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Remaining Competitive in Retail: How to Optimize Customer Experience

CSM Magazine

The best field service solutions will include consumer portals that can make scheduling service visits easy for customers by offering control over their experience. Consumers are empowered to upload relevant photos and equipment information based on their repair request and view their service history and product details online.

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Is the Chief Experience Officer a Worthwhile Addition to the C-Suite?

Retently

If we are to look at the available research, we’d see that – back in 2004 – Forrester Research did a report that showcased how important a more centralized approach to the customer experience is. Because according to research, 8 in 10 consumers are willing to pay more for a better service.

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The Government orders full Whirlpool tumble dryer recall – at last!

Helen Dewdney

Today (12 June 2019) The Consumer Minister, Kelly Tolhurst, announced that the Government intends to serve Whirlpool with a full recall notice for all tumble dryers that are at risk of fire. She told the House of Commons that “consumer safety is a priority for the Government”. The end of the spin cycle? As of May 2017, 1.5

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Guest Blog: Becoming a Blockbuster?

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Ted Janusz who writes about how customers are always looking for a better customer experience. Back in 2004, Blockbuster had 60,000 employees, 9,000 stores and appeared invincible. As a result, it dismissed the new iPhone as a “mere consumer toy.” Are you playing by your rules, or by theirs?

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10 Examples of Bad Outsourcing and How to Avoid Them

Magellan Solutions

We’ll look at seven significant outsourcing failures in this article. In 2004, J.P. in 2004, the bank decided to dissolve the agreement. For weeks, it rendered the system unusable, preventing millions of consumers from accessing their accounts. EDS reported a $153 million loss at the end of the third quarter of 2004.

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How customer intelligence software helps companies fight the survey epidemic

Alida

Every customer interaction, no matter how trivial, triggers a survey,” he grumbles in a recently published article. “If Even the venerable Pew Research has seen its response rate plummet from 36 percent in 1997 to only nine percent in 2004. As for consumers like Reed who have grown tired of surveys?

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Guest Post: How Good Customer Service is Defined by 4 Different Generations

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Pem Brooke, Marketing Manager of SuperStaff. Millennials (also called Gen Y)- born in between 1982 and 2004. As consumers, millennials are an omnivorous breed of customers who are most likely to utilize each point-of-sale avenue available. Gen Z- born from 2005 to present.