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). Remind them you operate from referrals.

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Customer Care Brands Net Promoter Score Social Media 133

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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B2C Customer Retention Strategy Brands 124

Michelli Experience

MARCH 9, 2016

You might even name some of the other “typical suspects” on the list of legendary employee-obsessed brands like….Wegmans, That brand would be the name of my client (one who moved up from the #3 position on Fortune ’s list last year in it’s first year of eligibility) to the place right behind #1 Google.

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Engagement Insurance Loyalty Employee Engagement 100

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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Brands Travel Customer Experience Consumers 100

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.

Net Promoter Score 100

Net Promoter Score Effort Score NPS Financial 100

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 Video Customer Experience Design 100

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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Resources Customer Journeys Customer Experience Net Promoter Score 56

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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Customer Experience Design Policies Brands Tips 100

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.

Customer Experience 113

Customer Experience Loyalty Programs Loyalty Consulting 113

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. Two: Mobile Loyalty Programs Work. Two: Mobile Loyalty Programs Work. Check out Cafe Rouge Express running a mobile loyalty campaign: Image credit: rippll.co.

Technology 100

Technology Company Marketing Loyalty Programs 100

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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Management Leadership Conference Examples 78

Michelli Experience

JUNE 29, 2016

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Infographics Brands Customer Experience Customers 113

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. How a customer feels about the company is an integral part of their loyalty to it.

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Net Promoter Score Data CEM Customer Retention 102

Michelli Experience

MARCH 1, 2016

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty How To Customers 100

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. However, the dealership experience in the United States (how do I put this delicately) ….was Here are some highlights….

Customer Experience 100

Customer Experience Customer Satisfaction Consulting Loyalty 100

Michelli Experience

JULY 13, 2016

Striving to deliver great customer experiences intuitively seems like smart business, doesn’t it? So should you invest money in programs designed to improve the engagement and loyalty of your customers? That line differentiates between sub-par performance and excellent customer experiences.

Customer Experience 100

Customer Experience Effort Score Wireless Infographics 100

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.

Airlines 100

Airlines Travel How To Customer Experience Design 100

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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Customer Experience Consulting Multi-Channel Leadership 132

Michelli Experience

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

This keeps customers happy and keeps them evangelizing the brand, resulting in high customer satisfaction numbers. Tesla not only holds strong satisfaction numbers, as referenced by Jameson but more importantly it drives enviable loyalty among its existing customers. The Payoff. Would Buy Again. What About You?

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Consulting Automotive Retail Software 113

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.

Employee Engagement 100

Employee Engagement Engagement Culture Connections 100

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.

Leadership 100

Leadership Course Engagement Employee Experience 100

Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Brand advertising, marketing, and sales efforts are all “promises”. 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.

Advertising 214

Advertising Brands Examples Meeting 214

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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Conference Omni-Channel Customer Journeys Customer Experience 50

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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Customer Centricity Customer Experience Advertising Touchpoint 133

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.

Competitive Advantage 214

Competitive Advantage Ecommerce Retail Leadership 214

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. Our job as customer experience providers is to listen for the perceptions of our customers and understand the control systems that prompt them to action (e.g.

Customer Experience 100

Customer Experience Exercises Social Media System 100

Michelli Experience

AUGUST 15, 2017

Today, however, I understand the power of associations – not only in the context of one’s personal brand but for corporate brand health as well. Your Customer Experience Defined. TIKI® brand. Take TIKI® brand torches for example. All of which brings together positive lifestyle brand synergy.

Social Media 113

Social Media Consulting Brands Customers 113

Storyminers

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

According to the RIS 13th Annual Store Systems Study [2016], the top two store systems that can achieve these gains in customer experience and bottom-line gains are CRM/Loyalty and Mobile for Associates. Retailers must adapt how they work and think to accommodate new customer needs and the new capabilities technology brings.

Retail 124

Retail Omni-Channel Software Video 124

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.

Customer Experience 100

Customer Experience Employee Engagement Competitive Advantage Customers 100

Michelli Experience

JULY 25, 2017

Then CEO, Steve Cannon, promised the following through a video known as The Standard : “<This year> will see the introduction of the most comprehensive pledge to an extraordinary customer experience in the history of Mercedes-Benz. Every touchpoint in the brand will be examined and refined. What do you think?

Consulting 113

Consulting Touchpoint Leadership Employee Engagement 113

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!

Connections 100

Connections Brands Sales Customer Journeys 100

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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Omni-Channel Self Service Retail Analytics 53

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.

Advertising 100

Advertising Brands Training Management 100

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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CEM Retail Consulting Conference 60

Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

While it’s hard to imagine a single tweet by a massive brand influencer could signal traders to sell shares in a stock, Megan makes a compelling case that Snapchat’s market tumble is in fact, a sign of the times. A professional that would inspire me to attempt to inspire you to enhance service talent on behalf of your brand.

Training 133

Training Social Media Consulting Customer Experience 133

Michelli Experience

AUGUST 3, 2016

However, there is a community of very successful artisan donut shops thriving and skyrocketing in the shadow of the omnipresent Dunkin Donuts brand. In the United States the GIANT in the world of DONUTS is…drum roll,please…. You guessed it Dunkin Donuts. For the sake of brevity, I will feature just one of those shops: The Salty Donut.

Trends 100

Trends Brands Customer Experience Consumers 100

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 Innovation Study 189