Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 3, 2023

Inevitably, these same exuberant students will appear at his office hours wanting career advice. I am sharing it here, too, since many of you probably have the same question. You have likely worked some in the world and, in doing so, have determined there are some things you want to do and some things you don’t.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 12, 2018

This week we feature an article by Mike Schoultz who shares his top 20 list of myths on customer experience not to tell yourself or things you should never say to a customer. This is a great list and one you should pay attention too. – Shep Hyken. Customer service designs that are remarkable get talked about.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

We’re all making predictions and tracking trends in customer experience. One thing we predict will not change for a long time is the need to reduce customer effort. Reducing efforts will only begin when organizations understand customer journeys and personas.”. Get your copy here! What will happen in 2019?

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 8, 2021

It is not often in life that you get the opportunity to reset things. However, as the COVID-19 vaccine rolls out, we have a chance that is, dare I say, unprecedented to reimagine Customer Experience. Now, we can decide what parts of the change we want to keep to respond to what customers want now.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 25, 2024

You might recall how I like to say, “None of us are as clever as all of us.” So, we asked you, our readers to submit your thoughts, ideas, reactions, lists, or whatever else you have to offer, that we can then discuss. Justin shared how sports can teach us a lot about how to improve your Customer Experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 19, 2020

We encourage clients to research their customers all the time. Late last year, we decided to take our advice and study our customers and prospective customers, and well, anyone. Some of the research told us what we expected to hear, but some of the revelations might surprise you. You All Want Growth.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 7, 2022

One of the features of The Intuitive Customer podcast is “I’m in a Pickle,” where listeners come to us with business problems that they would like our advice on solving. We had a pickle about the future of brick-and-mortar after the pandemic that I thought I would share with you, too. Almost Perfect.

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 23, 2019

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned over the course of my 35-year career, so that you can more effectively do the work that needs to be done. You want to know what you’re walking into.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 4, 2024

My podcast partner and I came up with six we learned this past year, and I wanted to share them with you as well. So, without further ado, here are the six learnings from 2023 that I hope help you as we head into 2024, starting with: Learning #1: Accomplishments in your personal and professional life require preparation and luck.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 7, 2021

To most companies, it invariably means “customers give us all their money.” So, today we’re going to talk about the five rules that will build customer loyalty. Or you can listen to the latest episode of my podcast here. Before we get into the rules, let’s talk about what loyalty is.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

What Does Customer Experience Success Mean to Your C-Suite? The CEO or another C-suite leader gets excited about customer experience. So they decide to commit to this idea – that creating better customer experiences will lead to happier customers, leading to better results. They sometimes stop there.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 25, 2022

On the Apple phone the other day, it suggested widgets to me of apps I might want to use. The phone notices that I want to use the apps at a particular time of day, so it pushes them to me proactively. Providing proactive experiences is part of the future I see for Customer Experience , a side effect of Customer Science.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned over the course of my 35-year career, so that you can more effectively do the work that needs to be done. Click here to learn more about the course and enroll. .

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 11, 2020

When I was in corporate life, my boss asked me to improve the Customer Experience and do it for the least cost. what is a Customer Experience?” This idea was revolutionary in that day, but today, the business world has more or less accepted that emotions are a significant part of interactions with customers. Sure, but….what

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Daniel Group

APRIL 13, 2022

For Referral Marketing to Succeed, you need Excellent CX First! This edition of Success Strategies focuses on growing your business through referral marketing with the foundation of excellent Customer Experience. You need to clearly understand how significant customer experience is to sales and marketing.

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Kustomer

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets podcast , Gabe Larsen is joined by Steven Maskell , Vice President of Customer Experience at Zones , to discuss how to use customer experience data analytics to create a personalized, data-driven customer experience. There are great relational databases out there.

