NSW has a Minister for Customer Service, the Hon. Victor Dominello MP. This is what he told Matchboard about the new portfolio. Why was the Ministry of Customer Service created? This portfolio is not only the first of its kind in NSW, but Australia. The NSW Government is serious about optimising the citizen experience every….
By the year 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the brand differentiator among buyers, according to Walker. The same survey shows that 86% of buyers will pay more for a product or solution based on customer experience. With CX being of most importance to buyers, it’s perhaps a surprise that, according to….
Bucking global industry trends, South Africa is enjoying 22% annual growth in business process outsourcing – that’s three times more than India or the Philippines. After the UK, Australia is the biggest international market fuelling this growth, accounting for an astonishing 15% share of jobs created. And there are some compelling reasons why big brands….
It’s a fact of life that many sales managers are elevated to their position based on strong individual sales results, with little to no training in leadership and coaching – the very skills needed to drive team performance. Let’s look at how the roles of Sales Manager, Sales Leader and Sales Coach differ, and how gaps….
Search Engine Optimisation, or SEO, is aimed at improving your website’s standing in organic search results. It’s one of the most cost effective marketing solutions for business. This post provides 10 actionable steps to improve your SEO in 2020. 1. Keyword Analysis Selecting the “right” keywords for your SEO campaign is vital. Many website owners assume….
Dr David Cooke is Chairman and Managing Director of Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia, a subsidiary of Japanese technology giant Konica Minolta Inc. In this exclusive interview, David reveals the key factor driving sales success in an otherwise declining market, and calls out the intrinsic concern for the customer seen in Japanese companies. What is….
Kristeen McCarthy heads Digital Experience Design at Suncorp Group. Passionate about using technology to improve customer experience, Kristeen also loves creating fun work environments, fostering innovation and collaboration. She shares her insights on CX, culture and career in this exclusive interview with Matchboard’s Sharon Melamed. What is the culture you try to infuse in your….
Everybody’s had the experience. You’re sitting down to dinner with your family, or just finally relaxing with some Netflix after a long day at work. The phone rings, and it’s a telemarketing call from an outbound call centre and somebody is trying to sell you insurance. You slam the phone down and sigh deeply. Nobody….
Their names include Sara, Alison, Olivia and Mo, and they are the smiling self-service persona of some of the world’s biggest brands. Dubbed “virtual agents”, they sit on websites 24×7, inviting the customer to “ask a question”. Best-practice virtual agent technology actually interprets the intent of a customer’s question, using natural language processing, so it’s very….
Call centres are a hard slog – there’s specialised technology, increasing consumer expectations for 24×7 service, performance management of staff…the list goes on. So it’s no wonder outsourcing is the chosen strategy of many businesses. But most people don’t know where or how to find the right partner, whether to go for an local call centre or….
In September 2018, Matchboard celebrated 6 years in business! Here are the highlights.
Luke Jamieson has never been afraid to challenge the status quo. His career habit of innovation has made a real impact on customer and employee engagement, resulting in multiple global awards. In this exclusive interview, we chat to Luke about his positively disruptive initiatives at First State Super. You’ve abandoned traditional contact centre metrics at….
Every 1% improvement in First Contact Resolution (FCR) adds a point to Customer Satisfaction, so the story goes. But how do you measure and improve this key metric – and does it really help customers get their problems solved faster? The SQM Group survey which found that 1% correlation between First Contact Resolution and Customer….
Despite the threat of automation and competition from other countries, the Philippines BPO (business process outsourcing) industry grew in 2019. And while COVID-19 had a dramatic impact in 2020, BPO is still one of the largest contributors to the country’s GDP in 2021. Worth an estimated US$27 billion and 9% of GDP, BPO employs around….
Analysts such as Gartner have estimated that customer experience innovations account for half of all consumer product investments. To win – and hold onto – the hearts and minds of customers, companies are increasingly competing on customer experience rather than the traditional battlegrounds of product and price. Here are 10 trends unfolding in this space…..