Customer Experience Consulting

Elevating Customer Service: A Guide for Business Leaders & Managers

A Hit and a Miss Recently, I called two companies for service. The first made it easy for me to find their contact number, answered and routed my call swiftly, and provided a personal, helpful, and warm experience. The second sent me through a failed “automated phone tree” experience and finally routed me to a…

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Maximizing Customer Loyalty: Lessons from the Tech Industry’s Best (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about driving customer loyalty. 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  

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Maximizing Customer Loyalty: Lessons from the Tech Industry’s Best

What might we learn about customer loyalty from Apple, Intel, and Alphabet (Google)? A recent study by DesignRush ranks these tech giants at the top for customer loyalty among Fortune 100 companies. So, let’s explore five customer engagement lessons from this group: Leverage Social Media Effectively and Build a Tribe: Apple’s social media engagement success…

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How to Build Customer Loyalty Through Service Recovery (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about enhancing service recovery in your business. 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 

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How to Build Customer Loyalty Through Service Recovery

Even the world’s most customer-centric companies have service breakdowns! Since perfect service is an unrealistic aspiration, leaders should encourage and train team members to manage service breakdowns effectively. Research from Amy Smith and Ruth Bolton shows customers remember effective service recovery more than the initial error. Studies also show that customers who experience a service…

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Are You Glocal?: How to Balance Brand Consistency with Community Connection

Are you GLOCAL? In other words, is your brand consistently recognizable in all your markets while uniquely relevant to each market? I first encountered the terms “glocal” and “glocalization “over a decade ago while working with Howard Schultz (then CEO of Starbucks) and his leadership team. I shared some of my learnings about Starbucks’ “glocalization”…

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Cultivating Passion and Purpose: The Power of Rituals in Business (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about increasing ritual in your business. 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 

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Create a Zappified Customer Experience – 5 Service Steps Courtesy of Zappos

In a world where so many brand interactions are automated, direct human-to-human contact with customers is both a privilege and an opportunity. When a customer speaks to a team member by phone or in person, it is a rare and special chance to humanize the relationship. I was fortunate to work for Zappos when Tony…

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Silo Busting Your Way to Customer Loyalty and Referrals (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about maximizing customer experience collaboration. 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 

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Silo Busting Your Way to Customer Loyalty and Referrals

“We’d have happier customers if the sales team didn’t overpromise.” “Our customers would be more loyal if our service team was more responsive.” “Our systems don’t talk to each other. We need IT to fix our customer experience issues.” Alas, we’ve all seen how organization silos create friction and lead to customer experience breakdowns. When…

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