Eptica

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Date: Friday, October 7, 2016 7 key issues that are holding back digital transformation in insurance. Published on: October 07, 2016. To find out how they are performing, the 2016 Eptica Insurance Multichannel Customer Experience Study evaluated 100 U.S. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Global Response

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This article will explore the benefits of omnichannel outsourcing and how to effectively communicate with customers across various channels in an omnichannel contact center and adapt to their changing preferences. What is an omnichannel contact center? Keep reading to understand the different types of contact centers.

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Eptica

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Date: Friday, October 28, 2016 Turning service into sales with chat. Published on: October 28, 2016. However, it can be difficult to measure the exact impact of individual customer service interactions on these metrics, leading to the contact center being seen as a cost, rather than a department that boosts the bottom line.

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Eptica

MAY 18, 2016

Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 Meeting the needs of contact center agents. Published on: May 18, 2016. Author: Anne-Merete Jensen Delivering a great customer experience is vital to every organization today – and much of the responsibility for delivering this comes down to contact center agents.

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Eptica

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2016 Making the change from call center to contact center. Published on: February 03, 2016. Author: Laurence Chami 20 years ago customer service existed in a world dominated by voice , hence the widespread reliance on call centers to manage customer service interactions.

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Eptica

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Date: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 Is it really time for your company to embrace chatbots? Published on: October 12, 2016. Author: Pauline Ashenden One of the most talked about current trends in customer experience is the rise of chatbots , with many companies investigating using them to interact with customers on messaging apps.

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Eptica

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Date: Friday, October 21, 2016 3 ways for businesses to improve telephone customer service. Published on: October 21, 2016. Author: Derek Lewis In a multichannel world, the telephone is no longer the default choice of consumers when they want to make contact with an organization. Here are three ways to achieve this: 1.

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Eptica

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Date: Wednesday, November 2, 2016 The 3 dimensions of customer service conversations. Published on: November 02, 2016. Author: Laurence Chami Organizations today receive a growing number of incoming emails and social media messages from consumers. Share this page on: Tweet.

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RichCall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

With the rise of technology that allows better customer service, customers are becoming more demanding – that’s why to satisfy and retain them, you need to develop your contact center in accordance with the worldwide trends. Contact Center and CX Research and Reports. of companies. omnichannel. personalization.

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Eptica

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Financial services organizations topped the charts, echoing the results of the 2015 Eptica UK Multichannel Customer Experience Study , where banks scored highest for web service. These spanned six sectors in Germany, seven in France and eight in the United Kingdom. Pay-TV companies and ISPs were the lowest ranked sector.

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Eptica

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 Delivering the benefits of customer service outsourcing. Published on: December 14, 2016. According to the Everest Group, nearly a quarter of contact center activities across the globe are outsourced, meaning the market is worth $75-78 billion every year. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Eptica

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 Digital disruption in insurance – why it is all about service. Published on: September 21, 2016. Be truly multichannel Traditionally, insurance was a paper and telephone based industry, but the pervasiveness of digital technology in daily life, has dramatically changed consumer expectations.

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Eptica

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Date: Friday, November 4, 2016 3 ways to extend customer service across the enterprise. Published on: November 04, 2016. Use your experts Customer questions are now much more complex and demanding, meaning that even the most comprehensive knowledge base and well-trained contact center agent can’t answer every one of them.

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Eptica

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Date: Friday, September 30, 2016 4 ways of raising the profile of customer service in your organization. Published on: September 30, 2016. million Americans working in contact centers and over 70% of the UK working population occupying roles that involve dealing directly with customers. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Eptica

JUNE 3, 2016

Date: Friday, June 3, 2016 Customer service in a mobile-first world. Published on: June 03, 2016. This means understanding how their customers want to use their mobile devices to contact them and putting in place the right, multichannel resources to support them. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Eptica

JULY 27, 2016

Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 Is customer service investment actually delivering? Published on: 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.

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Eptica

MARCH 4, 2016

Date: Friday, March 4, 2016 How good is the experience offered by UK brands? Published on: March 04, 2016. Author: Pauline Ashenden Over the past five years Eptica has regularly evaluated the multichannel customer experience offered by 100 of the UK’s biggest brands , across ten sectors. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Eptica

APRIL 13, 2016

Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 The move to meaningful conversations in customer experience. Published on: April 13, 2016. This requires customer experience to move from being solely the responsibility of the contact center, to use the skills and knowledge of the whole organization , and has to be multichannel, scalable and flexible.

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Avaya

DECEMBER 1, 2016

According to the Wall Street Journal, 2016 Thanksgiving and Black Friday sales have already accounted for more than $3 Billion in “desktop spending”—aka, e-commerce. Integrate Multichannel Customer Contact into Your Strategy. At Avaya, we strongly believe the answer is a resounding YES!

