Tag: Omnichannel

Slow Customer Service Warning for Brands

Slow service is enough for more than half of British customers to ditch a brand, according to a new survey. A poll of 2,000 UK consumers revealed that 56 percent would stop shopping with a brand that forced them to endure...

3 Steps to Creating a Kinder Call Centre Experience

We often hear about customer service being increasingly used as a business differentiator, but what does this really mean? After all, customer service comes in many guises and means different things to different people. Some people simply want fast service...

Changing Customer Experience at the Checkout

In today’s retail world we are emerging into a new era where technology and commerce are joining together and revolutionising Customer Experience. Retailers are increasingly continuing to implement new technologies which help to improve processes. Alongside this they are also...

The Omnichannel Experience: Using Data to Enhance Customer Loyalty

The impact of poor Customer Experience is not one easily forgotten. The reality for retailers today is that for even the most loyal customers, one bad experience is enough to make them abandon their shopping baskets and never hesitate about...

Conquering Connected Commerce

Consumers are hoping for high levels of choice, convenience, and recognition in modern, omnichannel shopping. To truly offer an omnichannel experience – selling anywhere, fulfilling anywhere, and engaging anywhere is essential, as is elevating customer service and interactions to create...

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...

Students Praised for Customer Behaviour Study

Final year university students are helping to identify changing customer behaviour in a new project with outsourced customer contact centre Echo-U. The research was undertaken by Newcastle University Business School’s business management degree programme students, and Echo-U – whose Director of...

Driving Retail Growth Through Luxury Shopping Experiences

In today’s challenging retail landscape, success will be determined by how well brands target – and serve – consumers. The luxury sector is no different, and previously it’s suffered from a case of mistaken identity. Their shoppers were often thought to...

A Strategic Approach to Better Customer Experience

To create the best possible Customer Experience, organisations must think strategically about implementing the tools that will support their omnichannel strategy. As adoption of live chat increases, simply implementing the technology won’t be enough to set a business apart in...

Personalisation in CX: Applying proactive customer engagement

In this article, the author explores the essentials of personalisation in CX, a rapidly emerging topic across all industries. In 2012, only 30% of companies asked by analyst leadership group Gartner expected to compete for business primarily on the basis...