Author: CXM Editorial

Digital choices

The all-new UK Digital Experience Awards are on the lookout for creative entries that have enhanced the digital experience of customers. The Digital Awards will follow the same format as the highly successful UK Customer Experience Awards, and are presented in...

Can Morrisons take a slice out of Waitrose’s online market share?

The supermarket giants battled it out during the festive period, but an analysis of customer comments about online deliveries suggest that Morrisons is posing a threat to its Bracknell-based rival, Waitrose.   The northern supermarket’s early foray into online shopping is...

Retailers warned not to sacrifice customer service in the pursuit of new technology



Consumer confidence and spending are on the up, but retailers could be at risk of falling at the first hurdle by failing to keep their IT services in working order, claims the MD of Barron McCann.

 It is fair to say...

Customer experience strategy – running before we can walk

According to the recent eConsultancy/Adobe 2014 Digital Trends report, customer experience is “the single most exciting opportunity” for client side respondents. Second most exciting was ‘mobile’, which given all the hyperbole surrounding it must come as a bit of a...

2014: The year of value-based messaging

If 2013 was the year of the OTT mobile chat app, 2014 will be the year of the value-based SMS message, says Adrian Sarosi of OpenMarket. One of the big mobile stories of 2013 was chat apps, such as recent Facebook...

The bright future of web chat in the UK

The real-time online customer service solution, iAdvize and the CallCentre.co.uk, a trusted resource for the contact centre and customer service community have just published the results of a survey investigating how UK businesses perceive web chat. The pool of respondents...

Customer Experience in the call centre: New approaches to Quality and Performance

It’s still true that even in this digital age the call centre is many customers’ only point of contact with a company. A lot has been said about the call centre industry, and in most cases it is portrayed in...

Your future is in your hands

Back in mid-January, BDO released a report, written by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), which looked into the impact of poor customer service on businesses worldwide. The report, which surveyed more than 800 senior business leaders from around the world found...

The Seven most popular myths about Cloud Contact Centres Dispelled

Klaas van der Leest, UK Managing Director, Intelecom dispels 7 myths about contact centres in the cloud Cloud computing is here to stay and cloud providers are quick to quote the benefits of this new phenomenon including minimal upfront expenditure,...

Consumers expect a similar level of customer service, when shopping online

According to a recent study by Zendesk, just 7% of online shoppers surveyed were extremely satisfied by the level of customer service brands provide across their channels. Do e-retailers meet the demands of their customers when it comes to customer service?...