Businesses achieving high Net Promoter Scores (NPS) are invariably gratified by this single number. But arguably, there has been some blind trust as to how significant this figure is on the bottom line.

Retailers agreed on a few fundamentals for personalising customer engagement when they discussed the topic at Retail Revival, the second annual digital talkfest held by Emarsys, an omnichannel customer engagement and retention platform.

Getting to the bottom of customer churn and finding new ways to lift customer performance have prompted H&R Block to invest in a fresh voice of customer (VoC) management platform and approach.

Two years on from its rebrand as mycar, the auto services company formerly known as Kmart Tyre and Auto Service is celebrating its growing network, evolving omnichannel customer experience and efforts to buck too-frequent impression of auto services as untrustworthy.

There’s much to be said for the commercial benefits of providing exceptional customer support. But no matter how that support is provided, there is always a cost somewhere.

Data is of most valuable if you’re using it to be more intimately connected to your customer and identifying pain points you can solve for them.

Building a customer demand-led approach to travel management, predictive personalisation and foresight, not just insight, are all in the sights of Virgin Australia’s analytics chief.

Differentiated and personalised support is table stakes for companies, according to Slack VP of customer service, Ali Rayl, speaking at this week’s slack frontiers event. And some of the best examples of this kind of customer service are unique - not just to an industry or a business, but unique to the company its mission, vision and goals.

There’s a disconnect between the priorities of CX teams and C-Suites, said Forrester senior analyst and CX executive partner, Su Doyle, speaking at this week’s CX APAC 2021 event. “I believe it's high time we brought the two disciplines of CX and growth strategies together,” Doyle said.

The latest Forrester Wave has evaluated customer feedback management platforms and services and nominated the 12 most significant ones - Alida, Cisco Webex XM, Clarabridge, Concentrix, Confirmit, InMoment, Medallia, NICE, Qualtrics, Reputation, SMG and Verint. This report shows how each provider measures up and helps customer experience (CX) and insights professionals select the right one to match their needs.

​Being the customer’s champion, providing the glue that drives alignment across the organisation and enabling innovation are three ways ANZ’s marketing team is working to bring the financial services giant’s purpose of helping people and communities thrive to life.

Customer obsession is the end-to-end organisational approach companies should be embracing to help them make the choices that ensure today’s economic climate is one of the best of times, rather than the worst.

Most data teams are constrained by the resources available to them. So when those resources aren’t enough for you do everything, you could be doing to help your organisation, you can either live with the situation, or find ways around it.

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Volkswagen Australia is on the hunt for a new marketing and customer leader after Jason Bradshaw resigned from the role to pursue his own CX agency.

Growing first-party data sophistication, a focus on customer consent and personalisation driven by empathy rather than regulatory requirement are just some of the ways Australian brands are attempting to navigate the data-driven marketing landscape.

Adopting a jobs to be done framework, investing in fresh technology and encouraging a test-and-learn mindset are key to Foxtel overhauling service capabilities in a way that meets modern customer expectations, its marketing and customer service leaders say.

Medibank Private’s chief marketing officer, Fiona Le Brocq, is one of two new non-executive directors announced at employee experience management, vendor, LiveTiles.

Post-purchase help and communications, plus a sense of belonging to a community, are vital factors influencing loyalty across Australian consumers. Yet these elements continue to be a let down for many of us when engaging with brands, a new survey has found.

Addressing inconsistencies across customer engagement channels, harnessing data for decision making and making the most of the renaissance in surfing are all in the sights of Rip Curl’s first CX and data chief.

An investigation of Australia’s bathroom cabinets is likely to reveal an assort of expired and neglected skincare products, used only a few times and then consigned to posterity as expensive follies, never to be purchased again. This, however, was not a fate general practitioner, Dr Ginni Mansberg, and her husband, Daniel Rubinstein, were prepared to accept when they launched their cosmetics brand, Evidence Skincare (ESK).