Customer Satisfaction vs Delight? Make the Choice for Business Survival
You probably don’t want to read the following sentence. Up to 75% of customers who leave your business are likely satisfied or highly satisfied with your products and services. How fair is that? Fair or otherwise, customers aren’t making purchase and loyalty decisions based on satisfaction – they choose based on emotion! Alan Zorfas and…
Top of Heart Not Top of Mind? Sparking Delight Across Every Customer Experience
As you probably know, TOMA (Top of Mind Awareness) is a key marketing metric. It is calculated by asking consumers to share which brand comes to mind first for a particular sector or niche (e.g., automotive or coffee). I advocate for an alternative metric which I refer to as TOHE (Top of Heart Engagement). I…
Moments of Truth – How to Master What Actually Matters to Customers (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about four tips for owning arrival moments and customer perceptions of belonging. 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…
Moments of Truth – How to Master What Actually Matters to Customers
In 1981, Jan Carlzon saved Scandinavian Airlines by focusing on “Moments of Truth.” Six years later, he wrote a book titled Moments of Truth – New Strategies for Today’s Consumer-Driven Economy Carlzon described those moments as all interactions between a customer and an employee that lasted 15 seconds or more. While all customer-facing interactions are…
So You Want to Measure Customer Effort – 3 Things You Must Know (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about 3 thing you must know in measuring customer effort. 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.
So You Want to Measure Customer Effort – 3 Things You Must Know
When the Greek philosopher Sophocles said, “success is dependent on effort,” he wasn’t thinking about 21st-century customer experiences. Today, in a consumer context, Sophocles might have said: “Customer success should require minimal customer effort! In last week’s newsletter, I offered a rationale for asking customers about the effort they exert to get their needs met…
Starbucks: Greatness Personified/Excellence Diversified – What About You?
I met him while working with Starbucks around the time I wrote my first book about the company titled The Starbucks Experience. I’d venture to say that Starbucks might have been little more than one man’s vision if it wasn’t for his leadership strengths. He was one of the original architects of the brand – a…
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