Tag: Customer service

10 tips for building an effective omnichannel PoS strategy

Retailers have massively enhanced their online customer service capabilities over the past two years. Now we’re physically back in stores, the need is for a perfect blend of offline and online strategies. An omnichannel approach which uses a retail technology ecosystem to connect all channels...

Are businesses closing the Engagement Capacity Gap?

Over the last two years, Verint® has assessed customer engagement concerns; business priorities; and investment plans across geographies and industry sectors. This provides a perfect barometer for how well businesses are adapting to the new customer expectations.  Introducing the Engagement Capacity...

Four key elements of Starbucks’ customer personalisation strategy

The most recent Cheetah Digital 2022 Digital Consumer Trends Index survey found that 74% of global consumers want brands to treat them as individuals. Therefore, personalisation is a critical factor for companies to consider as the economy points to more...

Holiday chaos: what’s next for the travel industry?

We’ve heard the term “travel chaos” since the pandemic started. Yet, two years later, many customers are still experiencing huge disruptions to their travel itineraries and holidays. Staff shortages in airports and train stations are causing chaos across the country.   With...

Gig customer experience: top 10 takeaways from the 2022 report

McKinsey recently called gig customer experience (GigCX) an “on-demand revolution in customer-experience operations.” This was a breakthrough moment for the GigCX world, and relayed how it continues to make steady inroads into the mainstream of CX operations.  This was certainly apparent...

Elon Musk’s Twitter-Takeover: altering community management

“Free speech absolutist” and Twitter shareholder, Elon Musk, is on the verge of acquiring the social media behemoth. Already, he seems set to make several changes to what some might describe as the original digital community (not forgetting Reddit). For both...

British consumers demand greater government protection against fake reviews 

On Tuesday, the new Consumer Protection Bill is expected to lay out proposals making it illegal to pay someone to write or host fake reviews online. The latest research reveals that British consumers want regulations that offer total protection from...

Customer Success Operations: the hottest career in the customer service space

In today’s economy, where nearly every company is either “born in the cloud” or transforming into a SaaS-based, recurring revenue business model, almost all have realized that they can’t accelerate growth without investing in Customer Success (CS). Usually, that means...

Gartner predicts by 2025, 60% of customers will seek service information from third-party sources 

According to Gartner, by 2025, 60% of customers will seek service from third-party sources of information not owned by the company. Currently, younger customers already use third-party information sources more frequently than older consumers, suggesting that this trend will increase...

Interview with Adrian Swinscoe: why make CX more punk?

“Punk is not a method, not a framework, not a toolkit. It is just an invite to do things differently because our customers and our people are waiting.” This week on CX Lore, we are joined by Adrian Swinscoe, an experimental...