Pat Perdue's Customer Experience Podcast

About Pat Perdue's Customer Experience Podcast

Each episode, we meet people who’s job it is to make great Customer Experience happen. Join us for insights into how you can improve your customer experience, and keep the customers you have.

Publisher

Pat Perdue

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Feb 2019

Latest episode

16 Dec 2021

Latest episodes

10 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Dec 2021

   Canadian Spa Icons Celine Tadrissi, and Elena Zinchenko: How Spas Thrive through Constant Innovation

   In this episode we sit down with two of Canada’s leading entrepreneurs in the spa industry and take a close look a how each of them responded to the COVID-19 lockdowns, discovered new ways to innovate, and emerge from the worst of the pandemic lockdowns ultimately stronger than they were pre-lockdown. Today’s Guests: Celine Tadrissi,...

2. 

   21 Jul 2021

   Jean-Guy de Gabriac: Achieving That “WOW” Experience in a World-Class Spa

   Few would argue that the luxury spa industry requires among the highest standards of guest experience in the world, in which every detail is (or should be) designed not just to please you, or relax you, but to transform you into your better self.  Our guest today, Jean-Guy de Gabriac, is one of the world’s...

3. 

   7 Jul 2021

   Mike Saulpaugh: The Customer Centric World of the New Jersey Wedding Event

   What is one of the most intense customer experience situations around? Weddings! Our guest, Mike Saulpaugh, has a really interesting take on what it means to deliver a great customer experience.Michael Saulpaugh is Managing Partner at Elegant Music Group, based out of Montclair, NJ. In addition to his 18 years in the events and entertainment industry, Michael has a professional background in creative advertising. His work has been featured in Adweek and BuzzFeed has called him, “hilariously clever.” Michael, as you’ll discover, is all about leveraging the experience of the customer to drive business growth, and was selected to and is now a contributing member on the Forbes Business Council.

4. 

   8 Dec 2020

   The Future of Retail: Bringing the in-store experience into your home. Guest Oscar Sachs, CEO and Co-Founder of Salesfloor

   SHOW NOTES Traditional retail has been on a slow, but steady decline for probably the last decade.  So much so that retailers were getting super creative to find a way to bring you into the store.  In-store mini concerts, dining options like great coffee shops or pop-up kitchens, were becoming a trend in some of the higher-end stores.  And then – you guessed it – COVID-19 hit and the way we used to shop is pretty much history.So, since you probably can’t go to that favourite store of yours, or maybe these days you’re less inclined to, what if there was a way to somehow bring that in-store magic to you, in the comfort of your home?Today's guest, Oscar Sachs, is the CEO and co-founder of Salesfloor.  Salesfloor empowers store associates to provide the personalized service customers love by connecting store associates to shoppers both in-store, and online.  Think Facetiming with your favourite sales associate right there in the store.  Salesfloor has over 45,000 associates from leading retailers in apparel, beauty, jewelry and baby items and toys.   Salesfloor is redefining the role of store associates in N. America, and globally.  And with retail trending how it’s been trending, simply put, they’re the future of retail. About Our Guest Oscar Sachs Oscar Sachs is the CEO and co-founder of Salesfloor.  Formerly a retail executive responsible for store operations at the Aldo Group and Best Buy, Oscar led some of retail's earliest omnichannel initiatives to create a bridge between the online and bricks and mortar retail worlds. Oscar Sachs is the founder of several successful start-ups in the retail digital space, such as Ad Splash Media, the first company to develop a digital media program for the top online ecommerce sites. Oscar earned his MBA degree from McGill University.For the Salesfloor website, click here. Leave us a review on iTunes I really appreciate all the support I've been receiving on this podcast! Thank you! If you want to leave a rating and review on iTunes, that's always helpful for people to find the podcast. Click here to leave a rating / review on iTunes Contact Pat Perdue on Twitter I always love hearing from folks on Twitter. Click here to send me a Tweet: @PatPerdue Thank you for listening.

5. 

