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Why Customers Make Strange Decisions

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In both situations, you are going to spend more money than you thought you were going to for entertainment. So, when you lose the ticket, you have drained what you allotted mentally for your entertainment budget that evening, so you are unwilling to spend another $20 (it isn’t in the budget, after all!). In both cases, you are out $20.

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8 Worst Mistakes You Don’t Want to repeat!

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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. And then the stories go viral or become the subject of well-produced and highly entertaining country song on YouTube. He was roused, where it appeared he would get to work.

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Retail’s Worst Nightmare – Virtual Reality!

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Toms shoes, for example, hopes to entertain its customers with an in-store virtual reality video that immerses them in a company trip to Peru to distribute shoes to children. As a customer experience consultant, I see customer experience at the heart of all of these virtual reality efforts.

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Make the Complicated Simple

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I quoted several people from sports, entertainment and business. Siegel+Gale is a consulting firm that specializes in making brands simple. Earlier this year, I wrote an article about the hard work it takes to make something look easy. The gist of the article was that we work hard to make doing business with us easy.

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Amazing Business Radio: Josh Liebman

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With more than 12 years of experience in the Hospitality, Tourism, and Attractions Industry, Joshua specializes in guest experience training, feedback analysis, mystery shopping, and quality assurance consulting.

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7 Books that changed our lives, will they change yours? – Essential summer reading

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Shortly after the BT Customer Experience program was a success, I wrote my first of seven books on Customer Experience, Building Great Customer Experiences (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) , and started my global Customer Experience consultancy, Beyond Philosophy. Rose has some entertaining examples where he illustrates that point.

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Framing Effects – Discover This Powerful Marketing Technique To Gain Growth

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Moreover, these games are usually fun, so much so that sometimes the entertainment industry makes them into a game show. Colin Shaw is the founder and CEO of Beyond Philosophy , one of the world’s leading Customer experience consultancy & training organizations. The participants play, typically competing for a payout.

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