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Guest Blog: How to Manage Customer Emotions

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This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleagues, Thomas A. Stewart and Patricia O’Connell, write about how to manage customer emotions and ensure that employees know how to be empathetic. Customers are smarter than ever and we must know how to create a positive experience. Shep Hyken .

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Uncover the incredible Impact on ROI of Harnessing Customer emotions

Beyond Philosophy

In their research, a large construction company we worked with discovered that the construction clients didn’t want a rougher excavator as much as they wanted to know that the company “cared for them as a person.” Knowing that feeling cared about as a person is essential to customers makes it easier to act.

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Why The Intensity of Customer Emotions is Crucial to Your Customer Loyalty

Beyond Philosophy

Customer emotions have a strong influence on your Customer Experience outcome. From our research in our global Customer Experience consultancy, we know that over 50 percent of experience is about how a customer feels. . Organizations don’t consider customer emotions enough.

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Customers Emotions are Predictable

Beyond Philosophy

A study published in the journal PLOS Biology out of Dartmouth reveals a way to predict human emotions based on the subject’s brain activity. The Dartmouth team found an accurate activation pattern of negative emotions that estimates how negative a person will feel when they look at upsetting photos.

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3 Tools to Measure Authentic Customer Emotions in Real-Time

Beyond Philosophy

I am routinely gobsmacked by the number of organizations that don’t measure customer emotions. To measure something like customer emotions in your Customer Experience, you need the proper tools. We talked about measurement tools in a recent podcast , and how you can employ them in your Customer Experience.

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The Future Today! Personalization 2.0

Beyond Philosophy

Data is collected about our personal behavior everywhere. In a word: Personalization. The Era of Personalized Marketing is Here. I am making jokes, but to be honest, I am a fan of personalization. When you make something personal for a customer, you start to create an emotional relationship with your product or service.

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An Amazing Experience: Personalize your CX Today!

Beyond Philosophy

Many companies try to create an emotional customer experience on a big scale, through events, fundraisers or contests that help people feel “connected.” What is unique and refreshing about A Step Ahead’s approach is how individual and personal it is. How to Win Customers’ Trust Without Spending a Dime.