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The Marketing Book Podcast

238 Nincompoopery by John Brandt

The Marketing Book Podcast

Douglas Burdett

Sales, B2bmarketing, Contentmarketing, Marketing, B2bsales, Socialmedia, Business, Entrepreneurship, Digitalmarketing

4.9868 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Nincompoopery: Why Your Customers Hate You--and How to Fix It by John Brandt

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Find and kill the corporate stupidity that drives customers crazy. CEO and award-winning business writer John R. Brandt offers concrete examples of how any organization--large or small, and regardless of industry--can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent.

Nincompoopery--terrible customer service, idiotic business processes, and soul-crushing management practices--surrounds all of us. We lose time, patience, and profits as stuck-in-the-past organizations actively prevent us (and our customers) from getting the value we (and they) deserve.

Can’t anybody change this? CEO and award-winning business writer John R. Brandt says we can. In Nincompoopery: Why Your Customers Hate You--And How to Fix It, he leverages research across thousands of companies to show leaders how to find and kill the corporate stupidity that drives customers crazy. More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization--large or small, and regardless of industry--can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent.

Brandt has worked with hundreds of companies to help them outwit competitors, and in the blunt (and funny) Nincompoopery, he shares his unique blueprint for success. It usually starts by asking a simple question or two, such as

  • Why should our customers have to rekey their data multiple times to make a single purchase?
  • Why are there four levels of approval just to order basic supplies?
  • Why can’t we get qualified candidates for open positions, or provide new employees with decent training?
  • In short: How did we become such nincompoops? And when will we stop?

Nincompoopery offers leaders the answers they need--and the profits they crave--with a scoop of humor on the side. Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is John Brant, author of Ninkum Poopery,

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why your customers hate you and how to fix it.

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And you are listening to the fabulous Marketing Book Podcast.

0:10.4

Welcome to the Marketing Book Podcast, helping you keep up with the smartest

0:17.4

thinking in the quickly changing field of modern marketing. And now here's

0:22.2

your host, Douglas Burdett.

0:25.0

Hello, thanks for joining me on the marketing book podcast.

0:27.0

Each week I publish an interview with the author of a new marketing or sales book

0:31.0

and which was named by Forbes is one of 11 smart

0:33.9

podcasts that will keep you in the know and named by LinkedIn is one of 10

0:38.4

podcasts that will make you a better marketer. My goal for this

0:42.4

podcast is to help you discover new ideas so

0:45.0

you can succeed in the quickly changing field of modern marketing and sales. Don't

0:50.4

worry about taking notes. You can find links to everything linkable in this episode's

0:54.4

show notes at marketingbook podcast.com. And since you're a listener to the marketing book podcast,

1:00.9

if I can recommend a specific marketing or sales book or some other helpful

1:05.4

resource that I know of for whatever situation you find yourself in, feel free to connect

1:10.2

with me on Lincoln where we can chat and I'll try to point you in the right

1:13.5

direction and save you time. This show is produced by my marketing firm. We work

1:19.0

with manufacturers to help them grow. If you're a manufacturer and are serious about growing your business,

1:25.6

check out our guide to lead generation for manufacturers on our website sales artillery.com

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or Google lead generation for Manufacturers and you'll find

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