It’s holiday time! What a joyous time of year!
And, then there is the holiday shopping experience… This is how I see it. I get in my car. About a mile from the mall I begin to experience heavier-than-usual traffic. Not just a little heavier, but sometimes it seems like worse than rush hour. Is there an accident? No, there’s a traffic jam at the mall. Once I’m at the mall, I experience the search for the parking spot. Then there’s the crowded stores, the lines to check out, and then the reverse commute to get home.
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For decades, the retail industry stood strong. Retailers emerged fairly unscathed during the first wave of the internet in the ’90s because consumers still by and large chose to shop in physical stores staffed with employees that strived to provide customer service. So, it was business as usual with a small number of wary execs cautiously eyeing the growing shift toward ecommerce.
http://www.adweek.com/digital/the-retail-industry-is-focusing-on-customer-experience-and-convenience-to-win-in-ecommerce/
A big part of charging more, earning more and attracting more customers comes down to trust. Can your customers trust you to reliably provide what they want? If they can, they will buy from you. If they can't, they won’t.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/272368/
If you are in business, you will eventually have an unhappy customer. The key is knowing to react. We know because we had such an experience ourself.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/277437/
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/
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/
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/
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/
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/
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/
