Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

We work with Customer Experience (CX) professionals around the world and train them on how to go about implementing CX programs. The main reason that an organization fails to improve their CX is because of their lack of Customer Centricity. The symptom is a poor experience; the cause is their lack of Customer centricity.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 7, 2019

I am routinely gobsmacked by the number of organizations that don’t measure customer emotions. To measure something like customer emotions in your Customer Experience, you need the proper tools. Let’s take a look at a few different ways you can get feedback on customer emotions.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 28, 2019

How Can We Measure Customer Emotions in Our Digital World. Bill Hedgecock, professor at the University of Minnesota in the Carlson School of Management, we explore the power of facial recognition with facial expression analysis software and what it can do to help you improve your Customer Experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 20, 2016

To calculate the NEV, we determine the balance between the positive and negative emotions a Customer feels about their experience with your organization. The “Net” in NEV refers to the net effect of those emotions for customer loyalty and retention. But what are these emotions? Why is the NEV Relevant Today?

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

For many years, there has been a debate whether you could assign a dollar amount to determine the return on investment for any Customer Experience improvements. Keeping Customers results in a high increase in value. Focusing on customer retention with a better Customer Experience will benefit your bottom-line expenses.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 2, 2020

There are three different groups of organizations regarding opening up again after the pandemic: Organizations that are reacting to things: This group is changing the Customer Experience to respond to the crisis, but believe the present environment we are experiencing is temporary. So, their reactions put in place are also temporary.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

They understand that delivering on the tangible and functional elements of value are just table stakes, and that connecting, and having an emotionally-based relationship with customers are keys to leveraging loyalty, advocacy, and brand-bonding behavior. They market, and create experiences, within the branded vision.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Using smells in your Customer Experience is olfactory marketing, and it works. Smell is one of the fastest senses to process, and it is connected directly to the part of the brain that processes emotion. Customer experience is largely dependent on the subconscious mind and the emotional triggers that it evokes.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 8, 2017

Six years later, the outcomes of this study hold true – customers’ emotional and subconscious responses to your brand account for a good half of the total Customer Experience. Red Bull is far from being the only brand that manages its Customer Experiences from an emotional viewpoint.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 28, 2021

They both involve buying decisions and loyalty—and emotions. However, there are some differences between managing Customer Experience in business-to-business (B2B) relationships and business-to-consumer (B2C). Today we will go through those differences with our 5 Rules for Managing Your Customer Experience in B2B relationships.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 13, 2021

Sometimes your Customer Experience requires you to outsource a portion of it to a third party. Maybe it’s an installer or a tow truck service, or even an entire call center, but whatever or whoever it is, this part of the experience is not under your control. Today, we will examine whether this is a good idea or not.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Being Customer-Centric requires rewarding those that contribute to Customer-Centricity. Too many organizations are still not rewarding Customer Experience improvement because they don’t measure it. 5 Reasons Your Current KPIs Are Hurting Your Customer Experience. It’s a simple concept, really. Some do both.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Before I explain what I mean by that and how it has to do with Customer Experience, however, let me first tell you where I was born. How is this applicable to Customer Experience? Well, Loss Aversion is applicable to Customer Experience as well. I won’t even get into why they Scottish chose not to go.

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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. Why Systems Matter to Your Customers.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

For most organizations, just meeting their Customer’s expectations would provide a good experience. To create a great experience you have to define which areas that Customers most value and exceed these aspects of the Customer Experience. Most organizations know what their Customer rational expectations are.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The Five Rules for Measuring and Managing Customer Emotions. Ignoring emotion in your Customer Experience strategy is a big mistake and one you can’t afford to make. Incorporating ways to measure and manage customer emotions is critical for your business strategy today.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 12, 2015

When it comes to the emotional journey during this new and improved process, most organizations cross their fingers and hope for the best. It is a blend of an organizations rational performance, the senses stimulated and emotions evoked and intuitively measured against Customer expectations across all moments of contact.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 4, 2016

Will this bring a totally new meaning to the term The Naked Chef normally associated with Jamie Oliver and a whole new concept in customer experience. London Restaurant Brings a Different Customer Experience. These experiences should appeal to customers’ emotions , not just their rational decision making.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 13, 2016

Consorsbank, Lufthansa, and Zalando—three very different companies—have both undertaken a Customer Experience improvement program. Whilst they each have their unique challenges, their insight on Customer Experience shows us the common obstacles that all of us face when tackling such an important facet of our business.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 10, 2015

You could have a great experience with a product or service, but if something unpleasant or disappointing happens at the end of that experience, that unpleasantness is the part that you remember. It can be the screech that ruins your Customer Experience. This rehearsal should be designed into your Customer experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Your employees have the power to make or break your Customer Experience this holiday season with the customer service they provide. However, when employees aren’t happy, customer service often suffers. However, they also provide an excellent Employee Experience. Remember the Nordstrom Way.

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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 21, 2016

At our customer experience consultancy, we talk a lot about creating value. A customer’s perception of value drives customer loyalty and retention. But when you buy that same bread at a bakery, the aroma of fresh baked goods can add value or enhance your experience.

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2017

As a Customer Experience professional, understanding three trends today is imperative. However, if you can accept them, you are poised not only to deliver an excellent experience, but you will also position yourself to move it to the next level of greatness. Emotions are irrational, however, and inspire irrational behavior.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2016

When you make something personal for a customer, you start to create an emotional relationship with your product or service. And as I have been saying since 2002 when I started up my Customer Experience Consultancy, emotions influence over half of any Customer Experience outcome.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

As Customer Experience Consultants, we advise our clients to learn to take an outside-in approach to their Customer Experience. This is completely backwards thinking that turns a Customer Experience upside down. Designing a Customer-Focused Process. Then, fix it!

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 26, 2016

When shopping malls began dotting the American landscape in the late 1960s and 1970s, they presented a new and exciting customer experience. A first step is to fully understand the experience from the customer’s point of view. The key is to manage customers’ expectations and then exceed them. Good idea or bad?

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 7, 2024

Listen to the podcast: You have a hidden impact on your return on investment for your customer experience management programs. This hidden impact kicks in between a given moment in your customer process and the customer behavior that results from it. Moving the needle toward that increase in value is what emotions do.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The idea I often share is that customer emotions influence over half of your Customer Experience. However, just knowing customers are emotional doesn’t help your business….unless How your customers feel about your experience is the most significant factor to your Customer Experience success.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 15, 2016

” It’s impossible to have customers care for you if they don’t feel you care for them. It’s been our experience that many organizations don’t think about this balance consciously – they’re not even aware of the dial at all. Which dial will “move the CX needle” the most?

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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 15, 2015

State of Multichannel Customer Service Report published by Parature and Microsoft Dynamics CRM, it’s not a moment too soon. It’s the law of Customer Experience Supply and Demand: they demand it so you better supply it! They evoke the wrong Customer emotions during the experience. That’s just the U.K.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The emotional side of the Customer Experience (CX) is often ignored, which is a big mistake in today’s competitive business environment. Since emotion influences more than half the typical CX, deliberate structuring of your emotional CX is essential. I wrote a book about this question, The Intuitive Customer.

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