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. EQ Realm #2: Managing Your Emotions.

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Michelli Experience

JUNE 28, 2016

As I help business leaders deliver branded customer experiences, I often start with the premise that brands are nothing more than what people say about us when we’re not around. From there, I work with leaders to determine what they want to be known for and what they want to hear their customers say about them.

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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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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Creating customer personas is an important part of any customer journey mapping exercise or really any customer experience management program. What is a Customer Persona? We develop personas for specific activities around customer experience management. Customer Service Blueprinting.

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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

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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Hero Digital

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Customer experience design is all about putting the customer first to build and deliver solutions that are both memorably helpful and enjoyable. But as products and services continue to emphasize customer satisfaction, the future of brand differentiation will be creating emotional brand experiences.

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Kustomer

APRIL 21, 2022

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: Have you ever considered the importance of turning customers into forever fans, a.k.a brand ambassadors? It’s widely known that some of the best growth comes from word of mouth marketing, which naturally occurs when customers suggest your products to others in their close circles.

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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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Lumoa

JUNE 9, 2020

In this article, we’ll talk about key strategies to improve your eCommerce customer experience, how to create a more memorable customer journey for your users, and the best ways to incite loyalty and excitement. Take, for example, functional kids’ wear brand Reima.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 25, 2019

B2B relationships with customers are often MORE personal than those in B2C. A potential customer becomes aware of a brand, but probably doesn’t understand the full potential of how the brand could help her business. This means the potential customer does some research, perhaps reaching out to their network.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Actionability is also, as we believe, one of the essential aspects of customer experience management. How do you take action on customer experience? Listen to your customers. According to Finance Digest , 95% of customer interactions will be managed with AI by 2025. So why should you care?

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 31, 2019

Therefore, it’s not necessarily the case that a good experience translates into an equally good memory or vice versa. If you don’t, you may be managing the wrong metrics in your Customer Experience. Also, you should ensure customers feel at these moments the emotion that delivers value for your organization.

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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

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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Michelli Experience

APRIL 14, 2017

Anjali Lai writes in her Forrester report that several high-intensity emotions are tightly linked to consumer spend, brand preference, and brand love. The analysts tell brands: These are the emotions that matter. These emotions lead to loyalty, advocacy, and love. How did they make the customers feel? _.

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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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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….

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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. Two: Mobile Loyalty Programs Work. Two: Mobile Loyalty Programs Work. An astounding 90 percent of smartphone users enrolled in mobile loyalty clubs have found them beneficial.

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 17, 2017

Clearly, game theory has its greatest application within the “gaming industry” According to an article by Mark de Bruijn titled Level-up your customer experience: Lessons from the gaming industry , gaming has become a 100 billion dollar industry serving 1.5 billion customers. Those 3 areas are: Promotion.

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 20, 2018

As such, seeing the store near my home emblazoned with “Store Closing” and “Everything Must Go” signage gave me pause to realize that the lifecycle of Toys “R” Us is a cautionary tale for the importance of customer experience relevance. Brand Growth Factors. The brand lost relevance, customers and ultimately sales.”.

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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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Wootric CX Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Her She is a customer journey expert whose analysis of customer feedback at key touchpoints has led to product and service enhancements that have delighted customers. Why we love Angus: He’s the Customer Experience Manager at Sendoso and prides himself in “helping people connect the old fashion way.”

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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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ReviewTrackers

MAY 8, 2017

CX is also a great competitive differentiator, helping companies respond to and exceed customer expectations, improve satisfaction, drive loyalty, reduce churn, and increase revenue. For more on CX: “ Customer Experience Definition — and How CX Differs from Customer Service”. 20:20 Customer Experience Summit.

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Michelli Experience

APRIL 14, 2017

Anjali Lai writes in her Forrester report that several high-intensity emotions are tightly linked to consumer spend, brand preference, and brand love. The analysts tell brands: These are the emotions that matter. These emotions lead to loyalty, advocacy, and love. How did they make the customers feel? _.

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Analysis Feedback Effort Score NPS 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

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. Select PEOPLE who can deliver the branded and emotional connection.

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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

BlueOcean

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

When your customer first interacts with our customer care team, we want them to fall in love with your brand or remember why they loved your brand in the first place. We want to deliver an experience that makes them feel heard, deliver the resolution they need, and inspire long-term brand loyalty. (If

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Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Clearly, a bevy of mounting research does indicate your company’s’ future is linked to the consistent delivery of a differentiated customer experience. According to Gartner, 85% of business to customer relationships will not involve human interaction by 2020.

Customer Experience 100

Customer Experience Social Media Mobile Customer Service Consulting 100

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

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.

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ERDM

JANUARY 22, 2019

THE FOUR UNIVERSAL TRUTHS OF CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE ERDM Corp conducted over 16,000 hours of in-depth, hour-long research interviews with the customers and prospects of clients such as IBM, Microsoft, QVC and 10X Genomics. In spite of privacy concerns, customers are willing to provide deep explicit data to get improved CX.

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Customer Experience Video Sales ROI 53

Michelli Experience

JULY 25, 2017

I depict this relationship in the formula: High TRUST = Happy Employees = Happy Customers =. In support of my formula, Neil Davey, the managing editor of mycustomer.com recently cited David Ulrich’s research on the value chain of trusting and engaging employees. Every touchpoint in the brand will be examined and refined.

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ERDM

JANUARY 22, 2019

THE FOUR UNIVERSAL TRUTHS OF CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE ERDM Corp conducted over 20,000 hours of in-depth, hour-long research interviews with the customers and prospects of clients such as IBM, Microsoft, QVC and 10X Genomics. In spite of privacy concerns, customers are willing to provide deep explicit data to get improved CX.

Customer Experience 49

Customer Experience Video Sales ROI 49

Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

While far less harsh, the world of customer experience performance management has certainly taken a turn in the direction of increased accountability! Ask your customers about their satisfaction with how your team served them at those important contact points.

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Net Promoter Score Healthcare Effort Score Feedback 100