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Expanding Completed Service Work: How to Elevate The Customer Service Experience with David Nour (Ep. 14)

Expanding Completed Service Work: How to Elevate The Customer Service Experience with David Nour (Ep. 14)

Let’s revisit a classic! Enhancing the customer service experience isn’t just about meeting expectations—it’s about exceeding them. 

Going above and beyond leaves customers delighted and satisfied, fostering the kind of loyalty every business craves.

Join us as executive coach and founder of The Nour Group, David Nour, alongside Michael Israel, to expand on the strategies and activities essential for delivering an exceptional customer service experience.

David and Michael discuss: 

  • How misaligned expectations can cause customer relationships to go bad
  • What “best of breeds” is and how it relates to completed service work
  • Why data has become the new renewable energy
  • The total completed service work ecosystem and what it entails
  • How to exceed expectations by adding value to your current customer service processes
  • And more

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About David Nour: 

A senior leadership/board advisor, educator, executive coach, and bestselling author, David Nour is internationally recognized as the leading expert on applications of strategic relationships in profitable growth, sustained innovation, and lasting change. A Forbes Leadership contributor on the Future of Work and an Inc. contributor on Relationship Economics, Nour’s unique insights have been featured in various prominent publications, including The Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fast Company, Huffington Post Business, Entrepreneur, and Knowledge@Wharton. He’s also the host of the popular Curve Benders podcast. 

Born in Iran, Nour immigrated to the U.S. as a teenager with $100, limited family ties, and no fluency in English. He graduated from Georgia State University with a bachelor’s degree in business management and went on to earn an Executive MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. He resides in Atlanta, GA, with his family.

A Framework for Completed Service Work with Michael Blumberg and David Nour (Ep. 13)

A Framework for Completed Service Work with Michael Blumberg and David Nour (Ep. 13)

Learn how mastering Completed Service Work can give your business a strategic edge. 

By leveraging field service management to forge deep connections with customers, you can cultivate loyalty, drive growth, and position your brand as a leader in your industry.

In this enlightening episode, Michael Israel is joined by industry experts Michael Blumberg, President and CEO of Blumberg Advisory Group, Inc., and David Nour, author of Relationship Economics®. Together, they delve into the profound impact of Completed Service Work on service professionals and businesses.

Michael & David discuss: 

  • How great completed service work can elevate your business above your competitors
  • The importance of having a mentor
  • How field service management helps build meaningful relationships with customers
  • Definitions of Net Promoter Score (NPS) and sentiment analysis 
  • How predictive data can be used as a leading driver of customer relationship
  • Different ways companies can empower their employees to go the extra mile for their customers
  • And more

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About Michael Blumberg:

Michael Blumberg is the President of Blumberg Advisory Group, Inc., a research and consulting firm in the field service industry. Michael’s firm provides clients with strategic guidance and tactical assistance for improving the overall profitability and quality of field service operations through procedural and systemic improvements and optimized service marketing strategies. Michael is a prolific author and frequent speaker at industry events and conferences.

About David Nour: 

A senior leadership/board advisor, educator, executive coach, and bestselling author, David Nour is internationally recognized as the leading expert on applications of strategic relationships in profitable growth, sustained innovation, and lasting change. The author of eleven books, including bestsellers Relationship Economics® (Wiley) – forthcoming in its 3rd edition, Co-Create (St. Martin’s Press), and Curve Benders (Wiley, 2021), Nour serves as a trusted advisor to global clients and coaches corporate leaders. He is an adjunct professor at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and was named to the Global Gurus Top 30 Leadership Professionals and the Thinkers 50 Radar Class of 2021 lists. A Forbes Leadership contributor on the Future of Work and an Inc. contributor on Relationship Economics, Nour’s unique insights have been featured in various prominent publications, including The Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fast Company, Huffington Post Business, Entrepreneur, and Knowledge@Wharton. He’s also the host of the popular Curve Benders podcast. 

Born in Iran, Nour immigrated to the U.S. as a teenager with $100, limited family ties, and no fluency in English. He graduated from Georgia State University with a bachelor’s degree in business management and went on to earn an Executive MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. He resides in Atlanta, GA, with his family.

Zuper, Empowering Field Teams To Collaborate Effortlessly with Anand Subbaraj (Ep. 1)

Zuper, Empowering Field Teams To Collaborate Effortlessly with Anand Subbaraj (Ep. 1)

Every great business starts with a hurdle. And Zuper is no different.

In this inaugural episode of Zuper FM – Field Service, Your Way, Michael Israel welcomes Anand Subbaraj, CEO and founder of Zuper. Anand shares everything you need to know about him while unveiling Zuper’s story, vision, and mission as they work towards building technology solutions to help organizations provide exceptional customer experience. 

Michael and Anand discuss: 

  • The refrigerator experience that led to the founding of Zuper
  • Zuper’s market differentiator
  • The mission that guides Zuper
  • Ways Zuper differentiates from the other industry leaders
  • Wisdom words for others within the field of service-based business
  • And more!

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About our Guest: 

Before joining Zuper as CEO in July 2020, Anand Subbaraj came from a 13-year career at Microsoft, and before that, he spent five years at Tata Consultancy Services. Throughout his time living in Seattle, Anand worked with many large enterprise customers and helped organizations to take control of their digital transformation journey. At Microsoft, he was the head of product in one of the fastest-growing Azure Data services and led the innovation in big data integration in Azure.