Category: Customer Experience

Sainsbury’s Trials Till-Free Store in London

The UK’s first till-free grocery store has opened its doors in London, but owner Sainsbury’s has been warned to not to underestimate the “power of human interaction”. In a month that saw the proposed merger between Sainsbury’s and Asda shelved thanks...

CX and Sustainability Key Goals for Dubai Airports

Dubai Airports Corporation (DAC) wants to lead the way in making sustainability, affordability, and efficiency key to the growth of the travel industry for decades to come.This was the message from DAC CEO Paul Griffiths, who delivered a keynote speech...

How Owner Association Management is Facing Industry Challenges Head-On

The Community Management industry has experienced redevelopment in Dubai, compared to other markets that contain similar jointly owned property. It is developing into an all-encompassing asset management industry, covering Administrative, Legal, Financial, Technical, and also the management of a multitude...

How Music Services can hit the Right Note in CX

Customer Experience has transformed business practice and elevated consumers’ expectations in recent years. The modern consumer, empowered by new technologies, demands more than value-for-money products: they expect fast digital interactions with companies as well as personalised service and, importantly, an...

Call Recording and the Future of Enhanced Customer Service

Historically, businesses have primarily perceived call recording as a regulatory insurance policy. The typical process was that calls were recorded, archived, and then accessed whenever a complaint was made. Some organisations still see call recording primarily in this way today. Other businesses...

Customers Choosing Brands They Agree With Ethically

Thirty-five percent of UK customers only engage with brands they agree with ethically, highlighting the need for brands to consider more than just products and price points. A new report published by customer engagement specialist ELLO Media, Understanding Customer Expectations of Brand Loyalty...

Fan Service: Arsenal FC’s Branding Boss Talks CX Goals

Charles Allen is Head of marketing with one of the Premier League’s most beloved institutions, Arsenal FC, and a speaker at the upcoming Brand Marketing Summit Europe, hosted by Incite group in London on June 25 -26. Charles is one of...

Ten Worst Phrases a Contact Centre Worker can Say

“Calm down” has been voted the worst thing to say to customers over the phone, according to a new poll of more than 100 call centre and customer service professionals. In a survey carried out by enterprise communications company Fuze at the...

Seven Steps to Effective Contact Centre Transformation

Everyone is someone’s customer, and every single one of us knows how we want to be treated. Yet we’ve all had experiences that have influenced our opinion of a brand, but actually little or nothing to do with the product...

Optimising Communications for Frictionless CX

Forecasts of a downturn in the travel market following the referendum vote to leave the EU in June 2016 have largely been defied. In 2017, UK residents took 72.8 million trips abroad, up three percent from 2016. The number of...