All Aaron Dun wanted was to surf a website. There was only one problem: a chabot wouldn’t let him. It kept popping up during his web session, despite Dun’s multiple attempts to “X out" the chabot. Dun, a senior marketing executive in the Boston area, chronicled his web-travel chatbot woes in a popular LinkedIn post last month. “Please, please, PLEASE help your customers know when I have hit the little "x" to close the chat window, and you know, maybe help them WAIT awhile for me to decide I need help?!!” Dun wrote.
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/chatbot-brakes/
We’ve all had that customer-service moment where we’re stuck in an automated loop of chaos, and all we want is to connect with a real (and if it’s not asking too much, empathetic) human being to answer our question. The problem with engaging a digital brand or startup is that, oftentimes, customers don’t know who—or what—they are talking to.
http://www.adweek.com/digital/maintaining-human-contact-throughout-a-digital-customer-experience/
De Bijenkorf, a renowned retail brand within the Netherlands known for its premium and personal service in stores, has had an offline presence for almost 150 years. It sells products such as clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry and much more. The Bijenkorf website is an extension of their offline presence which enables their brand to reach all of Holland and Belgium. De Bijenkorfs online vision is to offer an online shopping experience that matches its premium standard provided to customers in stores.
https://mopinion.com/customer-success-story-de-bijenkorf/
Many say customer experience will be the key differentiator for companies in the digital era. And customers have a long list of requests for brands. A lion's share of the onus to deliver these experience falls on marketers and customer experience professionals. Those very folks gathered at the fourth annual CMSWire DX Summit at the Radisson Blu Aqua in Chicago. (Editor’s note: Simpler Media Group, the publisher of CMSWire.com, runs this conference). Here they share their digital customer experience focus areas for 2019.
https://www.cmswire.com/digital-experience/what-digital-customer-experience-pros-will-focus-on-in-2019/