Call Center Weekly

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

But what insights can we learn by understanding the emotions of customers? How can we better position ourselves as a brand by viewing the journey and experience through the lens of customer emotions? In addition to these basic emotions, we also detect 97 secondary emotions and 8 moods.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

We like to belong to a group. Humans naturally like to create groups that have similar characteristics. We like to have a sense of belonging and identity to our groups, which causes us to begin comparing our group to others. Comparing groups creates an “Us Versus Them” mentality. They like to be part of the group.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 25, 2020

Midway, the research team brought the participants in as two groups for a different study. Researchers showed one group “Live the healthy way, eat five fruits and veggies a day,” among others, and the other group, “Each and every dining-hall tray needs five fruits and veggies a day,” among others.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Enlightened: Enlightened organizations recognize how important the emotional aspects of their experience are for their Customers and have identified what emotions they want to evoke during their experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 18, 2020

AI is great at determining how a large group feels in general, but not individually. Amazon is working on capturing the data about the nuances of customer emotions. AI is excellent at categorizing groups. This news is excellent as many organizations do not have sufficient segmentation in their customer groups.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Whilst the above example is impressive and coming from HBR, this next example is bound to attract senior leadership’s attention as it links stock prices to customer satisfaction. I have a whole post that looks into this relationship in more detail.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The group that watched the scarcity messages were more aggressive in the game than those who weren’t. Goldsmith and her team had two groups of participants. Then, researchers showed the two groups Post-It Notes, an unassuming product. Scarcity Strategies Target Customers Emotions that Lead to Short-Term Spends.

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Marketing Transportation Customer emotions Consulting 53

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 28, 2019

Many companies segment customers based on the amount they purchase, e.g., small, medium, and large. However, in our global Customer Experience consultancy, we encourage moving away from segmenting based on how much they spend with you and instead grouping centered on other variables. Personas are represented by an archetype.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Marcario’s post talked about Patagonia’s grants to environmental groups and then said, “Along with many loyal customers, the initiative attracted thousands who have never purchased from Patagonia before. We use tools like customer mirrors and emotional signature to assess the current customer experience and design a better one.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This week, we feature an article by Zhecho Dobrev, leading principal consultant at Beyond Philosophy and author of The Big Miss: How Organizations Overlook the Value of Emotions. He shares the value that customer emotions bring to a company. Where do customer relationships feature on those journey maps?

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 29, 2014

So they offered the next group of participants $100 if they won vs. $50 to give away if they lost and as you can imagine more people took this bet. An experiment was conducted with students to bet on “Heads or Tails”. If they would win they’d get $50. If they’d lose they would have to give $50. Not many people took that bet.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 27, 2019

By monitoring a group of your customers going through the digital experience and watching for subtle changes in facial expressions, you can see how they are feeling at each stage in the experience. You can assess how your customers are feeling today, and then make changes to the experience and repeat the assessment.

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Airlines Customer emotions Accountability Consulting 345

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Nonetheless, though modern Americans have more choice than any group of people ever has before, and thus, presumably, more freedom and autonomy, we don’t seem to be benefiting from it psychologically.”. Zhecho Dobrev, one of our consultants published his musings on this concept. . <

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

There’s little doubt that engaged customers can, and do, help shape the brand. From my perspective, at least, experiences that drive customers’ emotional brand trust and bonding can be both shaped and sustained. They can also provide useful feedback and build brand-based communities. Today, is that enough?

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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. The bottom line is this.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Perhaps the argument was that if this group could believe hard enough, it would make it so. . While there will be a hardcore group of hyper-enthusiastic people who will never change their behavior, most people will resolve the dissonance they feel in your experience. Some of you might remember that I love Apple products.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Enlightened organizations recognize the significance of customer emotions evoked by their experience, and although they may not have achieved much difference from a Transactional company’s experience yet, the mindset is different. (Most organizations are Transactional.)

