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…
What’s Love Got to Do With It? – How to Conquer Customers’ Hearts (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discuss the role of love in business and tips for winning the heart of your customer. Please refer back to the blog for more detail. Otherwise, this infographic visually highlights the content of the blog.
What’s Love Got to Do With It? – How to Conquer Customers’ Hearts
To get in the spirit of this post, it helps (although it’s not required) to play Tina Turner’s What’s Love Got to Do With It? When it comes to business and, more specifically, customer experience delivery, what does love have to do with that? In short, – everything! If you bristle at using “love” in…
Customer Experiences Beset With Bows – How to Celebrate and Delight Every Time (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discuss ways to put a bow on all customer experiences. Please refer back to the blog for more detail. Otherwise, this infographic visually highlights the content of the blog.
Customer Experiences Beset With Bows – How to Celebrate and Delight Every Time
As you get ready for Valentine’s day, you might want to pay particular attention to the boxes and bows. Did you know that in America alone, we spend over 2.6 billion dollars annually on wrapping paper and ribbons? I was reminded of the “power of bows” while consulting for and writing a book about Mercedes-Benz…
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,…
Do Reward Programs Produce Loyalty? – Tips for Creating Incentives That Drive Business
In prehistoric days – before Starbucks had a loyalty program – I asked, then CEO Howard Schultz, why Starbucks didn’t incentivize repeat business. Essentially, he answered, “why would we decrease organic loyalty when high volume customers return 28 times a month and, in the process, diminish perceived product value.” Fast forward to the 2008 recession, and Starbucks…
From Promises to Commitments | How to Drive Delight the Mercedes-Benz Way
For context and based on requests, I’m in the process of presenting key concepts from my ten McGraw-Hill customer experience and leadership books. This is the first in the five-post series, “How to Drive Delight the Mercedes-Benz Way.” In my book, Driven to Delight: Delivering World-Class Customer Experience the Mercedes-Benz Way, I outlined leadership and customer experience strategies that catapulted Mercedes-Benz USA…
Cherish and Challenge Your Legacy | How to Deliver World-Class Customer Experiences – Leading the Starbucks Way
This is the final post in a 5-post series about my book Leading the Starbucks Way: 5 Principles to Connect with Your Customers, Your Products, and Your People. In the context of Cherish and Challenge Your Legacy, I asked, then CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz what he wanted his legacy to be. He responded, “I want to…
Love to be Loved | How to Deliver World-Class Customer Experiences – Leading the Starbucks Way
This is the second in a 5-post series, “How to Deliver World-Class Customer Experiences – Leading the Starbucks Way.” In this installment, we continue to explore business concepts in my book Leading the Starbucks Way: 5 Principles to Connect with Your Customers, Your Products, and Your People. When sitting across from Howard Schultz (the former CEO…
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