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Manuela Pifani: The Art and Science of Customer Experience

Manuela Pifani is proof, if proof were needed, that award winners go on to achieve amazing things – on top of the success that brought them to the awards podium in the first place. Having been at the vanguard of helping...

The ABCs of Customer Service Excellence

You might look at some other companies with envy, the kind of companies that customers love – which create buzz and are referenced by impressed CX professionals. Yet your own company could be the kind that others look up to when...

From Winner to Judge: Why I Brought my Expertise to an Awards Judging Panel

Mandy Holford is Director of Customer Services at contact centre solutions firm Echo-U, and recently judged at the 2018 UK Complaint Handling Awards. Here she describes, in her own words, how she went from an award winner herself, to a...

How Skipton Building Society put Customers at the Heart of their Business

Skipton Building Society is the fourth largest building society in the UK, with 95 branches located across the country and a contact centre based in Bury, Lancashire. With entries now open for the 2018 UK Customer Experience Awards, we look...

E-Commerce Returns: Maximising Customer Satisfaction and Minimising Profit Loss

Online retailing has expanded rapidly; the growth of the internet and advancements in delivery capabilities have seen many small businesses take advantage of this, selling through online marketplaces to maximise their reach. These global marketplaces are predicted to own 39...

CCXP Exam Workshop Places Filling Fast – Book now for Early Bird Offer

The upcoming CX Professional Masterclass is now sold out, but there is still time for you to book your place at the CCXP Exam Preparation Workshop, held in Stevenage on April 18, with an Early Bird Offer available until the...

Early Bird Catches the Worm in 2018 UK Customer Experience Awards

The 2018 UK Customer Experience Awards will bring the cream of British CX talent back to London’s Wembley Arena this autumn, and potential entrants are being encouraged to take advantage of the Early Bird Offer to save businesses an amazing...

The Killer Mistake Preventing Employee Engagement Lift-Off

There is one stand-out mistake we see more consistently than any other within employee engagement approaches. It is a mistake so bad that it completely ruins organisations, plunges them into deep crisis, and ensures a significant lack of ‘buy-in’ into any...

Keeping up With Customers’ AI Expectations

Forget keeping up with the Joneses, today it’s all about keeping up with Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI assistants now live in our back pockets, and smart speakers now run our homes. This makes home life simpler and smarter than ever before....

Drunk, Depressed, Gained Weight: Customers Reveal Reasons for Spending Sprees

UK  marketplace Onbuy.com reveals the results of research into the shopping habits of  1,550 customers, and their reasons for making online purchases…   ...