OpinionLab

AUGUST 29, 2017

For this, you need to know the specifics of how customers behave and what they actually want. This is exactly why we recently surveyed 24,000 consumers and 1,000 businesses globally. When you look at customer retention across industries, the findings are quite striking. The difference between the 2015 and 2016 figures are clear.

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Eptica

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Date: Friday, September 4, 2015 Why your CEO should work a shift in the contact center. Published on: September 04, 2015. Author: Anne-Merete Jensen In competitive markets, customer service is often the most important differentiator. Below are four areas that may help. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Experience Matters

APRIL 7, 2015

Today we announced the results of the 2015 Temkin Group CX Vendor Excellence Awards. In its third year, these awards recognize companies that provide products and services that help companies improve the customer experience they deliver. We brought the industry’s first customer engagement hub to market. Clarabridge.

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TechSee

JANUARY 18, 2021

TechSee has been out there since 2015 and fully engaged ever since, motivated to drive change. TechSee has already established a global presence, trusted by companies in the telecom, consumer electronics, manufacturing, and insurance industries – Vodafone , Orange , Achmea , CSG , Lavazza , and Hitachi , to name a few.

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Eptica

AUGUST 11, 2015

Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 The importance of emotion to customer engagement. Published on: August 12, 2015. Agents realize this – in Eptica’s study ‘ The Power of Linguistics: Consumers vs. Agents: Can the Gap be closed? Share this page on: Tweet. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Eptica

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Date: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 How customer service techniques can ensure a stress-free Christmas. Published on: December 23, 2015. Author: Pauline Ashenden With the holidays now nearly upon us, spare a thought for customer service teams who have to keep working right up to, and through, Christmas itself.

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Eptica

MARCH 31, 2016

Author: Dharmesh Ghedia With an increasing amount of our time spent online, company websites are now more often than not the first port of call for consumers looking for information from brands. Being able to find answers to their questions quickly is therefore a vital part of the customer experience. Published on: March 31, 2016.

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transcosmos Information Systems

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The Aspect blog provides technology news, trends and actual customer experiences, best practices for customer experience related matters for contact centers and enterprises. Ameyo’s topcs revolve around customer engagement, best practices for business processing outsourcing industries, and a lot more.

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transcosmos Information Systems

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The Aspect blog provides technology news, trends and actual customer experiences, best practices for customer experience related matters for contact centers and enterprises. Ameyo’s topcs revolve around customer engagement, best practices for business processing outsourcing industries, and a lot more.

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Eptica

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 How to prevent utility customer service delivering a shock. Published on: October 06, 2015. Author: Michael Cheung Recent research from charity Citizens Advice found major differences between how UK utilities handle customer service. So how can they better connect with customers?

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Eptica

APRIL 29, 2016

Greater competition and the rise of price comparison sites are impacting revenues and margins, while customer loyalty is a thing of the past. Consumers are demanding more from their insurers, and want a seamless, high quality experience, however they choose to make contact. In 2015 just half gave accurate answers.

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Eptica

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Date: Friday, December 11, 2015 Festive failings in UK customer service. Published on: December 11, 2015. To find out how retailers are faring, Eptica carried out consumer research on Cyber Monday (November 30) to gauge the mood amongst shoppers in both the UK and the US. billion was spent on the day itself.

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Eptica

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2015 5 Ways of improving handling times this Christmas. Published on: December 09, 2015. Additionally, while customers are always demanding, the time they are willing to wait for an answer is even shorter at Christmas. This will save even more time moving forward.

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Eptica

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Date: Friday, December 18, 2015 Telecoms customer complaints rising in the UK. Published on: December 18, 2015. According to its latest customer service report complaints against telecoms companies are increasing. How will they cope at this critical time? New research from UK regulator Ofcom provides some pointers.

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Eptica

JUNE 3, 2016

Time spent on mobile devices grew by 117% year on year between 2014 and 2015 and nearly half of all ecommerce transactions now take place on mobile devices. This shift to a mobile first world has a big impact on the customer experience and customer service. Consumers want to interact on new channels.

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Eptica

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Date: Friday, September 11, 2015 What the latest Apple launch tells us about customer service. Published on: September 11, 2015. As technology gets more complex, and consumers look to connect it all together, the importance of the customer experience becomes ever more vital.

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Eptica

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Date: Friday, October 16, 2015 The opportunity for European customer experience. Published on: October 16, 2015. Author: Olivier Njamfa From Berlin to Bermuda, and San Francisco to Singapore, consumers increasingly demand a superior customer experience from the organizations that they choose to buy from.

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Eptica

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Date: Friday, December 4, 2015 Happy Holidays? How good is retail customer service? Published on: December 04, 2015. But getting it right isn’t easy – the internet has greatly increased competition, putting pressure on prices, while consumer demands are ever increasing. part of the research.

