Storyminers

JANUARY 21, 2015

With the launch of Private Vegas, Patterson isn’t just creating a reading experience for consumers, he’s creating real-world, … Continue reading → Blog Customer Engagement Strategy Experience Design analysis Customer Experience Design james patterson mike wittenstein opinion reader experience social media strategy thrill'

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Storyminers

JANUARY 22, 2015

I’m thrilled to announce the publication of a FREE eBook: The 2015 Customer Experience Outlook. This eBook is a collection of ideas from customer experience authors, designers, and industry leaders.

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Michelli Experience

MAY 9, 2018

As a customer experience designer, the end goal of all process improvement is to do more that will increase customer value and effectiveness. Every process improvement effort should seek to effectively add value to customers. __. is a professional speaker and chief experience officer at The Michelli Experience.

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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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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The focus on enhancing customer experience has gained traction in recent years. As businesses recognize its value, the shift from a product-centered approach to a customer-centric one continues. Actionability is also, as we believe, one of the essential aspects of customer experience management.

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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: kantar.turtl.co.

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SAP Customer Experience

JULY 21, 2023

For the purpose of this blog, I would like to provide you with User Experience insights into our recent customer engagement with Visa. However, please note that due to confidentiality agreements and the importance of protecting sensitive information, we will only be sharing partial details and examples of our User.

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Michelli Experience

MAY 8, 2018

Redesigning Process Improvement in the Age of AI & the Customer. But What About the Customer? For me (as a customer experience designer) the end goal of all process improvement (whether that improvement is driven by standardization, automation, or adaptivity) is to do more that will increase efficiency.

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Myra Golden

APRIL 3, 2020

Keep remote employees’ skills sharp with our customized, engaging, live virtual training. Book Your Virtual Customer Service Workshop Now! We start with a video conference to learn about your challenges and goals. Plus, we record the training and hand it over to you to use as you wish.

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 6, 2016

I’ve been critical of leaders who make declarations like “ THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE CUSTOMER.” My problem with those types of statements is that I believe every year should be the year of the customer. In support of my position, I offer the following: If you want to keep customers in 2016 …. Why else are we in business?

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Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 27, 2016

One day, I was asking Horst about a client of mine that was struggling to engage customers. As I presented the challenge to Horst, I explained the efforts the company’s leaders had exerted to, “improve the quality of their customer experience so that most customers had less pain during interactions”.

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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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Storyminers

MAY 21, 2020

Too many organisations are “doing” before “designing” when it comes to digital transformation and customer experience. That’s the view of managing principal of Storyminers and experience design expert, Mike Wittenstein. The bottom line is they’re doing before design.”. Change by design.

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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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Storyminers

JULY 29, 2018

Too many organisations are “doing” before “designing” when it comes to digital and customer transformation, and not going deep enough into insights analysis and cultural change. Wittenstein agreed that with the arrival of more technology at the front end of engagement, marketing and customer experience are aggressively coming together.

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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. We let people choose where they went.

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 4, 2017

Every time I develop a customized customer service training tool for a client of mine, I caution that the tool is a “guidebook” for customer service behavior and that no tool can fit every application. As such, a customer service toolkit is only as good as the judgment and skill of the person using it.

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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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Bold360

APRIL 25, 2018

Nearly every company has made enhancements to try to improve their customer experience at one time or another. In fact, 89% of projects are successfully completed at high performing organizations, yet only 20% of projects implemented are considered successful when it comes to customer experience.

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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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Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Branded Customer Experience. That’s the power of customer experience design resulting in a “signature moment” that enhanced the Dairy Queen Fan Experience. Normally customers expect to step in line at a quick service restaurant (QSR) like Garbanzo and begin looking up at the menu board. or “Sure.”

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Michelli Experience

MARCH 27, 2018

I lay no claim to my prognostic ability, but when it comes to the future of customer experience delivery, I’m willing to venture an educated guess. Currently, companies like Amazon win customers through the selection, price, and ease involved in the shopping process. They lose them when customers want items now.

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Strativity

OCTOBER 23, 2017

As such, behavioral economics has implications for many different disciplines, including customer experience. Behavioral economists can provide insight into how customers interact, both rationally and irrationally, with a firm’s touchpoints across their customer journey, a key component of customer experience.

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Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

For example, when a customer enters a retail store and a clerk asks, “How are you today?” Most customers know the question is little more than a universal greeting. Most clerks don’t really want a customer to honestly answer the question. Fortunately, most customers will deflect with a response of, “I’m fine.”

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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. Ethnographic research.

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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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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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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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Myra Golden

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This is the 7-point call strategy I use when my work is to improve the telephone customer experience in a call center. Customer Care. Short video on how to acknowledge a customer’s emotion: 3. Yield to Callers (Don’t interrupt or over talk customers). Open with a lead-in. Good morning. This is Penny.

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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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Storyminers

JULY 29, 2018

Too many organisations are “doing” before “designing” when it comes to digital transformation and customer experience. That’s the view of managing principal of Storyminers and experience design expert, Mike Wittenstein. The bottom line is they’re doing before design.”. Change by design.

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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

AUGUST 15, 2017

Your Customer Experience Defined. From my perspective, your customer experience is the sum of perceptions consumers have about your brand based on their interactions with you. As a customer experience consultant, I disagree. Associations that Affect Customer Perception appeared first on Joseph Michelli.

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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

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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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

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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