Customer satisfaction is worthless, customer loyalty is priceless

by Jeffrey H. Gitomer

1998 288 pages eng

To longtime sales and customer-service pro Jeffrey Gitomer, boasting about a near-perfect customer-satisfaction rating of 97.5 percent is a major mistake. "That means 2.5 percent of your customers are mad and they're telling everyone. And 97.5 percent of your customers will shop anyplace the next ti…