Tis the Season: Scaling-up for Consistently Memorable Holiday Experiences (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about forging rapidly scaling memorable and consistent customer experiences. 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
Transforming Service into Experience: The Power of Personal Connection
Customer service is often defined by transactions that fulfill a stated need. However, customer experience goes far beyond need fulfillment. Loyalty-building experiences are created when businesses surprise customers with care that exceeds expectations. Here’s an example from Capital One that highlights how a business can transform a simple service interaction into an unforgettable experience. A…
The Truth About Customer Experience: It’s the Journey, Not Just the Touchpoints (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about creating end-to-end customer experiences. 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
The Truth About Customer Experience: It’s the Journey, Not Just the Touchpoints
Some years ago, I read a Harvard Business Review article titled “The Truth About Customer Experience” by Alex Rawson, Ewan Duncan, and Conor Jones. My key takeaway from the article is that transactional touchpoints can distort a company’s true understanding of customer engagement. More importantly, they can misrepresent how customers behave towards the company. According…
Customer Experience (CX) Day – Celebrating the Power of Partnership (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about forging strategic partnerships that serve others. 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
Customer Experience (CX) Day – Celebrating the Power of Partnership
About 18 months ago, Dr. Joseph Hopkins, President of Campbellsville University, contacted me to discuss elevating servant leadership and, more specifically, to explore how we might partner to develop service excellence curricula and programs. President Joseph Hopkins After some due diligence, I am glad I said “yes” to being a visiting assistant professor of service…
Are you a Lovemark? The Journey to Becoming a Beloved Brand
So would you? Would you have your wedding at Starbucks? How about your reception? Let’s switch venues: how about at Taco Bell or Subway? While I have never heard of a Taco Bell reception, I have been tracking the phenomenon of Starbucks weddings and receptions since I worked on my first book about the company…
Birds of Different Feathers SHOULD Flock Together: The Power of Strategic Partnerships for Sustainable Growth
The recently announced partnership between Starbucks and Mercedes-Benz definitely grabbed my attention. I’ve consulted for and written about both brands but had yet to conceptualize them working together. This somewhat unusual partnership addresses mutual goals and allows us to “think beyond” our obvious partnership opportunities. The Starbucks and Mercedes-Benz Collaboration Starbucks announced a strategic collaboration…
Valued but Not Equal – A Case for Customer Segmentation (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about effective customer segmentation. 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
Valued but Not Equal – A Case for Customer Segmentation
Customers aren’t always right and certainly don’t contribute equally to your business’s success, but…customers always pay your bills! I am struck by two groups of business leaders – those who treat customers as an afterthought to profits or products and those who treat customers as the reason they exist. I have always ascribed to Peter…
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