Disruption to traditional business models in recent years has meant that today’s consumers are more demanding than ever – they expect to able to access services instantly through intuitive apps and experience great service at the same time – and, why shouldn’t they? Technological advancements …
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Make Life Easier for Your Entire Workforce
Since the dawn of man, people have been engaged in a compelling quest to make life easier for themselves. We have instinctively sought ways to accomplish our daily tasks better and more efficiently than we did the day before. When hunting for deer, we discovered …
Customer Service and Chill: Netflix Announces Plans to Raise Prices
Netflix announced today that they are going to raise prices by 13 – 18%. This is the company’s largest increase since launching its streaming service 12 years ago. The price increase takes effect immediately for new …
When Self-Service Falls Short
Remember the old days when a day or two before your scheduled doctor’s appointment you’d receive a phone call from a person confirming your appointment? The reminder calls still happen, but more frequently than not, the calls are automated. It’s no secret that I don’t …
2019 Means a New Year, New Opportunities
The start of a new year always brings the excitement of change and anticipation of new beginnings. And in just this 2nd day of 2019, this holds very true for Aspect.
In case you missed the announcement, I have some exciting news to share about the …
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
As we close out another successful year, we wanted to reflect on some of our achievements and our customers’ achievements throughout 2018 – a year that saw exciting new updates and implementations.
This year, we’ve brought a number of new customers onboard and worked on some …
Chatbots dominating customer experience on websites
Chatbots have become a key element of customer services operations, and with more organisations looking at how they can deploy AI and automation within their contact centres, it’s a trend that is only set to continue growing.
Earlier this year we polled a range of contact …
Younger shoppers expect improved customer service during promotional periods
It’s no secret that the retail sector has suffered a sustained period of difficulty in recent times, with the highstreet losing some well-known and well-loved brands in 2018 and further brands dramatically downsizing. Alongside this has been uncertainty from consumers and these factors coupled together …
The 2018 Aspect Consumer Experience Index: Survey Says, the Evolution of Customer Service Continues
Every year, the customer service industry talks about the changing consumer landscape and how and how companies need to address their customers’ preferences RIGHT NOW or risk massive churn the likes of which contact centers around the world have never seen. Like all prognostications however, …
The New Rules for Customer Service
Consumers are hard to pin down. Just when you think you have them figured out, they’ve moved on to something else. As Ferris Bueller said,
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
The same holds …