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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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

I meet many organizations that say they want to exceed Customer expectations at every moment of contact. The first step in exceeding your customer’s expectations is to know those expectations.”. - For most organizations, just meeting their Customer’s expectations would provide a good experience. I tell them they are mad!

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Michelli Experience

JUNE 13, 2017

Customer Experience Speaker, Consultant, Author VS. CASHIERS. To mitigate against our replaceability, we have to constantly assess what produces value in an ever-changing marketplace of customer wants, needs, and desires. Together my clients and I look for what serves their customers best. Master the Machines.

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Michelli Experience

OCTOBER 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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Michelli Experience

MARCH 7, 2018

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. The post Strategic Positioning Infographic | Is Your Customer Experience Agile Enough?

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Michelli Experience

MAY 30, 2017

The progression of the Internet, mobile technology, social networking and social media is fundamentally reshaping the way we interact with our core customers and members. 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

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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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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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: pexels.com.

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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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Myra Golden

APRIL 29, 2022

How closely are the employee and customer experience related? Happy, engaged employees help create great customer experiences that lead to greater customer engagement, satisfaction, and ongoing loyalty. Today, it’s becoming clear that you can’t have one without another.

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Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 2, 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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Michelli Experience

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

In the days before and after Irma, I’ve been privileged to experience individuals, business leaders, and government employees who have demonstrated immense compassion and care for those they serve. The difference between “average” and “great” in customer experience delivery can be the difference between panic and calm for those you serve.

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 9, 2016

As for the innovative, vital, and soulful culture at Acuity, I will let you read Fortune magazine to learn more about that and how Acuity was chosen the 2nd best workplace in the nation. For our purposes, I will simply suggest leaders at Acuity are “big of heart.”

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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. The same goes for customer service representatives. Having a high EQ is vital to customer service. I didn’t think I was like that.

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Michelli Experience

JUNE 22, 2017

The post Infographic: Customer Experience Creation: Give ’em a Reason to Hire & Keep You appeared first on Joseph Michelli.

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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

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

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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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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Michelli Experience

MAY 2, 2017

Great customer experience brands are constantly tracking macro-changes in consumer behavior and trying to determine if an emerging trend is simply a fad (hot for the short run but soon to fizzle) or a meaningful pattern worthy of infrastructure investment. Are these customer experience fads? So what do you think?

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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? or “Sure.”

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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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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. In that article, Dorothy Leonard details many empathic design strategies including: User-designer. User-designer.

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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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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. In that article, Dorothy Leonard details many “empathetic design” strategies including: User-designer. Ethnographic research.

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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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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

MARCH 11, 2016

Two: Mobile Loyalty Programs Work. An astounding 90 percent of smartphone users enrolled in mobile loyalty clubs have found them beneficial. Modern consumers are actively agreeing upon loyalty program participation, and companies able to host such programs are experiencing immense growth. Image credit: mojonetworks.com.

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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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Michelli Experience

MARCH 1, 2016

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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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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

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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Michelli Experience

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

As a customer experience consultant, I find myself working with leaders across the globe and across business sectors on some very familiar themes; needs fulfillment, customer effort reduction, surprise and delight, etc. It is easy to utter a swift and accommodating response after a customer offers input. Responsiveness.

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 12, 2016

It’s an occupational hazard of keynoting, consulting, and writing about customer service that my friends and family feel compelled to share all of their customer service nightmare stories. This actually is a positive customer experience story AND it offers some important lessons for all of us seeking to drive customer loyalty.

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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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