In the much-cited book Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman he talks about how the brain works to create two selves, the experiencing self and the remembering self. The experience self is one that lives in the present whilst the remembering self is “the one that keeps score, that maintains the story of our life”. Based on our memory of an experience and our life it is a different entity to the experiencing self.
https://www.mycustomer.com/community/blogs/tim-wade/the-cx-benefits-of-understanding-the-two-selves-0/
When a company sets out to revamp its customer experience, it tends to focus right away on the extreme events, the big, rare customer service catastrophes: mass blow-ups online and so forth. But I actually tend to discourage them, as their customer experience consultant, from going there first. That’s because I subscribe to what could be called “the broken windows theory” of customer service and customer experience improvement.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/micahsolomon/2018/07/05/the-broken-windows-theory-of-customer-service-and-the-customer-experience/#3c68290f4b73/
Emotions are a huge part of the customer experience. Emotions drive or destroy value for a business, and often in hidden ways. Emotions influence our desire to buy or not to buy, what we choose from a company’s offerings, what we remember and share about the experience, and, perhaps most importantly, whether we will be loyal to a brand.
https://www.mycustomer.com/experience/engagement/the-20-emotions-that-drive-or-destroy-value-in-customer-experience/
We all know that the customer is king (or queen) and it seems you agree, as any article that mentions UC and the customer experience (CX) is a popular one at UC Today.
https://www.uctoday.com/news/whats-new/our-most-popular-cx-posts/
Next is exploring how it can more effectively target customers online and offer more personalised products and services.
https://www.marketingweek.com/2018/03/23/next-increases-online-investment-as-high-street-stores-continue-to-suffer/
No matter how hard you try to improve your company’s customer experience, the reality is that your customers won’t remember much of it.
That’s because our brains aren’t wired like a video camera, recording every second of every experience. Rather, what we remember are a series of snapshots.
http://customerthink.com/most-of-your-companys-customer-experience-is-forgettable-heres-why/
Among the many measures of U.S. corporate performance is topple rate, or the rate at which groups of leading companies in industries or market indexes changes over time. Multiple studies have found that the topple rate has never been higher and, as a result, increasing numbers of top companies face obsolescence. This reality is commonly caused by a company’s product or service losing relevance, but it can also be a consequence of customer experience offerings failing to match the changing times. Consequently, the digital component of the customer experience has never been more critical to success.
http://www.destinationcrm.com/Articles/Web-Exclusives/Viewpoints/Mapping-the-Customer-Journey-From-Effort-to-Emotion-121880.aspx/
There is a quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald that often comes to mind when I talk to clients about transforming their customer experiences, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
http://www.bandt.com.au/opinion/introducing-empathy-new-benchmark-customer-experience/
A big part of charging more, earning more and attracting more customers comes down to trust. Can your customers trust you to reliably provide what they want? If they can, they will buy from you. If they can't, they won’t.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/272368/
Any business in the world today wants customers as "engaged" as they think Apple customers are. In other words, we the enterprise » will deliver new products and services that our customers will buy at the prices that will afford us Applesque margins. Most businesses want better customer engagement; however, their CFO's focus is that those customers buy from them. If not, what is the point of engaging with a customer?
https://www.retailcustomerexperience.com/blogs/how-would-your-cfo-measure-customer-engagement-and-experience/
