Joseph Michelli

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.

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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…

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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.    

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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…

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Stop Your Customers From Leaving – 5 Things You Urgently Need to Fix (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discuss ways to address 5 primary customer issues before they become complaints. Please refer back to the blog for more detail.  Otherwise, this infographic visually highlights the content of the blog.

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Stop Your Customers From Leaving – 5 Things You Urgently Need to Fix

The late Steve Jobs once said, “ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.” Last week, we focused on executing fixes in response to customer complaints. This week let’s talk about driving operational excellence, so customers don’t need to complain – especially in areas that bother them most.…

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Thanks for the Complaint – 4 Tips for Jaw-Dropping Customer Experience Fixes (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discuss ways to respond to complaints in order to elevate customer experiences. Please refer back to the blog for more detail.  Otherwise, this infographic visually highlights the content of the blog.  

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Do Reward Programs Produce Loyalty? – Tips for Creating Incentives That Drive Business (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed distinctions between customer loyalty and a rewards program.  For more information on the topic, please refer to the blog.   Otherwise, this infographic visually summarizes those distinctions and offers tips for building a successful customer incentive program. For more information please reach out to me using the contact tab.

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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…

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Return on Experience – The Pot of Gold at the End of the CX Rainbow

Allow me to launch this new year with the Customer Experience (CX) wisdom of Harry Hynekamp. While working with Harry in his role as Director of Customer Experience for Mercedes-Benz USA, he noted: “If you think customer experience is a destination, you don’t understand the journey.” Since customer experience elevation (for internal and external customers)…

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