The Qmatic Team
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How iBeacons can improve customer experience
Even with the current technology hype around iBeacons and BLE, most people probably have never heard of it. But since Apple last year subtly introduced iBeacon as part of iOS 7, more and more companies are now taking advantage of the feature and are launching early products and services. What is iBe...
April 09, 2014
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Why 90% of Your Customers Leave After a Single Bad Experience – And What To Do About It
In today’s highly competitive business climate, being able to attract, serve and satisfy more customers is a key to success and increasing revenue. A happy customer is more likely to be a loyal one, coming back to your store. Retaining customers and keeping them loyal to your brand is a challenge th...
April 07, 2014
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Why we have queues - and what to do about it
The reason queues form, in essence, is simple: there are more customers than people to serve them. In many, if not most, instances this is a good thing. How they are queuing, though, may be down to a range of factors. Queues that form spontaneously may follow a route that is dictated by space constr...
April 05, 2014
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Good Things Come to Those Who Manage Experiences
At Qmatic, we’re in the business of orchestrating better experiences. In many cases this is about managing waiting. But what is waiting, really? It has to do with time, of course. And a need – or you wouldn’t be waiting in the first place. We’ve been thinking hard about this, seemingly trivial, matt...
March 23, 2014
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“Click & Disconnect” – how to lose retail customers at the point of fulfillment
We all know that “Click and Collect” represents a huge opportunity for retailers to enhance their customer’s view of their brand, to lower costs from unsuccessful deliveries and to increase basket size. But it seems to me, that in the headlong rush to “digitise” their bricks and mortar business mode...
March 03, 2014
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The surprising gap in the modern Customer Experience business
In this era of the digital economy will the human interaction become less important? No, I don’t believe that. In fact it’s quite surprising how little is written about this subject and even more so, how little time is spent on understanding how modern technology can play a role in transforming the ...
February 27, 2014
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When is a passenger not a passenger?
The answer is simple, when they are a customer. I have just flown from London to Atlanta via British Airways. As they usual announcements were being made something really struck me. They no longer use the term passenger. The term was replaced with the far more meaningful word, customer. It struck me...
February 24, 2014
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Prepare for a very different experience and bring your phone, fully charged.
Some time ago my colleague Viktor invited the whole marketing team at Qmatic to dinner. He was very persuasive but yet cryptic. The only thing he said was: “Prepare for a very different experience and bring your phone, fully charged”. Being in the business of customer experience management I am sure...
February 22, 2014