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…
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.…
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.
Thanks for the Complaint – 4 Tips for Jaw-Dropping Customer Experience Fixes
I’m not a fan of the line, “a customer complaint is a gift.” I understand the research that supports that utterance (as few as 4% of upset customers complain directly to a business representative). However, the gifts I want to receive come from positive experiences. Those gifts are loyalty and referrals – not complaints. Accordingly,…
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.
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…
Return on Experience – The Pot of Gold at the End of the CX Rainbow (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed a concept I refer to as ROE. Please refer back to the blog for more detail. Otherwise, this infographic captures Return On Experience (ROE) and research that demonstrates it.
There’s More than One Way | Mindset & Agility – The Rocket Fuel for Customer Experience Success
In 1983, while pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Southern California, I got a creative nudge from the book A Whack on the Side of the Head – How You Can Be More Creative. The book’s author, Roger von Oech (who received his Ph.D. from Stanford in the history of ideas and creativity), offered…
Think Efficiency and Effectiveness | Team Member and Customer Experience Value
This is the third post in a series titled “Team Member and Customer Experience Value.” Writing for the online magazine Simplicable, technologist John Spacey defines value creation as “any process that creates outputs that are more valuable than its inputs. This is the basis of efficiency and productivity.” In my recently released book Stronger Through Adversity,…
Stronger Through Adversity | Formally Listen Beyond the Words
Thank you for joining me for this series titled Stronger Through Adversity. The book by the same name is based on conversations I’ve had with more than 140 global leaders as they navigate through COVID-19. In my last post, I outlined how leaders who participated in the book reported enhanced formal and informal listening for all…
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