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/
The Digital Marketing Trends Report by Econsultancy and Adobe asked companies to indicate the single most exciting opportunity for their organization in the upcoming year – and once again, the same answer came out on top.
Can you guess what the most exciting opportunity for a business is?
If you guessed ‘customer experience’ (or CX), you guessed right.
https://www.superoffice.com/blog/customer-experience-strategy/
The majority (90%) of UK customers say that customer centres are "ineffective at dealing with issues," says a new study.
A third (33%) of the surveyed UK shoppers say that they’ll give up on a retailer if customer service is poor as more than 50% of the same cohort have been frustrated with their shopping treatment, reports a study by Whistl.
https://internetretailing.net/customer/90-of-uk-shoppers-find-customer-centres-ineffective-18202/
As customer experience rapidly supersedes price and product to become the single most important differentiator for businesses, turning global data into meaningful insights has emerged as a critical imperative. For this, organisations must adopt a global command centre model wherein a centralised command centre serves as the hub for organisational data aggregation and processing.
https://www.itproportal.com/features/what-it-takes-to-build-a-next-gen-command-centre-and-why-you-should-do-it/
When a company sets out to revamp its customer experience, it tends to focus right away on the extreme events, the big, rare customer service catastrophes: mass blow-ups online and so forth. But I actually tend to discourage them, as their customer experience consultant, from going there first. That’s because I subscribe to what could be called “the broken windows theory” of customer service and customer experience improvement.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/micahsolomon/2018/07/05/the-broken-windows-theory-of-customer-service-and-the-customer-experience/#3c68290f4b73/
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/
The globally renowned footwear and accessory seller's head of customer research shares how AI and behavioural insights are increasingly being used to drive personalisation
https://www.cmo.com.au/article/641587/what-zappos-doing-personalise-customer-experience-services/
Why is there a high failure rate of customer experience (CX) initiatives? And why do most CEOs not buy into CX? Because CX professionals and companies are not practicing Real CX.
https://www.mycustomer.com/experience/engagement/why-cx-must-not-be-the-responsibility-of-customer-service-or-marketing/
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/
People access the internet on mobile devices more often than desktop computers, and that trend started years ago. It's also been well over a year since "mobilegeddon," when Google updated its algorithms to penalize websites without mobile counterparts.
With so many websites shifting to responsive design, consumers now turn to the mobile web and apps to address online shopping needs. Early adopters make purchases directly from their smartphones. Others use mobile devices to quickly look up items, consume product-specific content and discuss options with peers -- any time, anywhere.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/281269/
