The internet is now the primary channel for most consumers when it comes to shopping, connecting with friends and families and communicating with brands. How can brands therefore deliver the online experience that consumers expect and demand?
Understanding how your company is performing in terms of Customer Experience (CX) is a key part of benchmarking against competitors and identifying areas for improvement. But with over 100 commonly used metrics for measuring CX, how do you ensure you are covering all the bases when tracking CX performance?
Consumers demand fast, accurate answers to their questions, whatever the channel, meaning that knowledge management is one of the key components of the customer experience. But how good are organizations at meeting the ever-increasing demands that consumers have, around speed and transparency? To find out, the Eptica Knowledge Study surveyed consumers in the UK and France…..
Trends such as digitalization, the rise of the experience economy and globalization are impacting every market. Network effects and the internet mean that businesses can now operate at greater scale, serving more consumers in more countries than ever before. This is leading to a ‘winner takes all’ world where gaps are growing, even between top organizations
Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) helps transform lives and communities by working with charities of all sizes. It is adopting Eptica’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered digital customer experience platform for all its incoming emails in order to improve the end-to-end customer experience it provides to more than 73,000 charities.
When interacting with brands, consumers want the process to be easy, effective and based on an understanding of their emotions and the individual needs. Recent research from Forrester outlines 3 ways that AI can help meet these changing customer expectations.
The UK retail sector is undergoing unprecedented change, with many long-established high street brands closing or having to cut back their number of stores. With all the pressures they are facing, how can retailers ensure that they are delivering the right experience to their customers?
The recent storm over sharing of personal Facebook data demonstrates the importance of information protection and usage by businesses. The forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is designed to increase safeguards around consumer data, backed up by large fines. How can brands ensure that their CX meets the GDPR?
Brands understand that consumer expectations are continually rising. They know that they must keep innovating and improving if they are to differentiate their customer experience and therefore thrive. However, knowing what they need to do, and actually achieving it, are clearly very different things, as the latest Temkin Group State of CX Management 2018 report shows.
Not only are holidaymakers now booking their travel and accommodation online, but the web has also paved the way for new business models, with more people going direct to hotels and airlines rather than booking complete packages from traditional travel agents. In this digital first world, how are UK travel companies doing in terms of online customer experience?