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The Secret of Measuring Customer Emotions

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Therefore, you must design a Customer Experience that makes your customers feel a way that drives value for your organization. In our global Customer Experience consultancy, we have said for nearly 20 years that customer’s emotions account for over half of the outcome in any Customer Experience.

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5 Rules for Managing Your Customer Experience in Business-to-Business

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Recognize that customer emotions apply. Manage different customers differently. We were doing some work with a client who had their extensive global customers divided by revenue. The senior account manager handled the most critical accounts. Rule #2: Recognize that customer emotions apply. .

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Guest Post: The Biggest Value Driver That is Not on Your Journey Map

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This week, we feature an article by Zhecho Dobrev, leading principal consultant at Beyond Philosophy and author of The Big Miss: How Organizations Overlook the Value of Emotions. He shares the value that customer emotions bring to a company. Where do customer relationships feature on those journey maps?

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The 3 Trends Customer Experience Professionals Can’t Afford to Ignore

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When you accept this idea, you can design your experience to evoke customer emotions that drive that irrational behavior into what is valuable for your organization’s bottom line. Without their knowledge, hidden influences produce emotions that encourage behavior. After all, they are people, and people are irrational by nature.

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Forget Everything You Think You Know. This is How to Create Loyal Customers

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So, if you are not managing the emotional side of your experience, then you are not giving yourself any room for loyalty to form. . Make a Deposit in the Customer’s Emotional Bank Account. We bring this concept of the emotional bank account into our work in our global Customer Experience consultancy.

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Are You Ignoring a Key Part of Your Digital Experience?

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For example, you may have felt frustrated by a complicated process for creating an account, or irritated because you couldn’t find basic information such as size charts or a returns policy. Or maybe you got an uneasy feeling when the site wanted to access your Facebook account. Follow Colin Shaw on Twitter @ColinShaw_CX.

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Why What We Believe Is Sometimes Just Wrong!

Beyond Philosophy

It would be best to find ways to help customers feel less discomfort during their buying decisions. Giving your Customer-Facing team the tools they need to help manage customer emotions to a positive outcome is critical. For example, use humor to recognize the situation and ease the customer’s tension.