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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Conference Omni-Channel Customer Journeys Customer Experience 50

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

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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Customer Experience Customer Satisfaction Consulting Loyalty 100

Michelli Experience

MARCH 25, 2016

If a video can’t entertain, then why can’t it inform simultaneously—specifically in the realm of customer service? Videos are very efficient in dispensing valuable information that would help the customer base enjoy and possibly encourage more transactions. It helps potential customers warm up to a product.

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Video Entertainment Customer Service Social Media 100

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.

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Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

I have been slow to accept that, from a service perspective, humans will ever be replaced by computers. I’ve suggested that customers will resist “robots” and I’ve based my thinking in part on the “uncanny valley” hypothesis which postulates that the more robots look like humans the less humans will feel comfortable with them.

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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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Airlines Travel How To Customer Experience Design 100

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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Customer Experience Consulting Multi-Channel Leadership 132

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.

Customer Experience Design 100

Customer Experience Design Policies Brands Tips 100

Michelli Experience

MARCH 9, 2016

For our purposes, I will simply suggest leaders at Acuity are “big of heart.”

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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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Connections Social Media Video Customer Experience Design 100

Michelli Experience

APRIL 18, 2017

I was going to write a blog about all the missteps involved in the United Airlines customer experience disaster. Then I started seeing an “abundance of critics” rushing out of the woodworks – some of whom clearly have never tried to help a company strike a balance between customer needs and profitability. Such things as….

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Airlines Travel Transportation Customer Centricity 230

Michelli Experience

AUGUST 22, 2017

It’s hard to believe it has been seven months since United Airlines faced the first of three monumental customer experience debacles. United, however, has become emblematic of an industry viewed as operationally challenged, uncaring, and not customer-centric. Overbooking and United’s Technology Initiatives. Data Plus People.

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Airlines Data Travel Consulting 113

Michelli Experience

JUNE 1, 2016

According to a recent comprehensive international study conducted by Accenture , 52% of customers reported that poor customer service caused them to switch from one brand to another in the past year. alone that “switching” behavior means poor service costs brands over 1.6 In the U.S. trillion dollars.

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Advertising Poor Customer Service Culture Study 100

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. Great service is about empathy – It involves putting yourself in the position of your customers. Back to the story….

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Think Customers

MAY 10, 2016

These days, it seems as if all customers have heightened expectations for receiving consistent customer experiences. I recently had a chance to discuss some of the components of delivering a luxury customer experience with Ana M.

Customer Experience 40

Customer Experience Hotels Guest Experience Conference 40

Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Would you be willing to be held to a standard (which I refer to as the “tremble effect”) when it comes to the quality and consistency of experiences you and your team provide to your customers? So let’s assume you want to drive increased customer accountability in your business. Try this one on for size…. Where do you start?

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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

JANUARY 5, 2016

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Customer Experience Customers Consulting Employee Engagement 100

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.

Brands 185

Brands Social Media Financial Analysis 185

Michelli Experience

AUGUST 31, 2016

All of this disruption is designed to create an enriched customer experience! How are you disrupting your service platform to create an expedited customer experience? For the purpose of this blog let’s just focus on two elements of the Domino’s pizza delivery innovation. Oh, it’s DRU.

Technology 189

Technology Travel Innovation Study 189

Wootric CX Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

These authors, speakers, thought-leaders and dedicated customer experience professionals have all helped contribute to the widespread adoption of CX, not just as a strategy, but as a higher goal. Why we love Amy: She’s head of Customer Advocacy at MindTouch. Angus Yang. Why we love Augie: He’s the Sr. Blake Morgan.

Customer Journeys 67

Customer Journeys Consulting Customer Experience Professionals Chief Customer Officer 67

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). Recently, for example, Starbucks has loosened up the employee (referred to as partner) dress code – expanding the acceptable clothing color pallet beyond black, khaki, and white.

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Michelli Experience

JULY 4, 2017

Great leaders often ask me to help them create “customer value”, while others ask me to help them create “profit.” For me, the only way to generate sustainable profit is by developing a core competency for customer value creation. You have a customer solution, now what? You have a customer solution, now what?

