Beyond Philosophy

MAY 18, 2023

EQ is also a crucial part of your customer experience design and delivery. Today, we are discussing EQ, what it is, and how it helps your customer strategy and leadership. Talk about creating loyalty! EQ Realm #5: Managing Relationships Our recent podcast on customer engagement touches on this topic, too.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 14, 2014

How a customer feels about the company is an integral part of their loyalty to it. So to have trust, then your Customer Experience needs to include ways to build feelings of safety and acceptance to give customers the confidence in your organization that they need to form loyalty to you.

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Michelli Experience

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Thought leaders like Daniel Pink have provided insightful analysis of research showing three key drivers of human behavior: Purpose. Autonomy, and.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Helping your Customers make a decision is an important element in your Customer Experience design. Strategy for CTA buttons is all well and good for the online experience, but what about retail experience and the CTAs that help consumers make decisions there? The Consequence of Choice. They don’t.

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Michelli Experience

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

For employees, perception drives emotional engagement, discretionary effort, and retention. It also involves a disciplined approach to seeking feedback and utilizes what you learn to further improve the experience – perceptions if you will – for those you serve. In the end, we are all in the perception business.

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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.

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ClearAction

MARCH 24, 2017

We need to be thinking of VoC metrics as a value chain : (1) revenue, market share, and customer perceptions (VoC) are consequences of our business processes — they’re lagging indicators because our stakeholders see them when we see them, (2) what customers receive (e.g. timeliness, responsiveness, quality, accuracy, etc.)

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The circle of choice, or needing to have many choices available but not too many to create confusion and buyer’s remorse for their Customers, creates a paradox for many organizations in their Customer Experience design.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It involves measuring customer effort on customer service interactions, such as the number of customer emails received, the length of customer wait times, and the number of customer complaints. This helps to ensure customer satisfaction and builds long-term customer loyalty.

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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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Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In his 1943 paper, “A Theory of Human Motivation”, Abraham Maslow foreshadowed a key ingredient to modern customer experience design. In essence, once you are able to meet a customers’ basic or functional need…there are higher needs you can address to drive their loyalty with your brand.

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 11, 2016

Everyday mobile users have come to expect higher forms of engagement, and they’re pushing the smartphone’s technological progress in an interesting direction. Modern shoppers are fully engaged with their devices, and they’re preferring brand providers capable of offering text-heavy engagement platforms.

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Michelli Experience

APRIL 20, 2016

While marketers like to call attention to aspects of a brand that they want to cement as PODS in the minds of prospects and customers, experience designers like me and business leaders like you should be thinking about DELIVERING PODS – behaving in ways that are relevant, different and valued by your customers.

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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.

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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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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 19, 2016

Since I’ve dedicated my career to researching, writing, consulting, and doing PRESENTATIONS about creating engaging experiences, lets list off the types of experiences Millennials desire. Engage them socially. Most importantly, it is time to craft experiences that engage Millennials and earn their loyalty!

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Michelli Experience

JULY 27, 2016

In addition to partner engagement, leadership is also targeting customer experience enhancements driven by process changes and technology deployment. ” Since most of us aren’t running coffee shops, what can we learn from these recent Starbucks moves: In 7 words: Make the Experience Faster and More Personal.

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 1, 2016

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Michelli Experience

JULY 25, 2017

In support of my formula, Neil Davey, the managing editor of mycustomer.com recently cited David Ulrich’s research on the value chain of trusting and engaging employees. Trust, Engagement, and You. What are the trust and engagement levels of your workforce?

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Storyminers

JULY 29, 2016

In order to retain customers and create loyalty, you have to know what drives your particular customers. This means you have to listen to your customers, get to know them and use what engages each particular customer to build relationships and make them feel cared for. It’s all about the customer experience.

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Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

In her Forbes.com article titled How Gratitude Advances Marketing and Business, Cheryl Conner notes that business leaders should: Go for gratitude first, and loyalty will follow. But two-thirds of marketers view loyalty programs as a way for consumers to demonstrate their loyalty to brands. Gratitude and Business.

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 6, 2016

Hmm… Spending 7 times more to bring customers into your business (some of whom aren’t loyal by nature) or investing far less on the ones who want to be in relationship with you. If you want a competitive advantage driving customer engagement in 2016 …. Measure and drive employee engagement.

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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. So what did leaders at Mercedes-Benz do that might help you with your customer experience elevation?

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Peter Lavers

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It’s a massive mistake to assume any of these mindsets in our customer experience design, so I’d like to briefly unpack each mindset and consider how we can help discern which the customer is in. Brand loyalty is a key driver of such assurance, and so is independent pre-research into the available options.

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Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In business today, it takes leadership to build a business that consistently engages customers. If customers aren’t emotionally connected to your brand, through the experiences you provide, you will be vulnerable to offers and solicitations from your competitors. Which are you? Such was the case for Mercedes-Benz!

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Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

You’ve likely invested quite a bit to get the attention of your prospective customers. Have you equally invested in shifting interest into a buying conversation by engaging those prospects from the outset on their preferred platform?

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Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

That’s the power of customer experience design resulting in a “signature moment” that enhanced the Dairy Queen Fan Experience. As I worked with Garbanzo’s first CEO Alon Mor and his team in the early days of their brand development, the focus was not on the product handoff but the arrival experience.

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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”.

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Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The product and service experiences that follow those promises either fall short, deliver on, or exceed the promises made as customers choose to engage your brand. In a world where many make distorted claims, people are inspired by experiences and stories of those who meet or exceed the expectations they create.

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Michelli Experience

MAY 30, 2017

in March 2017, they sold the Craftsman brand to Stanley Black & Decker) and engaging new creditors all in an effort to stave off continued revenue challenges like the $2.2 We may need to adjust our strategic initiatives depending on our members’ and customers’ reactions to and level of engagement with our initiatives.

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 22, 2018

Customer Experience Design Strategies. For me, my “go to” strategies for product development or experience innovation involve components from my “empathic design” toolkit. Do you have a “go to” song you sing when you are at a karaoke bar?

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 22, 2018

Customer Experience Design Strategies. For me, my “go to” strategies for product development or experience innovation involve components from my “empathetic design” toolkit. Do you have a “go to” song you sing when you are at a karaoke bar?

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SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

Colin is an accomplished Speaker, a renowned Best-Selling Author, and a Co-Host of a successful podcast, The Intuitive Customer. Rudy Dalimunthe – VP of CX at Tokopedia, Ex Indosat – XL Axiata – Ernst & Young, CX & Customer Engagement Professional. LinkedIn : [link]. Website : [link]. LinkedIn : [link].

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Storyminers

MAY 16, 2016

A staggering 71% of consumers stated there is room in the market for better mobile apps so it’s now up to retailers to invest in mobile to improve the shopping experience. And if done well, retailers should also see an increase in sales and loyalty to keep them ahead of the competition.”. Repeat engagement with customer.

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 12, 2016

This actually is a positive customer experience story AND it offers some important lessons for all of us seeking to drive customer loyalty. Before I get too far into my son’s story I have to offer a spoiler alert. Back to the story….

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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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Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The word assist is a far more engaging and elevated word. Most customers will be assisted although many don’t want to be helped. Even if you can’t say “yes” to a customer’s request, you don’t have to say “no.” While this sounds benign enough, we don’t need to ask permission to provide service.

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