Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 11, 2019

A practical guide to Customer decision making. When the Nobel-prize winning economist professor Daniel Kahneman wrote his book Thinking Fast and Slow , he introduced the concept that we had two ways of thinking about things. Understanding the two as well as you can helps you see patterns in customer behavior.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 1, 2022

For our I’m in a Pickle feature on the podcast, Tina in New Zealand wrote to us because the engineering firm she works with thinks customer relationships are a waste of time. She wants to know how to convince the engineers that customer relationships are what get the customer strategy gears turning toward long-term success.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Have you ever bought a book you thought you should read and then didn’t read it? This episode of The Intuitive Customer explores this concept and what you can do about it for your customer experience. Mapping out customer behavior can help you identify Naïve Diversification Bias when it occurs. Key Takeaways.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 23, 2022

However, I mention it because it represents what can happen if you neglect to update your customer strategy to invest in your Long Tail business model. The Long Tail strategy is particularly applicable to content, like books or television shows, but it likely has applications in many other business verticals as well. Thanks very much.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 3, 2021

Whatever the reason may be, you have outsourced part of your Customer Experience. After all, customers do not distinguish between the part of the experience you provide and the part your third-party does. The question is, was outsourcing that part of your experience really a good idea or a big mistake?

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Sometimes customers don’t come back. The two biggest reasons that customers do not come back are apathy and rudeness. With either behavior on your side of the experience, you will lose customers’ business. Key Ideas to Improve your Customer Experience. When you are better, customers come back.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 26, 2021

In this episode, we share 7 essential books for any Customer Experience professional to read, ideally in a tropical locale with a fruity drink in hand. Key Ideas to Improve your Customer Experience. a 90s bestseller that changed his life by urging him to start his own global Customer Experience Consultancy.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 23, 2020

In this first episode of a two-part series of The Intuitive Customer, we host speaker and author Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, who is known for his TED talks and being a general advertising legend. The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don’t Make Sense Part 1. In many cases, you might be tempted to do the same thing.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 29, 2020

If you chose A, then you chose wisely—and you decided to like your customers would. This episode of The Intuitive Customer shares our five new rules guaranteed to build trust. With trust, you can have the kind of relationship that yields the customer behavior you want to get the customer-driven growth you need.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

What he found there became a book. Our Emotional Signature research measures the level of emotional engagement you have with customers right now and determines what the really want from you. Key Ideas to Improve your Customer Experience. What did you do during the lockdown? You can follow Zhecho on Twitter here.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

What happens when you get three Customer Experience Pioneers together to discuss the past, present, and future of Customer Experience? This episode of The Intuitive Customer, for starters. Joe Pine is the author of the book that started it all, The Experience Economy. Key Takeaways.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 30, 2020

However, if you can open your mind to trying new things other than what you normally would do, you might discover the magic trick that makes it all work well for managing your customer behavior. matter a lot to the Customer Experience and can have a significant effect on customer. Here is what we discussed. Key Takeaways.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 5, 2022

” The idea that fate has dealt you a good hand is one that makes people feel happier with Customer Experiences, even when they can’t attribute that good luck to the organization providing it. She says that customers like how it feels like magic. Key Ideas to Improve your Customer Experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Way back in 1998, I read a book by Joe Pine (@joepine), co-founder of Strategic Horizons, LLP, and Jim Gilmore called The Experience Economy. The next thing I knew, he put me in charge of improving the Customer Experience for our company, and the rest is history. Key Ideas to Improve your Customer Experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Understanding Customer Habits: A Practical Guide. Habits can be excellent or terrible for your Customer Experience. When it is the customer’s habit to buy from you, then there is not a problem. Understanding what habits are and how they work is vital to your Customer Experience. So, what are habits?

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 18, 2019

One of the things I enjoy about the experience is that you stay in a place you wouldn’t usually visit. Having spent my fair share of time in hotels, I am a bit of an expert in that experience. Having spent my fair share of time in hotels, I am a bit of an expert in that experience. What is the Secret of Airbnb?

