Category: Customer Experience

Delivering the Goods: Keeping Customer Service Levels High
When it comes to home delivery, UK consumers have never had it so good. From the one hour delivery windows offered by the likes of Planet Organic to Waitrose sending Click & Collect items to lockers, and through the use of...

Rebuilding Trust in the Broken Energy Market
Since privatisation, a few large suppliers have dominated the UK’s energy market. Their reliance on legacy systems and traditional Customer Experience methods – gargantuan call centres which pass you around from siloed team to siloed team, complex bureaucracy, and bloated...

The CX Balancing Act: Reducing Friction and Increasing Desire
As a Customer Experience leader, it’s easy to feel like you’re pushing a boulder uphill trying to align your organisation around the customer. The reasons are many. CX is still a relatively young field. It’s broad and spans business units and...

Raveolution 2017: Highlights of London’s CX ‘Carnival’
The customer engagement firm Rant & Rave’s conference, Raveolution 2017, gave one of London’s most iconic music venues, Electric Brixton, a carnival twist this year when it took place in November. Following in the same vein as previous Raveolutions, attendees...

Survive Christmas by Beating the Four Forces Threatening Your CX Offering
From British Airways’ infamous IT meltdown to British Gas’ £9.5m Ofcom fine for billing mistakes, businesses are increasingly finding that poor Customer Experience is costing them dearly. Events such as customers being unable to get an update on when their...

Silo Slaying for the Ultimate Omnichannel Experience
There will always be customers who buy the latest product from a brand as it becomes available, from smartphones to sports shoes. Equally, there are customers who do their research and know precisely what they want to buy, down to the...

Banking on CRM to Keep Customers Saving
Customer Experience is an increasingly important task for any business, especially in retail banking. The sector is still working to repair its reputation in the wake of the financial crisis. New technology increases the avenues of engagement and customers are becoming...

Empathic CX: Making It Work
Empathetic interactions are all about seizing the countless invisible opportunities to surprise and delight customers by giving them information, engagements ,and experiences they will value at precise moments in exact places. Mobile messaging is brilliant at that. With an unrivalled reach...

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...