Out With The Old, In With The New And Not So New: 3 Trends to Consider In Customer Experience Delivery
Are you ready for conversational commerce, digital gifting, and secondhand markets? Great customer experience brands are constantly tracking macro-changes in consumer behavior and trying to determine if an emerging trend is simply a fad (hot for the short run but soon to fizzle) or a meaningful pattern worthy of infrastructure investment. Here are three trends…
What are Your UICs? Lessons from American & United Airlines Customer Experience Debacles
I call them UICs (unique industry challenges) and I see them as foundational issues that must be overcome to deliver outstanding customer experiences. Recently, high profile incidents at American Airlines (a confrontation between a flight attendant and a mother with two children as well as another passenger overheard the flight attendant’s behavior concerning the mother’s…
A Contrarian View on the United Airlines Customer Nightmare (We all have a role to play)
I was going to write a blog about all the missteps involved in the United Airlines customer experience disaster. Then I started seeing an “abundance of critics” rushing out of the woodworks – some of whom clearly have never tried to help a company strike a balance between customer needs and profitability. With all this…
Likely to Recommend vs. Actually Recommending: Loyalty vs. Advocacy
I am a huge proponent of the concept behind the Net Promoter Score® (NPS)®. As you likely know the NPS® is calculated by asking customers: How likely is it that you would recommend our company/product/service to a friend or colleague? Respondents are given choices on a zero to 10 point scale. Those who indicate 9 or…
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