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

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

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. Train employees in managing emotional experiences.

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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

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. Don’t underestimate the scent in your retail experience design. So what can the rest of businesses learn from them?

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 16, 2015

When we train front line people on how to read nonverbal communication, we recognize this is a critical part of emotional intelligence. When training front-line teams, it is critical they can interpret not only what Customers nonverbal clues communicate but also what they communicate with their own. Why Do You Sigh?

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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. Click here to learn more.

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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

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

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. Train them a lot more than you do now.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Many companies are attempting to improve their Customer Experience focus on some of the right things and then ignore the others. So while the vast majority of companies today know that putting the Customer at the heart of everything they do is important, when it’s time to do it, they are flummoxed.

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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

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

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 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. However, if you do disappoint them, listen to why.

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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

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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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

(Sounds a lot better than, “Welcome, customer!”). She wanted an opinion on why we call the experience a customer experience. In her mind, using the word “customer” puts distance between customers and the company. The post Does It Matter How You Refer to Your Customers? Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Happy memories are essential to your Customer Experience. In my latest book, The Intuitive Customer: 7 imperatives for moving your Customer Experience to the next level, co-author Professor Ryan Hamilton of Emory University and I talk about the importance of memories for your Customer Experience.

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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

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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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. Follow Colin Shaw on Twitter @ColinShaw_CX.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 8, 2019

Now, when I say value, I’m talking about which emotions make people spend more money, and make people give you better Net Promoter Scores. These results were also published in my third book, The DNA of Customer Experience: How Emotions Drive Value (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). Finally, you measure it.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 13, 2021

We know that the most significant influence on a Customer Experience outcome is how a customer feels about it, for good or ill. Therefore, it is essential that you are deliberate about which specific emotion you evoke (for example, we want more good than ill). .” Key Ideas to Improve your Customer Experience.

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CCNG

AUGUST 28, 2024

By rapidly embracing digital tools like AI, Analytics, and Automation, contact centers are completely changing how they function and deliver customer experience. By automating certain actions, contact centers can reduce resolution time and ensure consistency and accuracy in handling customer inquiries and data entry.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 5, 2017

A new study by Calabrio reports that the majority of call center employees don’t feel trained to handle customer problems, making their jobs stressful and demotivating. Chances are your call center employees feel the same way—especially if you train like most companies do. Second, it involves a commitment to a customer focus.

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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

JUNE 25, 2020

Customer Memories are a fascinating subject. In many ways, they are what your Customer Experience is, at least from the customers’ perspective, which we also discussed on a recent podcast. They are certainly the most critical element of your customer loyalty. There are several ways.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 23, 2017

It can sound a little creepy and Big Brother-ish, but this proactive approach is very important when it comes to building a great customer experience. I discuss the importance of this in my recent book, The Intuitive Customer: 7 imperatives for moving your Customer Experience to the next level , which I co-authored with Prof.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Customer Experience , like everything else in the world, is changing. What customers want and what they do is changing, too. He compares where we are for the transformation of Customer Experience as the transition from driving cars with gauges to driving Indy cars.

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

What wasn’t so completely understood at the time is that that this level of employee commitment and personal investment also positively impacted the employee experience. Customer experience pros can argue back-and-forth about whether a vendor can create deep emotions such as bonding and love in a customer.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 17, 2017

In our customer experience consultancy, we spend a lot of time educating people about the components of a great customer experience. Some companies get it and they’re creating an emotional connection that brings them loyal fans. Goldstein has hit on a key point about customer experience.

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