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How Does Mental Accounting Influence Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

The answer is found in the concept of mental accounting, and it might have significant implications for your Customer Experience. We discussed how our mental accounting affects our behavior as customers in our recent podcast. How Mental Accounting Works. We have written about Mental Accounting before.

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Why Customers Make Strange Decisions

Beyond Philosophy

In both situations, you are going to spend more money than you thought you were going to for entertainment. These results, however, are the basis for an economic principle called Mental Accounting. Mental Accounting describes the situations where fungibility breaks down. Simply put, mental accounting works with emotions also.

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8 Worst Mistakes You Don’t Want to repeat!

Beyond Philosophy

According to the YouTube Video , the family found the tech asleep on the couch in their entertainment room, using their son’s pillow for his head. United Airlines claims no responsibility for broken guitar despite eye witness accounts of baggage handlers tossing passenger’s guitar into the plane. But then they found him asleep again!

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of April 8, 2019

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My Comment: My friend Steve Curtin, fellow customer service expert, shares an entertaining story about a problematic experience at a hotel restaurant. This comes as no surprise, especially if we take into account the rise in today’s customer-centric culture.

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Not To Be Missed: The Best Of 2017

Beyond Philosophy

Your customers’ emotional and subconscious responses to your brand account for over half of the total Customer Experience. Storytelling is a fantastic tool for entertaining and engaging both your customers and employees. Who Wins—Brand or Customer Experienc e? Understanding the Anatomy of an Interaction could be the key.

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5 Surprising Rules to Live By When Managing Customer Memories

Beyond Philosophy

You can have a brilliant, entertaining ad that’s concise and emotional for a product, but if people don’t remember it when they are making a buying decision, it failed. For example, when a customer has to repeat their account of poor service over and over, you are reinforcing that lousy memory and making it worse.

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Brouhaha in Broadcasting: The Cable Digital Transformation

TechSee

No longer are consumers watching news, entertainment, and sports over a limited number of channels at specifically scheduled times of the day. McKinsey reports that cablecos still account for more than 60% of all connected homes, with the key providers averaging an impressive 25% return on invested capital.