Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

For many years, there has been a debate whether you could assign a dollar amount to determine the return on investment for any Customer Experience improvements. Keeping Customers results in a high increase in value. Focusing on customer retention with a better Customer Experience will benefit your bottom-line expenses.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Using smells in your Customer Experience is olfactory marketing, and it works. Put it in a location that gives your customers the opportunity to see all the other inventory you have that they need to see, even if you only sell online. Use this information to create a great experience for your customers and your bottom line.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

To create a great experience you have to define which areas that Customers most value and exceed these aspects of the Customer Experience. Defining these areas implies knowing what the Customer’s Expectations are. Most organizations know what their Customer rational expectations are.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

I was a keynote speaker there for a Customer Experience conference. There is a lot of Customer Experience activity happening there. Rami Sweis, the CEO of GolfCX invited me to speak at the conference. He said Customer Experience challenges are new to most organizations there.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Before I explain what I mean by that and how it has to do with Customer Experience, however, let me first tell you where I was born. How is this applicable to Customer Experience? Well, Loss Aversion is applicable to Customer Experience as well. I won’t even get into why they Scottish chose not to go.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Customer centricity requires strategy to cultivate a culture that puts the Customer at the center of everything you do. As the third in our series of nine posts looking at the different parts of the organization contributing to Customer centricity, let’s look at: Customer Strategy.

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ClearAction

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Customer Centric Decisions Lynn Hunsaker. Do you have a customer-focus creed? In the conference room of a company I visited recently a poster served as a clear reminder for customer centric decision-making. Reminder badge cards or posters such as this are great for building a customer centric culture.

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ClearAction

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Customer Centric Culture Lynn Hunsaker. What Does it Mean to be Customer-centric? To have the customer’s best interests as the focus of your attention — not to be pre-occupied in your own interests at the customer’s expense. There’s a myth that talking often to your customers (sales, service, surveys, etc.)

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Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

Customer experience (CX) is the relationship of a customer with a business at all touchpoints during the period of the customer journey. It is widely said that customer experience is the next battleground for organizations. Adam is a globally recognized expert on customer experience.

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CX Accelerator

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Collaboration with Ben Motteram and Nate Brown To transform an organization into one that is more customer centric is a complex task that requires many different skills. Customer experience is multi-disciplinary. CUSTOMER INSIGHTS/MEASUREMENT/ANALYTICS Understanding your customers is at the heart of customer experience.

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TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

By leveraging new technologies such as computer vision , virtual visits and self-service AI-driven solutions, companies have a huge opportunity to turn customers into brand advocates. This list is an homage to the business leaders and influencers pushing the envelope when it comes to innovation in customer experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 5, 2015

There have been many great stories in the past couple of months about airlines doing what was right by their Customers. We can all learn a little about Customer centricity when we look at these examples from three major carriers in the US. Southwest Attacks Its Late Problem Head-on with Its Customers.

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ClearAction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Customer Centric Service Design Lynn Hunsaker. Imagine the power of pictorially summarizing your customer survey results so that stakeholders can understand possible customer experience improvements within 10 minutes! Originally published on CustomerThink and MyCustomer.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

It is essential that you connect your Customer Experience to these ads, and sustain this emotional experience for Customers. Sainsbury’s Christmas ad is an excellent example of using emotions to create a connection and brand promise with Customers, an essential first step to an excellent Customer Experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 12, 2015

In my SlideShare presentation, “ Customer Are Irrational, Stop Fighting it ,” I define the customer experience as: A Customer Experience is an interaction between and organization and a customer as perceived through a Customer’s conscious and subconscious mind. Please click here to learn more.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Watch out this space as in a subsequent blog we’ll give advice on the different ways to change a habit… Blogs CEM CEO Conferences consultants consumer behaviour customer Customer Analysis customer behavior Customer Behaviour customer centricity customer emotions customer engagement Customer experience customer experience books customer experience (..)

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 19, 2015

A recent article by a major employee research and engagement consulting organization led with the above headline. The consulting organization went on to conclude from these findings that “Recent trends suggest that improvements in engagement coincide with improvement in unemployment and underemployment.”,

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 23, 2015

. “ Unlocking the Hidden Customer Experience: Short Stories of Remarkable Practices that Ensure Success” is designed to help organizations take their Customer Experience to the next level. If you enjoyed this post, you might be interested in the following blogs: Four Ways to Get Customers to Do What You Want.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Coming out from under eBay’s shadow will let them blossom, into what I hope will become a Customer-centric organization. They have Customer-centric leadership. It’s great that their new CEO, Dan Shulman is coming from American Express, a highly Customer-centric company.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 28, 2015

. “ Unlocking the Hidden Customer Experience: Short Stories of Remarkable Practices that Ensure Success” is designed to help organizations take their Customer Experience to the next level. Colin is an international author of four best-selling books and an engaging keynote speaker.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 3, 2020

Top 10 Must Attend Conferences in 2020 for Customer Success Professionals. I’m not talking about a vacation (although those days off are also oh so very important) but I’m talking about, stepping out of the office for a day or two to attend a conference. SaaStock North America Date: June 22-24, 2020 Location: San Francisco.

