Category: Customer Experience

Let’s get phygital: How to promote online feedback in-store 

After Sainsbury’s announced a decline in its online sales, with shoppers returning to its stores, there’s now greater pressure on retailers to provide more engaging shopping experiences – and one key way to do that is to improve the in-store customer experience.  In...

You have to listen to act: The power of customer feedback

Businesses who are not listening to customer feedback are in for a shock. With an increasingly volatile social landscape helping to fuel decreasing levels of satisfaction, consumers are demanding more from organisations. They are prepared to vote with their feet and take their spending power away from...

Evolving the ways leaders listen to customer feedback  

With a whopping 16 billion marketing dollars devoted to customer surveys, the thought of answering more questions exhausts customers. Take a minute to open your inbox right now. A guess? There is at least one survey request from a brand with...

Going off-script: getting conversational messaging right

Done well, conversational messaging should be engaging and user-friendly. Offering real-time back-and-forth dialogue between an organisation and individual customers via their channel of choice, it aims to provide immediate response, address specific needs, and foster a sense of rapport with every interaction.  This can be...

Empowering customer engagement in retail with RCS

Mobile commerce is experiencing a boom, projected to reach £100 billion in UK retail sales in 2024. With over 70% of UK adults considering mobile as essential for convenient online shopping, it is clear, at least to us, that retailers should focus on improving...

The customer demand for SMS messaging is here: What’s your personalisation strategy?

Gone are the days of calling a business, whether to make an appointment or place an order. Technology has revolutionised how we interact with brands, creating new channels to connect and, in turn, new communication preferences for customers.  And while SMS...

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...