Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Consumers also believe that in spite of this concern about safety they must share data to have a better experience with a company. In other words, Customers will share data even though they don’t believe it is protected enough to get a better value from an organization. Trust and the Customer Experience.

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Net Promoter Score CEM Books Customer Retention 102

Kustomer

MARCH 23, 2022

In this post, we’ll be looking at how you can take advantage of this by leveraging the brand advocacy potential of your most loyal customers , who we’ll refer to as brand ambassadors throughout. Customer Loyalty and Personalization. To create loyal customers, you need more than just a good product. Source: kantar.turtl.co.

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Brands Social Media Reference Loyalty 98

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 12, 2015

I love watching what people, and Customers do. When I am reviewing an organization’s experience I am on the look out for this type of irrational behavior as this will give me many clues on how to make it much better. Your Customers would raise their hands during this TED talk also. What do I mean by irrational behavior?

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CEM Customer Centricity Customer Experience Management Customer Retention 166

Michelli Experience

OCTOBER 12, 2016

I’ve been doing customer experience design for a long, long time. In the old days, I would have read about some intriguing customer innovation and assumed that the attempted breakthrough was crafted on a firm foundation of customer listening and data analysis. Here is the truth from the trenches… .

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Airlines Travel Customer Experience Design Innovation 89

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Helping your Customers make a decision is an important element in your Customer Experience design. All channels for your Customers make up your Customer Experience, including websites. Engaging the subconscious shopper is a skill supermarkets are always perfecting. The Consequence of Choice.

CEM 121

CEM 2004 Books Retail 121

ReviewTrackers

MAY 8, 2017

Customer experience (CX) — defined as “the cumulative impact of all interactions and experiences between your business and the customer, at every touchpoint across the entire customer journey, and viewed entirely from your customer’s perspective” — has become one of today’s most important business benchmarks.

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2017 Events Customer Experience Customer Journey Mapping 50

Michelli Experience

AUGUST 10, 2016

I love serving customers and helping businesses create loyalty-building customer experiences. HOWEVER, service does not mean customers should be given the power to ABUSE those that serve them. Customers are not always right and when they wrongly mistreat your staff they should become former customers!

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Leadership Hotels Loyalty Customer Centricity 56

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

That post-purchase anxiety about a decision is a common affliction for Customers. Reducing choices isn’t the answer though, as customers are attracted by large assortments; i.e. they like the feeling of having an abundance of choice. Wine stores play music to put their customers in a happy and relaxed mood.

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Michelli Experience

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

In the course of my work as an experience designer and consultant, I have been defining customer experience strategy as a disciplined approach to brand differentiation achieved by elevating the perception of those you serve based on their interactions with you. Let’s assume you open a brick and mortar retail business.

Net Promoter Score 89

Net Promoter Score NPS Financial Consulting 89

ClearAction

MARCH 24, 2017

Voice-of-the-customer (VoC) ROI can be elusive unless you’re adamantly driving customer experience transformation. Value chain thinking is extremely valuable in customer experience management. Value Chain Solution to VoC ROI Lynn Hunsaker. What is a value chain? That is mutual value creation.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The focus on enhancing customer experience has gained traction in recent years. As businesses recognize its value, the shift from a product-centered approach to a customer-centric one continues. Actionability is also, as we believe, one of the essential aspects of customer experience management.

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Definition Net Promoter Score Customer Experience B2C 178

Storyminers

MAY 21, 2020

Too many organisations are “doing” before “designing” when it comes to digital transformation and customer experience. That’s the view of managing principal of Storyminers and experience design expert, Mike Wittenstein. People management and ways of working need to be overhauled, Wittenstein said.

Culture 59

Culture Voice of Customer Fashion 2017 59

Michelli Experience

JULY 25, 2017

I also opined on the critical role of trust in strengthening the social contract between businesses and customers. As such, I suggested business leaders should take the first step by trusting customers out of respect and gratitude for them. I depict this relationship in the formula: High TRUST = Happy Employees = Happy Customers =.

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Consulting Touchpoint Leadership Roadmap 45

Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 6, 2016

I’ll admit it, as a customer experience consultant I have a tendency to see improving customer experience as a cure for all business ills. Clearly, a bevy of mounting research does indicate your company’s’ future is linked to the consistent delivery of a differentiated customer experience.

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Customer Experience Social Media Mobile Customer Service Consulting 85

Michelli Experience

MAY 8, 2018

Redesigning Process Improvement in the Age of AI & the Customer. But What About the Customer? For me (as a customer experience designer) the end goal of all process improvement (whether that improvement is driven by standardization, automation, or adaptivity) is to do more that will increase efficiency.

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2002 Competitive Advantage Books Customers 40

Storyminers

JULY 29, 2018

Too many organisations are “doing” before “designing” when it comes to digital and customer transformation, and not going deep enough into insights analysis and cultural change. Wittenstein agreed that with the arrival of more technology at the front end of engagement, marketing and customer experience are aggressively coming together.

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Culture Voice of Customer Fashion Customer Experience Design 45

Michelli Experience

JANUARY 6, 2016

I’ve been critical of leaders who make declarations like “ THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE CUSTOMER.” My problem with those types of statements is that I believe every year should be the year of the customer. In support of my position, I offer the following: If you want to keep customers in 2016 …. Why else are we in business?

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Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Would you be willing to be held to a standard (which I refer to as the “tremble effect”) when it comes to the quality and consistency of experiences you and your team provide to your customers? So let’s assume you want to drive increased customer accountability in your business. Where do you start?

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Net Promoter Score Healthcare Books Feedback 75

Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 27, 2016

One day, I was asking Horst about a client of mine that was struggling to engage customers. As I presented the challenge to Horst, I explained the efforts the company’s leaders had exerted to, “improve the quality of their customer experience so that most customers had less pain during interactions”.