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Eptica

JULY 27, 2016

Author: Pauline Ashenden Despite the rising importance of customer service on both sides of the Atlantic, the UK is widely seen as lagging the United States when it comes to the experience that companies deliver. This is backed up by damning new consumer research commissioned by fixed-fee UK estate agent YOPA.

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Eptica

JUNE 1, 2016

Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 What is holding back chat in customer service? Author: Neil Cox Amongst consumers, chat is fast becoming a mainstream channel for customer service. Companies can even offer proactive chat to help consumers that seem to be stuck on a particular page, by using their behavior to trigger chat sessions.

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Tricia Morris

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Customer expectations are changing and growing just as rapidly as the channels and technology consumers are empowered with to engage, encouraging (if not demanding) that brands and organizations embrace a strategy of non-stop, customer-centric adaptation. 2015 Aspect Consumer Experience Survey ).

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Eptica

JANUARY 20, 2016

Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 Looking into the customer service crystal ball. Author: Robin Tandon Having recently looked back on customer experience in 2015 , what is predicted for the coming year? Published on: January 20, 2016. Eptica research backs up the need to make self-service easier.

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Eptica

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 Making a success of Twitter customer service. Published on: September 09, 2015. Author: Michael Cheung The immediacy and reach of Twitter means it has become a vital channel for customer service. times over the past two years. times over the past two years. That makes over 4.5

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Eptica

AUGUST 28, 2015

Date: Friday, August 28, 2015 What is a customer hub? Published on: August 28, 2015. Author: Steve Nattress When customer service first rose to prominence within organisations it was straightforward to define. You can find out more about the Eptica Customer Day 2015 and book your place here.

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Eptica

MARCH 18, 2016

Transformed by the internet, new entrants and ever more demanding consumers, retailers cannot afford to rest on their laurels. Customers are pushing retailers to innovate and deliver new services , improved experiences at lower prices. 10% fewer companies allowed non-customers to email them compared to 2015.

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Kustomer

AUGUST 12, 2020

As part of this sustained company momentum, Kustomer has achieved these major milestones: Exceptional Business Performance : Driven by the move to digital-only experiences, changing consumer behavior, and demand for omnichannel service, businesses in many industries have turned to Kustomer in record numbers.

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Eptica

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 The widening UK customer experience gap. Published on: September 30, 2015. The rise of social media and increasingly demanding customers has changed all of this. It shows there has been scant change to customer service levels, with no overall improvement since 2013.

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Eptica

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 Why aren’t organizations embracing digital customer service? Published on: September 16, 2015. Author: Steve Nattress The spread of digital customer service channels, from email and chat to social media , can provide organizations with significant benefits.

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Eptica

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Date: Friday, September 18, 2015 The six ways web self-service improves your customer experience. Published on: September 18, 2015. Author: Robin Tandon Customer service teams are currently faced with multiple challenges. for phone, according to analysts Contact Babel. for email and £3.87

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Eptica

AUGUST 19, 2015

Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 Robots – the future of customer service? Published on: August 19, 2015. Author: Derek Lewis Recent Forrester research pointed out the importance of understanding customer emotion and creating empathy with consumers if brands are going to deliver a successful customer experience.

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Eptica

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Date: Friday, February 5, 2016 Meeting Millennial Customer Expectations. Author: Neil Cox In 2015 the US Census Bureau reported that Millennials outnumbered Baby Boomers for the first time , meaning they now make up a quarter of the population. Published on: February 05, 2016. They want their views to be acted on (fast!),

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Eptica

JULY 6, 2016

Given this pressure, along with the need to operate as efficiently as possible, how are contact centers evolving to meet changing needs? The report is based on a survey of 221 UK contact centre managers working across 11 different vertical industries ranging from small contact centers of up to 50 agents to those with 200+ agents.

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Eptica

MARCH 4, 2016

To do this we’ve posed as prospective customers, testing how easy it is to find information and answers to the routine questions that consumers might ask every day on the web and via email, chat and social media. UK brands are struggling to deliver a high quality customer experience across all the channels that consumers demand.

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Eptica

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 Why customer service is still vital in the supermarket price war. Published on: September 23, 2015. These pressures actually mean that service is even more important than ever, according to research from the Institute of Customer Service (ICS).

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Eptica

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 What’s the best channel for U.S. retail customer service? Published on: November 04, 2015. So at Eptica we thought it would be a good time to look at how they perform when it comes to the customer experience. The 2015 Eptica Retail Customer Experience Study therefore evaluated 500 U.S.

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Eptica

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Date: Wednesday, November 25, 2015 Consistency – the missing ingredient in retail customer service? Published on: November 25, 2015. Delivering consistency is therefore important to both customers and the organization itself. Retailers are multichannel, but not consistent So, how good are U.S.

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Eptica

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 3 ways of reducing customer query volumes. Published on: October 21, 2015. Author: Pauline Ashenden Consumers are sending an increasing number of questions to companies , across more and more channels. Share this page on: Tweet.

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