Tag "Customer Experience"

Nov 18, 2021 • Customer Experience

What Is Integrated Customer Service and What Are Its Benefits?

Elevate your business' service experience with integrated customer service. Learn what this is, its benefits and how to get started.

Sep 22, 2021 • Customer Experience

How to Make Flexibility the Key to Every Successful Marketing Strategy

It’s widely accepted that change is the only constant in the modern business environment (Forbes, 2017). If businesses don't build marketing strategies with built-in flexibility, they won’t be able to adapt to and respond to this change. You can have the best marketing strategy in the world, but if it doesn’t allow you to take advantage of an opportunity in almost real-time, or change your messaging based on fluctuating market conditions, it won’t be successful for long. Changes in consumer behaviour or new competitive offerings can make any good marketing strategy obsolete, but the ability to adapt allows businesses to respond to problems and seize new opportunities the moment they arise. Here is how modern communications platforms help businesses identify opportunities and respond with flexibility to give them a competitive advantage.

Sep 06, 2021 • Customer Experience

The Future Role of AI and Customer Service

Are you for or against AI and customer service for your business? Do you still have questions about how to implement it, what options are available, and whether or not your customers will respond favourably?

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Sep 02, 2021 • Customer Experience

8 Tips to Improve Your eCommerce Customer Support Experience

The rise of eCommerce has transformed customer expectations: Today’s consumers want a convenient shopping experience with the ability to quickly and easily resolve issues — the faster, the better. In this blog, we share 8 ways to modernise and scale your customer service experience and retain more buyers.

Aug 11, 2021 • Customer Experience

How to Choose the Right Customer Service Software

Your customer service approach can be a serious competitive advantage. Gartner claims that 80% of companies mainly compete on their customer experience. While Microsoft reports that 96% of consumers say that customer service is a huge factor in how loyal they are to a brand. How can you boost your customer satisfaction and retention rates with superior customer service? With the help of the right customer service software. In this blog, we walk you through the benefits of customer service software and the factors to consider when choosing a tool for your team.

Jul 08, 2021 • Customer Experience

6 Ways to Improve Customer Experience with Mobile Service Cloud

Service, service, service. That has always been the call for businesses that want to keep their clients happy and turn one-time customers into lifelong fans. The wheel has turned, though, and now the rallying cry centres around customer experience. Is there a difference between the two? And if so, what has changed?

May 04, 2021 • Customer Experience

Delivering Outstanding Customer Service Using Omnichannel Communication

We live in a digital world. As consumers, we've come to expect the ability to contact businesses on various channels and have our questions answered promptly. One way companies are delivering outstanding customer service is by using omnichannel communication tools that allow them to respond to customers seamlessly across any channel they choose.

Apr 12, 2021 • Customer Experience

5 Myths Busted For Automating The Customer Service

In a world dominated by an “I need it now” mentality, customers don’t just want their queries solved. They want them solved efficiently and they want them solved now. The days of being put on hold, or scrolling through websites have come to an end and customer service needs to adjust to keep up. Companies need to provide each individual customer with the smart, tailored experience they deserve, that’s why we set out to develop DigitalCX: a platform for automated customer service.

Jan 28, 2021 • Customer Experience

17 ways business messaging enhances your customer satisfaction

The ease of communication between businesses and consumers weighs heavily on customer service. Emerging technologies offer numerous possibilities to start conversations with your customers. Conversational channels such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are increasingly being used by companies to engage with customers. But how can you use these channels? To get you up to speed, we share some proven examples. Get inspired and enhance your customer experience today.

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Sep 17, 2020 • Customer Experience

7 tips to choose the right CPaaS provider

At the heart of any CPaaS provider, you’ll find one common theme – APIs. This means businesses don’t need to invest in costly hardware that lacks scalability. With the help of APIs, companies can configure and add their own real-time communication solutions on a single platform, without building any complex backend infrastructure. In this article were going to have a look at how to choose the right CPaaS vendor and what are some key characteristics that define a good CPaaS provider. We've bundled them into 7 practical tips, so they're ready to use.

Aug 06, 2020 • Customer Experience

Do you mean Customer Experience, Customer Service or Customer Care?

The words in the title are used so often lately. Not because they can be called buzzwords, but because companies need to invest in building a strong customer experience if they want to keep up with their competitors. But customer experience, customer service, and customer care are quite different. In this blog, we are going to clarify the differences between these terms.

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Jul 28, 2020 • Customer Experience

What is Mobile Marketing?

Our smartphones are more than ever part of our lives. Focussing on mobile marketing provides new opportunities for your business. Your customers are on their mobile phones, so make sure you reach them there. In this article you will learn what mobile marketing is, how to use it, through what channels and how you can correspond to your customers' needs.

Jul 14, 2020 • Customer Experience

The value of Mobile Marketing Cloud technology for customer-centric companies

Marketing cannot be ignored in business operations, but how do you know that you are effectively reaching your target audience through the right channels, and with the right message in mind? More importantly, whether your marketing team is using the right tooling? Companies can choose from a wide variety of marketing platforms that are aimed at improving customer communication so how do you make the right choice?

Jun 25, 2020 • Customer Experience

Five Customer Experience Predictions for Africa

Customer experience (CX) has always been a critical component of a business. For decades, we’ve wondered about what makes our consumers tick and how to connect with them on a deeper level to keep them coming back for more. With so many brands to choose from, delivering reliable, high-quality and seamless customer experiences is an important differentiator in today’s marketplace – even more so in a fast-changing world.

Jun 17, 2020 • Customer Experience

Our guide to Short Code messaging for businesses

A short code is a unique 5 or 6 digit number ideal for SMS marketing campaigns, lead generation, and promotions where you want people to remember your number easily. This blog post provides you with a detailed definition of short codes, the different and most common ways they are used, and benefits for your business.