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Take Me To The Cauliflower! – A customer service parable

We have a saying in the office “Take me to the cauliflower” – it wasn’t introduced as a conscious part of our culture but it’s very much alive and I think it’s here to stay! Customer service is a primary focus...

How Real-time feedback can build real-time staff morale

“Employee Engagement” is a real buzz phrase at the moment as more and more companies begin to see the tangible benefits of ensuring your employees are HAPPY. As we break out of the recession and more jobs become available, it’s up...

Apple’s Customer Experience Geniuses: Finding New Ways to Facilitate Empathy?

Apple is considering taking their empathy approach to customer experience to the next level with a patent on an application that would read your facial expression and heart rate before choosing which ad to show you. While certainly a little...

Nando's on top when it comes to social media

Casual dining restaurant Nando’s has topped the very first Food and Beverage Social Media Benchmark from eDigitalResearch with more followers on both Facebook and Twitter than any other food and beverage brand. Nando’s have nearly 3million followers on Facebook – over...

Your Customers Believe you Have OCD

No, it’s not as bad as you are thinking. It stands for “Omni-channel Consistency Disorder,” and your customers cannot comprehend why you suffer from it. With ubiquitous access to the Internet via a mobile device, a consumer can seamlessly shift...

‘Speaking but not listening?’ – how to maximise the value of customer service on social media’

Businesses invest significant amounts of time in posting content on social media, regarded as the fastest communications medium ever adopted. However, a massive 95.6% of comments by existing and potential customers go left unanswered and 88% of those that are...

Going Back to Basics on Cybercrime

Lawrence Jones, CEO of internet hosting firm UKFast fights the customers’ corner with a look at why some online businesses still aren’t investing properly in preventing security breaches. Cyberattacks happen constantly but as an online business, it’s important that they don’t...

Is the retail industry socially accepting? Winners and losers in the social media debate

Having a ‘good’ brand experience is the key to ensuring brand loyalty but a ‘bad’ experience can take a lifetime to forget. Social media has the potential to enhance customer experience but it also increases the opportunity for ‘bad’ experiences...

Customer first above all else

“The customer is always right” has been a well trodden phrase for many decades. Whether it’s an experience in a department store, within a restaurant, on board a flight or during a visit to the bank, consumers have always expected...

Digital customer relationships unpacked

A digital relationship can enable the connection of products in a customer’s wallet like this insurance and banking bundle for Gjensidige A digital customer relationship turns the idea of CRM on its head. Rather than the organisation controlling customer data, the...