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Are retailers letting their customers down?

Steve Williams from Qmatic explores the findings of a survey that exposes a disconnect between how retailers rate their performance and customer perceptions of actual service delivery Consumers confirm they’re being let down when it comes to experiencing a consistent, positive...

Appointments

Customer management consultancy, Ember Services, has responded to growing demand with two key appointments to its consultancy team. Nigel Bareham, who comes to Ember from Vodafone, will specialise in the development of customer strategies across online, voice and social channels.         Greg Latton...

Prismastar Appoints New CTO

Ave Wrigley joins from TagMan 5th June 2014 – eCommerce specialist PrismaStar has appointed Ave Wrigley as its CTO. Ave will be responsible for all of PrismaStar’s development and operations as well as innovating new products and technology. Ave takes up...

Questback working to transform customer and employee experience

A menu of Questback’s feedback solutions are now available to the public sector via G-Cloud 5. G-Cloud allows the public sector to buy cloud-based services off the shelf, avoiding lock-in to expensive contracts with single suppliers, and encouraging cost-effective, innovative solutions....

Wowcher customers given the ‘wow’ factor

Wowcher, the UK’s second largest daily deals website, has transformed its customer experience with NewVoiceMedia’s true cloud contact centre solution ContactWorld for Service. The company is using the technology to successfully resolve over 150,000 inbound and 40,000 outbound calls a year,...

Where the ‘E’ side meets the ‘C’ side

How the Employee experience at Butlins drives the Customer experience More and more businesses see the correlation between happy, inspired employees and increased profitability. Butlins, bought by Bourne Leisure in 2000, have been committed to utilising the power of the workforce...

Don't just crunch the numbers- there’s more to customer experience than data…Culture Matters!

It’s the craze everyone is into, in nine out of 10 organisations, senior leadership teams are grappling with the challenge of trying to become more “service orientated” or “customer-centric”. They are embracing the customer agenda to improve profitability and to...

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...