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The Intuitive Customer

7 Imperatives For Moving Your Customer Experience to the Next Level

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You can’t solve today’s problems with yesterday’s thinking. In The Intuitive Customer: 7 Imperatives For Moving Your Customer Experience to the Next Level, authors Shaw and Hamilton explore the reasons organizations are struggling to improve their customer measures and are witnessing the plateauing of loyalty scores like Net Promoter. For Shaw and Hamilton, the answer is simple: you need to understand the intuitions that drive your customers’ behavior at an emotional, subconscious and psychological level. This book describes where behavioral economics meets customer experience in a very easy to understand and practical way. By taking academic and scientific studies of behavioral economics and consumer psychology and applying them to real-world situations, Shaw and Hamilton present accessible concepts that innovative organization are using today to propel their customer experience strategies to the next level. They also share their proven methodologies and discuss how leading organizations have deployed these tools to great effect—and seen dramatic increases in loyalty scores and ROI as a result. Some of the critical concepts Shaw and Hamilton cover include: · Customers make decisions emotionally. · Customers don’t always know why they do what they do. · Every customer has two ways of thinking. · Habits drive many of your customers’ decisions. · People use mental shortcuts for decision-making. · Managing your reputation is an important part of the experience. · Customer loyalty is a function of memory. …and many more. Shaw and Hamilton have distilled this wisdom down to Seven Imperatives that an organization must embrace to move their customer experience to the next level. With this easy and entertaining read, yours could be next organization to take a massive leap forward.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter
1. Moving Your Customer Experience to the Next Level Requires New Thinking
Abstract
The following is a typical call, one we receive more and more frequently; in fact this particular call came only yesterday from an organization seeking our help. The caller explained their predicament:
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2. Imperative 1: Recognize that Customers Decide Emotionally and Justify Rationally
Abstract
Here is a huge shock for you: Your Customers are people. As people, they are driven by emotions. It seems like such a simple insight, and yet, as we discussed in the last chapter, it’s ignored by many organizations who still focus on rational factors. In turn, this leads them to focus on largely rational frameworks and rational approaches to solving customers’ perceived rational problems.
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3. Imperative 2: Embrace the All-Encompassing Nature of Customers’ Irrationality
Abstract
In an experiment conducted by researchers at Boston University, a group of people drove one of four different cars in a computer game. The cars all performed the same; the only difference was that one of the cars had a Red Bull logo on it. They found that people who drove the Red Bull cars drove faster, took more risks, and had more accidents than people driving the other cars. When interviewed after the game, people didn’t say they drove faster because of the logos – but clearly the logos had a subconscious effect.1
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4. Imperative 3: Understand that Customers’ Minds Can Be in Conflict with Themselves
Abstract
Which do you prefer?
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5. Imperative 3(Continued): Understand that Customers’ Minds Can Be in Conflict with Themselves
Abstract
We have explained that thinking needs to change about how emotions relate to business and customer behavior. We have explained why customers are not rational beings, but instead human beings that make their decisions emotionally and then justify them rationally. We have asked you to embrace the irrationality all customers have. We have just shown you how the Intuitive System and the Rational System are different from each other.
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6. Imperative 4: Commit Yourself to Understanding and Predicting Customer Habits and Behaviors
Abstract
Over millennia, we humans have developed habits to make life easier for ourselves. Habits allow us to be more efficient with our precious stores of cognitive energy, diverting that mental effort away from routine tasks and saving it for more important things. In the modern world, many routine consumption decisions are relegated to habit, rather than effortful decision-making. Therein lies an opportunity for brands to create an opportunity that affects the bottom line. However, it is also a peril for those who don’t understand how customer habits work. For this reason, Imperative 4 is important:
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7. Imperative 5: Uncover the Hidden Causes and Unintended Consequences of Customers Wanting Things to Be Easy
Abstract
Since 2002, virtually every client we work with wants to make their Customer Experience easy. Why? What caused the difficult experiences with which most of these organizations are saddled? In our experience, it is a combination of the following: actions and unintended consequences.
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8. Imperative 6: Accept that Apparently Irrelevant Aspects of Your Customer Experience Are Sometimes the Most Important Aspects
Abstract
What do you think of the following brands?
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9. Imperative 7: Realize the Only Way to Build Customer Loyalty Is through Customer Memories
Abstract
Price is not the main reason for customer churn; churn occurs due to overall poor quality of customer service. – Accenture Global Customer Satisfaction Report 2008.
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10. How to Move to the Next Level of Customer Experience
Abstract
When Colin still worked in corporate life, he led a worldwide team of 3,500 frontline people. Part of his job was to meet with consultants. Many clever consultants explained a lot of theories to him. Colin would listen and at the end asked, “That’s great. So what do we do?”
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11. Customer Experience Is a Journey, Not a Destination
Abstract
OKAY, so now is the tough bit. You have heard the theory, we have outlined the tools and shown you the advantages of moving to the next level of your Customer Experience. You now believe you need to break through the glass ceiling. All that is left is for you to take action!
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Backmatter
Metadaten
Titel
The Intuitive Customer
verfasst von
Colin Shaw
Ryan Hamilton
Copyright-Jahr
2016
Electronic ISBN
978-1-137-53430-9
Print ISBN
978-1-137-53428-6
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53430-9