by Colin Shaw | Oct 15, 2015 | Customer Centricity, Customer Experience, Customer Research, Customer Service
New research reveals that 98% of U.S. Consumers say Customer Service is important to them when choosing a brand and forming loyalty with it. This situation is not just unique to the U.S. In the U.K., 97% of Customers believe that Customer Service is important to them...
by Colin Shaw | Oct 9, 2015 | Customer Experience, Customer Research, Customer Retention, Customer Satisfaction, Experience Design, Expert's Insights, experts insights
Big data is the gigantic data sets whose analysis could reveal predictions of human behavior. Big data is big news. If we can predict what people will do in a given situation, we can create situations that get them to do what we want. But Big data is only showing us a...
by Colin Shaw | Oct 6, 2015 | Blogs, Customer Emotions, Customer Experience, Customer Retention, Customer Satisfaction, Emotional Experience, Expert's Insights, experts insights, Subconscious Experience
I find it beyond belief how large organizations can cheat and lie to their Customers. Maybe it’s because I’m becoming old or maybe it’s just because it is happening more. Skechers lied to us that if we wore their (weird-looking) Shape-up shoes that we could get in...
by Colin Shaw | Oct 5, 2015 | Customer Experience, Expert's Insights, experts insights, Leadership
In my experience everyone loves the idea of improving the Customer Experience (CX) until you ask him or her to change their business as usual. It is especially true when you are talking about your senior team. Unfortunately, you must have the engagement of the senior...
by Colin Shaw | Oct 1, 2015 | Customer Experience, Experience Design, Expert's Insights, experts insights, Management, Net Promoter Score®, Thought Leadership
If you had the choice of doing something the easy way or the hard way, and you didn’t have to do anything morally, ethically, or legally wrong to do it the easy way, which would you choose? My guess is the majority of you would say take the easy way. I certainly...
by Colin Shaw | Sep 29, 2015 | Customer Behaviour, Customer Experience, Digital Experience, Experience Design, Expert's Insights, experts insights
Apple’s latest operating system iOS 9 allows people to block ads while mobile browsing, a development that has digital marketers and publishers in a twist. As Ad Blocking pushes online advertising to the brink of irrelevancy, it’s important to appreciate how the User...