Storyminers

JANUARY 21, 2015

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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

ShepHyken

JANUARY 10, 2017

Customer Experience Design. Shep Hyken speaks with Brian Solis, who asserts that all thinking needs to start with the customer experience design. Design what your customers are supposed to feel at all parts of their customer journey. Think about the entire customer experience.

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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

Storyminers

JANUARY 26, 2015

From the 1970s through the 1990s, customers’ experiences evolved quickly with the introduction of technology like ATMs, CRM systems,touchscreen kiosks, and interactive voice response systems. Companies were the early adopters.

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White Paper Customer Experience Design Blog Article 70

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

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. When you find that Goldilocks sweet spot, however, it is Customer Experience gold.

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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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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!

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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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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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delighted

JULY 19, 2019

You likely have heard the term “customer experience” or CX for short, and thought, “of course we want to continually improve and offer the best customer experience possible.”. But, what does Customer Experience (CX) actually mean? That’s why we’ve put together this customer experience glossary.

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Myra Golden

MARCH 19, 2017

Every interaction your employees have with customers is an opportunity to make the customer experience easy, helpful and friendly. The wrong words can cause dis-ease in customers, or leave customers thinking you don’t care. Customers, especially if they happen to be angry, need options. I’m fine.”.

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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 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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Connections Social Media Customer Experience Design Reference 85

Myra Golden

APRIL 3, 2020

Keep remote employees’ skills sharp with our customized, engaging, live virtual training. Book Your Virtual Customer Service Workshop Now! We start with a video conference to learn about your challenges and goals. Plus, we record the training and hand it over to you to use as you wish.

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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.

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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.

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Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

One organizing concept has proven to have a considerable amount of value when it comes to thinking about and constructing outstanding customer experiences. For our purposes, here’s how it relates to the relationships we have with our customers. Customer perceptions also regulate their actions toward a brand.

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Customer Experience Social Media Loyalty Customers 92

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

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

From my vantage point, Adolpho has a lot to teach us about the impact we can have on our team members and customers. Adolpho’s Lessons for Employee and Customer Engagement. Similarly, a few people can make a great difference when it comes to helping a workplace or customer experience become more engaging.

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Bold360

APRIL 25, 2018

Nearly every company has made enhancements to try to improve their customer experience at one time or another. In fact, 89% of projects are successfully completed at high performing organizations, yet only 20% of projects implemented are considered successful when it comes to customer experience.

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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. Customers are not always right and when they wrongly mistreat your staff they should become former 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

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

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

JANUARY 5, 2017

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Strativity

OCTOBER 23, 2017

As such, behavioral economics has implications for many different disciplines, including customer experience. Behavioral economists can provide insight into how customers interact, both rationally and irrationally, with a firm’s touchpoints across their customer journey, a key component of customer experience.

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SAP Customer Experience

JULY 21, 2023

For the purpose of this blog, I would like to provide you with User Experience insights into our recent customer engagement with Visa. However, please note that due to confidentiality agreements and the importance of protecting sensitive information, we will only be sharing partial details and examples of our User.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

JANUARY 14, 2025

Leading banks are leveraging mature and emerging technologies, customer insights, and data to enhance customer experience, increase customer engagement, and drive business growth.

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Banking 2025 Technology Customer Insights 26

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. The same goes for customer service representatives. Having a high EQ is vital to customer service. We let people choose where they went.

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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

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

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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Michelli Experience

APRIL 19, 2017

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Myra Golden

JULY 25, 2017

If your customer is raising his voice, cutting you off, or is clearly upset, he is stuck in the right side of the brain. To help this customer calm down, you’re going to have to move him to the left side of the brain. What you want is for your customer to operate in the left side of their brain, or their logical side.

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