Customer Service

Is Your Customer Support Team Ready for the Holidays?
November 29, 2018 at 11:09 am

The National Retail Federation has predicted that holiday sales this year will increase between 4.3 and 4.8 percent over the 2017 holiday season. Deloitte's annual retail sales forecast was even more positive, putting the figure at 5.6 percent. This means retailers are looking at between $717 billion and $1.1 trillion in sales this holiday season.…

Keeping the (Customer) Love Alive With AI
November 29, 2018 at 10:34 am

In the past few months, we’ve heard the bell toll for several large retailers that are shuttering storefronts due to competitive pressures and less-than-favorable financial performances. The combination of these forces makes it critical for retailers to focus on building customer relationships — changing the one-time transactional buyer into a long-term brand advocate. While companies…

Why Did Sears Fail? It’s Not What You Might Think
November 26, 2018 at 3:19 pm

And … *poof*, there goes another North American retail icon. How on earth could this have happened? Here’s a hint: Don’t blame Amazon.com, the internet or Walmart. There is, of course, never just one thing that leads to the downfall of a company. It’s almost always a progressive and insidious erosion created by poor leadership…