ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

This week we feature an article by Rahul Varshneya whos writes about how technology innovations are continuously improving the customer experience. This Maya Angelou quote fits perfectly when talking about the factors responsible for positive brand customer service. How to leverage technology for a better customer experience.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The best way I can describe ‘customer service’ is by using the word transaction. A person’s name is to him or her the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”- Using a customer’s name not only shows respect but are the most important words you can use to create a connection with your customer.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

This week we feature an article by Jessica Wise who shares a story to illustrate how you can develop a lifelong relationship with your customers by creating a customer experience they will never forget. The chance to shock and awe your customers will arise when they present you with a problem that needs solving.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Customer Experience as an industry is at a crossroads. In our recent podcast, we had a guest Bob Thompson, CEO of Customer Think Corp., an independent research and publishing firm focused on customer-centric business management and the founder and editor-in-chief of CustomerThink.com. It’s time to put up or shut up.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 4, 2019

This week we feature an article by Dwayne Charrington who writes about how to engage your customers in personalized, meaningful, and relevant ways. Customers, employees, lead generation, or profit. Well, the best answer is customer engagement. No business can survive without engaging its customers.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

James Carville, political commentator and media personality coined the phrase, “The economy, Stupid,” for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. I decided that for people working in Customer Experience, we needed a way to stay on message, too. Measuring your results is vital to your success in Customer Experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Convenience has a significant influence on the outcome of your Customer Experience. It is crucial you ensure you are making it as easy as possible for your customers to do business with you. Your Customers Like Their Version of Convenience, Too. Having a convenient experience is critical, and it is complicated, too.

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ShepHyken

MAY 17, 2019

Simply mentioning a customer’s name while communicating with them breaks the ice. Statista reports that emails personally addressed to customers had an 18.8% Customers are bound to encounter problems while doing business with you. This single act thanks to the customers in a thousand ways for their patronage.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

However, the experiences are entirely different and have different Customer Experiences. Moreover, I have different expectations from these experiences. We discussed the digital transformation and its effect on Customer Experience in our recent podcast. I suspect many of you do, too.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 18, 2022

Furthermore, Cain thinks introverted personalities also have much to offer the world. Today, we discuss personality and try to correct imbalances placed on one type of personality over another. Instead, introversion means the person requires quiet, alone time to recharge. Personality vs. Situational Psychology.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 7, 2019

However, in the rush to create effective marketing and outrank their competitors through effective strategies such as paid advertising or paid search, too many businesses fail to ultimately provide a compelling customer experience. Make it personal. Provide a superior experience at every touchpoint. Hear a sniffle?

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 8, 2021

However, as the COVID-19 vaccine rolls out, we have a chance that is, dare I say, unprecedented to reimagine Customer Experience. Now, we can decide what parts of the change we want to keep to respond to what customers want now. When we can return to a pre-pandemic way of life, what happens with your Customer Experience?

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 13, 2019

So how do you get happy employees and how does it affect Customer Experience? You must design an Employee Experience that enables the Customer Experience you want to deliver. We discussed the importance of creating a complementary Employee Experience along with your Customer Experience in a recent podcast.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 7, 2021

I recently received a letter from a listener on our podcast asking us to cover how a small business with limited resources can improve their Customer Experience using the behavioral sciences in their business. Remember things about returning customers. Define the desired memory you want customers to have for your experience.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 28, 2019

This gives employees the opportunity to make a greater impact on the resolution to the issue, and on the overall customer experience. It’s, therefore, crucial to get exactly right these rare moments that offer the opportunity to nurture the relationship with the customer. Faster than … more powerful than … it’s Superagent!

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 10, 2019

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. So, what does all this have to do with your Customer Experience?

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 31, 2019

So, what does that mean for your Customer Experience? Communicating these things is paramount for your Customer Experience. . Covering uncertainty is a significant area for Customer Experience. When dealing with a customer complaint, it could be detailing the next steps for the process.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 14, 2019

I have been talking about frictionless experiences and how vital it is to have a smooth Customer Experience. However, some of my reading lately has exposed some nuances about the friction in an experience that we haven’t addressed. You want your experience to be friction-less or easy.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 25, 2021

They are all part of three news stories that, believe it or not, give you insight into improving your Customer Experience. There are many news stories that don’t seem to be about Customer Experience, but, upon second glance, really are. However, this issue isn’t the only one facing society coming out of the pandemic.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 14, 2020

