Beyond Philosophy

JULY 13, 2021

Sometimes your Customer Experience requires you to outsource a portion of it to a third party. This trampoline story is a classic example of what can go wrong when you outsource part of your Customer Experience. Unfortunately, customers do not differentiate between the two parts.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 28, 2020

It seems logical to do what everyone else is doing successfully when you get into business. It makes no sense at all to do it differently, does it? So why is it that doing something different does create such success for specific brands? An example from real life can be meeting customers’ needs. Apple’s was subjective.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 16, 2020

Today, we decided to address memory and how crucial it is to enhance your customers’ recollections of their experience with you. Chen and her colleagues decided to show this effect and determine what causes it. Another is the effect of anticipation, or what Chen calls the “Are we there yet?” ” effect.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 22, 2021

I have been engaging with Clubhouse, a social networking app where people can chat about shared interests. For example, one of the recent debates asked the question, is Customer Experience the new marketing? . Sherman is the Director of Customer Experience and employee engagement by day and the founder of DoingCXRight.com by night.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 9, 2020

However, these incentives could be doing a lot more than that, which can have beautiful or terrible effects on your customer-driven growth. Lieberman shared what she learned and how we can apply it to generate customer-driven growth. Therefore, customers didn’t object when the store started charging for bags.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 13, 2019

What we know from early research on employee engagement is that if you have happy employees, chances are you’re going to have satisfied customers. My new ebook, Happy Employees Make Happy Customers , explores this concept in great detail. Without commitment, it’s just words that don’t mean anything.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 9, 2018

Honest feedback from your customers is the best way to improve any hiccups in your Customer Experience. Overcoming the obstacle of social norms is a crucial activity for today’s Customer Experience professionals. We have X surefire ways to get your customers to talk. What is worse, we would never know why!

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Hyperbolic Discounting is what happens when we have the choice between a reward now and a reward later. See what I mean about the name? For what it’s worth, academics chose the word hyperbolic because it describes the shape of the discounting curve. So What Does This Mean to You? But, I digress.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Nonetheless, it does, and done right can yield positive customer-driven growth. These influences often have surprising effects on customer behavior, usually in ways you didn’t expect about things you didn’t think mattered. Framing Information Does That Too. . What Does This Mean to You?

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 25, 2020

Customer Memories are a fascinating subject. In many ways, they are what your Customer Experience is, at least from the customers’ perspective, which we also discussed on a recent podcast. They are certainly the most critical element of your customer loyalty. Map your customers’ “fishing nets.”

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Totango

AUGUST 14, 2020

In our latest installment in the CXO Series , we sat down with Stephanie Comardelle, Vice President of Customer Experience, Success, and Solutions at Lucid to discuss what it takes to implement a stakeholder engagement plan at a time when there is so much going on as well as how they are managing their new customer success program. .

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 7, 2020

Cable companies are an excellent example of what NOT to do with your experience to promote customer-driven growth. Cable companies are an excellent example of what NOT to do with your experience to promote customer-driven growth. They give things to new customers only. Here are a few we shared: 1.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 13, 2018

A lot of business professionals talk about customer loyalty. However, if I’m totally honest, they often don’t know what they are talking about. Or they do know what they are talking about, but what they are talking about is not customer loyalty! But buying everything from you does not make them loyal.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 1, 2018

Without it, however, you can still make a decision—and as customers we often do this—by simply substituting in another question and answering it. It’s called a substitution heuristic, and it is how customer make up their minds about you. How to Help Your Customer Guesstimate. So, how do you figure that out?

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 28, 2017

This is a critical issue for any company that is serious about improving its customer experience. Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him.”. What stands out in my mind, good or bad? What stands out in my mind, good or bad? How did I feel at the end?

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 30, 2020

These times are unprecedented, and no one is sure what to expect. We discussed how these times affect our behavior on a recent podcast , and not just as customers. However, I learned that the research psychology community does not regard Maslow’s theory highly. Bargaining: You struggle to find meaning in it happening.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 24, 2017

And thus began an excellent case study in how NOT to treat your customers. The manager (who supposedly approved the price in the first place) said it really shouldn’t have happened – the car costs the dealership more than that. These are NOT the emotions that should be evoked in a good Customer Experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 4, 2019

The latest developments in this field are changing the way we can measure authentic customer emotions in real time. We discussed how technology and facial recognition are changing how to measure authentic customer emotions in real time on our latest podcast. So, What Do We Mean by Authentic Emotion Measurement?

