Providing great customer service is a challenge for many businesses today.
Companies like Amazon and Zappos have raised in the bar in terms of what customers expect, and there are an increasing number of tools and technologies that businesses people can use to improve their support.
So, I asked 14 customer service and customer experience experts this question:
What's the biggest customer service challenges today's companies are facing and how can they overcome it?
Here's what they said...
http://blog.sagecrm.com/detail.php?id=27782/14-experts-on-the-biggest-customer-service-challenges-faced-by-businesses-today/
Customer experience leaders are documented to have greater top- and bottom-line growth than those who haven’t made customer experience transformation a priority.
For those who have made CX a priority, the customer and business imperative of enabling and consistently delivering "digital-first but not digital-only" multichannel experiences means that to effectively transform the customer experience, it’s important to also focus on digital transformation.
http://forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2020/01/07/14-ways-to-enable-digital-customer-experience-transformation/#1c0a97bd72e7/
If you want to engage with your prospects successfully, you need to launch a multi-pronged marketing effort. That being said, the importance of optimising your email marketing strategy can’t be overstated.
https://mopinion.com/email-marketing-best-practices-for-2020/
With all the focus on how AI, data, personalization and more can create a better customer experience, I thought it might be fun to go back to some basics and look at different ways we can connect and build better relationships with our customers. These are very tactical. Find one or two that you like and work them into your process. You’ll be surprised at how quickly the little things add up to increase your customer satisfaction, NPS scores and, more importantly, your bottom line.
http://forbes.com/sites/shephyken/2019/12/08/20-ways-to-create-an-amazing-customer-experience-in-2020/#73a5dbe04109/
While website personalisation is by no means a new concept, many sources such as McKinsey claim that ‘the exciting promise of personalisation is not here yet”. This is because there is still so much in terms of technology, data and analytics that we have yet to delve into. It has – however – becoming a very trending topic over the last few years seeing as how it is an item on just about every digital customer experience trends list this year. So we thought why not give you some tips on which website personalisation tools you might want to consider.
https://mopinion.com/website-personalisation-tools-that-increase-conversion/
The best insight on how to enhance, improve, advance and boost the retail customer experience comes from those retailers, whether online or in-store, which are doing just that. And readers love getting that deep knowledge, insight, tips and advice as illustrated by the most read articles and features this year.
https://www.retailcustomerexperience.com/articles/2017-in-review-top-5-features-highlight-retailer-experiences/
Most executives talk about improving the customer experience—even of creating the quintessential customer experience—but too few walk the talk when it comes to developing and implementing strategies, policies, and training initiatives that can truly make a difference. Some exceptional firms are going all-out and competition dictates others will either catch up or fade away. Review these 2018 Customer Experience Trends for what’s fresh, viable, and essential to staying in the game.
http://customerthink.com/2018-customer-experience-trends/
The empowered and informed customers of today seek a seamless, integrated, proactive and personalized engagement experience across all touch points, interactions and devices. To meet these needs and become leaders in our connected and digital world, enterprises should streamline their approach to deliver an exceptional customer experience by leveraging the right technologies and solutions. The omnichannel customer experience (CX) is crucial to driving success in companies across a variety of industries. Adopting omnichannel components are also vital to interact productively with employees; thereby increasing operational performance and business outcomes.
http://www.cio.in/opinion/2018-trends-and-opportunities-customer-experience-cx-space/
Everything is connected, every surface area is primed for data-capturing IoT, and life is mostly conducted from our phones. Even reality itself is becoming trickier to pin down, whether augmented, virtual or actual.
With 2018 nigh, we should expect more of the same. Like a good and/or bad sequel, the stakes will be higher, the budgets bigger and the gadgets flashier. For some, it will be a bumpy ride. For others, unprecedented tech-enabled success awaits. For all of us, it will be anything but boring. Strap yourselves in, things are about to get interesting (again).
https://www.informationsecuritybuzz.com/articles/2018-an-it-odyssey/
In 2020, chatbots will move from simple customer-based queries to more advanced real-time interactions based on computational modelling. Chatbots have been growing dynamically in the past few years and have managed to take over many sectors and internal roles in the organisation.
http://itproportal.com/features/2020-chatbot-trends-that-will-transform-customer-experience/
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