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5 Ways to Reduce Holiday Lines and Customer Wait Time

Comm100

41% of shoppers have abandoned a purchase due to long wait times, and 86% avoid shops if they perceive the queue to be too long. But during the holiday season, an increase in wait time may be hard to avoid. Use these 5 tips to help keep wait times short for your customers this upcoming winter.

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5 AI Trends Transforming the Future of Retail

CSM Magazine

This shift reduces wait times and significantly boosts overall customer satisfaction. Retailers using AI for personalisation report higher customer engagement and increased sales. This includes personalised emails, advertisements, and promotions that are more likely to resonate with the customer.

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What Do Companies With Low Net Promoter Score Have in Common?

Retently

Aggressive or misleading billing practices Apple, which markets its products using brand-focused advertising, topped the 2013 technology statistics with a Net Promoter score of 65 for iPad, 70 for iPhone and 76 for its range of laptops. In 2013, McDonald’s recorded the longest waiting time at its drive-thrus.

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How Covid has Exacerbated the Customer Service Issue

Interactions

While initially sympathetic, consumers are now tired of being told that their long wait times on the phone or late deliveries are simply “because of Covid”. In fact, online sales hit $791.70 billion in 2020 , up 32.4% billion in the prior year, according to the Commerce Department. Figures were up another 39% again in Q1 2021.

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Meet your new little helper: Optimove’s AI Copy Assistant

Optimove

This helps to reduce in-store wait times and by default, elevate the customer experience. So, for example, you can write prompts based on the intended goal of your email templates, such as, “Write me a three-sentence paragraph that advertises an upcoming event on May 5th.

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Top Holiday Purchase Trends Consumers Are Sharing

NetBase

Amazon doesn’t seem to require much advertising to drive sales to it, as it’s a hub for many people online – but the ecommerce giant understands this just isn’t true. As the place where third-party sales outnumber its own inventory, a focus on fast delivery is a differentiator. But that’s not what brings buyers back for more.

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Guest Blog: What’s Most Vital to Success: Product, Price, or Experience?

ShepHyken

Advertising and marketing your brand is costly, and it’s never certain whether these efforts will attract enough new customers to justify the cost of expensive advertising. Did you know that repeat business from loyal customers can create 10x the profit that is derived from a new customer who finds your brand through advertising?