   24 Nov 2020

   Nic Faitos, Founder and Senior Partner of Starbright Floral Design, on Delivering 5-Star Customer Experience to New York’s Top Hotels

   SHOW NOTES Let’s say you ran a business.  I’m not going to tell you what kind of business.  I’m going to let you guess.In this business, your customers spend a lot of time, and consideration choosing which of your products they’re going to buy from you.  Often they select only the components, and leave you to assemble it in its final form.  There’s often a lot of emotional investment involved in making their decision.  And needless to say the final result has got to be perfect.In choosing the component parts, your customers can choose among hundreds of options, and leave it to you to put it all together.  To add to the complexity of this business, you never really know how busy you’ll be.  That said, all of your inventory needs to be completely rotated about every three days.  After about 3 days, you can’t use it.  And finally, your customers will often never see what they finally buy.  They select the components, pay you for them, and the work you’ll do with them, and walk away, and it’s your job to make sure they somehow feel good about their choice to work with you, without seeing what they actually bought!How are you possibly going to keep those customers coming back to you?Have you guessed the kind of business I’m describing?  It’s a florist.  Think about it.  Think of those times you’ve ordered flowers.  You may never see the final result unless someone sends you a picture.  So what is it about that that makes it a great experience for you?  Now to add even more complexity to that….What if you’re the founder/ceo of one of the largest florists in New York City, serving all of the major hotels, where you have to get it 100% right every time?  Managing that kind of complexity is trickier than any juggling act I think I’ve ever seen.  And our guest today, Nic Faitos, let’s just say he’s damn good juggler.About Our GuestNic Faitos is the owner and founder of Starbright Floral Design, Inc. He goes by the title of Senior Partner, and he started the company in 1994.Prior to Starbright, Nic has lived, worked and studied in California, Greece, Florida before finally settling in NY.  Nic has always been entrepreneurial, and his career has included publishing, technology and financial sales.  But it makes sense that he found his home in NY.  Nic is part of that enery, that sparkle, that puts the pizzazz in NY.  If you’ve been to NY, you know what I’m talking about.Nic’s dedication to this industry, and as well as his dedication to delivering a five-star service experience, helped set a new standard for the floral industry.  Specifically in his interactions with hoteliers, travel and tourism, which is a market he soon dominated.  We spend some time talking about that.Since its start in 1994, Starbright Floral Design has grown from a single employee to seventy-five non-seasonal team members. Never has the company experienced a down year in revenue and is by every measurable standard the largest and most well- known floral brand in New York City.Nic has been featured on ABC News, The Wall Street Journal, Crain’s Business and at a presser with former Mayor Bloomberg, and now, this podcast.Nic and I connected over Zoom late this summer.  And we started our conversation talking about what has set Starbright Floral Design apart from other florists, and what has made them the florists of choice for hotelliers in NY who have the highest standards in the world. Click

6. 

   22 Jul 2020

   Guest Ann-Marie Clendenin on How COVID-19 is Transforming the Retail Customer Experience

   SHOW NOTES About Today's Episode What would it take for you to go to a brick and mortar, say clothing store.  Would you browse through the clothes on the hangars?  Would you try stuff on?  Stuff that other people might have tried on?  And what would THAT be like?  In a small change room that someone else had just left?  Being all breath-y and everything?   While a year ago you may not have given it a thought, today, it might set off all kinds of alarm bells for you.  What we look for in a retail experience is fully, and perhaps forever, transformed.  These are historic times. In Today's Episode We Discuss: * What brands need to do TODAY to stay competitive in the new post COVID-19 economy. * What does the future of retailing look like? * The key approach that's allowing retailers to deepen their relationship with their customers. Today's Guest Ann-Marie Clendenin is a top leader of some of N. America’s most iconic brands, with a solid track record for driving massive retail growth globally through traditional expansion, as well as Omni channel (which basically means connecting meaningfully with your customers on every channel possible – brick and mortar, online, social, heck – graffiti on the side of a wall if that’s how your customers want to communicate).  Ann-Marie’s career spans 30 years, and if anyone is poised to think retail, outside of the box, it’s our guest today. Ann-Marie's leadership extends to The Limited, Ann Taylor, Aeropostale and most recently, holding executive roles as Global Head of Retail and eCommerce Operations for Kate Spade and President US Retail for Aritzia. At Kate Spade, Ann-Marie drove physical store expansion, tripling the business from 68 stores to 225 stores in North America and from 445 to 680 stores internationally, while scaling volume from $300M  to $2.1B. With responsibility for 3 brands and 6 channels in Kate Spade, Jack Spade and Kate Spade Saturday, she Architected and drove a 13 pronged Omni Channel Solution with more than $350M in sales. Ann-Marie is also an expert on "clientelling" – which is kind of like how it sounds.  Rather than subjecting your “customer” to individual transactions, clientelling is about creating retail clients, which means a much more profound relationship than the individual, and often forgettable, transaction at the cash register, and the result is lifelong brand relationships and phenomenal, individualized customer experiences.  You can just imagine that this is a disruptive force in traditional retail.  So who better to re-envision and disrupt retail today than someone who’s been doing it for 30 years. For Further Listening on the Importance of Brand Reputation Click here to listen to my interview with Stephen Hahn-Griffiths from The Reputation Institute on the importance of safeguarding the Brand Reputation. Leave us a review on iTunes I really appreciate all the support I've been receiving on ...

