Navigating the Talent War: How to Attract Top Talent in a Competitive Landscape
In today’s rapidly shifting employment market, attracting top talent has become more challenging than ever. Organizations face fierce competition not only from industry rivals but also from evolving employee expectations. Potential candidates are no longer just seeking a paycheck; they’re looking for purpose, flexibility, and growth. Drawing on decades of experience helping companies like Zappos…
Walking Your Talk: Cultivating Authentic Customer Service (Part 1 of 2) (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed about cultivating authentic customer service. 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
Walking Your Talk: Cultivating Authentic Customer Service (Part 1 of 2)
I have often suggested that a measure of a person and a brand is what people say about you when you are not around. My book “The Zappos Experience” includes many customer voices demonstrating how people talk about service brands that authentically care about them. For example, here’s an X (formerly Twitter) post: @ptubach “Went…
How to Be an Iconic Service Brand – Four Things You Must Master
Are you an iconic service brand? To help you answer that question, here are four essential elements to consider: 1) Relevance: To what degree do you give customers what they say they want? 2) Ease and Consistency: How well do you provide reliable products and frictionless service the first time, every time, and across all channels? 3) Speed:…
Playing to Win: How to Think & Act Like Zappos (Infographic)
In this week’s blog, I discussed the five elements of Zappos’ culture that warrant attention. 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.
Playing to Win: How to Think & Act Like Zappos
I started my book about Zappos with a tweet and a question. The tweet read: I saw Winnie the Pooh running through the parking lot. Yes, I work at Zappos! The question was: Zappos, what is Zappos? Here’s the short answer: Zappos is an online shoe and clothing retailer founded in 1999 by Nick Swinmurn…
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…
How to Drive Your Brand Voice Through Customer Experience {Infographic}
I’ve been working with a group of entrepreneurs to help them drive a branded customer experience at each of their businesses. During my last interaction with these business executives, I asked each of them to bring ten recent emails they had written, ten emails written by their team members for customer consumption, company blogs, and…
How to drive your brand voice through your customer experience
Recently, I’ve been working with a group of entrepreneurs to help them drive a branded customer experience at each of their businesses. In prior working sessions, those leaders and I defined the optimal customer experience in the context of their respective mission, vision, and values. We also clarified brand personality, looked at core customer segments,…
Recovering Business Trust: Listen, Admit, Apologize, Fix
This will be my third and final installment on what has become a mini-series about trust and business. Over the past couple blogs, I reported a trust gap, emphasized the need to extend trust to customers, and outlined an initial list of qualities possessed by trustworthy leaders. This week I’ll look at one of the…
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