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.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 10, 2020

Psychologists call this a Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE), and it can wreak havoc on your customer-driven growth. . We explored FAEs in our latest podcast and the effect they can have on your Customer Experience outcome. The danger with FAE is it leads to a total misinterpretation of customers.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 31, 2019

However, my great experience is not why I return and drive past six or seven other bait and tackle shops to get to it. Economists say the reason I go back to Discount Tackle is that I remember it was a great experience. We don’t choose between experiences; we choose between the memories of experiences.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 25, 2020

Customer Memories are a fascinating subject. In many ways, they are what your Customer Experience is, at least from the customers’ perspective, which we also discussed on a recent podcast. They are certainly the most critical element of your customer loyalty. Emotions create memories.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 9, 2019

In our customer experience consultancy, clients tell us customers make decisions based on price or features. Instead, it tends to be a combination of a few insignificant, humanistic-type factors that drive customer behavior. We discussed the significance of the insignificant in a recent podcast.

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Stella Connect

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Colin has written seven bestselling books on Customer experience is the co-host of the highly successful Intuitive Customer podcast. The most important thing I have learned in the last fifteen years is customer loyalty is a function of memory. What does this have to do with customer experience ?

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 4, 2023

Several readers and listeners of the podcast have reached out to me recently, asking for advice on how to start a consultancy. 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.

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Customer Bliss

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Mark Weinstein is the Senior Vice President of Customer Engagement, Loyalty and Partnerships for Hilton Worldwide. Like many customer experience executives, he searched for a career path that matched his skills and passion for helping customers comprehensively across the business. Mark was a great guest in that regard.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 25, 2024

Since my request, we were lucky enough to have a new one from Justin Stafford ( justin@customersmarts.co ), founder of Customer Smarts , based in Sydney, Australia, and podcast host of “Customer Smart.” Justin shared how sports can teach us a lot about how to improve your Customer Experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 16, 2020

Today, we decided to address memory and how crucial it is to enhance your customers’ recollections of their experience with you. We discussed this concept on a recent podcast with guest Zoey Chen, assistant professor of marketing at the University of Miami School of Business. Customer loyalty is a function of memory.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Lately, my Customer Experiences have been lousy. At the beginning of the pandemic, I was more understanding when Customer Experiences weren’t great. The 5 Rules for improving the customer complaint process are: Read between the lines. Embrace customer complaints. Empathize with the customer.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 17, 2019

I am cursed with the fact that I can’t have a Customer Experience without analyzing it and defining what they should do differently. But I am also blessed, because my Customer Experience knowledge has fed my family for 20 years! As I often tell my audiences, I am blessed and cursed. So I shouldn’t complain.

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GetFeedback

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Your customers want more, so you need to meet and exceed their expectations. But you already know what you need to do: collect customer feedback. Waiting until everything falls into place so that you start collecting customer feedback won’t happen. Improve customer experience . Customer preferences differ.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 2, 2020

We discussed this subject in a recent podcast. When we hosted Rory Sutherland on the podcast a couple of weeks ago, he made the point that businesses have prioritized efficiency over resilience. It would be best to understand how customers’ emotions and behavior far more than we ever did.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

On a recent podcast, we had a guest, Michél Patterson , a continuous improvement expert in Lean Six Sigma who has consulted numerous industries, including technology, freight forwarding, and even the Department of Defense. However, having that clarity drives the actions that follow throughout the rest of the project, she says.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Some customer habits may be useful for your Customer Experience strategy, and some of them may not. Understanding how customers’ habits form and how to identify them is crucial for Customer Experience. We talked about how habits form and understanding your customers’ habits in a recent podcast.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 4, 2019

Branding is a critical topic in Customer Experience. We discussed where branding and Customer Experience interact and prioritize in a recent podcast. We also explained how the two concepts are crucial to creating brand and customer loyalty. Customer Experience delivers against that promise.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 2, 2020

We have all been in line or on hold for customer service , waiting for a company to get back to us. Then, when our wait time runs long and our patience runs short we get cranky and think, this customer service crew is really inept today. Last February, the Harvard Business Review (HBR) published, “ Why is Customer Service so Bad?

