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Where are the UK’s Chief Customer Officers?

Published on: April 06, 2016
Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager

The combination of growing competition and more demanding consumers means that customer experience is now recognized by businesses everywhere as crucial for success. Analyst reports back this up – research from Forrester found that companies with superior customer experience demonstrate improved revenue growth, while Gartner analysis predicted that by 2016 89% of...

Websites lead the way for UK customer service

Published on: March 31, 2016
Author: Dharmesh Ghedia

With an increasing amount of our time spent online, company websites are now more often than not the first port of call for consumers looking for information from brands. Being able to find answers to their questions quickly is therefore a vital part of the customer experience. According to the latest Eptica Multichannel Customer Experience Study, the good news is that most companies understand

Bridging the gap between purchase and service

Published on: March 23, 2016
Author: Chris Eideh - North American Sales Executive

For the majority of us, buying something that we really want gives us an emotional buzz. Whether it is a car, TV, clothes or even something as small as a book or new headphones, getting our hands on a new purchase makes us happy. Consequently, companies across all industries try extremely hard to make the buying process as simple, straightforward and engaging as possible. As we know...

UK retail customer service failing to move forward

Published on: March 18, 2016
Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager

Retail is one of the most competitive sectors in the economy. Transformed by the internet, new entrants and ever more demanding consumers, retailers cannot afford to rest on their laurels.Customers are pushing retailers to innovate and deliver new services, improved experiences at lower prices. Loyalty is a thing of the past, with consumers are now able to choose from an enormous range...

The importance of emotion to successful customer experiences

Published on: March 16, 2016
Author: Neil Cox - Account Manager

At heart, humans are social beings. This has a major impact on every interaction we have with the people around us. Think of the most basic transactions – the ones you remember most are those where you either had an extremely positive or negative emotional experience. Take visiting the grocery store, if the cashier was extremely helpful, asked about your day and took time to show that...

How good are UK brands at email customer service?

Published on: March 11, 2016
Author: Derek Lewis

Forrester recently reported that 69% of people still want to contact companies through email. However, UK brands are struggling to cope with the emails they receive, with performance overall worsening according to the latest Eptica Multichannel Customer Experience Study.Email volumes are increasing year-on-year, and in some sectors (such as retail), email makes up30% of...

The importance of integrating Twitter into customer service

Published on: March 09, 2016
Author: Dharmesh Ghedia

The conversational, open nature of Twitter easily lends itself to customer service – in fact, the social network itself claims that tweets to major brands have increased by 2.5 times over the past two years, and that 80% of some company’s inbound social media customer service requests come through Twitter.However, resourcing customer service over Twitter can be difficult...

How good is the experience offered by UK brands?

Published on: March 04, 2016
Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager

Over the past five years Eptica has regularly evaluated the multichannel customer experience offered by 100 of the UK’s biggest brands, across ten sectors. To do this we’ve posed as prospective customers, testing how easy it is to find information and answers to the routine questions that consumers might ask every day on the web and via email, chat and social media.Since we began,...

The importance of trust to the customer experience

Published on: March 01, 2016
Author: Olivier Njamfa - CEO & Co-Founder

When asked why they choose to do business with a particular organization, consumers give a variety of reasons, from price and simplicity of the buying process, to simply having the product that they want in stock. However, one factor that is common to all purchasing decisions is trust. Here are 4 ways a company can build trust with consumers.

How are retailers working to improve customer experience?

Published on: February 26, 2016
Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager

Customer experience is important to every industry, but particularly vital for retail. Fierce competition, exacerbated by the rise of ecommerce, means it is increasingly important for retail companies to differentiate themselves. And with many stores often selling the same products, customer experience is a more appealing way of differentiating than competing on price...

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