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eBook: The 2015 Customer Experience Outlook
I’m thrilled to announce an exciting project with my partners at Doberman! We’re always looking for new ideas to inspire our work. So we recently

Can We Please Put An End To One-Size-Fits-All Emails?
Have you heard of CrossFit? It’s a style of workouts “comprised of constantly varied functional movements (like pushing, pulling, squatting, lifting, running) executed at high

How To Design Your Loyalty Program Customer Experience
In a previous post, I talked about the need for loyalty program interactions to be both useful and easy. In other words, loyalty programs need

Hello, Austin! Doberman & I Will See You At SXSW 2015
Organizers for the annual SXSW interactive, film, and music festivals recently posted their 2015 programming lineup — and I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be presenting

Uber Sets Great Expectations For Halloween Surge Pricing
The best part of Uber’s customer experience this Halloween isn’t the little candy corns and witches that have replaced the regular vehicle icons on the

Can We PLEASE Design Better Conference Nametags?
I go to a lot of conferences. A lot. And frankly, I’m sick and tired of all the bad nametag design that I see —

To Drive Value, Loyalty Program Interactions Must Be Useful & Easy
In recent years, the size and scope of loyalty programs have grown to the point that nearly every customer interaction — from commerce transactions to

3 Ways That Airbnb Fights Survey Fatigue
The good news: companies of all shapes and sizes are implementing Voice of the Customer programs. The bad news: customers are being inundated with feedback

How Loyalty Program Rewards Impact Customer Perceptions
In a recent post, I talked about the increasing complexity of loyalty programs — and how the earning schemes that marketers employ can influence customers’

Your Brand Is An External Expression Of Your Corporate Culture
Who in your company talks about your corporate brand? My guess is that it’s only the marketing folks. In far too many organizations, I see