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Eptica

JUNE 1, 2016

Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 What is holding back chat in customer service? Published on: June 01, 2016. These points are backed up by the latest Eptica Multichannel Customer Experience Study , which highlights that the adoption of chat by UK brands is on an upward curve. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Eptica

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Date: Monday, November 28, 2016 5 top trends driving customer service. Published on: November 28, 2016. Illustrating this, a poll in Call Centre Helper poll found that over three quarters of respondents are having to do more with the same or lower budgets in their contact center. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Eptica

MARCH 18, 2016

Date: Friday, March 18, 2016 UK retail customer service failing to move forward. Published on: 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. However, performance varied.

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Eptica

MAY 25, 2016

Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 Mapping digital transformation in customer experience. Published on: May 25, 2016. The Global State of Customer Experience 2016 , a new research report from the CX Network, provides some interesting insight into what is happening across the world. over the course of the year.

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Eptica

JANUARY 6, 2016

Date: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 What were the key customer experience topics in 2015? Published on: January 06, 2016. 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. To find out more click here.

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Talkdesk

JANUARY 19, 2017

At the end of the day, contact center jobs are about communicating in the manner that solves a customer’s problems best and new contact center technology has to take that into account. Here are a few predictions about what contact centers (and contact center jobs) will look (and sound) like a year from now.

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Eptica

AUGUST 5, 2016

Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 4 lessons from the Forrester CX Index. Published on: August 17, 2016. Author: Pauline Ashenden Forrester has just published its 2016 US Customer Experience Index , providing an update on the state of CX across multiple sectors. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Eptica

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 Why it is time to focus on the customer service journey, not just the touchpoints. Published on: February 23, 2016. The 2016 Eptica UK Multichannel Customer Experience Study will be appearing soon, and we look forward to sharing the results with you. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Eptica

AUGUST 3, 2016

Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2016 Coping with the switch from phone to digital customer service. Published on: August 03, 2016. Author: Pauline Ashenden Everyone knows that we live in a multichannel world, but how is this impacting companies on the ground? How can contact centers cope with these challenges?

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Eptica

JULY 15, 2016

Date: Friday, July 15, 2016 How to embrace change and become a customer-adaptive enterprise. Published on: July 15, 2016. This can support complete transparency so that agents in the contact center or field sales representatives are be able to answer questions such as ‘What’s the likely delivery date of my order?”

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Eptica

APRIL 29, 2016

Date: Friday, April 29, 2016 Insurers struggling to connect with customer service. Published on: April 29, 2016. Consumers are demanding more from their insurers, and want a seamless, high quality experience, however they choose to make contact. How well are the UK’s top insurers meeting these challenges?

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Eptica

JANUARY 25, 2017

compared to January 2016, marking the fourth straight improvement in results. since January 2016), while at the foot of the table Telecommunications & Media rose by 1.0 compared to January 2016, marking the fourth straight improvement in results. Overall, consumer satisfaction has risen to 77.8, out of 100 (up 0.5

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Eptica

MARCH 31, 2016

Date: Thursday, March 31, 2016 Websites lead the way for UK customer service. Published on: March 31, 2016. According to the latest Eptica Multichannel Customer Experience Study , the good news is that most companies understand this, with the web remaining the strongest channel for providing accurate answers to consumer queries.

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Eptica

MARCH 8, 2016

Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2016 The importance of integrating Twitter into customer service. Published on: March 09, 2016. Deliver a multichannel service Consumers want to be able to use multiple channels to communicate with a company – often switching between them during the same interaction. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Eptica

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 5 ways to successfully deal with angry customers. Published on: February 17, 2016. So, if your telecoms network goes down or your logistics supplier unexpectedly can’t deliver to a particular area make sure your contact center knows – and has answers prepared to give to customers.

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Eptica

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Date: Friday, February 12, 2016 Has UK customer service turned a corner? Published on: February 12, 2016. However, given the complexity of many businesses, the number of products they sell, and the sheer volume of contacts from consumers across multiple channels, it can actually be extremely hard. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Eptica

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Date: Friday, February 5, 2016 Meeting Millennial Customer Expectations. Published on: February 05, 2016. Within the contact center team the same applies – you are likely to have a high proportion of Millennials working in customer service, so structure your policies and processes accordingly.

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Eptica

APRIL 5, 2016

Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2016 Where are the UK’s Chief Customer Officers? Published on: April 06, 2016. Author: Pauline Ashenden The combination of growing competition and more demanding consumers means that customer experience is now recognized by businesses everywhere as crucial for success. Share this page on: Tweet.

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