Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 12, 2015

Even when looking at product and service features that appear strictly rational, there is an emotional underpinning. In other words, emotions are driving these importance and performance ratings; and their impact on customer experience perception needs to be understood. have an emotional base that must be considered.

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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, remember emotions.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Of course, you’d better make sure that the Customer Experience they have when they get there is as advertised. As I have written before, disappointed is never an emotion that leads to a good Customer Experience. From there, you can build the brand to attract them to your business. www.spring.org.uk.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

All organizations are on a journey from being Naive to Natural in the way they focus on the Customer, passing through each of four stages: Naïve, Transactional, Enlightened, and Natural. Naïve companies are the least customer-focused and Natural companies are the most customer-focused. What emotions are we trying to evoke?

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

I recently participated in a Customer Experience Day webinar with two other leaders in our field, Joe Pine and Lou Carbone. I learned a few things that I would love to share with you, and discussed on my most recent podcast , regarding where we are now with Customer Experience and, perhaps more importantly, where we are heading.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 15, 2021

The Verint Customer Engagement Cloud Platform draws on the latest advancements in AI and analytics, an open cloud architecture, and The Science of Customer Engagement to meet ever-increasing, ever-shifting consumer interactions and demands. 5 Rules for Managing Your Customer Experience in Business to Business.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Whether Customers are on the phone with your call center, chatting with your digital team online or talking face-to-face with an employee in a brick and mortar location, your channels need to present a united front to your Customers, providing them with the Customer Experience you designed.

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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

MARCH 5, 2015

The Airline Industry: WestJet, Virgin and Delta Create Joyful Experiences. Should 4% of Customers Dictate Strategy? Colin Shaw is the founder and CEO of Beyond Philosophy , one of the world’s first organizations devoted to customer experience. View our books on Customer Experience here.

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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. < [link].

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Helping your Customers make a decision is an important element in your Customer Experience design. All channels for your Customers make up your Customer Experience, including websites. When you find that Goldilocks sweet spot, however, it is Customer Experience gold. The Consequence of Choice.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Back in 1994, Steve Jobs introduced a concept at an Apple conference: that the design of their products should begin at the desired Customer Experience and work backward from there. Not long after that, Joe Pine co-authored a book called The Experience Economy , that changed the way at looked at the future of business.

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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. Disappointment is an emotion caused by the nonfulfillment of your hopes or expectations. It is an emotion most of us would rather avoid at the holidays.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Competition is great for Customer Experience. The more options there are for mobile payments, the less tolerant Customers are for providers that lack Customer-focus, forcing all the providers to improve their Customer Experience.

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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. Emotions evoked by the branding, the reputation, and the actions of an organization should build trust.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 5, 2015

We believe how a Customer feels about a Customer Experience influences over 50% of the Customers’ perceptions of the experience. I will talk about these little voices when I give the keynote speech at the Clarabridge Conference in Miami. Do emotions drive ROI? How Emotions Generate $$$.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Listen to the podcast: Bob Black, one of our podcast listeners, loves our ideas about evoking specific customer emotions. In my experience, many organizations fail to evoke a specific customer emotion. Most people agree that customer emotions are essential to an experience.

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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. IS THE US NEXT?

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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

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

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Competition is great for Customer Experience. The more options there are for mobile payments, the less tolerant Customers are for providers that lack Customer-focus, forcing all the providers to improve their Customer Experience. The Moral Dilemma: Collecting Data on Customer Behavior.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Competition is great for Customer Experience. The more options there are for mobile payments, the less tolerant Customers are for providers that lack Customer-focus, forcing all the providers to improve their Customer Experience. The Moral Dilemma: Collecting Data on Customer Behavior.

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Customer centricity Customer retention Customer emotions Airlines 150

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 4, 2015

Exemplars of branded customer experience also understand that there is a ‘journey’ for customers in relationships with preferred companies. And, branding the customer experience requires that the brand’s image, its personality if you will, is sustained and reinforced in communications and in every point of contact.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 4, 2015

Join us for our webinar, “ OmniChannel Customer Engagement” on Thursday, May 28 th , to learn more how you can manage your diverse channels in a single model to promote your Customer Experience agenda. Mobile Experience: Harness the Power of Your Mobile Channel to Increase Traffic in Retail Stores. Register here today!

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360Connext

AUGUST 23, 2018

We toss the word empathy around these days, especially in customer experience circles. And while most of us agree it’s vital to have and show empathy with customers, many rarely go beyond that in really capturing the touchpoints to understand emotions. Want to learn a TON more about Customer Empathy?

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CX Global Media

APRIL 17, 2017

But if you make that conversion attempt difficult for the customer and the agent, your success rate plummets. I myself began to see a whole new perspective on chat when I met with Dustin Yu of WebsiteAlive in our interview at the PACE Association Conference. Live Chat Accesses Customer Emotions. What a huge opportunity!

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 11, 2015

They should want this because study after study shows the financial rewards of having loyal customers. Some companies reach this goal through superior value delivery, built on quality products and services and positive, consistent customer experiences. Trader Joe’s does not have a customer loyalty program.

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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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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 20, 2015

As basic customer experience processes were improved, the metric flatlined, offering no opportunity for further enhancement or competitive advantage. The second, a B2B example, involves a major business services firm.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 29, 2015

And, personalization truly optimizes the overall customer experience, perhaps its most important benefit. Doing this contributes to making an enterprise like Target feel more human, transparent, authentic and honest, and accessible to customers and other stakeholders.

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CX Global Media

APRIL 10, 2017

If you need more than just simple product descriptions and frequently asked questions to make a sale and service customers are your people properly equipped? Delivering a great customer experience is not possible even if you have the most modern communication platform. Would these be goals of your customer experience strategy?

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 1, 2015

In 2010, Southwest Airlines revamped its loyalty program to make rewards more proportional to ticket price; and this has better targeted the most profitable customers as well as enabled the airline to adopt a loyalty behavior metric that is closely tied to actual revenue generation.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 5, 2015

In building relationships with customers, and value for them, my long-time observation is that most organizations tend to progress through several stages of performance as they are becoming truly customer-centric: a) customer awareness, b) customer sensitivity, c) customer focus, and d) customer obsession.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 13, 2015

During a recent series of stakeholder behavior instructional workshops conducted for our clients, one of the strongest areas of interest among workshop participants was how to gain senior management support and sponsorship for various customer-related and employee-related initiatives. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D.,

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Customer centricity Airlines Enterprise Education 279