It’s essential that businesses are ready for changing customer needs, especially as we move closer to Peak. In the final part of this three-part series to help companies optimise their customer service operations, Anne-Merete Jensen explains 5 areas to focus on to ensure you have the right resources in place...
In this post we look at auditing your organisation and listening to your frontline staff who spend their days dealing first-hand with queries and issues from consumers. Consequently, they have an unrivalled amount of experience of where there might be gaps and how processes can be improved. Start by asking both agents and managers these nine key questions...
Normally retailers, and companies in many other sectors, would now begin preparing for their Peak season. However, in 2020 almost every industry has seen its operations thrown into turmoil. But, no matter how your plans have been affected, now is still a good time to look at auditing and optimising your operations.
Contact centre advisors have always been at the frontline of delivering customer service, initially over the phone and then through a range of other channels from email to chat. The role has never been static but is now seeing a rapid transformation. Here are the 4 areas that brands and agents need to focus on for the future.
Recognition means ensuring that the efforts of your agents are recognised and celebrated. How can you achieve this? Based on our experience, here are 4 recognition programs that really increase morale for all.
Customer service and customer experience need to be constantly improving in order to meet rising customer expectations. Yet staff turnover in contact centers can mean knowledge and best practice can be missing – here are 5 ways that training can help…
Constant improvement is key to meeting customer service needs and differentiating your business from rivals. In the first of a new series of posts on optimizing CX with Eptica, we’re going to share training and advice to help maximize efficiency and customer satisfaction.
The run up to Christmas is both the busiest time of year for most brands and the most stressful for consumers. So it is no surprise that consumers become more demanding of the brands that they deal with during this time. How can they cope?
Planning ahead is central to retail success, which is why during the summer months many retailers are already preparing for the Peak festive shopping season. Given the importance of customer experience to sales success, optimizing CX is high on the list of priorities. So how can you ensure that your customer experience helps you have a Happy Christmas?
Customer service and customer experience now involves the entire organization, and to be successful companies have to build a strong culture that embraces the right systems, processes and technology to empower staff and ensuring they have meaningful, empathetic conversations with customers. But how do you achieve this?