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Navigating Growth and Innovation: Insights for Your Business

In the quest for business growth and expansion, obstacles range from ensuring cultural consistency to maintaining excellence in new ventures. Here are a few actionable insights on overcoming growth challenges – at scale. They are gleaned from my work with Starbucks and excerpted from the two books I’ve written about them: Maximize image Edit image…

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Injecting Fun into Your Business Culture: A Lesson from Zappos

Online retailer and Amazon subsidiary Zappos practices random acts of fun and weirdness, demonstrating that workplace play can significantly boost creativity, productivity, and employee morale. In the spirit of that fun, and based on my book about them (The Zappos Experience), I created a short animated clip on “work made fun – gets done.“ For…

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Elevating Customer Service: A Guide for Business Leaders & Managers (Infographic)

In this week’s blog, I discussed about elevating your service levels. 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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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

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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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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Cultivating Passion and Purpose: The Power of Rituals in Business

Many leaders constantly manage daily challenges or spend a lot of time “putting out recurring fires.” Others find a way to manage daily operational challenges with minimal effort – leaving ample time to ignite a passion for products, services, and customer experiences across their organization. In my book, Leading the Starbucks Way, I explore how…

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

In this week’s blog, I discussed about deploying a customer experience template. 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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