Beyond Philosophy

MAY 28, 2021

Recognize that customer emotions apply. Manage different customers differently. When we did some analysis, we found that the sales team knew 80 percent of their revenue came from 20 percent of their accounts. In essence, this strategy was the sales team’s response to managing too many accounts at one time.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 23, 2024

You can tell a lot about an organization’s sophistication regarding customer centricity based on how it assesses the quality assurance of a call center. Listening to calls and talking to agents reveals what’s happening daily and is far more relevant regarding an organization’s true Customer Experience.

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JivoChat

JULY 21, 2021

We’ll cover everything from the basics of customer relations, as well as examples and strategies to improve. What is Customer Relations? Customer relations is easy to define. In the most simple dictionary terms , the concept of customer relations refers to the relationships your business has with customers.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 13, 2021

This trampoline story is a classic example of what can go wrong when you outsource part of your Customer Experience. Specifically, it shows that the third-party controlled part of the experience is your experience from the customers’ perspective. However, when I arrived, the shuttle took an hour to pick me up.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 2, 2020

What we do want is to know how to facilitate customer-driven growth. Apple is an excellent example of how to do this. Lines outside the store is almost the prototypical example of Social Proof. That’s such a substantial threat that nobody ever puts the iPhones on sale. Why do I like Apple’s experience? I am just kidding.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Berger’s research team looked at The New York Times positive and negative reviews of books and how those review affected sales. They found that there wasn’t a clear answer because, surprisingly, bad reviews didn’t necessarily hurt sales in all cases. They found that sales went up by 40 percent.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 28, 2019

We have had clients like Ricoh Canada that improved their Customer Experience, which led to a rise in sales by 10%—and that was in a shrinking market. However, ROI isn’t always about more sales; there are other ways to measure your success in ROI. What are your customers doing and how are they doing it?

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 26, 2021

Customer emotions are essential in Customer Experience. Being deliberate about which emotions your experience evokes is critical, too. Today, we will take a deeper dive into making your customers feel “Cared for” with the 5 Rules for Making Customers Feeling Cared For and Valued.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Furthermore, they will donate all the proceeds from the sales of these commemorative chocolate bars to The Royal British Legion, a charity in Britain that addressed the social and emotional necessities of current and past members of the British Armed Forces and their families. Follow Colin Shaw on Twitter @ColinShaw_CX.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Another example of this concept in action was closing the menu at a restaurant, which the authors compare to “closing off” a choice. Closing off the choice physically by closing the menu gave diners an emotional closure to their decision and led to their satisfaction with their order. www.winepleasures.com. 29 July 2011. < [link].

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Customer Satisfaction results in a higher share price. Whilst the above example is impressive and coming from HBR, this next example is bound to attract senior leadership’s attention as it links stock prices to customer satisfaction. One of the businesses was transactional and the other was subscription based.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Customer-centricity requires you to put the Customer at the center of everything you do. They are focused on sales or margins or operational efficiency, and, to be fair, these areas are crucial to any business. In fact, customer-centricity will result in improvements to these areas. Most organizations are Transactional.)

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Big Data can’t see the distinction because it doesn’t measure emotions. It only shows that a sale was completed (success!) or that the customer left without buying (perhaps you need to do something different). A website with a high bounce rate, for example, might need different marketing copy or more appealing graphics.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 2, 2017

This is a classic example of companies blaming other people for their own failure to focus on what customers want. This happens when executives and managers blame poor customer retention on marketing or an ill-trained sales staff. And it happens in everyday customer interactions.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Let me give you an example. Let’s say your IT system requires getting your email address for every customer to access the details of the account. When you ask the customer for this, they might think, “Why do they need this information? Another example might be an automated call response system that greets incoming calls.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Of course, before this year, sales of the iPhone have been excellent with the introduction of the iPhone 6. The outcome of Customer Experiences has a lot to do with customer expectations, whether that’s failing them, meeting them or exceeding them. For example, when I say store, what do you picture?

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

A nudge propels a customer toward the behavior you want – whether it’s purchasing a product, signing up for a subscription or making a repeat visit to a retailer. For example, at a restaurant the other night, a waitress came to my table and said, “Can I start you off with a glass of wine or an appetizer?” Can You Nudge People to Pay?

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 1, 2015

Are, beyond customers who would be loyal anyway, are they driving more purchase activity and narrowed consideration sets? These programs produce positive sales increases for hotels, for example, but negative sales impact on car rental, airlines and food retail. Solve Customer and Industry Pain Points.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2022

But companies need to be careful not to negatively impact the customer experience. For example, workforce management software helps ensure you have the right agents available to meet service levels by creating forecasts based on the most recent trends and schedules that match your employees’ needs (such as leaving every day at 3:00 p.m.

