Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 28, 2014

All the little parts along the way in your experience are what make a Customer experience Customer-Centric. Putting the Customer first in everything you do applies to every part of your organization, from the way you greet them to the way you bill them. Why Systems Matter to Your Customers. Well, so do your Customers!

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2014

How can marketers avoid creating a disappointed Customer? Reading these comments, I thought, “The Customers are feeling disappointed due to the way that their expectations have been set.”. Clearly avoiding disappointment means meeting the expectations of your Customers. Let go of your perceptions about what the Customer wants.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 14, 2014

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. Netflix and Amazon continue to perfect their suggestions to suit the interests and previous selections by their customer, creating value to their loyal customers.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Watch out this space as in a subsequent blog we’ll give advice on the different ways to change a habit… Blogs CEM CEO Conferences consultants consumer behaviour customer Customer Analysis customer behavior Customer Behaviour customer centricity customer emotions customer engagement Customer experience customer experience books customer experience (..)

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 26, 2015

One interesting bit of his speech touched on an important issue for Customer Centricity: data breaches. He said the federal standard he would impose to notify Customers their information had been compromised should be 30 days. I am surprised that it would take as long as 30 days to tell a Customer of a data breach!

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Before I explain what I mean by that and how it has to do with Customer Experience, however, let me first tell you where I was born. 2] The study found price increases had twice the effect on customer switching, compared to price decreases.”. How is this applicable to Customer Experience? We see it all the time.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 16, 2015

Customer Experience continued to be a dominant business issue throughout the world in 2014. They are all working to improve their Customer Experience. I can say with confidence the Customer Experience concept is now a worldwide phenomenon. Of course I know what the Customer Experience is about!”. Are you sure?

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Coming out from under eBay’s shadow will let them blossom, into what I hope will become a Customer-centric organization. They have Customer-centric leadership. It’s great that their new CEO, Dan Shulman is coming from American Express, a highly Customer-centric company. Competition is great for Customer Experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 23, 2015

As a leader or a marketer if you want an employee or a customer to change behavior, research says the best thing to do is give them positive reinforcement when they do what you want. If you threaten your employees or Customers with punitive action when they do something you don’t want, you are potentially encouraging them to lie to you.

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CloudCherry

AUGUST 9, 2018

Customer expectations are higher than ever. In a world where convenience is everything, companies need to work harder than ever to meet and exceed their customer’s expectations. But the methods we’re using to manage the customer experience are stuck in the past. Pillar #2: Companies must gain a 360 degree view of the customer.

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InMoment XI

JANUARY 17, 2024

With today’s travelers raising their expectations while being exposed to a seemingly unlimited number of hospitality solutions, it is critical that operators deliver experiences that reflect the lives of their customers. A positive guest experience involves going beyond basic customer service. What is Guest Experience?

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Downie would tell you that it wasn’t his goal to be #1 on Trip Advisor, but instead to be the best experience for their Customers that they could. At the time they began their Customer Experience improvement process, the concept was relatively new and largely untested. So what are these? Ensuring the management doesn’t get in the way.

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Middlesex Consulting

MARCH 5, 2018

This article describes why and how to implement the peak-end rule to improve the ROI of your customer experience (CX) efforts. This is the book that introduced the Customer Effort Score and proposed it as more useful than NPS©). Mr. Lee lives in Hong Kong and has been President of Global CEM for almost 17 years.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Helping your Customers make a decision is an important element in your Customer Experience design. This delay is a consequence caused by the Paradox of Choice , first introduced to us by Barry Schwartz in his book of the same name in 2004, and then later in his TED talk. The Consequence of Choice.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 12, 2015

I love watching what people, and Customers do. Your Customers would raise their hands during this TED talk also. What baffles me, then is why some organizations choose to ignore feelings and how they affect the behavior of their Customers. What do I mean by irrational behavior? Ze Frank has this to say about being human.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 5, 2015

There have been many great stories in the past couple of months about airlines doing what was right by their Customers. We can all learn a little about Customer centricity when we look at these examples from three major carriers in the US. Southwest Attacks Its Late Problem Head-on with Its Customers.

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Middlesex Consulting

MARCH 5, 2018

This article describes why and how to implement the peak-end rule to improve the ROI of your customer experience (CX) efforts. This is the book that introduced the Customer Effort Score and proposed it as more useful than NPS©). Mr. Lee lives in Hong Kong and has been President of Global CEM for almost 17 years.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 7, 2016

Last year, I questioned whether Customer Experience had delivered the goods. This year, I question whether Customer Experience is the problem. This year, I think Customer Experience isn’t failing us; we are failing Customer Experience. Customer Satisfaction score to denote the health of the economy.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 7, 2016

Last year, I questioned whether Customer Experience had delivered the goods. This year, I question whether Customer Experience is the problem. This year, I think Customer Experience isn’t failing us; we are failing Customer Experience. Customer Satisfaction score to denote the health of the economy.

