Author: Mandy Holford

From Winner to Judge: Why I Brought my Expertise to an Awards Judging Panel

Mandy Holford is Director of Customer Services at contact centre solutions firm Echo-U, and recently judged at the 2018 UK Complaint Handling Awards. Here she describes, in her own words, how she went from an award winner herself, to a...

Avoid Paying the Cost of a Disgruntled Customer

Customers are paramount to business success, and ensuring your business maintains customer satisfaction throughout the entire customer journey is a complex and important process, as the cost of getting it wrong and creating a disgruntled customer can be huge. Here we...

Get Ready for These CX Trends

The Customer Experience industry is changing at an unprecedented pace and businesses must prepare for dynamic developments throughout the year. Here are the major trends shaping the industry in 2018 in order to help businesses to understand the current challenges and...

Top Five Tips for Customer Service this Christmas

With the festive season upon us, shops and websites get busier, deliveries can take longer, and inevitably tempers can flare. Mandy Holford, director of customer services at Echo-U, shares her top five tips for any business preparing for Christmas on how to...

What Practices Are the Game-Changers in User Experience?

In the customer service environment front-line advisors should be fully equipped, not only in terms of product, systems and service knowledge, but in their “EQ” or ‘emotional intelligence’ which can make a dramatic difference to the user experience. Today’s contact centre...