7. 

   22 Apr 2020

   Boost AI, and how AI is helping Norway’s SR Bank Maintain their Customer Promise During Covid-19

   SHOW NOTES Today we have two guests: Henry Iversen, Chief Commercial Officer and Co-Founder of Boost.ai (one of Norway's leading Natural Language Processing AI companies, and Ramtin Matin, Lead Technological Strategist at SpareBank 1 SR-Bank, one of Norway's oldest, and most respected, financial institutions. Specifically in today's episode we cover: The crucial role Boost.ai has had in helping SR Bank stay in contact with their customers, with zero wait time, even during the COVID-19 pandemic (when other companies force their customers to wait hours to speak with a customer service representative * The difference stages of Artificial Intelligence, and how understanding this can guide your organization today, and in the future.* The pretty surprising ease with which the Boost.AI solution can be deployed (Hint: It's way easier, and way less expensive, than you might think)* We also get to learn how nice Norwegians are! (in case you didn't already know that) About Our Guests Henry Vaage Iversen Henry Vaage Iversen is a Co-Founder and the Chief Commercial Officer at boost.ai, a Norwegian-based software company specializing in AI-powered customer interactions. Boost.ai is the inventor of the world’s most complete software for building, implementing and operating virtual agents powered by conversational AI technology. Henry was instrumental in establishing key relationships with the company’s early clients, helping to cement boost.ai as a major player in the Nordics. Today, Henry continues to flex his business acumen, fostering existing relationships while expanding boost.ai’s vision for conversational AI into new markets. When not at home in COVID-19 isolation, Henry is based in the company’s US office in Los Angeles where he leads boost.ai’s global sales team. Henry holds a Master’s Degree in strategy and management from the University of Stavanger. Ramtin Matin Ramtin is Lead Technological Strategist at SR Bank, and is an authority on implementing technology that helps drive efficiency while maintaining the company vision. With more than 13 years of professional experience Ramtin’s main area of expertise is within the intersection of technology, strategy and business development. He has a broad industry background from more than 10 years of consulting ranging from industries such as banking, insurance, telco, public, utility and transportation. He is a seasoned professional and thought leader on topics such as digital transformation, technology, strategy and in general how to use technology as an enabler for driving change, both internally and externally. Leave us a review on iTunes I really appreciate all the support I've been receiving on this podcast! Thank you! If you want to leave a rating and review on iTunes, that's always helpful for people to find the podcast. Click here to leave a rating / review on iTunes Contact Pat Perdue on Twitter

8. 

   2 Oct 2019

   Raymond Reddy – Co-founder and CEO of Ritual, on how Adding Digital to Your Business Makes the Human to Human Experience Better

   SHOW NOTES Today's guest is Raymond Reddy, co-founder and CEO of the highly successful Ritual - which enables social ordering from restaurants in major cities across North America, The UK, and Australia. In this wide-ranging conversation, we talk about: a) How digital in traditionally non-digital industries, like food pick-up and delivery, can have a transformative effect on the overall customer experience. b) How digital ordering is transforming the fundamental design of the restaurant, and how Ritual helps their restaurant partners create space that maximizes flow, prevents line-ups, and improves the in-store customer experience. c) How specific, customer-by-customer, and order-by-order data, can help restaurants survive in hyper-competitive markets, and how working with Ritual can help them. d) Much, much more... About Our Guest, Raymond Reddy Raymond Reddy is the co-founder and CEO of Ritual.  Prior to Ritual, Ray co-founded the mobile commerce company PushLife. In 2011, Google purchased PushLife and Ray joined the Google team, leading mobile product management for shopping and commerce. Ray soon recognized the potential of better leveraging a social application to unlock mobile commerce and thus, Ritual was born. Click here to visit Ritual Leave us a review on iTunes I really appreciate all the support I've been receiving on this podcast! Thank you! If you want to leave a rating and review on iTunes, that's always helpful for people to find the podcast. Click here to leave a rating / review on iTunes Contact Pat Perdue on Twitter I always love hearing from folks on Twitter. Click here to send me a Tweet: @PatPerdue Thank you for listening.

