Engaging Customers
Another way of influencing customers’ emotions and engaging them is through service employees.
The interaction between customers and service employees is an important factor influencing perceived quality and customer satisfaction (Bitner, Booms and Stanfield Tetreault 1990; De Ruyter and Wetzels 2000), but employees can also be a valuable resource for establishing emotional connections with customers.
In experience-centric services, workers can be asked to engage with customers—to connect with them on a personal, emotional level (Pine and Gilmore 1999).