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Talking Trash: How Damaged Goods Kill Sales

Beyond Philosophy

I was thinking about this research in the context of our behavioral journey mapping , where we identify customer touchpoints and assess customersemotional reactions at each one. In our work with clients, we have found that customers make value judgments similar to those identified by the recycling researchers.

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Be warned: Is your data failing you?

Beyond Philosophy

These platforms can provide data management intended to optimize the Customer Experience, not only at a general level but also at a personalized level. For those unfamiliar with CX Data Management, the term applies to how businesses track customer information and obtain feedback from them. What is a CX Data Platform?

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For Employees and Customers, Should the Goal Be Higher Engagement or Higher Experience Value?

Beyond Philosophy

There are lots of articles and studies around stating things like “Highly engaged customers are loyal customers”. There’s little doubt that engaged customers can, and do, help shape the brand. To build on this statement, let’s begin by looking at the results of satisfaction on downstream customer action.

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5 Facts to End the ROI Debate on Customer Experience

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So instead of writing philosophically about the importance of optimizing your Customer Experience to creating an emotional engagement that creates loyalty between your Customers and your organization like I usually do, I will limit this post to facts and figures. Your existing customers are far easier to upsell.

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How is Your Business Dealing with the Paradox of Choice?

Beyond Philosophy

This concept was well illustrated by Columbia University’s Professor Sheena Iyengar’s famous jam study. The jam study took place in a gourmet market in California. Wine stores play music to put their customers in a happy and relaxed mood. The researchers had set up in the store a free sample table of Wilkin & Sons jams.

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The Meteoric Rise Of Content As A Driver of Buyer Behavior, Especially Rich Video: What Does It Mean For Marketers?

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As they are gathering information to help in day-to-day brand decision-making, consumers want, crave, desire, seek, and value content from marketers – as long as it is reasonably altruistic, informative and objective, and minimizes the ‘look of sponsorship’ and the three most readily identifiable sales ‘P’s’: push, pitch, and puff.

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Changing Customer Behavior with a Little Nudge

Beyond Philosophy

Have you ever left a retail store after a sales associate approached you for the third time to tell you about a special offer? Getting Customers to Respond. How does this help you nudge customers toward the behavior you want? Let’s look at customer interactions. Halpern cited a study of applicants at a job center.