2017 89

2017 Hotels Leadership Customers 89

Michelli Experience

MARCH 16, 2016

Then again, I’m reminded of the Gallup research captured in the book Human Sigma: Managing the Employee-Customer Encounter which suggests that while there is a high correlation between employee engagement and customer engagement that relationship IS NOT CAUSAL.

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Engagement Books Culture Connections 56

Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

While I can go on and on about Ed’s visionary leadership, ability to inspire teams to greatness, top-drawer guest experience delivery and his ability to manage in a crisis, I want to talk about Ed Mady’s signed baseballs. Branded Customer Experience. What memories do you give your customers to tweet about?

Brands 45

Brands Hotels Magazine Leadership 45

Martin Hill-Wilson

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I’ve just had the pleasure of chairing a customer engagement conference. Both spoke eloquently about the use of emotion in customer experience design. Atom wants enough of that predictive insight to feel telepathic to its customers. There were some great speakers. Things are undoubtedly moving on.

Hotels 63

Hotels 2012 Banking Insurance 63

Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

I’ve suggested that customers will resist “robots” and I’ve based my thinking in part on the “uncanny valley” hypothesis which postulates that the more robots look like humans the less humans will feel comfortable with them. Both features allow customers to order from Starbucks simply by using their voice….Previously

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Customer Service Customers Interaction Social Media 108

Michelli Experience

APRIL 20, 2016

More than a decade ago marketing professors Kevin Keller and Alice Tybout advanced two concepts that not only changed the way people market their businesses but also SHOULD have changed the way we think about delivering customer experiences. In essence, they are the things you and your customers call your own.

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Customer Experience Design Brands Reference Books 53

Michelli Experience

JANUARY 4, 2017

Every time I develop a customized customer service training tool for a client of mine, I caution that the tool is a “guidebook” for customer service behavior and that no tool can fit every application. As such, a customer service toolkit is only as good as the judgment and skill of the person using it.

Customer Experience 89

Customer Experience Customer Service Training Customers Customer Service 89

SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

The Super-Heroes of Customer Experience are here! Customer Experience – The new focus of 2020! Customer Experience has become a top priority for businesses in 2020. They have not only brought new perspectives on the table but have redefined the customer experience exceptionally!

2020 132

2020 Customer Experience Magazine Consulting 132

Storyminers

JULY 29, 2018

Too many organisations are “doing” before “designing” when it comes to digital transformation and customer experience. That’s the view of managing principal of Storyminers and experience design expert, Mike Wittenstein. People management and ways of working need to be overhauled, Wittenstein said.

Culture 40

Culture Voice of Customer Fashion 2017 40

Michelli Experience

JULY 4, 2017

Great leaders often ask me to help them create “customer value”, while others ask me to help them create “profit.” For me, the only way to generate sustainable profit is by developing a core competency for customer value creation. You have a customer solution, now what? You have a customer solution, now what?

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Insurance Consulting Books Customers 45

Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 23, 2015

According to Forrester Research, 93% of corporate leadership teams place customer experience improvement on their list of strategic priorities and 23% businesses have it in the number 1 position. In fact, the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) is reporting customer satisfaction levels that are hovering just above 9 year lows.

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Storyminers

JULY 29, 2016

There always seems to be a new product, service, or experience within reach of a brand’s current customer. And as we all know, replacing an existing customer costs 7 times more than retaining them. So how do you ensure your brand is retaining its precious customer base? VP of Customer Experience, Compellon.

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B2C Customer Retention Brands Social Media 49

Myra Golden

JULY 16, 2019

After I deliver a customized, engaging customer service workshop, I help my clients reinforce the main ideas. We’re just trying to measure the customer experience. I remember sitting down with Ava, a customer service supervisor, to discuss her Quality Form. Yes, I’m serious. Skipping Calibration.

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Contact Center Webinar Workshop Feedback 51

Myra Golden

OCTOBER 19, 2018

It’s rare that I don’t write to you about customer service issues. But I want to talk about balance, not just because it’s so important to me, but because I know achieving peace and balance will help you be a better manager, leader, or customer service professional.

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Travel Hotels Workshop Customer Service 53

Michelli Experience

MARCH 30, 2016

Based on these observations Krim, and leaders at other companies like Casper, sought to remove customer experience pain points and eliminate “bad profit.” Here are some of the specifics in the transformation of the mattress sales experience, which should be applicable to any business.

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Advertising Innovation Sales Customers 49

Michelli Experience

JULY 27, 2016

During my more than a decade relationship with the brand, I’ve never ceased to be amazed by the commitment of Starbucks leaders when it comes to continuous improvement for both the customer and employee experience. From a process perspective, Starbucks continues to explore ways to increase the speed of service.

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2004 Leadership Reference Books 45

Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

As someone who consults with companies on how to effectively listen and act on the feedback provided by customers, I thought it might be helpful to share a few best practices (which clearly many brands who attempt to engage me simply don’t utilize): Customer listening should be in the best interest of the customer, not the brand.

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Feedback Consulting Customers Presentation 53

Myra Golden

MARCH 17, 2017

How to handle a customer’s credit card. Myra Golden; checking in” I said, while managing a smile in spite of my travel fatigue. When you have to deliver bad news to a customer, and this was bad news, you must always be discrete, regretful, and if you can, be hopeful. Work to put the customer at ease.

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Banking Travel Hotels Workshop 58

Michelli Experience

JULY 4, 2017

is a professional speaker and chief experience officer at The Michelli Experience. A New York Times #1 bestselling author, Dr. Michelli and his team consult with some of the world’s best customer experience companies. Michelli, Ph.D. Follow on Twitter: @josephmichelli.

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