Show Me the Money: The Why of Customer Experience Excellence
It sounds like a good idea. Striving to deliver great customer experiences intuitively seems like smart business, doesn’t it? Intuition, unfortunately, doesn’t necessarily pay the bills! So should you invest money in programs designed to improve the engagement and loyalty of your customers? If so, where should you invest for the greatest return? One need only look…
Brand Independence Day: Staying in the Black from One of the Men in Black
While I have many mentors when it comes to business success, branding, and customer experience delivery, seldom do I look to actors or actresses to give me wisdom in these areas. Recently, however, I was taken aback by the succinct and powerful branding perspective offered by Will Smith. Will Smith started his career as a rapper in the…
Personal Brand Vetting – THEY are Listening
As I help business leaders deliver branded customer experiences, I often start with the premise that brands are nothing more than what people say about us when we’re not around. From there, I work with leaders to determine what they want to be known for and what they want to hear their customers say about…
Don’t Invent – Innovate: The Art of Resolving Human Need
For me… Invention is the creation of something new and Innovation is creating a new solution that addresses a human need If I were so inclined, I could go into my garage cobble together some random materials and produce a “one of a kind” object. I could call it Joseph’s garage invention. While I might…
Countering Terror with a Service Heart
Yet again the world is rocked by a terrible and senseless mass shooting. In a community not far from me in Central Florida, innocent men and women entered a business not expecting to run out in horror, be carried out in pain, or not walk out at all. The media will spotlight the human suffering…