing industry, this book walks through every touchpoint a customer experiences with your business and shows you how to rebuild it around genuine hospitality, one concrete habit at a time.

What's inside:
- The "fresh eyes" method for finally seeing your own business the way a first-time customer does
- Why the first ninety seconds of any interaction shape everything that follows - and how to nail them
- The LAST framework for turning complaints into your most loyal customers
- How to design small, unexpected surprises that generate real word-of-mouth
- A practical guide to hospitality online: reviews, DMs, and digital first impressions
- A natural, non-pushy way to ask for referrals that customers actually follow through on
- A thirty-day rollout plan to put the whole system into practice starting this week

The Guest Mindset

Simple, low-risk experiments for long-term profit growth that you can test right now--from Google's former Chief Evangelist, Nicolas Darveau-Garneau.As a business leader or marketer, if you've been pouring your efforts into efficiency metrics (like customer acquisition cost or return on ad spend) instead of trying to optimize profits, your methodology is unsustainable. In the age of AI, optimizing the wrong key performance indicator can be catastrophic.Whether you work at a Fortune 500 giant, a startup, or a nonprofit, Be a Sequoia, Not a Bonsai gives you a growth playbook that will help you correctly prioritize sustainability over short-term efficiency.With step-by-step guides and hundreds of case studies, Darveau-Garneau will shift how you measure marketing success by teaching you how to: <ul><li>Maximize profitable growth by tracking the right metrics, not vanity metrics.</li><li>Acquire the most valuable customers, not just the most customers.</li><li>Dramatically increase customer lifetime value with practical, scalable strategies.</li><li>Strengthen your brand with modern, profit-driven branding approaches.</li><li>Deliver a customer experience your competitors can't match.</li><li>Build a culture of rapid testing and innovation that keeps you ahead.</li></ul> Nicolas Darveau-Garneau has advised senior executives at more than a thousand companies. He discovered that the fastest-growing 5% all followed these same seven principles. . .The best part? These breakthroughs don't require acquisitions, billion-dollar tech investments, or years of product development. They're simple, testable, affordable, and scalable. And they're all based on one premise: Corporate sequoias prioritize profitable growth, while bonsai concentrate on efficiency and stay small. ". . .a groundbreaking book. Nicolas Darveau-Garneau has distilled thousands of CEO and CMO meetings into a playbook every ambitious leader needs to read--and, more importantly, put into practice every day." --Jasper Malcolmson, Head of Growth at Gusto and Robinhood

Simple, low-risk experiments for long-term profit growth that you can test right now—from Google's former Chief Evangelist, Nicolas Darveau-Garneau.As a business leader or marketer, if you've been pouring your efforts into efficiency metrics (like customer acquisition cost or return on ad spend) instead of trying to optimize profits, your methodology is unsustainable. In the age of AI, optimizing the wrong key performance indicator can be catastrophic.Whether you work at a Fortune 500 giant, a startup, or a nonprofit,&nbsp;Be a Sequoia, Not a Bonsai&nbsp;gives you a growth playbook that will help you correctly prioritize sustainability over short-term efficiency.With step-by-step guides and hundreds of case studies, Darveau-Garneau will shift how you measure marketing success by teaching you how to:<ul><li>Maximize profitable growth by tracking the right metrics, not vanity metrics.</li><li>Acquire the most valuable customers, not just the most customers.</li><li>Dramatically increase customer lifetime value with practical, scalable strategies.</li><li>Strengthen your brand with modern, profit-driven branding approaches.</li><li>Deliver a customer experience your competitors can’t match.</li><li>Build a culture of rapid testing and innovation that keeps you ahead.</li></ul>&nbsp;Nicolas Darveau-Garneau has advised senior executives at more than a thousand companies. He discovered that the fastest-growing 5% all followed these same seven principles. . .The best part? These breakthroughs don't require acquisitions, billion-dollar tech investments, or years of product development.&nbsp;They're simple, testable, affordable, and scalable. And they're all based on one premise: Corporate sequoias prioritize profitable growth, while bonsai concentrate on efficiency and stay small. “. . .a groundbreaking book. Nicolas Darveau-Garneau has distilled thousands of CEO and CMO meetings into a playbook every ambitious leader needs to read—and, more importantly, put into practice every day."&nbsp;—Jasper Malcolmson, Head of Growth at Gusto and Robinhood

