Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Home Depot is the latest big brand to suffer a large-scale data breach, affecting over 56 million payment cards. Consumers also believe that in spite of this concern about safety they must share data to have a better experience with a company. Trust and the Customer Experience. View our books on Customer Experience here.

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Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

When I was asked to do a TEDx talk about a year ago, I keyed in on the message that your brand (be that your individual brand or your corporate brand) is little more than “what people say about you when you are not around.”. Of all things for which Ed is known, “signature baseballs” is a substantial element of his brand.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 24, 2021

Verint helps the world’s most iconic brands build enduring customer relationships by connecting work, data, and experiences across the enterprise. He asked us if we had any advice for businesses with a small budget on how to use concepts from the behavioral sciences to improve moments in their Customer Experience.

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 23, 2016

In the face of these unpredictability drivers (and so many more that I didn’t dare list), our customers are looking for order through brands that offer predictability in products and services. In fact, much research about the way consumers perceive “brands” hinges on the consistency and predictability of a company’s offerings.

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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

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. In the end, we are all in the perception business.

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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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Storyminers

JULY 29, 2016

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? We decided to ask experts one question: What is your most effective customer retention strategy for B2C brands? . Stop trying to “satisfy” customers.

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Michelli Experience

APRIL 11, 2017

I also suggested that from my vantage point the Net Promoter Score® (which is calculated using a single question about likelihood to recommend) has greater predictive value for customer loyalty (return business and future spend) than it does about advocacy (referrals). wanting not to have their favorite places overrun with new customers).

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Michelli Experience

JUNE 29, 2016

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Michelli Experience

APRIL 20, 2016

POPS stands for “Points of Parity ” and PODS is an acronym for “Points of Distinction” In simplest terms, Points of Parity (POPS) are qualities that you share with competitive brands deemed to be excellent. These POPS won’t win you business but the absence of points of parity could cause you to see customer churn.

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SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

Customer Experience – The new focus of 2020! Customer Experience has become a top priority for businesses in 2020. It is now considered to be the key brand differentiator and a critical factor for your brand’s success and revenue growth. LinkedIn : [link]. Website : [link]. LinkedIn : [link].

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 24, 2017

Her category creation is reflected in marketing imagery and the design of the female-centric experience. Essentially blue ocean strategy centers around creating your own unique business category (like Cirque Du Soleil or Yellowtail Wine) which in turn makes traditional competition irrelevant. Patrice did just that in creating GAC.

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delighted

JULY 19, 2019

These are commonly used, fundamental terms that show up in the customer experience space. Let’s start off by defining “Customer Experience” itself. What is Customer Experience (CX)? It’s how they feel about their entire experience with your brand, both offline and online. Customer sentiment.

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Michelli Experience

JUNE 7, 2016

Muhammad Ali was not only a civil rights advocate and exceptionally talented boxer – he was and will be an enduring brand. From an advertising perspective, his equity extended in commercial endorsements of brands like Louis Vuitton, Porsche, Apple, Coke, Gatorade, and Pizza Hut.

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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. Here’s a short-list of what “People Obsessed” leaders do.

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Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 6, 2016

In a study of 2,000 American Consumers, Brodeur Partners found that “shareability of the experience and association (I’m ok if people know I’m associated with a brand) are” twice as important to Gen Y as to Baby Boomers. According to Gartner, 85% of business to customer relationships will not involve human interaction by 2020.

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Michelli Experience

OCTOBER 4, 2016

They all seek to leverage their respective competitive advantages while also enhancing customer ease and speed of purchase/product delivery. From a virtual perspective, brands like Amazon are constantly innovating. For example, earlier this year Amazon began experimenting with ways to provide “on demand” delivery services.

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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. EQ Realm #5: Managing Relationships Our recent podcast on customer engagement touches on this topic, too. Click here.

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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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Strativity

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Some behavioral economics techniques that have been uncovered that can be utilized in customer experience design include; Optimize Options. When designing customer experiences, structure the choice of options to ensure that it’s easy for a customer to make decisions. Choice Architecture.

