There’s a part of your customer journey that is most likely inconsistent. It’s those pesky people. Going from one hotel front desk to the next or calling different customer service reps can have very different outcomes. Sometimes calling the same customer service rep on a different day means having a completely different experience! Are you dealing with […]
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Have you ever had to deal with a customer who was really angry? While most days aren’t perfect, if generally takes a lot for us to get red-in-the-face angry. Of course there are exceptions to this rule, and some people are just plain nasty. But most of us don’t set out looking for conflict, and that includes your
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So content is king, right? Or is it context? What about the once and future king, conversion?? Content continues to be a driver for smart companies who want to attract the right prospects, market to those who want to buy and eventually convert those prospects to sales! Yee haw. Inbound sales and content marketing are
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By Joseph Michelli If your customers think you deliver an “average” service experience, there is NO shortcut to getting them to become emotionally engaged, loyal, zealots of your brand. Don’t get me wrong. A well-designed service improvement initiative MIGHT result in a temporary spike in satisfaction scores. However, it won’t produce sustained traffic or protracted
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We’ve all had those disagreements. One person says something along the lines of “It’s not what you said. It’s how you said it.” The other person stands his or her ground. “I did NOT say it like that. No way.” This is the human experience. We often believe we said/did/behaved differently than others perceive it. Our
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It seems to be human nature to focus on the unnecessary but more attractive/compelling/interesting/entertaining distractions instead of the stalwart/steady/reliable but boring items in our everyday lives. How many moments do we give to social media, Buzzfeed, Candy Crush, etc? We do this in spite of having real deadlines, goals, and responsibilities. Sometimes the way we
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What a year! We’ve had an exciting year at Experience Investigators, and we’ve learned a lot. I hope you’ve had a chance to learn along with us! In case you’re just hearing about us, or you haven’t subscribed for updates, we’ve put together a heaping handful of our best customer experience posts from the past
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Your customers are already evaluating the experience you are delivering. And they’re making decisions because of it. 89% of customers will decide based on customer experience in 2016. How can you create a better customer experience now to compete in this changing marketplace? 1. You need to understand the customer journey of today. You can’t improve on
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Ask any group of customers what they liked about any recent customer experience, and they typically mention the same thing. Although they aren’t things… It’s always about the people. Rachel McCarthy, Vice President of In-Flight Experience for Jet Blue, said during her talk at Next Generation Customer Experience in San Diego that the customer comments
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About a year ago, we began dedicating ourselves to a more intentional and dedicated content marketing strategy. We’re a small business that serves a larger market, so having our potential clients find us became critical. Our goals were simple, but difficult to track. We wanted more qualified prospects to find us and then convert into clients.
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