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ProProfs Blog

JUNE 21, 2019

Needless to say, it is one of the most important metrics for your business to consider when you plan your marketing, loyalty programs, and sales processes. Your customer retention strategy depends on the lifecycle of your business. All you want to focus on at this stage is growing your customer base. Source: Intuit.

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Callminer

AUGUST 6, 2019

Predictive Dialer: An automated calling system, typically used for sales. For example, an outbound call center focuses on the efficiency and quantity of dialed-out calls. For example, the business focus of the head of retail operations for a bank may be to increase customer retention and lifetime value.

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VocalCom

MAY 28, 2018

Companies that consider and act upon the feelings of customers at different points along the sales journey are more likely to win loyalty. According to Customer Think, 63% of customers with positive feelings about a company will remain loyal, while 74% will go a step further and advocate for the brand.

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JustCall

AUGUST 8, 2023

AI customer experience can manifest in different forms across touchpoints: You can use chatbots and virtual assistants to provide real-time assistance. Sentiment analysis can enable organizations to gauge customer emotions. Intelligent analytics helps preempt customer needs. The list goes on. Image Source Image Source 3.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 11, 2015

The company doesn’t have, as a result, the ability to track, at household level, what customers are and aren’t purchasing in their stores. What Publix does, instead of loyalty cards, is try different alternative approaches to build sales. Some retailers do more than emphasize the sales and service fundamentals.

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VocalCom

JULY 23, 2018

Designing great customer experiences begins with truly knowing your customers. While surveys reveal valuable insights about their needs, a global view of customer emotions and expectations across all channels is the real key to offering the services and products they want. Deliver on brand promises.

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Interactions

MAY 27, 2021

However, 30% claim that the number one challenge in achieving that goal is inadequate or hard to use systems – more than double the second rated choices (management or customer emotions (rude or angry); each at 14%). So agents want to help customers, but they often don’t have the means to do so. Increase Personalization.

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VocalCom

JULY 31, 2017

Through an analysis of quantitative data and anecdotes from both customers and employees, brands may develop comprehensive maps that reflect the customer’s motivations and sentiments along the journey from potential to loyal customer. Here are five key benefits of customer journey mapping. Understanding customer emotions.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 10, 2020

Most importantly, it shows readers how to build lasting relationships with their customers that are the very foundation of business success – today, tomorrow, and forever. Never Lose a Customer Again. The Startup’s Guide to Customer Success: How to Champion the Customer at Your Company. Customer Success Around the Web.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 22, 2015

As they are gathering information to help in day-to-day brand decision-making, consumers want, crave, desire, seek, and value content from marketers – as long as it is reasonably altruistic, informative and objective, and minimizes the ‘look of sponsorship’ and the three most readily identifiable sales ‘P’s’: push, pitch, and puff.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 28, 2015

When the brand experience falls short of the promise, Customers feel disappointed, frustrated, and frankly, hacked off! For example, I recently purchased my new car. When we returned from the test drive, I asked our sales rep, how much the car cost. He said, “It’s clear that you are at the beginning of your buying process.

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VocalCom

AUGUST 26, 2019

Big data has been a buzzword in the customer service industry for some time now. As every brand knows, all data—big and small—can be applied in some manner to drive sales and improve customer service. After all, understanding your customers’ habits is key to knowing how to satisfy them.

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TMP Direct

APRIL 22, 2021

Enterprise executives today cite customer experience as their Number 1 reason for investing in AI; cost reduction has now moved to second place. AI-enabled conversational agents, for example, are expected to handle nearly 20% of all customer service requests by 2022. Lower churn rates and higher customer satisfaction scores.

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VocalCom

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

For example, a missed delivery may require reaching out to a delivery company or the sales department before a resolution is offered. Customers value honesty, so taking responsibility for the problem is the first step toward earning back trust. To further empower the customer, give options whenever possible.

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VocalCom

AUGUST 7, 2017

Here are five ways big data can be used to improve the customer experience. Metrics can say a lot about the experiences your customers are having. For example, longer average handling time (AHT) or low rates of first contact resolution (FCR) might indicate communication or organization issues that need to be resolved.

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Infinity

JANUARY 22, 2019

This doesn’t mean we respond to every whim, request, and recommendation customers may have but rather we use customers as a guiding point when it comes to making decisions for the business. Emotional Intelligence. Emotional intelligence starts and ends with being aware of our own emotions and other peoples.

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CSM Magazine

APRIL 20, 2021

Analyzing human behaviors allows brands to understand what their customers want, and most importantly, why they think this way. By using the right consumer insights platform, businesses can understand and acknowledge consumer behavior to engage customers emotionally. Let’s take an example of some brands using consumer insights.

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ProProfs Blog

MARCH 28, 2019

Even though you have the best products the industry has to offer, your sales aren’t increasing. If you’re facing this problem, a common reason for this outcome is the marketing message that fails to resonate with potential customers. Related Read: Leverage Your Business Growth with Customer Emotions.

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