The Gravity of Customer Experience Enhancement
My first job in organizational development was in healthcare. More than two decades later (I can’t possibly be that old), I appear to have come full-circle as I do a great deal of consulting and training on elevating the patient-experience. This work is largely the result of my involvement with UCLA Health Systems and an…
Sex Doesn’t Sell that Well! – How to make real visceral connections with customers
I have long been an admirer of the work of Martin Lindstrom. As you probably know, Martin is a revolutionary thinker in the area of consumer behavior, branding, and neuromarketing. In fact he worked with a group of 20 noted scientists to conduct a 3 year 7 million dollar study that used state-of-the-art brain scanning…
How to execute “EASY” – A Boom or Bust Proposition
So what would you rather do – wait for a person to serve you or expedite the process at a self-service computer kiosk? If you are a business owner looking for an easy technology solution to speed up your service delivery, you might want to pay attention to this complicated finding from a study conducted…
Turning Trends into Customer-Centric Product
Did you ever stumble upon a piece of knowledge that served you well throughout your career? Early on in my professional journey I happened upon a summary of key annual objectives for the board of directors at a hospital where I worked. For some strange reason, I thought to myself that I should try to…
Elevating the Customer Experience – Where You Should Start!
While sitting with a “customer experience” leadership team at an international airline company, we talked about how to prioritize their lengthy list of customer-centric action plans. That discussion helped me appreciate the difficulty some business leaders face when it comes to “where to start” with their customer experience initiatives. Unlike reading a book, there is…
How Customer Loyalty Data Translates to Customer Experience Elevation
I ran across an interesting fact sheet about customer loyalty recently provided by customer focus incorporated. The findings represented and aggregate of research and some of it may be familiar to you, as it was to me, but the composite picture is enlightening. I’m sharing a few of the highlights as an impetus to stay…
How to turn customer service into profit!
Recently, I had a very candid conversation with a CEO who I’ve known for a long time but who has never shown much interest in elevating service at his business. During that conversation he said something like, “Joseph I know you believe service is an important value proposition and intuitively it makes sense BUT I…
How words sell well!
I write everyday. At present, I am working on a book under contract, finishing revisions for a publishing agreement on my next book, and working on a collaboration document involving a company for yet a third book. So put simply, I write. Unfortunately, all too few writers will ever be able to write as effectively…
Direct Buy, Best Buy, Where You Buy
It had been some time since I heard about them but this week they kept finding their way into my conversations. At a large independent retail conference they were a central point of discussion, while working for a major metropolitan design center client I also heard my share about them. Who are they? Direct Buy…
Stop Selling – Leverage Listening
My friend and colleague Doug Fleener once described the possible downside of Twitter as being like a “Chamber of Commerce meeting where everyone is selling and no one is buying.” It’s great to have friends as smart as Doug because they force you to think about things differently. Ever since Doug shared his observation, I’ve…
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