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/
Understanding customers, discovering and managing their behaviours have been hot topics in marketing for a long time. However, customer experience is still a new notion to many. Today, different companies sell almost identical products at the same price level. This state of play creates a question. If the price and quality are almost the same, on which criterias do the consumers make their decisions?
https://www.cxnetwork.com/cx-experience/articles/4-steps-for-creating-unique-customer-experiences/
Customer experience teams are having a tough time, and the pressure is mounting to prove business value of a customer experience (CX) team in 2020. And unfortunately, the proof is not “in the pudding” as one might say. Confirmit’s survey, which polled over 800 CX professionals globally discovered just the opposite – the number of CX teams receiving significantly increased investment is declining, dropping from 22 percent 16 percent in just the last year.
http://martechadvisor.com/articles/customer-experience-2/beating-the-cx-slump-in-2020-to-deliver-true-business-impact/
With each passing year, omnichannel customer service and personalised experiences have become the norm. Strategic partnerships with disruptors, like UberEATS, have become so ubiquitous that they're no longer considered innovative.
Companies must move beyond the idea that personalised content is enough, as personalised experiences offer so much more.
https://www.itweb.co.za/content/j5alr7QlPjnvpYQk/
In an omnichannel world, where consumers have infinite options available to them, customer experience (CX) is the leading way for retailers to achieve success. In fact, research suggests that by 2020, CX will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator.
For many retailers, customer experience is synonymous with customer satisfaction and customer service. But successful retailers know that CX is much more comprehensive. CX is a customer’s collective perception of their interactions with a retailer and how they feel about a brand as a result. Everything, from a retailers’ messaging and merchandising to its people and products, impacts this.
https://risnews.com/delivering-promise-customer-experience/
Omni-channel is more than a buzzword. It’s a journey that effectively unites every service channel a customer could use to interact with a business. It provides a more comprehensive approach that leverages all customer data to provide a consistent, seamless and personalized experience that 77 percent of today’s consumers demand.
https://customerthink.com/four-omni-channel-mistakes-killing-the-customer-experience/
The big challenge in retail: Customer requests for support tend to surge dramatically over the holidays, in-store or online. At the same time, shoppers are ever more conscious of a retailer’s overall customer experience. Omnichannel customer service is a must. Customers have increasing service expectations for the channel of their preference, not to mention the benefits of a seamless customer experience both in-store and digitally. What’s more, ticket surge will vary by channel. A seamless experience for the customer is increasingly linked to omnichannel retailing.
https://www.business2community.com/brandviews/zendesk/holiday-retail-omnichannel-customer-experience-02021587/
I recently read a report showing that out of 46,000 shoppers, 73% used multiple channels to make a purchase. Only 7% shopped exclusively online, while 20% shopped exclusively in-store. I believe this is clear proof that there is an increasing need for retailers to turn to omnichannel retail to enhance the customer experience.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2018/08/03/how-to-create-your-omnichannel-retail-strategy/#7067087e6561/
With as many as two-thirds of shoppers conducting research online before purchasing a product, the need has never been greater for retailers to understand the ways in which their customers interact with products across multiple sales channels. Furthermore, the best retailers understand that simply setting up a web shop and calling it a day isn’t enough. In order to give customers the best experience possible, service should be personalized to each customer on every platform to deliver tailored product experiences.
https://www.psfk.com/2018/02/customer-experiences-omnichannel-personalization.html/
Our interactions with businesses are increasingly taking place online and now in most cases you can expect to find the information at the click of a button. Failing that, you might turn to a website’s live chat to find your answer. It’s likely that you’d try both of these methods, if offered, before considering making a call or sending an email.
The ways customers prefer to interact with businesses have changed significantly over the past five years. Whilst face to face or over the phone sales were previously the norm, we’re now faced with a multitude of possibilities, including social media, e-commerce, instant messaging and toll-free web-based calling.
https://www.itproportal.com/features/managing-omnichannel-and-the-customer-experience/
