Being Present Means More than Presents – How to Absolutely Delight in Holiday Moments
Every year around this time, I re-read Unplug the Christmas Machine: A Complete Guide to Putting Love and Joy Back into the Season. I first came across the book 30 years ago when I gave speeches on how to manage holiday stress. In the book, Jo Robinson and Jean Staeheli focused on four main themes:…
You Need to Deliver Extraordinary Customer Experiences – Now More Than Ever
In an article for Computer Weekly titled Efficiency to Empathy: Customer Experience in Cost-of-Living Crisis, Madeline Bennet encourages urgent action to improve customer experiences. Madeline writes: A recent survey of 2,000 shoppers from customer engagement software and services supplier Verint highlights the importance of customer experience (CX) for how businesses will fare during this downturn.…
Appreciating Customers Every Day – The Importance of Authentic Thanks
Thanks for spending time with me this year through my posts and books. I’m also grateful to people around the world who continue to entrust me to help them elevate team member and customer experiences. This time of year typically provides a time for reflection and a context for expressing gratitude. Specifically in the US,…
Make Customer Breakdowns into Breakthroughs – How to Embrace Service Shortcomings (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about how to make customer breakdowns into breakthroughs. 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.
How to Design Wow – An Approach to Satisfy and Delight (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed the steps to design your next product/experience using the Kano model . 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.…
How to Design Wow – An Approach to Satisfy and Delight
Let’s assume you want to build a new product or experience that will satisfy and delight your customers. How do you select which features to include and exclude? While there are many design models available, let’s look at the Kano model, developed by Dr. Noriaki Kano, a professor of quality management at the Tokyo University of…
Do You Want People to Repurchase? Become a Confidence Building Business
Read on ONLY if you want your existing customers to return and buy more from you. Unfortunately, fabulous products and exceptional services don’t guarantee repeat customers. Marketing messages and new products bombard us all, so we have to give customers reasons to repurchase. Here’s how. Help customers feel confident that they choose wisely, and Practice…
Moments of Truth – How to Master What Actually Matters to Customers (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about four tips for owning arrival moments and customer perceptions of belonging. 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…
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.…
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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