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Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Enough about PCT, and on to it’s important application to customer experience delivery. Customer perceptions also regulate their actions toward a brand. It is only if or when a sensor perceives an “error or alarm trigger” that a siren starts blaring and my cellphone starts ringing.

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Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

With increased automation (self-serve kiosks and online transactions struggle to communicate gratitude) there is a ripe opportunity to create differentiation as the “grateful” brand. In my company, The Michelli Experience “gratitude” has been a core value since our inception.

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ReviewTrackers

MAY 8, 2017

Organized by the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA), the 2017 Insight Exchange gathers over 300 CX professionals for world-class customer experience learning and networking. Customer Experience World. When: May 23 to 24, 2017. Where: London, UK. Gartner Digital Marketing Conference.

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Michelli Experience

JULY 27, 2016

I have been involved with Starbucks since 2004, beginning with initial research I conducted for my first of two books about them (The Starbucks Experience). In addition to partner engagement, leadership is also targeting customer experience enhancements driven by process changes and technology deployment.

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Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Ask your customers about their satisfaction with how your team served them at those important contact points. Also inquire about your customers’ perception of their relationship with your people and brand (e.g. net promoter score, customer effort assessment, and likelihood to repurchase).

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Storyminers

MAY 21, 2020

That’s the view of managing principal of Storyminers and experience design expert, Mike Wittenstein. Wittenstein agreed that with the arrival of more technology at the front end of engagement, marketing and customer experience are aggressively coming together. “The Customer Retention Strategies from 25 CX Experts.

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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. Such was the case for Mercedes-Benz!

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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. I have been slow to accept that, from a service perspective, humans will ever be replaced by computers.

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Michelli Experience

AUGUST 31, 2016

While other brands like Polaroid or Blockbuster have run into a bit of a complacency trap (thinking that what brought them success would also assure them sustainability), Domino’s restlessly agitates their industry by rethinking their product and their delivery platform. If not, I think the pizza giant it worthy of study.

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Technology Travel 2015 Innovation 75

Storyminers

JULY 29, 2018

That’s the view of managing principal of Storyminers and experience design expert, Mike Wittenstein, who caught up with CMO to discuss the ongoing challenges many marketing leaders and their brands are facing when coping with the rapid organisational change presented by digital disruption and next-generation customer engagement.

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 6, 2016

Focus on making sure you resolve customer issues in ways that don’t just satisfy customers but that also make them “happy.” The White House Office of Consumer Affairs reports than when a brand resolves a dispute in ways that leave customers “happy,” those customers typically tell 4 to 6 people about the brand’s service recovery.

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Myra Golden

JULY 1, 2019

Myra is a favorite training partner to public libraries and Fortune 500 companies with her customized, engaging, behavior-changing (and fun) customer service workshops, working with Tulsa City-County Library, Oklahoma Library Association, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Frito-Lay, Michelin, Vera Bradley, and other brands.

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Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Customer-centricity is a commitment or a strategy to assure the success of your customer. Whereas, customer experience is a set of customer perceptions forged across all their interactions with your brand. Similarly, customer-centricity reflects all the things you do whether or not the customer notices.

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Michelli Experience

JULY 20, 2016

produced an announcement trailer about 8 months prior to release which prompted brand fans to wait and wonder. 3) Leverage technology and interactivity – While much has been promised from augmented-reality technology, Niantic delivered an emotionally engaging experience. Pokémon Co. Australia, and New Zealand.

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Michelli Experience

MAY 4, 2016

This blog is about relevant messaging throughout the journey your customers have with your brand. Much of a customer’s journey with a brand depends on the words and images that they encounter in marketing, shopping, and post-sale. I’ll leave all that to the theologians. Therein comes Pope Francis!

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 11, 2016

Modern shoppers are fully engaged with their devices, and they’re preferring brand providers capable of offering text-heavy engagement platforms. Every day, more consumers enter long-term brand programs with friends and family. Check out Cafe Rouge Express running a mobile loyalty campaign: Image credit: rippll.co.

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