Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

These companies, and their employees, are also invariably quite disciplined and well-trained in the why’s and how’s of customer experience. Every aspect of a company’s offering – customer service, advertising, packaging, billing, products, etc. – They market, and create experiences, within the branded vision.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Those that have excellent experiences, the kind that makes their brand name a household one, demonstrate actual customer-centricity in their CX. In our global Customer Experience Consultancy, we developed a Customer Experience Assessment model called Naive to Natural to determine a company’s level of customer centricity.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Per the online marketing intelligence service WARC , QVC took the top spot in the survey, jumping nearly 20 places over its positions last year. However, it doesn’t surprise me; QVC addresses the psychology of the customer in their experience. It is the essential concept we tout at our global Customer Experience consultancy.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

When the stock market tanks like it did recently, most CEOs would be worried about their revenue also falling (not to mention falling figures from those CEO bonuses we all hear so much about). Our customers are likely to experience an increased level of anxiety and concern. I talk a lot about Customer-centricity of organizations.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 7, 2020

You would have thought that there would be some way of segmenting the market to route calls to different levels of technical support instead of having everyone start the same. Identify the culture of your organization now and improve your customer-centricity. The top team wants loyal customers. Of course!

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

This answer became my second book, Revolutionize Your Customer Experience , which explores how the culture of a company reflects how customer-centric the organization is. We shared some examples of some of the indicators of whether a company is customer-centric or not customer-centric on a recent podcast.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The ideas behind this discovery later became my second book, Revolutionize Your Customer Experience. I developed for the book my Native to Natural model, which measures how customer-centric a company culture is. It starts with Naïve, which are the least customer-focused companies and are unaware of it.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

The short version is that a study by the CFI group tracked the share prices of the leaders of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) and the leaders National Customer Satisfaction Index, UK (NCSI) versus the broader markets. Your existing customers are far easier to upsell. Why is this? 26 August 2014.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

You were just trying to market the latest brand effort to your new and existing customer base. Unfortunately, your marketing inadvertently damaged your customer focus. However, marketing isn’t the only area to blame for the problem. Key Ideas to Improve your Customer Experience. How can we help?

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

He explained on a recent podcast the reason improving Customer Experience is such a hot trend in the Middle East has been the liberalization of markets there. The drop in the oil prices of late has forced governments to free up the markets, create competitive landscapes, and attract foreign investors.

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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. However, customer-centric marketing takes all of that a step further. Why Customer Experience Should Be the Center of Your Marketing Strategies

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 28, 2014

All the little parts along the way in your experience are what make a Customer experience Customer-Centric. Putting the Customer first in everything you do applies to every part of your organization, from the way you greet them to the way you bill them. Conclusion: Customers want it, whether you want to do it or not.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Organizations fail to improve their CX when they lack customer-centricity. Customer-centricity requires you to put the Customer at the center of everything you do. However, putting the customer at the center of everything you do doesn’t have to conflict with sales, margins or operational efficiency.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Using smells in your Customer Experience is olfactory marketing, and it works. So what can the rest of businesses learn from them? Here are four lessons everyone can learn from a Grocery Store: 1. How it smells affects how it sells. It’s no accident that they put the flowers right at the front of the store.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 8, 2021

This week we feature an article from Gary Williams, Director of Sales and Consultancy at Spitch. They were the playground for breakthrough legacy technologies such as call routing and interactive voice response (IVR), always in the interest of providing a better, more streamlined customer service model.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Wouldn’t it be great if you could truly predict Customer’s behavior. I have recently been included in Brand Quarterly’s ‘Top 50 Marketing Thought Leaders over 50’ and they asked me an interesting question: “What do I think the next industry trends would be for the year?” Well you can! Well you should be.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 19, 2020

One of the critical pieces of insight that came out of the study was the thing that people want most of all in 2020 is growth, whether that means in revenue, market share or return on investment (ROI). ROI is one of the areas the organizations are struggling with regarding their investment in Customer Experience. You All Want Growth.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Also, our clients Barclaycard have been in this market for years with Barclays Pingit App. By spinning off into their own entity, they can become a more prestigious brand in a new dynamic market. Coming out from under eBay’s shadow will let them blossom, into what I hope will become a Customer-centric organization.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 23, 2015

