This book discusses how businesses and marketers can deploy emotional intelligence as a marketing tool to co-produce service for enhancing customer experience and to co-create value for key stakeholders in the digitalised and service-dominant logic era. Whilst many competing emotional intelligence models are discussed in the literature, the current book will focus on the ability model. This model comprises 2 areas (experiential and strategic emotional intelligence) and four ability scopes (perceive emotions, use emotions, understand emotions and manage emotions). The marketing domains that are deemed relevant and included in this book are services marketing, relationship marketing and digital marketing. The relevant marketing models from these domains will be identified to be integrated with emotional intelligent strategies. Emotional Intelligence makes both employees and customers happy, committed and loyal. Emotional Intelligence makes businesses competitive and sustainable.

With a revised understanding of the science and philosophy behind human needs, businesses will be better equipped to provide long-term satisfaction for their customers. Mark uncovers a framework that will help businesses identify human needs and incorporate this perspective into strategy, and then focuses each chapter on a specific emotional need.

"This book is a comprehensive reference source on new innovative dimensions of consumer behavioral studies and reveals different conceptual and theoretical frameworks. Featuring expansive coverage on a number of relevant topics and perspectives, such as green products, automotive technology, and anti-branding"--

Why do salespeople frequently fail to execute-even when they know what they should do?

The best way to get ahead in sales is by developing the critical soft skills that will enable you not just survive but thrive. Chronic complainers, no accountability finger-pointers, or learning-resistant laggards—these culture-killers costs sales organizations more in productivity than being weak in the so-called hard skills of selling. Sales leadership expert Colleen Stanley shows how emotional intelligence and the development of these critical soft skills improve sales leadership effectiveness and outperforms doubling down on more sales technology tools and fads. In Emotional Intelligence for Sales Leadership, Colleen provides sales secrets that: Shows sales leaders why ‘real world’ empathy and emotion management are the key to building strong relationships with their sales team. Offers simple steps on how sales leaders create sales cultures that embrace feedback and change through the development of critical emotional intelligence skills. Provides guidance on how to identify key emotional intelligence skills needed in your hiring process to build resilient sales teams. Walks readers through the process of training sales teams on soft skills that ensure the consistent execution of the right selling behaviors. The missing link is in hiring for and developing emotional intelligence skills in sellers and sales leaders. Emotional Intelligence for Sales Leadership will connect with anyone charged with growing sales in business-to-business or business-to-consumer sales.

This fascinating new book explores the benefits and dynamics of social media storms and identifies the possible opportunities that they present for further engagement with customers. It provides actionable managerial advice on planning for, measuring, and innovatively navigating social media storms. Based on a sound theoretical background and illustrated by vivid real-life examples and case studies throughout every chapter, this book combines thorough explanations of the elements of business decision-making, market interaction, consumer psychology, branding, and business communication. In comparison to the existing literature, the book departs from the classical, but insufficient crisis communication management approaches to suggest novel frameworks and tools for empowering businesses, consumers, and broader societies in the digital age. Social Media Storms: Empowering Leadership Beyond Crisis Management provides advanced undergraduate and postgraduate digital marketing, marketing communications, strategy, and crisis management students with a comprehensive understanding of the social media storm phenomenon and helps marketing and communications professionals to leverage the opportunities that social media storms are bringing.

"Includes a new & enhanced online edition of the world's most popular emotional intelligence test."