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…

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…

retail experience, evoking emotions

Using Experiential Retail to Boost Customer Engagement, Sales and Foot Traffic

Generally, the term ‘experiential retail’ refers to a store in which ‘stuff’ happens in addition to selling, and shoppers do things besides just buying.   In a previous post, I explained it as, “an experience given freely by a retailer to create some type of value for their customer. It may be educational, technological, emotional,…

in-store experience, customer experience, retail, retail sales, retail marketing,

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…