Augmented reality (AR) is offering the opportunity for marketing professionals to interact with their customers in a whole new way. It engages them and creates a completely new user experience that can enhance your product offering.
https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2018/06/01/14-ways-augmented-reality-is-affecting-the-customer-experience/
Marketers are constantly introducing newer and more sophisticated Customer Experiences (CX). But, how do you ensure that all of your customer touchpoints will align with the promise of these new CX improvements?
Based on our VoC research, we have learned that the brands most successful in making their CS (Customer Service) and back-end processes align beautifully with their front end CX, are those which involve and integrate every department and every employee!
http://customerthink.com/3-tips-to-ensure-customer-service-matches-your-promised-customer-experience/
Research shows that taking the time to send a personalized note or gift to customers can really go a long way. According to Marketo, 79% of consumers say they are only likely to engage with an offer if it has been personalized to reflect previous interactions the consumer has had with the brand.
http://maritzcx.com/blog/general/3-ways-to-show-gratitude-to-your-customers-and-employees/
You’re no stranger to RFPs. Love them or hate them, the undeniable truth is that they’re crucial to making informed business decisions about future vendors and partners. The purpose of a contact center RFP is no different: it’s an essential process to use when choosing an outsourcer. However, the contact center RFP is unique and can’t be modeled on the same old RFP template used for other services your company may procure.
Your contact center partner owns a huge part of your customer experience. And customer experience comes with complexities not found in other service offerings. And your outsourced partner is going to act as an extension of your own brand, so their employee experience, hiring philosophy, and corporate culture truly matter. Thus, crafting your contact center RFP takes thoughtful preparation. Here are our most popular resources to guide you in crafting an RFP that will address the unique challenges of selecting a contact center partner.
http://www.customerexperienceupdate.com/?open-article-id=8230415&article-title=4-essential-resources-to-read-before-you-craft-your-contact-center-rfp&blog-domain=blueocean.ca&blog-title=blueocean/
Continually improving the customer experience and satisfaction with service support is a goal of every service desk. While there are many metrics that influence measures of customer satisfaction, the four service desk agent performance metrics discussed here are among those that have a great impact and should be monitored in real-time, as well as trends occurring over a period of time.
http://customerthink.com/4-service-desk-agent-performance-metrics-that-influence-the-customer-experience/
Customer experience. I am sure you’ve discussed improving your CX at least once this year—and if you haven’t you probably should. The truth is, 2018 is the year of the customer experience and customer satisfaction. Why? According to Salesforce, 75 percent of consumers expect a consistent experience wherever they engage and 87 percent of consumers think brands need to do more to provide a seamless experience.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnewman/2018/04/25/4-technologies-driving-the-future-of-customer-experience/#535471ec3089/
The fight for customer loyalty is fierce these days and with the ever increasing focus, many brands are taking a closer look at how they can compete to win the heart-share, mind-share, and of course, “purse-share” of their audiences. As they focus on elevating their customer experiences and finding their advantages in an ever more competitive marketplace, several businesses look to data—such as customer feedback—to help them in the battle of customer attraction, retention, and recommendation.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/4-ways-to-make-the-most-of-your-customer-experience_us_5953fdbbe4b0f078efd986ec/
Customer Experience is the crux of any business’s functioning. With the advent of technology, there are many new solutions to the age-old problems that are being easily resolved. Customer experience might have its importance in every industry on a varying level, but for luxury and travel brands, it is always the top priority.
http://martechseries.com/mts-insights/guest-authors/5-travel-and-luxury-brands-that-use-technology-for-customer-experience/
Kris McKenzie Senior Vice President and General Manager for EMEA at Calabrio explains to Information Age how having access to data and effectively utilising it to drive strategic business initiatives and deliver a stellar customer experience are two different things.
http://www.information-age.com/data-business-initiatives-customer-experience-123472182/
We now live in an outcome-based economy. Customers want solutions, and if you don’t provide a solution and provide it well and fast enough with flexibility in price and offering, they can easily opt for one of your many competitors. To this flexible mindset add tons of data and an endless array of influences, and you’ve got a customer journey that is much more volatile than in years past.
http://customerthink.com/are-your-customers-engaged-how-to-tell-and-what-to-do-about-it/
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