He writes about the importance of ensuring a positive customer experience, especially during a world crisis. The customer experience (also referred to as CX) seems like a simple concept. Put simply; customer experience can be defined as thoughts and feelings that the consumer associates with the brand.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

When you ask a person why they bought something, they can always tell you straightaway. Is the person lying? Our second imperative of the seven is: Imperative 2: Embrace the all-encompassing nature of customers’ irrationality 
. As Customer Experience Consultants, we see this rationalizing of irrational behavior all the time.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

But for good or ill, habits drive our behavior every day, and even more so when we are customers. In my latest book, The Intuitive Customer: 7 imperatives for moving your Customer Experience to the next level , Professor Ryan Hamilton of Emory University and I explore habits and their influence on how customers behave.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 3, 2016

In a previous blog we learnt that we all have two systems of thinking : our intuitive thinking and our rational thinking. It led to our fifth imperative, which is: Imperative 5: Uncover the hidden causes and unintended consequences of customers wanting things to be easy. Therefore it is critical that you make things easy for 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. Has complaining affected your business and personal life? Complaining can also affect your business.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

I’m ordinarily skeptical of technology as a solution to customer experience problems. A customer’s experience is largely made up of subconscious and emotional factors – what we call the “ Emotional Signature.” Lorraine and I usually spend the ride home bemoaning the abysmal customer experience.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 21, 2022

She’s also a web design consultant focusing on customer experience and user interface. She shares how customer experience is a valuable marketing strategy. Then you describe your general marketing efforts as customer experience marketing. However, customer-centric marketing takes all of that a step further.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 29, 2021

My global Customer Experience consultancy, Beyond Philosophy, has been recognized by Financial Times as one of the leading management consultancy organizations for the past three years. So, today, we will look at the 5 Rules for building a successful Customer Experience team. . I have used them many, many times.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Is Customer Experience dying? At the very least, Customer Experience is dying as we know it. Customer Experience as we know it is dying because of a few factors. Organizations want to fix one thing and then go on about their business with an improved Customer Experience. . Maybe it is.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Customers are not loyal because of the Customer Experience you provide. They are loyal because of the Customer Experience they remember you provided. Furthermore, customers don’t remember the entire experience but only bits and pieces. Ensuring Excellent Experiences with Empathy and Empowerment.

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TeleDirect

DECEMBER 25, 2024

How 24/7 Call Centers Improve Your Customer Experience In todays global and always-connected marketplace, customer expectations have evolved dramatically. Businesses are no longer judged solely on the quality of their products or services but on the customer experience (CX) they provide. These include: 1.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 22, 2021

For example, one of the recent debates asked the question, is Customer Experience the new marketing? . Sherman is the Director of Customer Experience and employee engagement by day and the founder of DoingCXRight.com by night. In my view, I do not think Customer Experience replaces traditional marketing.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 30, 2021

We did that on a recent podcast, thinking about what we learned professionally and personally this past year. . Twenty years ago, at this time of the year, I started my global Customer Experience consultancy, Beyond Philosophy, and published my first book on the subject, Building Great Customer Experiences (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).

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Callminer

MAY 11, 2020

Ultimately, disgruntled employees can even have a negative impact on the customer experience , as unhappy employees are less likely to go the extra mile to ensure that your customers are satisfied. Meet Our Panel of Customer Service & Customer Experience Managers: Anh Trinh. Take responsibility.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

However, it looks bad, and looking bad, after damaging customer’s trust, is almost as bad as actually being bad. A Customer Experience has several influences. We define it as a perception of the rational, physical, emotional, subconscious and psychological interaction a customer has with an organization. Or will it?

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 13, 2024

Today, we dig into moods and motivational biases that influence experience outcomes. More than one thing happens in a customer experience , from individual heuristics (i.e., Unfortunately, many customer experience managers focus only one thing at a time, ignoring all the rest. First, there is the Affect Heuristic.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

To keep new and current customers engaged, no business should leave out one of the most important pieces of the customer experience puzzle: email marketing. The fine art of personalized emails One of the most convert-driving factors of email marketing is personalization.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 21, 2021

From white lies to spare feelings to great big whoppers that deceive people for ulterior motives, lying is a part of life and, unfortunately, Customer Experiences. We can lie a little bit and still deceive ourselves into thinking that we’re a mostly honest person. Lying To Your Customers Is Not A Good Idea.

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