Customer Experience and Value Add: Make it Personal, Emotional, and Sensory
Being raised in an emotionally expressive Italian family, it’s no wonder that I’ve been attracted to the emotional side of business and the importance of “emotional value” in customer experience creation. Over the years, I’ve gravitated toward thought leaders who’ve echo my belief that “all business is personal” and to my view that “behind every…
Customer Experience Creation: Give ’em a Reason to Hire and Keep You
Would you eat at a restaurant where no human employees are present? Ten years ago I couldn’t have imagined I would ask such a question. Now, I am saying “yes” to that inquiry! Itsa Eatsa In case you missed it there is such a restaurant it is called Eatsa. Eatsa is touted as an “employee…
Customer Experience Speaker, Consultant, Author OR…A Robot
At first, I didn’t have the heart to place my various occupational titles in the search field. I was afraid I’d find I’d already been replaced. However, a wave of courage washed over me and I went boldly into the unknown. Whew…as an author I might be safe with a percentage just less than 4%.…
Service Delivered: Timeless Change!
Now, when it comes to customer service, home delivery (in keeping with the lyrics of a Peter Allen song) represents something “old,” which has been repurposed through digital technology, “to be new again.”
Looking Beyond the OBVIOUS: Spotting Customer Experience SUBTLETIES
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to identify the obvious trend away from brick and mortar in favor of online purchasing. Store closings, layoffs, and predictions of doom haunt many traditional retailers such as the Sears Holding Corporation (parent entity for both Sears and Kmart and an employer of 140,000 people). In a recent SEC filing…
