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What’s the secret? 10 rules for creating a incredibly successful consultancy

Beyond Philosophy

Several readers and listeners of the podcast have reached out to me recently, asking for advice on how to start a consultancy. After over two decades with my global Customer Experience consultancy, it occurred to me that I have a lot of advice on the topic, which I boiled down into the 10 rules for building a successful consultancy.

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Make the Complicated Simple

ShepHyken

Siegel+Gale is a consulting firm that specializes in making brands simple. Learn more about Shep’s customer service and customer experience keynote speeches and his customer service training workshops at www.Hyken.com. They’ve complicated their message. The concept of simplicity is financially powerful.

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6 Incredibly Important Learnings from 2023 Critical to Apply in 2024

Beyond Philosophy

Sometimes what we learned was personal, but it has implications for the business world. ’ As a result, he has over 294,000 followers and 78,000 subscribers to his LinkedIn newsletter ‘Why Customers Buy’ The Financial Times selected Beyond Philosophy as one of the best management consultancies for four years.

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The Light At The End of The Tunnel: Reimagine Your Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

Usually, when people talk about that, it’s in the third person, meaning that someone will impose the new normal upon us. I would encourage us to put that in the first person. As I mentioned before, your customers have changed through their personal experiences. We hear the phrase ‘the new normal’ a lot.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of June 3, 2024

ShepHyken

So, we asked our consultants panel for their best advice on how to firmly (but politely) handle these conversations for the best possible outcome. Learn more about Shep’s customer service and customer experience keynote speeches and his customer service training workshops. Connect with Shep on LinkedIn.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for the Week of September 25, 2023

ShepHyken

Of course, there’s no way to know for sure how another person feels, but everything — from providing customer service to helping members find what they’re looking for — seems to come easier to Costco employees. But honoring is bottom line about how a person is treated. It takes cross-functional collaboration.

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Building a Great CX Team

CX Accelerator

While not required, the person in this role is often an extroverted visionary. Empathy and sensitivity are the traits you would look for in a person managing an EX program. The first person we would hire would be the Head of CX. So the second person we would hire would be a Customer Insights Manager.