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Beware of Assumptions About Your Customers

Wired and Dangerous

” Never assume you know what customers value. Customers changed its character completely. When the flying disk approached its intended target, the person throwing it shouted “Frisbie” as a warning, much like saying “fore” on a golf course. The fun-loving Frisbee wasn’t always a toy. The rest is history.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 3-14-2022

ShepHyken

And, of course, there is much more. These AI Mistakes Are Slowly Killing Your Customer Experience by Young Entrepreneur Council. It’s a long series, to be sure, and in theory it never ends because as soon as think we’ve landed on the optimal CX, customers change their expectations.

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How to Invest in Customer Experience in 2023

Blake Morgan

In challenging economic times, pinpointing customers’ exact needs and providing hyper-personalized experiences is critical—and that comes from having a robust data strategy. Upskilling Employees As technology and customers change, customer experience teams and contact center agents must also adapt with new skills and mindsets.

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Accelerating the Customer Experience post-COVID

Lumoa

Just like receiving a text message on your phone, tone allows for interpretation but being able to see facial expressions and read body language can relay a sense of competency and trust among customers. When the world is quickly changing, companies need to be able to respond to these changes in realtime, or get left behind.

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Portland’s Top-Rated Lyft Driver’s Best Pick-Up Line

AskNicely

So of course, I went for mid-70s proto-metal. Instantly, my mood changed. After he opened up his “brand” to real-time feedback, the way he engaged with his customers changed. He started to understand how customers felt about his “brand.”. He asked me if I wanted Black Sabbath or Run DMC on the stereo.

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Demand Shock

C Space

What’s causing the current shock is, of course, the COVID-19 crisis, which is having a huge impact on lives across the world, changing how people behave and consume, creating ‘shocks’ of increased or decreased demand. This is where closeness to core customer groups plays another critical role.

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Getting Company Culture and Operations Right, and Keeping Them Right: What It Really Means to Be Stakeholder-Centric This Labor Day

Beyond Philosophy

A recent article on corporate customer-centricity by a prominent market research firm made the case for this type of culture as “the most effective way to meet customerschanging needs.” We’re saying focus on your people because of your customers. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., That way, everybody wins.”

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