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The Art of Turning Infrequent Customers into Loyal Advocates

By City Cruises MD, Kyle Houghton Providing our customers with an excellent experience has always been at the heart of how we operate at City Cruises. Our river boat sightseeing and dining cruises showcase the best of London during the day...

Make Room for New-Fashioned Luxury in Your 5-Star Hotel

Customers Challenge the Ordinary in Search for Authentic Service by Dale Smith, The founder and Director of Creation at Bridge Training & Events “Boutique Hotel” is a term that was initially used in North America and the UK to describe small...

Editor’s Tales

By Marija Pavlović, Editor of the Customer Experience Magazine *** Midsummer Morality Story on the Importance of Market Research Once upon a time, actually somewhere around the mid-1980s, there lived a market giant called Coca-Cola. Although quite huge, the giant was not terrifying. On...

UK Businesses Waste £14 Billion a Year on Poor Market Research

By Manoj Madhusudanan, Managing Director of InsightBee The way in which businesses conduct market research has changed dramatically in recent years. In the post-recession marketplace, gathering intelligence to support your business development plans in a timely and cost effective manner has...

All A Customer Wants To Hear Is: “Have Your Say”

eDigitalResearch, Yodel, and their winning customer feedback programme Just days after the same programme won the Charted Institute of Transport and Logistics (CILT) North West Region Award for Education and Excellence, voice of the Customer specialist eDigitalResearch and independent parcel carrier...

Outsourcing Can Bring the Good Luck

By Peter Gale, UK Managing Director, DBF When the International on-line lottery business, Tipp24 decided to relocate its business to the UK from Germany it gave itself a tight timeframe of just three months to find an outsourced contact centre provider...

Common Sense Customer Experience: Have you Seen These CX Gaffes?

Whilst perusing the shelves at one of the UK’s biggest chain bookshops, I found myself making all too close acquaintance with a gentleman who was vacuuming at my feet. Ah yes, the familiar sound of “it’s 10 minutes to closing time,...

The Future of Technology in CX

Mark Magee, Vice President of Product Management, MaritzCX As companies become more competitive, their customer experience practitioners are becoming more experienced and more specialized. To take a company to the next level, CX practitioners should stay up-to-date with the latest trends...

Integrating a sound Digital Strategy into your Customer Experience

Mark Hamill, Awards International UAE Digital is changing the way organisations approach customer experience. Digital technology has become part of everyday life for the majority of consumers and has challenged customer expectations around service, delivery and communications. It’s great having nifty...

Five must-have technology innovations to deliver a first-class customer experience

Mike Hughes, MD of PeopleTECH One of the biggest changes to impact the customer experience industry over the past decade, has undoubtedly been the change in consumer expectations. Where many consumers were once inert and passive about dealing with and accepting...