Category: Customer Experience

Why Internal Service Excellence is key to delivering External Service 

Have you ever contacted a company to chase a response only to be told that another department is investigating the issue, but no update has been received? Or perhaps you’ve contacted a company to make a complaint but have been passed from...

Loyalty Subscription Programmes Are on the Rise: How to Take Them Higher

Loyalty programmes are essential to retailers of all stripes; they help build customer engagement, creating a sense of belonging and increasing customer trust through relevant rewards and personalised offers. They’re also evolving to become key revenue drivers and brand differentiators. Across the...

Email orchestration: The new intelligent business enabler

Email remains the go-to communications method of choice after the phone for all businesses and organisations around the world with 4.48 billion people worldwide using it, forecasted to rise to 4.73 billion in 2026. AI has revolutionised the management of email known as ‘email...

Three steps for successful SMB communications in 2024

Over the last year, the consumer landscape changed significantly. Regulations like the new Consumer Duty and proposed Data Protection and Digital Information Bill are pushing customers into the spotlight more than ever. It’s not just regulations that are changing – consumer expectations...

How organisations can act on the needs of their customers to set new standards for a great digital CX

As digital further dominates business sales and revenue, organisations are facing major hurdles in decreasing the time between identifying digital opportunities and acting on them.  Added to this are teams’ limited ability to capture every customer friction, including small customer touchpoints...

Get ready for Gen Alpha: Why brands need to plan for the future now

Generation Alpha, those born between 2010 and 2025, may still be young, but they represent a future tidal wave for brands and marketers. This generation, the first to never know a world without smartphones and social media, will demand a...

3 practical strategies to help customer service agents overcome “The computer says no”

“Computer Says No” may be a phrase that most people in the UK associate with a comedy sketch, but it is a real and frustrating reality for contact centre agents. When resolving customer issues, agents usually follow a defined process, like a decision tree, where a system provides recommended steps to follow for customer resolution...

Looking beyond the surface: Improving CX for people with hidden disabilities

If you suddenly became aware that the needs of one in four of your customers were not being met- how would you react? You’d probably prepare to make some drastic and immediate changes, right? Well, 24% of people in the UK...

Four features of a good customer experience

Customers have expectations when they call for help, as they should. After all, they typically aren’t reaching out to your organisation for any other reason than to get their issue resolved or a question answered quickly.  Most customers would agree that...

Are influencers relevant in the age of UGC?

Love it or hate it, we are living in the age of the influencer. Just look at the ongoing phenomenon of Love Island. With 1 million viewers tuning in to the recent Love Island All Stars final, the show’s impact extends far beyond the screen, turning many contestants into household names with...