The experience is the brand. Your brand is what your customers say it is. Alder Yarrow is a Chief Experience Officer. He shares his top tips on the value of brand experience.

Alder Yarrow has more than 18 years of experience designing customer experiences for Fortune 1000 clients around the world. As Cibo’s CXO, Alder leads and directs the company’s customer experience design practice and all client projects that involve these services. He is a leading practitioner of interaction design and an expert facilitator, and often serves as a trusted advisor to Cibo client executives on customer experience strategy.

He has worked with a wide array of brands including Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Google, Twitter, YouTube, The Home Depot, Rand McNally, Patagonia, Virgin Music, Gymboree, Starwood Resorts, Franklin Templeton, and Eaton Vance. Prior to joining Cibo, Alder spent nearly 5 years as a director at SapientNitro in Tokyo and San Francisco, and 9 years running HYDRANT, a customer experience design firm he founded with our Chief Design Officer, Bob.

Icebreaker
When I’m not designing brand experiences I run the world’s leading wine blog, where I’ve written about wine daily for 12 years and become minorly famous as a wine writer and critic. Vinography.com

Think Like A Journalist Quote
True cultural connection is the Holy Grail for brands if they want to create an enduring emotional relationship with people. –Adam Chmielowski, Flamingo

Success Tip
Ruin your customers provide them with experience is so good, helpful, and meaningful so that when they look around nothing else compares to what your brand offers.

Career Highlight
Alder started a web design company after college. Designing the website, customer experience, and operations of celebrity businessman, George Zimmer’s online tuxedo rental business.

When It Didn’t Work! cutout…blip and frankly….[12:57]…
[11:48]…The low lights …i just can’t satisfy the …they don’t like the website…W

The Value Of Brand Experience

The experience is the brand. Your brand is what your customers say it is. The sum total of your customers’ experiences interacting with you.

1. Who are your customers? What do they value? What do they care about?
2. What is your brand touchstone: why does your brand exist?
3. Use experience mapping.
4. How can you create a long-term customer relationship of value?
5. Are you producing customer pleasure or customer pain?
6. Subaru Asia “Unpark Your Life”

Multimedia Resource
Laptop

Book
Rainbows End, Vernor Vigne

Contact

Twitter @Vinography

Cibo website

Thanks For Listening

I know that you have many choices when it comes to listening to podcasts. So, I want to say THANK YOU for choosing The Brand Journalism Advantage.

If you enjoyed today’s episode, please share it by using the social media buttons you see at the top and bottom of this page.

Also, I would love a review…it just takes a minute to share your opinion and rating for the The Brand Journalism Advantage podcast on iTunes. Your review means a lot to me and helps others find my show. The reviews also help with ranking of this show and they reviews are always read by me.

Please remember to subscribe to The Brand Journalism Advantage on iTunes, to get automatic updates every time a new episode goes live!