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Clued In: How to Keep Customers
Coming Back Again and Again

by Lewis P. Carbone

Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2004

Book summary

Good, bad, or indifferent, every customer has an experience with your company and the products or services you provide. But few businesses really manage that customer experience... so they lose the chance to transform customers into lifetime customers.

In this book, Lou Carbone shows exactly how to engineer world-class customer experiences, one clue at a time.

Carbone draws on the latest neuroscientific research to show how customers transform physical and emotional sensations into powerful perceptions of your business... perceptions that crystallize into attitudes that dictate everything from satisfaction to loyalty.

And he explains how to assess and audit existing customer experiences, design and implement new ones... and "steward" them over time, to ensure that they remain outstanding, no matter how your customers change.

Experience as a value proposition

Building systems that reflect your customers' deepest needs and desires.

The mouse vs. the orange roof

Why Disney succeeded and Howard Johnson's failed.

The disciplines of experience management

Experience assessment, auditing, designing, implementation, and more.

Experience stewardship for the long term

Refreshing your experiences to reflect changing needs and desires.

Lou Carbone has been exploring the dynamics of experience creation and management for 20 years. He founded and currently serves as CEO of Experience Engineering, an experience-consulting firm whose clients include IBM, General Motors, Avis, Allstate, Audi, Blockbuster, RBC Financial, Office Depot, H&R Block, Taco Bell, Allina Health Systems, and many other leading organizations. Carbone collaborated with Steve Haeckel on "Engineering Customer Experiences," the seminal article that introduced the concept of customer experience.

 
   
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