The Seven Growth Secrets of the World’s Most Successful Companies

Be a Sequoia, Not a Bonsai

Deliver measurable business impact by transforming customer advocacy into a strategic driver of growth, retention, and executive influence.Customer Advocacy That Counts is the definitive guide for customer advocacy, customer marketing, and customer experience leaders who need to prove value, secure stakeholder buy-in, and connect advocacy initiatives to business performance.Written by Alison Bukowski, this practical and evidence-based playbook addresses one of the biggest challenges facing advocacy professionals today: demonstrating strategic impact in environments where influence often matters more than authority. Drawing on frameworks, diagnostic assessments, stakeholder management tools, and executive communication templates, Alison Bukowski provides a structured approach to aligning advocacy with organizational priorities. Featuring insights and real-world examples from leaders at Google, Microsoft, Siemens, Adobe, Freshworks, Forrester, and Optum/UnitedHealth Group, the book shows how high-performing advocacy teams translate customer engagement into outcomes that executives understand and support.You'll learn how to: - Measure advocacy impact using meaningful business metrics - Build executive influence without direct authority - Align advocacy programs with revenue and retention goals - Communicate value using leadership-focused business language - Scale customer advocacy with confidence and credibility Customer Advocacy That Counts equips you with the tools, frameworks, and leadership mindset needed to turn customer advocacy into a measurable source of growth and competitive advantage.Themes include: customer advocacy, customer marketing, customer experience, stakeholder management, customer retention, executive influence, business impact measurement, advocacy strategy, revenue growth, customer-led growth

How to Build Influence and Drive Customer Experience Results

Customer Advocacy That Counts

Most businesses don't have a marketing problem. They have a brand problem.

They're busy posting, running ads, and trying new tactics... but nothing quite sticks.
Because it all feels the same.

Safe. Polished. Forgettable.

The Living Brand is a practical guide to building something different, a brand people actually connect with, remember, and choose.

This isn't about chasing trends or gaming algorithms. It's about stepping back, getting clear, and building a brand that does the heavy lifting for you.
Inside this book, you'll learn how to:Build a clear and consistent brand that people recognise and trust
Understand what your customers actually care about, not what you assume they care about
Create messaging and content that connects at every stage of the journey
Turn attention into trust, and trust into real growth
Move away from random tactics and towards a strategy that actually works



This book brings together years of real-world experience working with businesses across the globe.

No fluff. No hype. No over-complication.

Just a clear, practical way to build a brand that works in the real world.

This isn't just a book you read once.

With practical frameworks, exercises, and downloadable worksheets, it becomes something you come back to whenever your marketing needs refocusing.If your marketing feels inconsistent...
If your brand doesn't quite feel like you...
If you know there's something missing...



This is where to start.

How to Create a Brand That Feels Alive in a Noisy World

The Living Brand

Sneakers are a $100 billion business and a global obsession that started in the pages of a catalog called Eastbay.This is a startup story unlike most you've read, but as instructive and inspiring as any of the rest. It's the story of two entrepreneurs with $4,000 worth of track shoes stuffed into an AMC Gremlin who eventually launched a mail-order catalog, Eastbay, that became a bible and a cultural icon to Gen X and Millennial kids. The catalog that was such a powerful and authentic tastemaker that pro athletes swore by it and a burgeoning generation of sneakerheads coveted it.This is also the story of a company ahead of its time that understood the affirming power and cultural significance of sneakers. A company that mastered the mail-order business we take for granted today before most of us understood it. A company that never wavered from its mission as it grew fast, suffered massive setbacks, then grew even faster until the catalog reached tens of millions of kids across the world.And this is the story of Art and Rick, born two days apart, bonded by the company they founded together and by a lifelong friendship that's lasted throughout a tumultuous, heady, difficult, exhilarating, frustrating, and ultimately profoundly rewarding career. Together they built a business that mattered, with as talented and devoted a team as any leaders could hope for.In Eastbay, a generation of kids were encouraged to dream big and dream often, which is just what the founders were doing all along. This is their story.

Two Friends and the Catalog That Changed the Sneaker Business Forever

The Book of Eastbay

Moving beyond traditional psychological approaches, this book takes a rigorous marketing science perspective that emphasizes empirical research, behavioural explanations, and the powerful role of habit in decision-making. You will develop the analytical skills needed to use and criticize ideas, applying quantitative methods to real-world marketing challenges.
The book is packed with student-friendly tools to support your learning, including clear learning objectives, chapter overviews, and summaries to keep you on track. High-impact research and key papers are broken down into accessible boxes that highlight essential terms and examples. Practical exercises throughout the chapters allow you to reflect on concepts and build the confidence to apply them in a professional setting.
New to this edition:
<ul>
 <li>Artificial Intelligence: New content on the actual and potential uses of AI.</li>
 <li>Digital Advertising: A focus on influencers and modern promotional media.</li>
 <li>Behavioural Finance: New chapter on information processing and decision-making.</li>
</ul>
This is an essential guide for upper undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in consumer behaviour or marketing research. It is also a valuable resource for doctoral candidates seeking a deeper, empirical understanding of the subject.

