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The Marketing Book Podcast

446 The Human Experience by John Sills

The Marketing Book Podcast

Douglas Burdett

Sales, B2bmarketing, Contentmarketing, Marketing, B2bsales, Socialmedia, Business, Entrepreneurship, Digitalmarketing

4.9868 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

The Human Experience: How To Make Life Better For Your Customers And Create A More Successful Organization by John Sills

About the Book:

The essential guide to creating a successful organization by making things easier, better, and more straightforward for your customers.

Across all sectors, organizations' fixation with functionality has meant that the 'human' elements of the customer's experience have become neglected.

Strict processes and automated procedures have created organizations full of people who aren't allowed to act in a 'human' way.

As a result, and despite these new technologies, customers are no more satisfied than they were a decade ago (according to the Institute of Customer Service) and, according to Edelman, they now trust big organizations even less than they did in the past.

In The Human Experience, John Sills draws upon extensive research and illustrative case studies to explain that the emotional experience is just as important as the functional one, and, if done right, will create a more efficient business.

He also demonstrates that the customer experience is not just the responsibility of front-line employees, but shared across the company, from the CEO operating as the spokesperson of the business to the programmers developing a seamless and welcoming user interface.

Whether you're a well-established incumbent or an early-stage start-up, on either end of your product or service is a human.

Packed full of practical advice and engaging case studies, The Human Experience is the ultimate guide to creating a culture and an experience with humanity at its heart, helping to develop a customer base that will stay with an organization, and a company that will grow in an increasingly efficient way.

About the Author:

After starting his career at a market stall in Essex, John Sills has spent the last twenty-five years working in and with companies around the world to make things better for customers.

He's advised organizations such as Sky, The Body Shop, Ovo Energy, Invesco, Morrisons, eBay, and UNICEF.

Now Managing Partner at customer-led growth company The Foundation, John also spent twelve years at HSBC, starting on the frontline and finishing as Head of Customer Innovation.

John works closely with Young Enterprise, a charity that helps young adults become the next generation of entrepreneurs, and is a mentor for The School of Marketing.

His writing has been featured in The Guardian, Management Today, and WARC, as well as having work exhibited at the Imperial War Museum, The Foundling Museum, and as part of the Bloomsbury Festival.

And, interesting fact – he was an award-winning model!

Click here for this episode's website page with the links mentioned during the interview...

https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/human-experience-john-sills

Transcript

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This is John Zills, author of The Human Experience, How to Make Life Better for your customers and

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create a more successful organization.

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And you are listening to the Marketing Book Podcast.

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Welcome to the Marketing Book Podcast podcast helping you keep up with the smartest thinking

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in the quickly changing field of modern marketing and now here's your host Douglas

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Burdett.

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Hello, thanks for joining me on the marketing book podcast, where each week I publish an interview

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with the author of a new marketing or sales book, which has been named by Forbes and

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the LinkedIn, amongst others, is one of the top marketing

0:33.8

podcast don't worry about taking notes you can find links to everything linkable in

0:37.6

this episode's website page at marketingbook podcast dot com and since I get to read every book featured on the show, if I can

0:45.4

recommend a specific marketing your sales book or any other resource I know of

0:49.4

for whatever challenge you're facing, send me a LinkedIn connection invite with a message that

0:53.7

you're a listener and I will do my best to get you pointed in the right direction. My name

0:58.5

again is Douglas Burdett. All right let's get on with the show. Today we welcome John Sills to talk about his book, The Human Experience,

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How to Make Life Better for your customers and create a more successful organization

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published by Bloomsbury Business,

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after starting his career at a market stall in Essex, John

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Sills has spent the last 25 years working in and with companies around the world to make things

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better for customers. He's advised organizations

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such as Sky, the Body Shop, Ovo Energy, Investco, Morrison's, eBay, and UNICEF. Now managing

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partner at customer-led growth company The Foundation.

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