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It’s Not Just Who You Know: Building Deeper Connections for Success (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about elevating your business and building deep and lasting connections with key stakeholder groups. 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…

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It’s Not Just Who You Know: Building Deeper Connections for Success

We’ve all heard the adage, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” I believe this saying doesn’t tell the whole story. In today’s world, building meaningful relationships and understanding the people around you goes beyond superficial acquaintance. So, I’ve modified the phrase: “It’s not what you know OR who you know. It’s what…

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Your Customers Are Changing Fast, Are You? (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about effectively adapting to changing customer needs and preferences. 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

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Birds of Different Feathers SHOULD Flock Together: The Power of Strategic Partnerships for Sustainable Growth (Infographics)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about creating unexpected and mutually beneficial partnerships. 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

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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…

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Where is Your Customer Experience Going?: Enhancing Customer Engagement through Journey Mapping

Sometimes, we are too close to something – a process, an idea, a product, or a service – to see it with accurate, objective clarity and perspective. This can be especially (and paradoxically) true when a notion leaps from our brains. We think we know what it looks, smells, and feels like as a customer…

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Walking Your Talk: Cultivating Authentic Customer Service (Part 1 of 2)

I have often suggested that a measure of a person and a brand is what people say about you when you are not around. My book “The Zappos Experience” includes many customer voices demonstrating how people talk about service brands that authentically care about them. For example, here’s an X (formerly Twitter) post: @ptubach “Went…

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Autonomy and Guidelines – The Art of Front-Line Empowerment (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about empowering your team. 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

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Autonomy and Guidelines – The Art of Front-Line Empowerment

Why do people leave employers? An outstanding customer experience professional shared, “I didn’t want to leave the company, but I didn’t have the authority to make things right for customers, and escalated issues didn’t get resolved.” Her experience highlights a significant issue in customer service management: the need for more empowerment for front-line employees. A…

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Lovemark? Infusing your brand with Mystery, Sensuality and Intimacy (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about achieving “customer loyalty beyond reason. 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

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