Smoke Customer Intelligence

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Uncovering your REAL customer experience

It is inarguable that customer experience and listening to the Voice of the Customer is essential. Customers are more likely to rebuy and remain loyal if the experience they have with your organisation is positive and creates a sense of...

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Spring Cleaning Your CX

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Decluttering your Customer Experience Strategy

As the weather warms into Spring, many are gripped by a feeling of renewal and the urge to declutter and tidy. There is, in fact, a biological reason...

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Celebrating the Women of Smoke CI

In 1956, 2000 South African women staged a march to the Union Buildings in protest of amendments to the Urban Areas Act. They acted against the...

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Customer satisfaction through the right questions

Metricising customer service for successful CX

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Highlights from the CEM Africa Summit 2017

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Highlights from the CEM Africa Summit 2017

The CEM Summit this year was one of the best events I have been to. It was an amazing opportunity to discuss pertinent industry issues. The level of...

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Happy customer care staff on the line with a client

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Nine ways to improve customer experience in any industry

It doesn’t matter which industry you’re in, if you have customers you need to provide a great customer experience. And make sure it’s what...

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Smoke CI’s BEE level changes the future of small black-owned business

Small, start-up businesses in South African face challenges on a daily basis. From finding the right partners to invest in the new business, all the...

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Who is responsible for customer experience in your company?

After a recent, very shocking, customer experience with a service provider, I had to ask myself, “who’s responsible for customer experience in this...

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Four reasons your customer experience strategy might fail

In today’s highly competitive market, more and more companies are using customer experience (CX) as a competitive differentiator. If you’re in the...

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Smoke Customer Intelligence Customer Support Portal

As Smoke CI grows and strives for continual improvement, we have migrated our support ticketing system to a new, global provider. Through this new...

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Are you maximising client feedback?

Gone are the days where you could just sweep negative client feedback under the carpet and go about your business thinking your client is loyal to...

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Improving insurance customer retention through customer experience

Insurance companies are facing greater challenges in a market characterised by product saturation, soft pricing and competitive premiums. The rise of...

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5 ways to analyse customer feedback to improve call centre CX

Four out of ten contact centres don’t analyse the data they collect… Contact centres are known for the vast number of metrics they use to measure...

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The Lifetime Value of a Customer

The lifetime value of a customer is an important aspect for any company as it determines what a customer may be worth to you if you manage to hold on...

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Happy manager talking to her engaged staff

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Employee experience matters – a lot!

Recently, several posts on social media have drawn attention to the importance of cultivating the right employee experience in a companies’ overall...

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Smoke CCS talks customer engagement at IAUG Chapter Conference 2014

Smoke CCS played a key role at this year’s International Avaya Users Group (IAUG) South African Chapter Conference that took place from 24-27 August,...

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