Insurance 113

Insurance Consulting Customers Resources 113

Michelli Experience

APRIL 18, 2017

I was going to write a blog about all the missteps involved in the United Airlines customer experience disaster. Then I started seeing an “abundance of critics” rushing out of the woodworks – some of whom clearly have never tried to help a company strike a balance between customer needs and profitability. Such things as….

Airlines 100

Airlines Travel Transportation Customer Centricity 100

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.

Net Promoter Score 100

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Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

My job was to “improve customer service by deploying employee scripts.”. Given my naivete, I took to my task by researching the best available customer service programs. Generally speaking customer service scripts are less effective than desired. Customers don’t care about policies!

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Policies Customer Service Engagement Training 100

Michelli Experience

MARCH 23, 2016

So think about the world today and the chaos which envelops you and your customers. 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, the great graphic artist M.

Brands 100

Brands Travel Customer Experience Consumers 100

Michelli Experience

MARCH 30, 2016

Recently innovators in the mattress sales world looked at the industry’s overall sales process from the “right mirror” – the one reflecting the customer’s experience. Based on these observations Krim, and leaders at other companies like Casper, sought to remove customer experience pain points and eliminate “bad profit.”

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Ecommerce Advertising Sales Innovation 100

Michelli Experience

APRIL 27, 2016

About 20 years ago I had a rather transformative experience while pursuing a hobby. So in the hope that principles of improv might help you lead positive customer-focused changes, I thought I would outline a few improv tools over a series of blog posts. As such, those leaders strive to say YES to team members and customers.

Hotels 100

Hotels Consulting Employee Experience Innovation 100

Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

As someone who consults with companies on how to effectively listen and act on the feedback provided by customers, I thought it might be helpful to share a few best practices (which clearly many brands who attempt to engage me simply don’t utilize): Customer listening should be in the best interest of the customer, not the brand.

Feedback 100

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 24, 2017

Often entrepreneurs reach out to me to discuss “customer-centricity” and the likely viability of their innovative products or services. According to their mission, GAC is designed to “cater to our #1 customer: women.” Her category creation is reflected in marketing imagery and the design of the female-centric experience.

Customer Centricity 100

Customer Centricity Automotive How To Social Media 100

Michelli Experience

AUGUST 3, 2016

The entire country is experiencing a blossoming of craft donut shops and amazing coffee shops that offer unique coffee experiences, and South Florida is EONS behind in both of those categories.”. And what might you experience at The Salty Donut that they likely aren’t serving at Dunkin Donuts? People want to matter.

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Trends Brands Customer Experience Consumers 100

Michelli Experience

MARCH 2, 2016

Having worked with Starbucks since 2004, as I began my journey to my first of two books about them ( The Starbucks Experience and later Leading the Starbucks Way ), friends and colleagues are quick to contact me whenever Starbucks makes the news. 2) Drive Profitability – Every customer should be treated caringly and with respect.

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty Rewards Programs How To 100

Michelli Experience

JANUARY 10, 2017

As customers, we’ve encountered a service provider who unfortunately chose to attend to something of interest to them instead of attending to our needs. Similarly, employees are asked to agree to pay $1.00 each time they don’t say hello or goodbye to a customer. We’ve all had it happen.

Culture 100

Culture Study Examples Training 100

Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 15, 2016

No sooner had I begun to celebrate the Sam’s Club Scan & Go app, when I read an article about, “Amazon’s real world shopping experiment”, authored by David Katzmaier for CNET. When finished shopping, customers leave the store and their Amazon account is charged. ‘No No lines, no checkout,’….”.

Technology 100

Technology Customer Experience Consulting Employee Engagement 100

Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

I’ve taken the liberty of extending Melody’s quote by suggesting in the context of business, “Gratitude turns shoppers into future buyers, and first-time buyers into repeat customers.”. In my company, The Michelli Experience “gratitude” has been a core value since our inception. I am grateful to be hanging out with a grateful team.

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