There’s More to Service – 5 Ways to Help and Care
If I asked you to tell me about an outstanding service experience, you’d likely recount an interaction where a service provider “did something for you.” To ensure my clients don’t get one-dimensional in their service delivery, I’ve created a model I call “5 Ways to Serve.” I share it here to spark team conversations…
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…
Know Your Customer – How to Seize Opportunities and Engage Loyalty
Let’s imagine you have a friend who owns a restaurant, and your friend asks you the following question: Out of necessity during the pandemic, I replaced paper menus with QR code accessible digital menus. Should I continue with the digital menus, or am I keeping them more for my cost savings as opposed to customer…
How to Actually Win Customers – Move Astonishingly and Brazenly Fast (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about four tips for picking up the pace on the service you deliver. 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…
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? How to Guide Customers Through Transitions (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about transitions in your business. 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.
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? How to Guide Customers Through Transitions
While most brands help customers feel valued, appreciated, and loved during the sales phase of their journey, customer love wanes after the sale is complete. Accordingly, customers often wonder, in the words of the 1961 Shirell’s song, “Will you still love me tomorrow?” The shift from sales to service is just one of many “transitional…
Moments of Truth – How to Master What Actually Matters to Customers
In 1981, Jan Carlzon saved Scandinavian Airlines by focusing on “Moments of Truth.” Six years later, he wrote a book titled Moments of Truth – New Strategies for Today’s Consumer-Driven Economy Carlzon described those moments as all interactions between a customer and an employee that lasted 15 seconds or more. While all customer-facing interactions are…
So You Want to Measure Customer Effort – 3 Things You Must Know
When the Greek philosopher Sophocles said, “success is dependent on effort,” he wasn’t thinking about 21st-century customer experiences. Today, in a consumer context, Sophocles might have said: “Customer success should require minimal customer effort! In last week’s newsletter, I offered a rationale for asking customers about the effort they exert to get their needs met…
Are You Easy? How to Drive Loyalty by Reducing Customer Effort
When I was in high school, no one wanted to be described as “easy.” However, an “easy” customer experience is a different story! Let’s take a quick look at customer ease, how to measure effort, when to measure it, and why some customer effort can be positive. Overview of Customer Effort In 2008, the US…
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…