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Wootric CX Blog

JUNE 13, 2019

Since you’re here on the Wootric blog, you probably already know that providing a high-quality experience to your customers is vital to your business. You’ve watched brands in a variety of industries revamp their customer-facing operations to improve the consumer’s experience. This is where customer experience enablement comes in.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 30, 2015

Most Customer Experiences are accidents—and unfortunately, they are not always happy ones. Unless a company designs a deliberate experience that puts the Customer first and considers the Customer’s perspective, the message you send to the subconscious is rarely what you intend. Is your Customer Experience an accident?

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 4, 2015

Quality sales cultures are the ones where the Customer comes before the close, like Mackay’s quote indicates here. I wrote about Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and their role in the Customer Experience. A Customer Experience, however, is about how they feel about the transaction, not the transaction itself.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 14, 2015

There are some signs that your Customer relationship is all about you, or one-sided, and they are easier to spot than you think. Many of the things that make personal relationships fail make your relationship with Customers one-sided. 2: Your Customer retention plan includes penalties or fines if they want to end the relationship.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 5, 2015

In building relationships with customers, and value for them, my long-time observation is that most organizations tend to progress through several stages of performance as they are becoming truly customer-centric: a) customer awareness, b) customer sensitivity, c) customer focus, and d) customer obsession.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 14, 2015

More and more of your Customers believe access to self-service options is essential to their relationship with your business. Their Customer Service Success Blog reported some interesting stats to consider about Customer’s self-service options, including: By 2017, Only 1/3 of Customer service interactions will require human assistance.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 20, 2015

Sometimes it is differentiating, and offers consumers definite benefits – such as practiced by companies like Zappos, Wegmans, Ritz Carlton, Rackspace, Southwest Airlines, Trader Joe’s, Amazon, Baptist Health Care, and Zane’s Cycles – and sometimes it is just one of multiple factors which contribute to customer loyalty or disloyalty behavior.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 11, 2015

Without fear of (much) argument, it’s a fair statement that all companies want, and try to generate and achieve, optimum loyalty from their customer base. They should want this because study after study shows the financial rewards of having loyal customers. Customer loyalty programs are especially popular among retailers.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 30, 2015

Keeping Customers is cheaper than getting new ones. Customer loyalty and retention are goals for most organizations as a result. So now what do we do to build Customer Loyalty? So now what do we do to build Customer Loyalty? Loyalty Programs Disappoint Customers. What makes your target Customer feel elite?

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 16, 2015

When you hear a person (read Customer) sigh, what do you think they are communicating? When training front-line teams, it is critical they can interpret not only what Customers nonverbal clues communicate but also what they communicate with their own. Is it sadness? Frustration? Exhaustion? It’s how you said it!”? Why Do You Sigh?

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 14, 2015

During a recent series of stakeholder behavior instructional workshops conducted for our clients, one of the strongest areas of interest among workshop participants was how to gain senior management support and sponsorship for various customer-related and employee-related initiatives. He established the De Pree Center for Leadership in 1996.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 13, 2015

During a recent series of stakeholder behavior instructional workshops conducted for our clients, one of the strongest areas of interest among workshop participants was how to gain senior management support and sponsorship for various customer-related and employee-related initiatives. He established the De Pree Center for Leadership in 1996.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 23, 2015

A couple of years ago, our local newspaper, The Philadelphia Inquirer, ran a disturbing story about how a mortgage loan company in Phoenix had sent spam advertising messages which appeared on the screens of thousands of wireless phone customers. Not only were the messages not requested, but these customers had to pay to retrieve them.

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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? And what about all these other acronyms customer experience experts toss around?

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 4, 2015

More than just a buzzword, ‘being human’, especially in brand-building and leveraging customer relationships, has become a buzz-phrase or buzz-concept. To understand customers, the effective enterprise needs to think in human, emotional terms. But, there is little that is really new or trailblazing in this idea.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2015

In the past decade, we’ve seen the number of companies with an individual in the role of Chief Customer Officer (CCO) – nicely defined by Wikipedia as “the executive responsible for the total relationship with an organization’s customers” – grow from under 100 to thousands today. They are; Customer Experience and Value Optimization.

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Chattermill

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Customer Experience. The post aims to give the reader a gentle overview of NLP, ML and Deep Learning and make the connection of how it can be applied in the context of customer experience and support. How NLP, ML and Deep Learning Can Transform Your CX Strategy. by Sam Frampton. on 5 Nov 2018. Deep Learning. Machine Learning.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 12, 2015

Psychologist and Professor Daniel Kahneman , winner of the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, explains why this is in his book, “ Thinking Fast and Slow ”. This fact is why dealing with Customers is so difficult. Most organizations make the mistake thinking Customers are rational beings and only make decisions logically.

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