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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year? Black Friday Shopping is Here

QuestionPro Audience

Cyber Monday has only been around since 2005, and legend has it, got its name because the average consumer had dial-up internet at home, and would wait to do their online shopping at work, where the internet connection was faster. million small businesses and 112 million consumers participated in the event in 2016. Check it out!

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Customer Experience Drives Revenue Growth, 2016

Forrester

To do that we compared five pairs of publicly traded companies where one company in each of the pairs had a significantly higher score than the other in Forrester's Customer Experience Index during the period 2010 to 2015. Then we gathered financial data from company SEC filings like Forms 10-K and 10-Q.

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Amazon HQ2: What It Means For the Chosen City

QuestionPro Audience

It’s estimated that Amazon’s investments in Seattle from 2010-2016 resulted in an additional $38 billion to the city’s economy. In a company press release announcing Amazon HQ2, Amazon spoke about plans to invest over $5 billion in construction, and create as many as 50,000 high-paying jobs.

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Royal Mail fails to deliver on service as stamp prices rise

Helen Dewdney

Royal Mail was privatised in 2013 and wants to be seen as working to keep costs down for consumers and making service improvements. But it needs to do a lot more work, listen to consumers and stop repeating mistakes and wasting money! Ridiculous, and shows just how poor the leadership at Royal Mail is. rise on previous year.

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2016 Customer Service Trends: Empowering All Employees to Serve the Customer

Tricia Morris

We’ve all heard the saying “customer service is the new marketing,” but with 89% of companies expected to compete mostly on the basis of customer experience in 2016 (compared to just 36% in 2010)*, it’s not just marketing where customer service makes an impact. Employee Empowerment: Where to Start.

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What a Customer First Strategy Means Post Pandemic

C3Centricity

89% of consumers have stopped doing business with a company after experiencing poor customer service. 94% of consumers say they are more likely to be loyal to a brand that offers transparency. A 2016 Spencer Stuart survey shows data analysis and insights are one of the three main areas where CMOs need the most development as a leader.

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Government and regulators continue to fail on resolving consumer disputes

Helen Dewdney

The Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) system for resolving consumer complaints is broken and in danger of collapse. In February 2018 the Government announced that it was seeking to reduce the number of ADR providers in property to one because of consumer confusion. Dewdney says “Consumers are confused by the whole ADR sector.