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Imagine it is 2025 – How’s Your Customer Experience?

What will customers expect and encounter when they interact with you and your business in 2025? I know that the question is asking about a distant horizon line, but it wasn’t long ago that 2020 seemed like it was forever far away. As a consultant to Fortune 500 companies, I have had the privilege of…

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Trusting Your People [Infographic]

Customer experience is best defined as the perception of your customers based on all the interactions they have with your brand. Some of those perceptions extend beyond their direct interactions with you. Some people have suggested that when it comes to customer loyalty, it’s good to create service breakdowns that you can resolve well. I have…

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Trusting Your People | Superpowering Your Customer Experience

Customer experience is best defined as the perception of your customers based on all the interactions they have with your brand. Some of those perceptions extend beyond their direct interactions with you. Take United Airlines, for example, my perception of the brand goes beyond the flights I have taken with them. It’s shaped by the experiences of…

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Optimal Customer Visioning [Infographic]

Over the past decade, I began using customer journey maps as a way to envision the optimal future customer experience. As part of SWOT analyses and other strategic planning activities or as a free-standing tool, I often work with leaders to not only see the current state of their customer experience and their initiatives to drive incremental…

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Are you Letting your Products and Technology Down?

Even though I spend most of my career helping brands meld technology, products, process, and people into optimal customer experiences I must admit I can become “wide-eyed” with the speed and benefits of digital solutions. Take Starbucks’ deployment of Microsoft’s Azure technologies for example. Starbucks (a company about which I have written two books The…

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When the Customer Experience Goes Awry [Differentiation Through Service Recovery]

Forgive me for sounding braggadocious, but I AM PERFECTLY IMPERFECT! But then again so are you and so is your business. Unfortunately, some leaders either don’t know they are imperfect, or they seek to fool consumers into thinking their businesses are flawless. In those environments, team members read the invisible handwriting on the wall and…

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Making Magic for Customers in 2019 {Infographic}

Let’s learn from Airbnb, Disney, and The Ritz-Carlton to make magical experiences for your customers in 2019.    

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Deliver Convenience Before the Year Ends {Infographic}

As I’ve been working with Airbnb, I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to focus on customer experience delivery in the context of the burgeoning sharing economy. While there are vast differences between guest experience excellence at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company (the focus of my book The New Gold Standard) and what is needed to create a memorable…

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Quickly Before the Year Ends – Deliver Convenience

This is my last blog post for 2018 as I hunker down in the homestretch of writing a book about Airbnb which will be published by McGraw-Hill in 2019. As I’ve been working with Airbnb, I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to focus on customer experience delivery in the context of the burgeoning sharing economy. While there…

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