9. 

   29 Apr 2019

   Ash Anil: How Technical Safety BC Focuses on Customer Experience and Why it Pays Off

   SHOW NOTES Today's guest, Ash Anil, is Business Leader at Technical Safety BC.. Why is a government organization on a podcast talking about Customer Experience? Turns out focusing on Customer Experience is also good government. Specifically we learn: a) How focusing on Customer Experience can literally save lives. b) How Technical Safety B.C. dramatically increased customer satisfaction scores through digitization of common forms and documentation required for compliance. c) How Technical Safety B.C. continues to innovate for all of its customers in spite of the wide range of technical adoption (some don't have email, for example). d) How Technical Safety BC maintains a spirit of innovation that is radically focused on adding customer value. e) Much, much more.... About our Guest, Ash Anil Ashutosh Anil has been an innovation leader in the customer experience, product & service industry for almost 2 decades, supporting global organizations such as Best Buy, ADP Canada, Rogers Communications, 3 Telecom UK, Fido Solutions, as well as Canadian SaaS startups like Money On the Go (AKA MOGO) and Rise People. As a precise and creative strategic planner, Ash connects culture, people, and customer centricity to build diverse teams who passionately and aggressively pursue best-in-class CX. In his current role as Business Leader at Technical Safety BC, Ash religiously applies customer centricity to the cause of public participation in safety, inspiring employees to put CX first in an industry where the concept of “Outside In” value creation can sometime gets lost. New Theme Music! Ooo Yeah! I have a fancy new intro! Thank you to Justin Dove at Core Image Studio for making the podcast sound grown up! To reach Justin for your own fancy intro, check out Core Image Studio. Leave us a review on iTunes I really appreciate all the support I've been receiving on this podcast! Thank you! If you want to leave a rating and review on iTunes, that's always helpful for people to find the podcast. Click here to leave a rating / review on iTunes Contact Pat Perdue on Twitter I always love hearing from folks on Twitter. Click here to send me a Tweet: @PatPerdue Thank you for listening.

10. 

    13 Feb 2019

    Bruce Simpson, co-founder of SwitchGear Consulting and Trusted Co-pilot for Large-scale Change: The Adoption / Innovation Paradox and How to Avoid It

    SHOW NOTES One of the big challenges in Customer Experience is managing all of the changing initiatives that are simply a way of life among competitive companies today. There is huge pressure at all levels of just about every organization to innovate.  Do something new. The pressure to constantly innovate has become business as usual. With every department on the hook to be innovative, they end up tripping over each other and negatively impact the customer experience in unforeseen ways. Our Guest, Bruce Simpson Our guest today, Bruce Simpson, knows a lot about helping companies manage the change that comes from a culture of constant innovation.  As partner and co-founder of SwitchGear Consulting, Bruce has spent the past 15 years as a trusted co-pilot for BIG change, helping leaders who are not only trying to change culture and elevate performance but have realized they need a make-over on how they work and even how their people think. In This Episode We Discuss: a) How to recognize when our organizations focus too heavily on innovation at the expense of creating lasting change. b) How leaders at every level of the organization can get their teams "unstuck," and begin to actually move the company forward and help it to genuinely evolve. c)  What are the crucial tasks senior leaders must do to reduce "adoption paralysis" and ensure their company truly remains innovating and customer-focused d)  Lots lots more.... About our Guest - Bruce Simpson Since helping build his first Call Centre in 1989, Bruce Simpson has been living inside Sales + Service Teams for 30 years. Bruce’s first 10,000 hours came as an in-house Operator in Healthcare and Telcom (during the big disruption of long-distance competition). His second 10,000 hours came as the COO and Co-Founder of a 3rdParty Outsourcer (NDR / ClientLogic / Sitel) executing the Customer Experience on behalf of other companies. For the last past 15 years Bruce has become a trusted co-pilot for BIG change, helping leaders who are not only trying to change culture and elevate performance but have realized they need a make-over on how they work and even how their people think. Contact Information for Bruce Simpson and SwitchGear Click here for SwitchGear Click here to reach Bruce on LinkedIn Leave us a review on iTunes I really appreciate all the support I've been receiving on this podcast! Thank you! If you want to leave a rating and review on iTunes, that's always helpful for people to find the podcast. Click here to leave a rating / review on iTunes Click here to reach Pat Perdue at on Twitter: @Patperdue

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