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Do you know when in your experience customers decide to buy from you or not? Otherwise, how can you design an appropriate environment to get customers to decide to do what you want? I mention it because customers also “cross the Rubicon” when they decide things. Key Ideas to Improve your Customer Experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Did you know that customer satisfaction scores are the lowest they have been in the past 15 years? Per the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), only 30 percent of companies tracked by ASCI improved their score; that means 70 percent didn’t, and that’s alarming. Key Ideas to Improve your Customer Experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 23, 2021

We recently spoke to Customer Experience experts who shared an interesting insight. They all say they wish people understood that there was no one thing to do, no silver-bullet-solution for Customer Experience. Many factors affect how it works and what it does to customer behavior. We couldn’t agree more.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Back in 1994, Steve Jobs introduced a concept at an Apple conference: that the design of their products should begin at the desired Customer Experience and work backward from there. Not long after that, Joe Pine co-authored a book called The Experience Economy , that changed the way at looked at the future of business.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 21, 2021

How to Build UNBREAKABLE Relationships With Your Customers. Over time that can result in a loss of relevancy to their customers and an inability to keep their customers. Moreover, they lose out on forming solid relationships with customers that allow brands to enjoy the benefits of customer-driven growth.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Fred Reichheld, inventor of the Net Promoter Score ® (NPS), sees customers recommendations as an act of love. Recommendations are a chance to provide an experience to someone they care about. Key Ideas to Improve your Customer Experience. He says his new book shows people how to do that.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Key Ideas to Improve your Customer Experience. The inspiration for this episode was book by Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. This open and balanced view of opposing opinions is what we advocate when trying to come up with new ideas that foster customer-driven growth in your organization.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Key Ideas to Improve your Customer Experience. Not only that, but Financial Times also recognized our company as one of the top management consultancies for the fourth year in a row. It is always gratifying to reach these milestones and enjoy these accolades. However, they didn’t happen by chance.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The Five Rules for Measuring and Managing Customer Emotions. Ignoring emotion in your Customer Experience strategy is a big mistake and one you can’t afford to make. Incorporating ways to measure and manage customer emotions is critical for your business strategy today. Key Ideas to Improve your Customer Experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 19, 2015

Having a great Customer Experience is no accident. Companies that excel in providing a great Customer Experience engaged in lots of deliberate designs to make their experience what it is today. To that end, here are three things all great CX companies do that you need to emulate in your Customer Experience. #

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 9, 2021

Whether you realize it or not—and even if you don’t know what they are—you use Digital Nudges in your online experience today. Digital Nudges are the interactions you have with customers online in your experience that inspire their actions. Every online experience has them, but not all of them are deliberate.

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Integrity Solutions

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

While the selling environment has undergone some pretty dramatic changes in recent years, if anything, they’ve only heightened the need for sales professionals who care about, can connect with and actively listen to their customers. This is one of the reasons Mike Esterday and I were motivated to write our new book, Listen to Sell.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Like the rest of the world, the Customer Experience world is changing. Customers have new expectations and are doing business in new ways. While we adapt to the world that COVID-19 presents, we change what we want as customers and how we think about our relationships with the entities we buy. Recommended Actions.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 30, 2017

Once you accept that we don’t always know the reason why we do what we do as customers, you have the key to unlocking the customer brain and the ability to see how your customers make decisions. We call this Experience Psychology and understanding and leveraging it is the future of Customer Experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 10, 2021

Back then, there were fewer books on such things, and podcasts and TED talks didn’t exist, at least not to the degree they do today. However, doing so is an essential area to master if you want your Customer Experience program to get the support it needs to survive and thrive in your organization. Focus on the customer.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

By inflicting small wounds, that collectively add up to millions of dollars, banks can increase their profits at the customer’s expense. The lawsuits are public records, which means the accusations and evidence can’t be hidden from view. Big banks have proven yet again that they cannot be trusted to do what is best for the consumer.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 21, 2015

This is why in my new ebook Unlocking the Hidden Customer Experience: Short stories to ensure remarkable success we discuss the design of emotions into a Customer Experience. When someone is feeling happy, they may react to a situation much differently than they would when they feel stress.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 21, 2015

This shows that Chipotle hears the concerns their Customers voice and responds to them by completely changing how they do business with their suppliers. They put the emphasis on the Customer, not on the Process. However, because it is important to their Customers, they did it anyway. Here are a few of them.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 12, 2017

We witness it all the time in our customer experience consultancy. We see complainers among front-facing employees when we use customer mirrors to analyze the experience from the customer’s viewpoint. When we’re in the UK, I complain about the chilly, dreary weather. Complaining can also affect your business.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 12, 2015

I dedicate my career to helping organizations take their current Customer Experience to the next level, or Beyond the Philosophy of it and into the “real world.”. Philosophy drives my actions, of course , including the following five: Philosophy #1: Experiences are not just about the “what” but also the “how.”.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 16, 2015

The time had come to improve my digital experience for the company. Not surprisingly, I discovered the reasons were related to my Customer’s Experience. Not surprisingly, I discovered the reasons were related to my Customer’s Experience. The end of 2014 was really busy. I’d had my site for a long time.

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