Customer Service

Video chat – is it a contact centre technology?

Published on: October 17, 2014
Author: Robin Tandon - Senior Product Marketing Director

Companies and consumers are increasingly seeing the benefits of implementing live chat. It drives engagement while providing an efficient, fast channel to answer customer queries. Consumers like it as they can engage on chat while still doing other things, making it unobtrusive compared to the telephone or email and fitting in well with their busy lives. The Eptica Multichannel Customer Experience...

Why good customer experience starts with employees

Published on: October 15, 2014
Author: Derek Lewis

Consultancy Nunwood has just released its latest research into the experience and service offered by UK companies. Based on feedback from 7,500 consumers on 263 brands, it highlights individual success and overall trends in the UK customer experience.The picture it offers is patchy. From the boardroom down, companies recognise the importance of the customer experience to their ongoing success. The...

Delivering knowledge everywhere

Published on: October 10, 2014
Author: Dharmesh Ghedia

Smart organisations realise that the customer experience is the responsibility of everyone within the company that comes into contact with consumers. From frontline staff within branches or stores, through product experts and marketing teams adding content to websites, to senior management, all have a role to play in winning and retaining customers through superior service. But how do you ens...

Getting senior level buy-in for customer experience

Published on: October 08, 2014
Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager

Senior management in today’s businesses are now much more aware of customer experience (CX) and what it means. However, while they may increasingly understand the term and grasp its importance, ensuring that they actively support programmes designed to change and improve the customer experience in their organisation can still be a challenge.What do you need to do to get senior management buy...

Celebrating 30 years of National Customer Service Week

Published on: October 01, 2014
Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager

Whatever the industry, customers now have more choices than ever before. The balance of power between companies and consumer has shifted dramatically due to increased competition, the ability to share bad experiences instantly on social media as well as higher expectations of service. As a consequence, companies that have built their brands and reputations on rock solid customer service are flouri...

5 Areas to focus on for customer engagement

Published on: September 26, 2014
Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager

This week’s Eptica Customer Day brought together customer service professionals from multiple sectors, enabling them to compare best practice and learn from each other.  It was also a great opportunity to tap into the experience that Eptica has gained working on multichannel customer experience strategies and implementations around the world. My thanks again to all those who attended, i...

Reducing complaints in the water industry

Published on: September 24, 2014
Author: Derek Lewis

At a time when consumers are getting ever more demanding, it is good to see that complaints have fallen over the last year in one sector. According to the Consumer Council for Water, an industry watchdog, written complaints made by customers to their water providers have fallen by 18% in 2013/14 compared with the previous year in England and Wales. While four water companies did record a rise in c...

Flying high? The state of customer experience in the airline industry

Published on: September 19, 2014
Author: Lloyd Buxton - Business Development

Like many industries, the internet has radically changed the airline industry. It has altered the role of travel agents and led to an elimination of analogue, paper-based processes as it has moved to a digital-led model. At the same time competition has increased exponentially, with newer airlines with lower cost-bases further disrupting the sector.Avoiding the social media #failConsequently, the ...

Transforming Customer Service with Technology

Published on: September 17, 2014
Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager

Today, businesses understand that they need to engage with customers, whatever the channel, if they want to be successful. Customers are demanding more, across every sector, and, with social media, they have a megaphone to publicise their experiences (good or bad), instantly, around the globe. The number of interactions is increasing dramatically and consumers want faster answers than ever before....

Happy birthday email!

Published on: September 12, 2014
Author: Dharmesh Ghedia

It may surprise people that this year marks the 32nd birthday of email, with the original copyright on a program to send and receive emails granted in 1982. That is seven years before Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web while working at CERN. Over the last 30+ years email has changed the way we communicate at work and play with 114.8 billion emails now sent on a daily basis. And this...

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