Applications in Marketing

Consumer Behaviour

Fusing High Tech with Human Touch for Organizational Success

The Pulse of Progress

This book is grounded in the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) framework and addresses the core questions CX practitioners face across its domains. It explores how to design experiences that endure (Customer Understanding &amp; Experience Design), how to align strategy, culture, governance, and metrics to consistently deliver on the brand promise (CX Strategy, Culture &amp; Accountability, Metrics &amp; Measurement), and how to mobilize people, processes, and creative capabilities to drive innovation and sustainable growth (Organizational Adoption &amp; Enablement).

The Nine Golden Rules for CX Success

Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation

This book explores the dynamic intersection of digital technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), and their applications across two key business areas: customer loyalty and employee performance. The first part discusses the evolving role of marketing in building customer relationships, with a specific focus on how AI, data analytics, and digital influencers are reshaping consumer behaviors and brand interactions. From optimizing customer engagement through AI and chatbots to the dark side of AI’s influence on consumer trust, this section offers a critical examination of modern marketing trends. The second part of the book shifts toward the integration of AI and digital human resource (HR) strategies to enhance employee well-being and organizational performance. Topics such as gamification, HR analytics, and the role of AI in improving workforce efficiency are discussed, alongside emerging trends like industry 5.0’s impact on HR practices and employee satisfaction. This book provides crucial insights into how businesses can leverage AI-driven solutions not only to retain customers but also to optimize their internal workforce and create sustainable growth.

Marketing and Workforce-Based AI Strategies

Wenn du schon "alles probiert" hast - Social Media, Anzeigen, Funnels - und trotzdem das Gefühl hast, ständig neuen Kund:innen hinterherrennen zu müssen, ist "Die Loyalitätsformel" genau dein Buch. Statt noch mehr Marketing-Hype zeigt dir Manuel Spors, wie du mit den Kund:innen, die du bereits hast, stabile Umsätze, Empfehlungen und planbare Auslastung aufbaust.

Du lernst Schritt für Schritt, wie du deine Bestandskunden analysierst, echte Loyalität aufbaust und daraus ein System machst, das immer wieder zu Folgeaufträgen, Zusatzverkäufen und Weiterempfehlungen führt - ohne Dauerstress in der Neukundenjagd. Verständliche Beispiele, klare Anleitungen und konkrete Formulierungen helfen dir, das Gelesene direkt in deinem Business umzusetzen.

Ideal, wenn du Unternehmer:in, Selbstständige:r, Coach, Berater:in, Kreative:r oder Dienstleister:in bist und dir ein Business wünschst, das ruhiger, planbarer und profitabler läuft - mit Kund:innen, die gern bleiben statt nur einmal kaufen.

Wenn du schon „alles probiert“ hast – Social Media, Anzeigen, Funnels – und trotzdem das Gefühl hast, ständig neuen Kund:innen hinterherrennen zu müssen, ist „Die Loyalitätsformel“ genau dein Buch. Statt noch mehr Marketing-Hype zeigt dir Manuel Spors, wie du mit den Kund:innen, die du bereits hast, stabile Umsätze, Empfehlungen und planbare Auslastung aufbaust.

Du lernst Schritt für Schritt, wie du deine Bestandskunden analysierst, echte Loyalität aufbaust und daraus ein System machst, das immer wieder zu Folgeaufträgen, Zusatzverkäufen und Weiterempfehlungen führt – ohne Dauerstress in der Neukundenjagd. Verständliche Beispiele, klare Anleitungen und konkrete Formulierungen helfen dir, das Gelesene direkt in deinem Business umzusetzen.

Ideal, wenn du Unternehmer:in, Selbstständige:r, Coach, Berater:in, Kreative:r oder Dienstleister:in bist und dir ein Business wünschst, das ruhiger, planbarer und profitabler läuft – mit Kund:innen, die gern bleiben statt nur einmal kaufen.

Umsatz ohne Neukundenjagd

Die Loyalitätsformel

What if the secret to extraordinary success isn't working harder-but creating moments people never forget?
In Creating Magic, motivational speaker, educator, and business coach Sam Burns shares the principles that transformed more than four decades in the service industry into a career built on connection, leadership, and unforgettable experiences.
Through heartfelt stories, practical strategies, and real-world lessons, Sam reveals how anyone-from hairstylists and salon owners to restaurant servers, healthcare professionals, retailers, hospitality teams, and business leaders-can turn ordinary interactions into extraordinary moments that build trust, loyalty, and lasting success.
Inside you'll discover how to:
¿ Inspire confidence and self-worth
¿ Build connections that last
¿ Lead with purpose and positive energy
¿ Create experiences people will never forget
¿ Grow a business rooted in relationships, reputation, and genuine care
Whether you're leading a team, serving clients, or looking to make a greater impact in your career and life, Creating Magic will challenge you to see every interaction as an opportunity to change someone's day-and perhaps even their life.
Because people may forget what you did, but they'll never forget how you made them feel.

Turning Ordinary Service into Extraordinary Experiences

Creating Magic

You Can't Make This Shit Up

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