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 7, 2016

Those same positive emotions are the building blocks for an improved customer experience. We at Beyond Philosophy spent over two years conducting research with the London Business School to develop the world’s largest database of customer emotions and touchpoints, which we call the “Emotional Signature” database.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 19, 2019

Grouping or segmenting your customers based on their behavior is an excellent way to segment your customer base. Then, creating personas that represent these groups help your team understand the concept. Measure customer emotions, but in real time with facial recognition.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 29, 2016

These predictions can be used to predict the behavior of customers, employees, and patients, etc., and to determine opportunities or risks with these groups. If you enjoyed this post, you might be interested in the following blogs: Industry Secrets Leaked: Predicting Customer Behavior. How to Measure Customer Emotions.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 19, 2019

Grouping or segmenting your customers based on their behavior is an excellent way to segment your customer base. Then, creating personas that represent these groups help your team understand the concept. Measure customer emotions, but in real time with facial recognition.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 2, 2020

It still has the feeling of being a part of a group with shared beliefs. The three Fs are wording for Apple employees to use to manage customers’ emotions. For example, if the customer objected to the high price of Apple products, the Genius would have guidance on how to manage that objection.

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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. Recently, environmental groups have been blocking traffic in London.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 12, 2015

If you find a person who is a good representative of a sample of one of your C ustomer personas , you can get a pretty good idea of how your experience is being interpreted by that whole group based on the feedback you get from that individual. And changes to improve that reaction will also get the same response.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 30, 2015

Another study from statista.com indicated that the percentage rose to 42% in lower income groups but only to 37% in higher income brackets. To avoid this situation, organizations need to consider their target Customer’s wants and needs. What makes your target Customer feel elite?

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 27, 2019

This isn’t just our idea; it’s backed up by the stats: Companies with the strongest omnichannel customer engagement strategies retain an average of 89% of customers, compared to 33% for companies with weak omnichannel strategies (Aberdeen Group Inc.) 1) Be personal. We’d love to tell you more about it, so get in touch!

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

We like to belong to a group. Humans naturally like to create groups that have similar characteristics. We like to have a sense of belonging and identity to our groups, which causes us to begin comparing our group to others. Comparing groups creates an “Us Versus Them” mentality. They like to be part of the group.

Customer emotions 150

Customer emotions Government Consulting Consulting 150

Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

We like to belong to a group. Humans naturally like to create groups that have similar characteristics. We like to have a sense of belonging and identity to our groups, which causes us to begin comparing our group to others. Comparing groups creates an “Us Versus Them” mentality. They like to be part of the group.

Customer emotions 150

Customer emotions Government Consulting Consulting 150

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 11, 2015

Some retailers have turned to devices such as curation, where groupings of products or services can be offered, thus saving consumers both time and money. This trend works well for building more strategic, bonded relationships with customers. This example is consistent with some overall gamification trends.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 11, 2024

Listen to the podcast: One of the things I talk about a lot with clients is customer emotions. The reason I do is because over half of any experience is highly influenced by customer emotions, which, among other things, motivate customers to act. What job it is hired to do depends on the buyer.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 7 Ways to Boost Customers’ Emotional Connection and Loyalty with Your Brand by Annette Franz (MarTech) Loyalty. What’s emotion got to do with it? Here are my top five picks from last week.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 4, 2015

Wolfe labeled such organizations “humanistic” companies, i.e. those which seek to maximize their value to each group of stakeholders, not just to shareholders. Kotler picked up a theme that was articulated in the 2007 book, Firms of Endearment. Authors Jagdish Sheth, Raj Sisodia, and Daniel B.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Many customers like to feel that they are working with a company that supports their social reform desires, whether that’s being green or lifting a social group, etc. Dobrev says an exciting subset to this term is Social Causes. The Symbolic Value Driver area of digital transformation is one we talk about a lot on our podcast.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 5, 2015

. – Customers are known, but still mostly in the aggregate – Customer service is somewhat more evident (though still viewed as a cost center), with a focus on complaint and problem resolution (but not proactive complaint generation; internal groups tend to point fingers and blame each other for negative customer issues – Measurement is mostly around (..)

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 20, 2015

Applying a multivariate technique to the bonding level segments, it was learned that the company’s ability to anticipate a customer’s future needs truly distinguished the positive from the negative group. This was essential to building bonded and positive customer behavior.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Enlightened: Enlightened organizations recognize how important the emotional aspects of their experience are for their Customers and have identified what emotions they want to evoke during their experience. Beyond Philosophy provides consulting, specialized research & training from their headquarters in Tampa, Florida, USA.

Customer Experience 150

Customer Experience Customer centricity Journey mapping Customer emotions 150

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Enlightened: Enlightened organizations recognize how important the emotional aspects of their experience are for their Customers and have identified what emotions they want to evoke during their experience. Beyond Philosophy provides consulting, specialized research & training from their headquarters in Tampa, Florida, USA.

Customer Experience 150

Customer Experience Customer centricity Journey mapping Customer emotions 150