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Top of Heart Not Top of Mind? Sparking Delight Across Every Customer Experience (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about sparking delight across every customer experience. For more information on the topic, please refer to the blog. Otherwise, this infographic visually summarizes the blog’s content. To learn more about our team, please visit josephmichelli.com. To speak to me about your CX journey, please go to josephmichelli.com/contact.  

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Stop Your Customers From Leaving – 5 Things You Urgently Need to Fix

The late Steve Jobs once said, “ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.” Last week, we focused on executing fixes in response to customer complaints. This week let’s talk about driving operational excellence, so customers don’t need to complain – especially in areas that bother them most.…

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Thanks for the Complaint – 4 Tips for Jaw-Dropping Customer Experience Fixes (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discuss ways to respond to complaints in order to elevate customer experiences. Please refer back to the blog for more detail.  Otherwise, this infographic visually highlights the content of the blog.  

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Thanks for the Complaint – 4 Tips for Jaw-Dropping Customer Experience Fixes

I’m not a fan of the line, “a customer complaint is a gift.” I understand the research that supports that utterance (as few as 4% of upset customers complain directly to a business representative). However, the gifts I want to receive come from positive experiences.  Those gifts are loyalty and referrals – not complaints. Accordingly,…

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Do Reward Programs Produce Loyalty? – Tips for Creating Incentives That Drive Business

In prehistoric days – before Starbucks had a loyalty program – I asked, then CEO Howard Schultz, why Starbucks didn’t incentivize repeat business. Essentially, he answered, “why would we decrease organic loyalty when high volume customers return 28 times a month and, in the process, diminish perceived product value.” Fast forward to the 2008 recession, and Starbucks…

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Return on Experience – The Pot of Gold at the End of the CX Rainbow (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed a concept I refer to as ROE. Please refer back to the blog for more detail.  Otherwise, this infographic captures Return On Experience (ROE) and research that demonstrates it.

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Return on Experience – The Pot of Gold at the End of the CX Rainbow

Allow me to launch this new year with the Customer Experience (CX) wisdom of Harry Hynekamp. While working with Harry in his role as Director of Customer Experience for Mercedes-Benz USA, he noted: “If you think customer experience is a destination, you don’t understand the journey.” Since customer experience elevation (for internal and external customers)…

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What’s Value Got to Do With It | Team Member and Customer Experience Value

How do you create value for team members and customers? This is the first post in a series titled “Team Member and Customer Experience Value.”  In my recently released book titled Stronger Through Adversity, I wrote that “at its core, business is simple. Success involves six components of value creation and exchange: 1. Explore value: Understand…

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Make it Technology-Aided and Human-Powered: Deliver a Flourish of Humanity

Thank you for joining me for this series titled “Make it Technology-Aided and Human-Powered.” This series provides tools to help you position your customer and employee experience for relevance in a COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 world. This is the final installment in this series. In my last post, I focused on creating, at minimum, two customer journeys –…

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Make it Technology-Aided and Human-Powered: Map the Hybrid Journey

Thank you for joining me for this series titled “Make it Technology-Aided and Human-Powered.” This series will provide tools to help you position your customer and employee experience for relevance in a COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 world. This installment is titled “Map the Hybrid Journey.” I now know how my mom felt when I lost my driver’s license…

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