Joseph Michelli

How to Float a Complaint

Imagine – a picturesque resort retreat near a lake. To take full advantage of its serene surroundings, the resort offers canoes in which guests can paddle onto the lake to enjoy nature’s splendor. You are all set to hop in a canoe and enjoy the nature at her best but despite unused canoes at the…

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Guest blog by Bradley Taylor: Is lack of marketing education letting your firm down?

It is my pleasure to introduce you to my guest blogger from over the pond. Bradley Taylor joins us from Derby, England to discuss the risks of limited marketing knowledge…. Is lack of marketing education letting your firm down? Many firms lose potential clients and business partners as a result of poor marketing strategies. In…

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Who Are Your Customers?

We don’t often think of Starbucks as being the new kid on the block.  Yet, India Real Time, a blog published by the Wall Street Journal, fairly recently reported that the majority of India’s population of 1.2 billion people have never heard of it.  Rather, their equivalent café experience is with Café Coffee Day (CCD)…

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Salespeople are the Real Super Heroes

Jeb Blount, author of People Buy You was kind enough to offer a guest blog for your enjoyment this week.  I will provide my blog later in the week but am grateful to be able to share Jeb’s thoughts… Let’s get real. The world continues to wallow in an economic malaise where unemployment is high…

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The Conundrum of Consistency: When More Becomes…More of the Same

Consumers value consistency.  Consistency of service, consistency of product, consistency of availability, particularly when we travel.  But consumers also value the unique and, of late, the local – that feeling of having discovered a secret gem.  As a business owner, how do you cater to this perplexing paradox? Many brands enter communities and appear “out…

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Rewarding Complaints – Interview with Gautam Mahtani

Please enjoy this final installment of my interview with Gautam Mahtani, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Customer Feedback Systems. Joseph: Gautam if someone wants to bring you into their organization to assess their strategies for actionable voice of the customer intelligence how would they get in contact with you? What are the phases of that…

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Customer Feedback Loop – Interview with Gautam Mahtani

Welcome to the second of three installments of my interview with Gautam Mahtani Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Customer Feedback Systems. Joseph: Gautam what is the best practice model you identified for creating a high velocity customer feedback loop? Gautam: The first step is to make solicitation of customer feedback quick and easy and deploy…

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Assessing the Voice of the Customer – Interview with Gautam Mahtani

Today on the blog, I feature the first part of an interview with Gautam Mahtani, Loyalty Strategist and Co-founder of Customer Feedback Systems…. Joseph: Welcome to the Michelli Experience Blog. I’m honored to have as a guest with me Gautam Mahtani who has mastery as it relates to assessing the voice of the customer. Increasingly…

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How to Grow Your Customer Connection Through Technology

In a Time magazine survey, people were forced to choose one item to take to work: their wallet, their lunch, or their mobile device. The result: 66 percent chose their mobile device over their lunch, and 44 percent chose their mobile device over their wallet. In the same study, 68 percent of adults report that…

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How to Create Sustainable Customer Excellence: The Power of an Acknowledging Leader

We have talked about the power of being seen, truly seen, as one hallmark of an exemplary customer experience. But to see, listen to, understand, and serve your customers may not be your role day-in and day-out. Perhaps you have a team that more directly interacts with customers or a front-life staff whose job it…

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