As a leader or a marketer if you want an employee or a customer to change behavior, research says the best thing to do is give them positive reinforcement when they do what you want. My mum always told me, “You can catch more flies with honey than you can vinegar.” In other words, people respond better to rewards than punishments.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Reflective of the escalating focus on customer data, experiences, and relationships across all methods of communication and access, the role is rapidly evolving and morphing; however, there is general agreement regarding its significance in building and sustaining true value, planning capability, and enterprise customer-centricity.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 23, 2015

.; and, while some carriers are taking precautions to protect their customers from text message advertising, so far neither the direct marketing industry nor the federal government has been able to control this form of spam. And, once these customers are on board, are companies doing enough of the right things to keep them?

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

A recent article by a major employee research and engagement consulting organization were reported on results of their national workforce tracking poll, the highlight of which was that employee engagement had risen 1.2% 10 BIG Ideas for Customer-Centric Success. Those question are: 1) Really? appeared first on.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This week, we feature an article by Devin Pickell, Growth Marketing practitioner and head publisher of Do I Need SEO. He writes about designing a compelling customer experience process and training your team to implement it. Regularly update training materials based on customer feedback.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 8, 2017

Rather than this be a rant let’s look at the key issues with Telecom’s Customer Experience? Telecoms lack Customer Centricity. The customer must chase the organization. Quite frankly, a lack of Customer Centricity does not create a win-win situation or even a win-lose situation. This is simply unacceptable.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 28, 2014

All the little parts along the way in your experience are what make a Customer experience Customer-Centric. Putting the Customer first in everything you do applies to every part of your organization, from the way you greet them to the way you bill them. Conclusion: Customers want it, whether you want to do it or not.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 13, 2016

On how personalization can improve a customer’s online experience, the online retailer said it was important to examine “past transactions and entry points to serve relevant content.”. These marketers were also posed the following questions, which I will also weigh in on: Q: What should a firm focus on: Customer Experience or Branding?

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 2, 2017

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. Blaming someone else is a sure sign of a company that is inwardly focused instead of looking at ways to be more customer centric.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

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. May it also create a Customer Experience that fosters Customer Loyalty and Retention, the hallmarks of a successful marketing campaign.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 6, 2016

As a Customer Experience consultancy, Beyond Philosophy , we have worked in China on a few occasions. We learned a few things about what to do and what not to do there, as it pertains to Customer Experience. Three Truths Every Marketer Should Know about CX in China. It’s no secret that China is a huge market.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 29, 2020

I was talking to a chief marketing officer (CMO) of a multinational company the other day who wants to change the organization (and believe me, I know this organization; he’s right). I started to talk about how people within his organization needed to understand customer emotions and focus on customer-centricity.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 19, 2019

We had a guest that explained why Innovative Service is crucial to Customer Experience on our recent podcast. Author and speaker Dr. Chip Bell is a world-renowned authority on innovative service and customer loyalty consulting. Bell also helps many Fortune 100 companies implement innovative customer-centric strategies.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 6, 2019

Don’t measure your work based on completion; measure it based on growth and the positive impact you can have on those around you—especially your customers. Leaders need to start managing product teams differently, putting the focus on the customer rather than on products and deadlines. This is the way to succeed in today’s world.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

While multi-media, mega-budget programs were extolling wonderful products and services (and social values) offered by corporations, product quality and service performance for customers, and evidence of a customer-centric culture for employees, was often in decline in the real world.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

How does that compare with the rest of the market?”. He is the Head of Data Science (self-described as Chief Statistics Wonk) for Satmetrix , a company devoted to combining their software, data, and Customer Experience (CX) expertise to help organizations achieve Customer-Centricity. Brendon Rocks is that man.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

He and his partner, Jim Gilmore, are true pioneers of the Customer Experience movement and the founder of their consultancy, Strategic Horizons, LLP. Carbone suggests deepening your understanding of how customers think vs. what they think. Joe Pine is the author of the book that started it all, The Experience Economy.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 29, 2014

After so much campaigning, so many questions, debates, and emotions that moved currencies and markets, the Scottish said, “No!” The effect of loss aversion in a marketing setting was demonstrated in a study of consumer reaction to price changes to insurance policies. [2] Well, there you have it! to independence.

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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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