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Tag: Customer Experience

Humans shouldn’t sound like robots: Customers want you to identify and understand emotions

August 15, 2018

By Staff writer

Emotional intelligence is a vital element to understanding customer needs. Colin Hay, VP sales at Puzzel, explains how contact centres that blend technology with the human touch will reap rewards in the digital age.

Clever sales people chat, listen and glean information rather than demand it

August 15, 2018

By Jan Cavelle

I recently decided to move house, bracing myself for one of the big three stress scenarios, right up there with bereavement and divorce. What awaited me was a poor customer experience unnecessary automation and the unwillingness of staff to listen.

How user experience can promote sustainability

July 16, 2018

By Staff writer

As a society, we ve become very good at making stuff. So good, in fact, that we re in danger of running out of the materials to make more.

3 ways you can outperform the competition

May 23, 2018

By Joseph Valente

Are you tracking all of your competitors’ moves and spending a significant amount of time every day deciding how to react to (and outdo) those moves”

The breaking point: Keeping the human in customer experience

March 22, 2018

By Staff writer

By now, business owners and entrepreneurs know building a successful company starts with the customer experience. In fact, 72 per cent say improving the experience is at the top of the list.

Empowering a remote and flexible workforce to meet the needs of always-on customers

January 5, 2018

By Staff writer

The workplace is in the midst of the biggest revolution since the industrial age. An emerging consequence of this is demand for remote and flexible working.

Why a teenager could deliver exceptional standards with more consistency than you do now

December 29, 2017

By Staff writer

Wouldn?t you like to know?! Imagine if this were true for your business. Just think of the freedom you?d have! Having a team who all work with consistency, making every customer consistently happy and keen to return.

Creating lifetime customers with artificial intelligence

November 16, 2017

By Staff writer

The way businesses interact with customers has drastically changed in the last decade, due to the rise of mobile and other technologies.

Powering strategic business changes with location technology

September 28, 2017

By Staff writer

As location is the most accurate indicator of human intent, businesses are recognising that with location technology insights, they can get a picture of their customers” real world behaviour both now and in future, not just their online behaviour.

The future of customer service: Humans for robots isn’t a matter of rip and replace

August 22, 2017

By Staff writer

In any job sector, there is always a debate of whether technology will overtake human jobs, and the contact centre is no different. These arguments are always made in black and white and assume the workforce will be entirely human or entirely robot.

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