Eptica

JANUARY 6, 2016

Date: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 What were the key customer experience topics in 2015? Author: Olivier Njamfa As we enter 2016, I’m already seeing plenty of predictions about what the year will bring for the customer experience and customer service markets. Published on: January 06, 2016.

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Eptica

JANUARY 8, 2016

Date: Friday, January 8, 2016 5 customer experience lessons from the 2015 Holiday Shopping season. Author: Robin Tandon While the peak season for retailers isn’t yet over, many companies are already taking stock and looking at their performance, as well as studying the wider trends that emerged in the run up to Christmas 2015.

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Calabrio

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

In 2015, it gained momentum. Now, in 2016, it’s so important, it pulls other priorities into its orbit,” explained Travis, drawing parallel between customer experience and the sun. During a 12-month period between 2014 and 2015, Calabrio recorded more than one billion calls. “In 2014, it emerged as a top priority for marketers.

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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. So as a company you need to work harder to avoid negative customer experiences at all costs. So how can companies ensure they are emotionally engaging with customers?

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Cutting wait time, reducing operational costs, and improving conversions are just some of the customer service superpowers already enabled by AI. The beauty of AI customer service is how it can work together with human agents to help both customer and agent. What’s a Chatbot Going to Do for Your Customers? .

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Eptica

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2015 The importance of customer service to midsize businesses. Published on: December 02, 2015. Given these challenges, how are they coping with becoming more customer centric? Yet, on chat, just 14% of Health/Beauty companies responded successfully. retailers uncovered a mixed picture.

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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.

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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.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2016

Author: Robin Tandon Having recently looked back on customer experience in 2015 , what is predicted for the coming year? In 2015 top companies in both the US and UK could only answer 65% of questions asked on their websites – meaning that nearly a third of basic queries are currently going unanswered.

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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. Looking online, how are consumer electronics companies faring when it comes to the digital customer experience? Again, these figures are half those of electronics retailers.

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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. Share this page on: Tweet.

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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. Given this pressure, retailers need to balance reducing handling times while at the same time ensuring that customers receive a helpful, informative response to their query if they are to retain their business.

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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. So how can companies deliver faster service to more queries, while improving efficiency?

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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

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. million tweets every month sent to B2C companies. times over the past two years.

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Eptica

JUNE 1, 2016

And it’s convenient because consumers don’t need to switch from the web to the phone, meaning it can be integrated seamlessly into the customer journey. 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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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. Therefore, it is vital that companies take a step back and look at service through the eyes of their customers.

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Tricia Morris

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Here is a collection of 16 statistics shaping customer service for today and tomorrow: 1. 76% of consumers say they view customer service as the true test of how much a company values them. 2015 Aspect Consumer Experience Survey ). 2015 Global State of Multichannel Customer Service Report).

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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. Share this page on: Tweet.

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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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Eptica

MARCH 18, 2016

Therefore, you’d expect customer service to be continually improving, but the 2016 Eptica Retail Multichannel Customer Experience Study found that this isn’t the case. The performance of many companies and channels remains static, while in other areas it is deteriorating , rather than improving.

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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. These are: 1.

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Avaya

APRIL 6, 2016

Customer engagement is a competitive battleground. After all, customer expectations are always high, and technology always evolving. To stay ahead of the competition, we have to be vigilant about meeting or exceeding the needs of our customers. The Internet makes finding and switching to a competitor easier than ever.

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Eptica

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 Comparing the retail customer experience in the United States and United Kingdom. Published on: November 11, 2015. Author: Pauline Ashenden Thanks to the internet, retail is a global industry, with companies now facing competition from peers around the world.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 Customer service in a multigenerational world. Published on: December 16, 2015. Many companies spend a lot of time on demographically profiling their customers , but mixing the generations in the same household blurs the lines between the expectations of different age groups.

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Eptica

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Date: Friday, November 27, 2015 Mobile – at the heart of the customer experience. Published on: November 27, 2015. Fail to deliver what customers want, and, no matter how good your desktop experience, you are likely to lose business if you fail to deliver on mobile devices.

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Eptica

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Date: Friday, October 9, 2015 Don’t neglect the positive side of customer service. Published on: October 09, 2015. At a time when social media and ever more demanding consumers shift the balance of power away from brands and towards their customers, positive endorsements provide a strong message to potential purchasers.

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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. This gap between best and worst replicates Eptica’s findings in the 2015 UK Multichannel Customer Experience Study. Share this page on: Tweet.

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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

AUGUST 5, 2016

Based on consumer research into how customer experience strengthens loyalty, it shows both individual company scores and how the wider economy is performing. Looking through the research, I can see four key trends for CX and customer service professionals to focus on: 1. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Eptica

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Date: Friday, October 30, 2015 Which sectors offer the worst customer experience? Published on: October 30, 2015. Author: Pauline Ashenden While all industries need to ensure they are delivering an excellent customer experience, some seem to be intrinsically better at it than others.

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Eptica

JUNE 24, 2016

Happier customers are more loyal, will spend more and recommend your company to their friends. Business success depends on a wide variety of factors and it can be hard to isolate customer experience in dollar figures. There are two further benefits that also have a financial impact on company performance: 1.

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Avaya

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Big companies can and are dedicating investments and resources to digital strategies focused on an elevated customer experience that checks all items on the list above. We are well aware that what goes on behind the scenes to coordinate the customer experience can be dauntingly complex.

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Eptica

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

This means that delivering the right levels of customer satisfaction is a journey not a destination. Companies have to keep investing in improving the service and experience they offer if consumers are to remain satisfied. The Index does show marked differences between regions, companies and industries. points to 77 out of 100.

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