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 11, 2020

Your customers likely wait in your experience, too, and that may or may not be creating negative feelings about your experience. Therefore, managing customers’ perceptions about wait times in your Customer Experience is essential—and a practical way to foster customer-driven growth.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many of my followers weighed in with their own experiences that tell a truth that is hard to swallow, the world has changed for good, but it’s not good for customers. She thinks customer service is out the window and that getting a good experience is a pleasant change from the usual. It turns out it wasn’t.

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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.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 2, 2019

I recently read two pieces of research about Customer Experience that worried me. The first was from Nunwood , a UK-based research company with a Customer Experience index, and it showed that improvements in Customer Experience were not happening. The Seven Reasons Customer Experience is Dying.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 14, 2022

I read a fascinating report the other day from Zendesk called The Customer Experience (CX) Trends Report 2022. I saw a dichotomy between what people are saying and what they are doing regarding Customer Experiences (CX). So, I reached out to Zendesk to get their take on the report and invite them onto our podcast.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 19, 2020

We do research called an Emotional Signature ® that examines the Customer Experience from a subconscious psychological perspective. However, in our global Customer Experience consultancy, whenever we present our findings to an organization, you usually get at least one person that tries to bend the results to meet their agenda.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 7, 2020

Cable companies are an excellent example of what NOT to do with your experience to promote customer-driven growth. Cable companies are an excellent example of what NOT to do with your experience to promote customer-driven growth. They give things to new customers only. Here are a few we shared: 1.

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Customer Bliss

JUNE 15, 2017

This is a complex, far-ranging topic and we’re only going to cover it in a brief blog post (although I do speak often about collaboration in books and speeches), but I wanted to touch on some recent research and thought leadership around collaboration. Because they are all tasked with customer concepts in their own silo.

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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). Recognize that customer emotions apply. Manage different customers differently.

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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. Listen to your Customers – It’s Worth the Effort.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 25, 2019

was our guest on a recent podcast to talk about the secret to Airbnb’s success. As a certified Customer Experience Professional, he helps organizations and leadership change to improve their experience for their team members and customers. He says that Airbnb has created a 21st-century Customer Experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

We discussed this phenomenon in a recent podcast and how we all do this. Most psychologists run experiments and analyze results across conditions, and Festinger did that, too. As the usability interface worsened, I started to make excuses for them as a loyal customer. Or they do in my mind anyway. .

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 4, 2019

The latest developments in this field are changing the way we can measure authentic customer emotions in real time. We discussed how technology and facial recognition are changing how to measure authentic customer emotions in real time on our latest podcast. Customer emotions drive customer behavior.

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Customer Bliss

JULY 7, 2016

That has been my intention behind my books, blog, speaking and work as co-founder of the Customer Experience Professionals Association. That is also behind why I have launched a customer experience podcast series – so that we can hear each other’s’ voices and celebrate in our successes and learn from our challenges.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 16, 2023

I’ve followed the American Customer Satisfaction Institute (ACSI) results since I started Beyond Philosophy in 2002. When you consider all the resources organizations and individuals have put into customer experience and the voice of the customer, I wonder… was it worth it? Guess what? So, how can this be?

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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. Cialdini’s Six Principles of Influence . It creates a virtuous cycle.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Soon after that, I founded my global Customer Experience consultancy, Beyond Philosophy. We had him on the podcast recently to talk about his new book, Winning on Purpose: The Unbeatable Strategy of Loving Customers. Also, treating customers well is good for employees. So, What Went Wrong with NPS?

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Catherine, one of our podcast listeners, wants to know how to establish her organization’s reputation for having low prices without the companion reputation for having cheap and low-quality products. It’s a good question that, in my experience, is easy to get wrong. The reverse is true, also. The founder was furious!

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SurveySensum

APRIL 1, 2024

Research indicates a customer trust directly correlates with brand loyalty. And loyal customers make purchases 90% more often and are inclined to spend more during each transaction, contributing to better cash flow for the brand. Why is Customer Trust Important for Startup Brands? Let’s get started!

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