Why focusing on customer effort is the key to maximising AI and automation in CX

In 2013, customer experience innovator Matthew Dixon authored a book that forever changed the way contact center leaders look at customer service. In his book, The Effortless Experience, Dixon argued that customer loyalty is earned when companies deliver on their basic promises. In other words, effortless customer experiences produce repeat buyers and greater ROI much …

Customers don’t think in terms of channels: They want seamless journeys

For years, omnichannel customer experience (CX) has been the holy grail. But the way customers interact with businesses is changing. They don’t think in terms of channels – website, app, phone call, etc – they simply want a smooth, consistent experience. This shift in customer behaviour is driving a move towards a new approach: channel-less …

12 actionable tactics brands can take to build loyalty with their customers

New report, published by Intuit, highlights 12 tactics brands need to adopt to build loyalty with their customers. The report includes findings from a survey of 4,000 consumers across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia – with 1,000 participants per market – and qualitative interviews with eight global marketing experts.  “The Science …

Flight Centre selects Qualtrics for AI-powered customer experience program

Flight Centre has adoptced a new artificial intelligence-powered customerexperience program, developed by Qualtrics, to boost customer satisfaction andraise agent productivity. With the new program in place, Flight Centre is able to capture, analyse,and act on structured and unstructured feedback across emails, chat, messaging,social, online review, traditional surveys, and more, to build a more completeview of …

Stop guessing, start growing – leveraging customer insights for success

Customer insights provide the in-depth understanding of your target audience’s needs, wants, behaviours, and pain points. They are the golden nuggets of information businesses can use to propel growth. Generating customer insights business leaders can act on can, however, be a significant challenge. Techtarget defines, “Customer insight, or consumer insight, is the understanding and interpretation of …

Australian businesses are betting on AI in the face of customer churn

Ninety-seven percent of Australian businesses are looking to AI for enhanced customer experience despite 95% still harbouring fears over the technology, according to research commissioned by Genesys. 78% of Australian businesses surveyed are concerned about diminishing customer loyalty — a problem the bulk of businesses hope to address with AI. The study, was carried out by …

How to maintain human connection with customers in an AI world

It sounds counterintuitive, but in today’s always-on world consumers are placing a premium on human connection. Among headlines about households spending more online than ever before, traditional bricks and mortar institutions moving to online- and digital-only models, and the general buzz for AI, two-thirds of Australian consumers still prefer to engage with brands via human …