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 19, 2020

We do research called an Emotional Signature ® that examines the Customer Experience from a subconscious psychological perspective. However, in our global Customer Experience consultancy, whenever we present our findings to an organization, you usually get at least one person that tries to bend the results to meet their agenda.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

A Customer Experience focus is a necessity of survival in today’s hyper-competitive and disrupted retail market. I was talking to the C-Suite of a retailer (who shall remain nameless) about Customer Experience. Also, they focus on operations, meaning they know how to get it to the store and manage inventory and supply chain.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

So, what is Customer Science? Like any embryonic change, Customer Science is evolving and emerging, like Customer Experience did over the years. In my view, Customer Science is the fusion between technology (mainly AI), behavioral science, and data. Professor Ryan Hamilton is the only scientist I know.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 23, 2020

The Endowment Effect can significantly affect your customer-driven growth on both sides of the customer and brand equation. The Endowment Effect can significantly affect your customer-driven growth on both sides of the customer and brand equation. These emotions are valuable resources for explaining customer behavior.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In January, I was surprised and disappointed that research from Nunwood and Forrester, two significant firms in the Customer Experience movement, showed that Customer Experience was flatlining. Joanne Causon, CEO of the Institute of Customer Service , joined me on our podcast about this downward trend in Customer Satisfaction.

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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This year, one of the customer experience (CX) predictions for 2023 falling into that category is that ‘Personalization will get More Personal’. But what does it mean to make personalization more personal? engagement with the customer. This can be applied to marketing, sales, and customer support.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

RyanAir, Europe’s largest airline, in my view are the epitome of a poor Customer Experience. Many customers received notice, by text message, of their flight cancellations only hours before they were due to depart. Customers found they will graciously forgo the administration charge but will still charge a change fee!

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Nicereply

APRIL 12, 2023

A strong customer service team culture is the direct result of trusting, engaged employees. People spend a lot of time at work and walking into a nightmare environment with a team you don’t really jive with can take its toll. Table of Contents Gratitude And Attitude Keep People Engaged Does Your Team See The Vision?

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 11, 2020

Your customers likely wait in your experience, too, and that may or may not be creating negative feelings about your experience. Therefore, managing customers’ perceptions about wait times in your Customer Experience is essential—and a practical way to foster customer-driven growth. I was in a Starbucks recently.

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customer sure

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

In the last few weeks you might have noticed that we’ve changed course on our blog strategy. People whose businesses are thriving on great customer service. So far we’ve uncovered fantastic advice from two companies dedicated to delivering outstanding customer service. Our initial blogging strategy.

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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.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 17, 2020

However, in our global Customer Experience consultancy, whenever we present our findings to an organization, you usually get at least one person that tries to bend the results to meet their agenda. If the results are opposite to what they believe, then these individuals attack the methodology. So, can we find some silver lining in it?

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Nicereply

JUNE 20, 2023

Recruiting a customer experience talent is always a challenge. If a hiring mistake is made, the impact on the team, and company, can mean delays in projects, reduced morale, or at worst a disruptive pivot of a team. Recruiting top Customer Experience talent has added complexities because these hires likely impact customers directly.

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Nicereply

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

What does being customer-centric really mean today? Find out here and learn what are the essentials of a healthy customer-centric culture. The concept of customer-centricity and customer-centric culture has been around for nearly 20 years now. times better customer retention.

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Nicereply

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Customer service trends of 2023! Learn from the best ones and find out what support leaders see as the biggest challenge of the upcoming year. We reached out to seven customer service experts to understand what’s just over the horizon in the customer experience world. Top customer service trends of 2023.

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ProProfs Blog

JANUARY 30, 2020

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” — Bill Gates. Elaborating on this maxim, I would also like to add that unhappy customers can ruin the brand value in minutes. It takes less than a minute for an angry customer to post their bitter experiences online. Customer expectations.

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Lumoa

APRIL 21, 2022

Wayne Dyer Act 1 The Customer Support Blues “Does Customer Support have enough of a mandate to drive improvements in customer satisfaction?” When I started thinking about writing a piece on transforming customer support, this question immediately came to mind. What will your answer be?

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Nicereply

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Intelligent support operations really benefit the entire organization with support being at the center of the data collection. Support Operations has become more popular because of the advancement of the tools in the market and an increased focus on customer-centricity. What is Intelligent Support Operations?

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

In his final blog in the Connected Enterprise series Ross Daniels at Calabrio discusses the role of the contact centre. . In the first two blogs in this series, we set out to define what it really means to be a Connected Enterprise, identifying the top three characteristics that all connected organisations share.

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