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Nicereply

MARCH 23, 2021

Customer Service Experts, Writers, Consultants, and Influencers. Mathew Patterson – Customer Service Evangelist at HelpScout. Blake Morgan – Influencer, Customer Experience Consultant and all around smart lady, Blake’s been sharing her knowledge as a Forbes contributor for years, host of The Modern Customer Podcast.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

At Beyond Philosophy, we have always tried to be at the cutting edge of Customer Experience, pushing the boundaries. In my first book, I wrote about customers’ emotions and the emotional experience. To learn more about booking Colin as your conference speaker, please click here. on The Intuitive Customer Podcast.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Expectations are associated with our choice of vacation, the gifts we give and receive at the holidays, and the Customer Experiences we receive from the organization. To that end, however, I have t hree essential steps to avoiding disappointment this Holiday Season in your Customer Experience : 1.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

So what does this mean to my Customer Experience? In both of these examples of restaurants and casinos, there is great care and planning that goes into the experience for the guests. Finding these clues is essential to creating a Customer Experience that will surprise and delight your customers.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Trust and the Customer Experience. Emotions are an important part of any customer experience. How a customer feels about the company is an integral part of their loyalty to it. Warn Customers of the dangers they face and encourage them to keep their data safe through strong passwords.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Resolving the paradox of choice should be a priority for most organizations that want to design a Customer Experience that creates a feeling of satisfaction instead of one of angst and remorse. It is a paradox to be sure, and one commonly referred to as the Paradox of choice. The Paralysis of Too Much Choice.

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JustCall

MARCH 8, 2023

And customer experience has emerged as one of those areas where they have had a significant impact over the past few years. Annette Franz is a renowned customer experience thought leader, consultant, coach, and author with over 30 years of experience in the industry. Follow Annette on LinkedIn 2.

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Natalie Petouhof

AUGUST 31, 2022

In this episode, Natalie spoke about the need for empathy today and the shift we need to make from focusing on company-centric business strategies to creating employee and customer-centric experiences. She also discussed the importance of customer feedback and how Amazon has used it to thrive.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 24, 2014

At the time they began their Customer Experience improvement process, the concept was relatively new and largely untested. Downie compares their journey to “driving a snowplow for Customer Experience in Scotland.” Embracing the emotional parts of the Customer Experience right from the start.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

My recent experiences with my cable company have been the complete opposite. This poor Customer Experience is one reason I now use Netflix more than my cable company. For those of you that don’t know, Net Promoter Score (NPS) represents the likelihood a Customer would recommend your product or service to other people (i.e.,

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Research reports, presentation content through online sites such as LinkedIn-owned SlideShare (which gets close to 60 million visitors a month and has over 15 million registered users), and virtual conferences and webinars have seen significant increase in application.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 14, 2015

In 1970, Greenleaf Greenleaf identified ten principles in his essay, The Servant As Leader, all of which can apply directly to how leaders help generate a customer-centric culture and create lasting value for all stakeholders: – Listening – being receptive, and understanding stakeholder needs.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 8, 2015

It’s how I come up with ideas, it’s how I write, and it’s how I decide what to speak about at my next conference. In my first book, Building Great Customer Experiences , it was the seven philosophies; the next one I used our Naïve to Natural model for establishing Customer Centricity of organizations, and so on.

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Kayako

JANUARY 12, 2017

It’s easy to rush into 2017 without appreciating the good parts of 2016: there is now a lot of great content out there that supports you, the customer advocating superhero! How do you round off a year that’s been so good to the customer service industry? To remember why we do our jobs in the first place: the customer.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 12, 2016

Note that Kruse’s concept, like other ways that engagement is understood within HR circles, does not include any mention of customers, customer experience, or value delivery. Employee Engagement: The Domino Effect on Customers. Customer Centric Employee Engagement.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 2, 2015

For anyone who appreciates a truly customer-centric organization, one that is invested in its stellar reputation for ongoing trust and value creation, customer experience optimization and building employee ambassadorship, Wegmans is the company to emulate. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D.,

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