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Kustomer

JANUARY 20, 2022

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by Jon Picoult , Founder of Watermark Consulting, to learn what it takes to not only impress your customers but to make them obsessed with your brand. Creating customer loyalty starts with an impression that sticks. “I

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Most companies today know that putting the customer at the heart of everything they do is vital. Doing something about it, however, tends to fall into the unknown category. The fact is, improving your Customer Experience means you must also become more customer-centric. The first one was, “We put customers first.”.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 26, 2023

Before we get started, you should know that typically, people don’t know the answer when I ask these questions, which is why I ask them. The idea is to get people thinking about things they had never considered before and help them reframe their experience through the lens of the customer rather than operations. #1

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Lumoa

AUGUST 18, 2022

“How likely would you recommend (insert business name) to someone?” ” – a never-ending question asked to a customer in multiple ways and various forms. I mean, we get it. I mean, we get it. Furthermore, it fairly makes it easier to close the loop with the customers in the process.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 14, 2020

However, they are also crucial for fostering customer-driven growth in your organization. In this issue of Why Customers Buy, we are going to discuss the six fundamental principles of how to influence people, and you might be surprised by what you discover. You want them to go in and clean their room.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 31, 2019

It is essential to reflect where we have been and where we want to go at this time of year. With that in mind, I have some predictions for the trends in Customer Experience for 2020 and beyond. . Customer Experience has matured. In 2002, when I started Beyond Philosophy, Customer Experience was an area that was only forming.

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BirdEye

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Customer experience can be vital in helping businesses grow and scale faster. Investing in processes and tools that contribute to customer delight significantly impacts the bottom line. Good customer experience or delight has significantly evolved to finding value across every touchpoint.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2024

No matter what business you have, you’re going to need some form of customer service. It’s the only way to ensure that your customers are getting the assistance they need. This is particularly true when we think about the iGaming industry. Why customer service is necessary 1.

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Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

In my new Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned over the course of my 35-year career, so that you can more effectively do the work that needs to be done. Do you know the Power Core of your company?

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

One of my clients has done an excellent job in the last couple of years improving their customer experience. However, much of it was the easy stuff and hasn’t had the breakthrough effect they hoped to get. It is critical to mention that my client has done an excellent job prioritizing. NICE Systems, Inc.,

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 4, 2023

After over two decades with my global Customer Experience consultancy, it occurred to me that I have a lot of advice on the topic, which I boiled down into the 10 rules for building a successful consultancy. Provide value to your customers or your audience. However, there are things that you need to be realistic about at this time.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

We all want customers that return and buy more for us. Returning customers often buy more than new customers and require fewer resources to attract. So, how do you get customers to come back? . I went outside my own resources to get you an answer to that question.

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BirdEye

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A good review creates a sense of urgency, driving customers to purchase so they don’t feel they might miss the opportunity. A good review creates a sense of urgency, driving customers to purchase so they don’t feel they might miss the opportunity. Online reviews are a goldmine of insights.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 1, 2023

Organizations don’t think enough about the context in which a customer enters the experience. Most believe that every customer is the same. However, understanding the context in which your customer has your experience is critical to your customer strategy. Context is everywhere. It’s our context.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 26, 2021

Customer emotions are essential in Customer Experience. Being deliberate about which emotions your experience evokes is critical, too. Today, we will take a deeper dive into making your customers feel “Cared for” with the 5 Rules for Making Customers Feeling Cared For and Valued. Measure your results.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

This week we feature an article by Jessica Wise who shares a story to illustrate how you can develop a lifelong relationship with your customers by creating a customer experience they will never forget. The chance to shock and awe your customers will arise when they present you with a problem that needs solving.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 28, 2021

Business relationships are a lot like customer relationships. However, there are some differences between managing Customer Experience in business-to-business (B2B) relationships and business-to-consumer (B2C). Today we will go through those differences with our 5 Rules for Managing Your Customer Experience in B2B relationships.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Since we discussed this on a recent podcast, and I thought many of you might have the same problem, I thought I would also share our insight on this topic here. Before we get into that, I thought I would mention that Beard contacted us as part of our “I’m in a pickle!” As you can imagine, these boots were expensive.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Are you ready for AI? Author, speaker, consultant, and The Agile Brand podcast host Greg Kihlstrom , ( www.gregkihlstrom.com ) Principal Chief Strategies for GK5A, joined us on a recent podcast to discuss what it takes to be prepared to implement AI and improve your customer experience. Some firms are. It didn’t.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The wealth of information within academia and doesn’t get used by business is amazing. You might think the term describes super-exaggerated markdowns, but it doesn’t. . You might think the term describes super-exaggerated markdowns, but it doesn’t. . Which of those two options would you want? .

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 16, 2022

As you might know, my podcast does an “I’m in a Pickle” feature where business people send in their business problems with customer strategy for our consult. I wanted to share this one with all of you because I realize many of you might have the same pickle. So, what can we do now?”

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