Author: Martin Taylor

Elevating the travel experience: How omnichannel, personalised and proactive support drives customer satisfaction

The staycation era is well and truly over. Building on two years of sustained resurgence in international travel, a return to pre-pandemic levels of passenger volumes is on the cards for 2024. With global restrictions all but gone, and consumers browsing the widest choice of direct flight destinations seen since 2019, globe-trotting tourism is back. Yet the gathering momentum is likely to wrong-foot many travel providers, as they struggle to overcome both familiar and new obstacleswhile servicing significantly increased demand. With geopolitical tensions mounting, and extreme weather...

3 AI-powered changes we will see in call centres in 2024 

While artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies have been steadily evolving since the 1960s, latterly including image recognition and natural language processing (NLP), 2023 will be remembered as the year that generative AI (gen AI) burst onto the scene. In fact ‘Artificial Intelligence’ and ‘hallucinate’ have both entered common parlance after being named ‘words of the year’ for 2023 by Collins and Cambridge...

How to track your social media to improve your CX efforts

A successful social media strategy can bring huge gains: customers who engage with your brand online spend up to 40% more than those who don’t. Needless to say, a social media presence is essential, regardless of the size of your customer base. Recently, B2B...

The road to omnichannel approaches, immersive engagement and overcoming agent attrition

As 2022 draws to a close, business leaders and CX professionals will already be working diligently to prepare for the year ahead. In 2023 we expect to see the continued proliferation of new focus areas within the CX industry. Alongside emerging...

Employee wellbeing in 2021: Tales from the contact centre

Throughout the pandemic, people turned to contact centres to get the crucial help, assistance, and information they needed. With shops shut, information offices closed and banks unable to open, customers had little option than to call a contact centre to...