Why understanding your archetype is crucial for customer experienc

Why Understanding Your Archetype is Critical for Customer Experience

Understanding your brand archetype is critical in engineering cohesive and positively delightful customer experiences.  It’s important to clearly understand which customer experiences make sense for your brand personality and which ones – despite being ‘on-trend’ – you should stay clear of.   Customer Experience is not about trends – it’s about revealing and bringing your…

Customer Experience Compass

Discover Your Secret Customer Experience Compass

One of the biggest issues I see in customer experience today is a mismatch between “the retail brand” and “the experience”. However, using a customer experience compass (metaphorically) can help inform which experiences you should invest in and which ones you should leave alone.   Since psychology is all about understanding how people behave, feel…

Customer Experience, Brand Archetypes

Using Psychology to Simplify Your Customer Experience

Let’s face it; using the term “customer experience” can be like opening up a can of worms in retail. For some, it’s simple, but it’s incredibly complicated for others. Since psychology is all about understanding how people behave, feel and think, it’s a great place to turn when delivering the best experience for our beloved…

Biome's Founder Tracey Bailey

Bricks are Back; 4 Trends Award Winning Retailers Are Using

Bricks are back, baby!  These award-winning retailers are using their physical storefronts to not only enamour and engage customers but to connect with their customer community in profound and experiential ways.   Global Experience Study Recently, the Freeman Global Brand Experience Study found that if data is the fuel that powers the marketing mix, then experience and…

Retail Experiments

How to Create Magic Moments In-Store

Customer experience and journey mapping are all the rage at the moment. But how do we go about creating magic moments for customers in-store?   In my experience, the real force multiplier for brick and mortar stores comes from tapping into our own emotional and human needs – or what I like to refer to as…

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3 Strategies to Cash in on the Year of the Pig and Experiential Retailing

It’s true, 2019 is officially the year of the pig. Known for their chubby cheeks, pigs are the symbol of wealth in Chinese culture.   Perhaps it’s not a coincidence then, that Chinese Zodiac identifies pigs not as wasteful spenders, but rather enjoyer’s of life. They especially love entertainment and experiences, which is fitting for…

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3 Mistakes Retailers Make in Marketing and How to Fix Them

Recently while delivering a retail workshop I was approached with concerns around what retailers should be focusing on – marketing wise.   After helping her, it made me think about how much our customers have changed both sociologically and psychologically. And how little we’ve adapted our messaging to reach them.   Sure we have lots of…

5 Steps to create more in-store experience, experiential retailing, customer experience

5 Steps to Create More In-Store Experience

In-store Experience is BIG news these days When I started researching in-store experience many years ago, I set up a Google Alert for ‘experiential retailing‘ and ‘in-store experience’, those alerts have remained mostly silent until, well…this year really.   Now, it ‘sounds-off’ like my Facebook notifications, ALL-DAY-LONG.     Direction to Create More In-Store Experience But, while…