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Hosted by Nikki McKnight · 🇺🇸 US · EN-CA · 14 episodes
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Some businesses get reviewed. Others get raved about. Would Recommend goes behind the five stars with the founders who earned them. Every episode is a real story from a real business that figured out how to turn their client experience into their most powerful growth engine, without more ad spend, without more content, just by designing something worth talking about. Host Nikki McKnight is a CX and operations strategist with 15+ years across wildly different industries and geographies. Each week, she talks with founders about the specific decisions, the costly experiments, and the moments of truth that separate a satisfied client from a raving one. Some episodes are solo deep-dives into a CX principle or framework. Others bring two founders from the same industry together to show how the same problem can be solved two completely different ways, and why both work. This is not a marketing podcast. Client experience is not a layer on t
Nikki McKnight hosts Would Recommend: Real Stories From Businesses Worth Talking About with Nikki McKnight, a business show with 14 episodes published.
Four out of five people at work right now are checked out. That is not a Threads hot take, that is Gallup, and it is the exact deficit most founder-led businesses are running on while trying to deliver a five-star client
Most loyalty programs get designed from the business's side of the counter: more repeat purchases, more lock-in, more rewards for the customers who already spend the most. In this Nikki Talks episode, Nikki names the ref
WorkPlay Branding started in 2019 as a six-step signature branding process with a photo shoot bolted on at the end. Today it's a subscription content model with almost one hundred certified creators across four continent
Nikki wore a homemade costume to a Jurassic Park movie with six other grown adults, and it turned into the clearest lesson she's got on the difference between a business that deepens relationships and one that just maint
Some events you attend once while others you reorganize your whole year around. Nikki sits down with Maria Tassi and Kristina Bartold of High Vibe Women and Janette Downie of The Chill Space, three women who design live
Your brain is trying to protect you but it's also, unfortunately, making things up about your customers. In this solo episode, Nikki takes a therapy homework assignment (yes, really) and turns it into one of the most pra
Most founders spend a lot of time thinking about how to attract the right clients but very few spend time thinking about whether the right clients can actually find them. Nikki sits down with two brand photographers who
Nikki hates board games. The rulebook comes out, the energy dies, and the fun sits three feet away behind a wall of logistics. Except once: a Pokémon card game showed up at Christmas and broke every rule she thought was
Every service business owner has felt it: you do the work, the client is thrilled, and six months later it's like you were never there. Nikki sits down with two professional organizers: Brittnei Gaudio of wellnested livi
Two years ago I walked into a steakhouse for my birthday and walked out with a story I apparently cannot stop telling. This episode is that story, and more importantly, it's layers of surprise and delight that we can tak
Scope creep. Client reliance. The quiet chaos of selling a service to a human being who doesn't always know what they want. Call them agency problems if you want, but if you've ever said yes to something and spent three
There is a 1970s children's television show that had a more rigorous empathy standard than most businesses apply to their client communication. And the test its head writer used on every single sentence before it could a
What does it mean to design something a customer will hold in their hands every single day? Nikki sits down with two founders who built physical products rooted in confidence, clarity, and self-belief, and who both obses
This is the first episode of Would Recommend, and Nikki is starting here on purpose: because customer experience is one of the most used and least understood terms in business, and getting it wrong is quietly costing fou
Some businesses get reviewed. Others get raved about. Would Recommend goes behind the five stars with the founders who earned them. I'm Nikki McKnight, CX and operations strategist and the host of this show. Every week,
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