Why should anyone buy from you?

Book description

HOW TO WIN TRUST AND INFLUENCE CUSTOMERS

This revealing book shows how the only reliable route to sustainable business growth and profit is to build trust in your company.

Justin Basini presents an array of surprising insights based on his in-depth research and on exclusive interviews with business leaders. He takes a practical approach that will help you assess the level of trust in your business – and help you improve it, offering achievable solutions as well as new frameworks, insights and approaches to marketing.

 

Table of contents

  1. Cover (1/2)
  2. Cover (2/2)
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction:Why trust makes you money (1/3)
  6. Introduction:Why trust makes you money (2/3)
  7. Introduction:Why trust makes you money (3/3)
  8. Why trust matters
    1. A deeper understanding of trust
    2. Easy to feel but hard to define
    3. The nice guy finishes first
    4. A trusts B to do X
    5. Are people who trust dumb?
    6. Free market free fall
    7. So what builds trust?
    8. Appeal to the heart and the head will follow
    9. Brands are stores of trust
    10. Social capital, trust and brands
    11. Thick versus thin
  9. What’s the matter with trust?
    1. The decline and fall
    2. How is trust changing?
    3. Who do we trust?
    4. Do we trust business and businesspeople?
    5. In brands we trust
    6. Fear and greed
    7. Doing a runner?
    8. Morality and the wealth of nations
    9. Ethics versus morality in business
  10. Trust in marketing?
    1. From deference to reference
    2. Blink or think?
    3. From deference to preference
    4. Programmed to want
    5. Convenient truths
  11. Beginning the journey to trust
    1. Commanding trust
    2. The sizeable prize of trust
    3. Towards a framework for building trust
    4. Seek to understand
    5. Communications that match signals with the brand reality and aspiration
    6. Driving behaviours that command trust
    7. Get a mission (1/2)
    8. Get a mission (2/2)
  12. The new realism
    1. I can’t get no satisfaction
    2. You think in benefits, but your customer thinks in risks
    3. Fear and risk
    4. How does trust work in your category? (1/2)
    5. How does trust work in your category? (2/2)
  13. Realities and aspirations
    1. Manipulating behaviour
    2. The drip, drip, drip
    3. The three states of a brand
    4. Matching the brand signals with brand reality
    5. Strategies to signal trustworthiness (1/2)
    6. Strategies to signal trustworthiness (2/2)
    7. The story matters
  14. The turning point
    1. Less crisis and more reformation
    2. From mass communications to mass interactions
    3. From eyeballs to engagement
    4. From attention to contention
    5. The battle for the voice of business
    6. Top-down is dead
    7. Unleash the people (1/2)
    8. Unleash the people (2/2)
  15. Are you a high-trust organisation?
    1. Trust is a two-way thing
    2. Does your business trust your customer?
    3. How do you show you trust?
    4. Are you a high-trust organisation?
    5. Ideas for creating a high-trust organisation
    6. The next steps towards higher-trust organisations
    7. Is your business rich in social capital? (1/2)
    8. Is your business rich in social capital? (2/2)
  16. Living-room leadership
    1. Leaders: apply within
    2. Big problems, big opportunities, big connections
    3. Mission possible
    4. Start at the beginning (1/2)
    5. Start at the beginning (2/2)
  17. The future of trust
    1. Bankers are evil, aren’t they?
    2. The power of system redesign
    3. Every business is social
    4. Selling less stuff (1/2)
    5. Selling less stuff (2/2)
    6. This future is radical
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index (1/2)
  20. Index (2/2)

Product information

  • Title: Why should anyone buy from you?
  • Author(s): Justin Basini
  • Release date: July 2011
  • Publisher(s): Pearson Business
  • ISBN: 9780273745549