Synopses & Reviews
A "one size fits ALL" approach to customer service is no longer a viable option.
Crafting the Customer Experience for People Not Like You shows how companies, brands, and products struggling to differentiate themselves in a "sea of sameness" can foster long-term loyalty and brand preference with exceptional and customized customer service.
Crafting a customer experience that caters to people not like you will bring in new customers and create a competitive advantage over companies that fail to recognize their customers' diversity. It increases customer loyalty and gives you a greater understanding of your customer groups, opening new thinking on ways to surprise and delight them. Crafting the Customer Experience for People Not Like You offers step-by-step, enlightened advice, including:
- A detailed guide to core customer groups including women, the five generations (matures, Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y, and Gen Z), racial and ethnic segments, such as Hispanics and African Americans, as well as those who are defined by key lifestyle and life-stage attributes
- Consumer insights that will help business leaders deliver a better business experience to every customer
- How to train employees to serve customers who are not like them, lest they harm your business
- Seven principles for creating an inclusive and inviting customer experience for every consumer group
With this book's guidance, you can master the customer experience.
Synopsis
Deliver a better business experience, for every kind of customerA "one-size fits all" approach to customer service is no longer viable. Businesses competing on service need to understand and cater to customers' racial, ethnic, religious, generational, and geographic differences in order to meet or exceed customers' service expectations. Crafting the Customer Experience to People Not Like You shows how companies, brands, and products struggling to differentiate themselves in a sea of sameness can foster long-term loyalty and brand preference with exceptional and customized customer service.
- A detailed guide to core customer groups including women, the five generations (matures, Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y and Gen Z), racial and ethnic segments, such as Hispanics and African-Americans, as well as those who are defined by key lifestyle and life-stage attributes
- Includes onsumer insights that will help business leaders deliver a better business experience with every customer
You cannot control the economy, the stock market or the costs of goods and labor. But you can control your organization's customer service. It's an empowering thought. Customer service is 100% in your control at all times and it's more important than ever.
Synopsis
People are more diverse than ever before, and our differences manifest themselves in a number of ways. It may mean differing expectations about the speed of getting informationwithin seconds or by the end of the day. It may mean differing preferences for communicationtext versus a phone call or face-to-face meeting. Even racial, ethnic, religious, generational, and geographic differences come into play when satisfying customers' service expectations.
Crafting the Customer Experience for People Not Like You shows you how to break the "one size fits all" habit and why a customized approach to customer experience works best for growing business, generating loyalty, and creating "brand ambassadors." Companies and brands are struggling to differentiate themselves in a "sea of sameness," and the easiest way to foster long-term loyalty and brand preference is through exceptional customer service. Business owners cannot control the economy, the stock market, or the cost of goods and labor. But you can control customer service. It's an empowering thought. The one thing that is 100 percent in your control at all times is also more important than ever.
Crafting the Customer Experience for People Not Like You will show you how to deliver a better business experience with every customer. Show each of your customers that you understand themthat you get themand they'll show you the love, too.
About the Author
KELLY McDONALD is the president of an award-winning advertising and marketing firm, and has been featured on CNBC, in BusinessWeek, CNN Money.com, and SiriusXM Radio. Her clients include brands such as Toyota, Sherwin-Williams, State Farm Insurance, MillerCoors, and Harley-Davidson. In 2009, Advertising Age named McDonald Marketing one of the Top Ad Agencies in the U.S. across all disciplines. She is the author of How to Market to People Not Like You: "Know It or Blow It" Rules for Reaching Diverse Customers, which reached number 7 on the Inc. magazine list of bestselling business books for 2011.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Chapter 1 How Tweaking the Customer Experience Grows Your Business 1
Chapter 2 Technology Armed Consumers with Mighty Big Bullets 15
Chapter 3 The Purchase Funnel: Understanding the Customer Experience from Top to Bottom 23
Chapter 4 We’re Not “One Size Fits All” Anymore 33
Chapter 5 How to Think Like People Not Like You 41
Chapter 6 How to Build Social Media into the Customer Experience 57
Chapter 7 Your Employees May Kill Your Business, Unless They Know How to Serve Customers Who Aren’t Like Them 79
Chapter 8 Seven Principles for Creating a Customer Experience for People Not Like You 91
Chapter 9 Matures, Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y, and Gen Z 103
Chapter 10 Women and Families 119
Chapter 11 Hispanics/Latinos 137
Chapter 12 Serving Different Racial and Ethnic Communities 155
Chapter 13 Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Customers 179
Conclusion 187
Index 191