CATEGORY
Digital Channels & Messaging
Covers digital customer channels, including chat, SMS, social, and email, with strategies for engagement and channel management.
10 Jul 2026
Customer expectations have changed permanently. People no longer experience a brand through one isolated touchpoint. A customer may discover a product on social media, compare options on a mobile device, visit a website, read reviews, speak with support, receive an email offer, complete a purchase in-store, and later request help through live chat. To the […]
9 Jul 2026
Customer service has moved far beyond the traditional phone queue. Today, customers contact businesses through voice, email, live chat, SMS, WhatsApp, social media, in-app messaging, video, self-service portals, and chatbots. They may start with one channel, move to another, and expect the business to understand the full history without asking them to repeat themselves. That […]
4 Jun 2026
An omnichannel contact centre connects voice, WhatsApp, chat, email, and social into one system, so customer context follows the conversation and people stop repeating themselves. It differs from a multichannel setup, where channels run in silos, by sharing one customer record and one continuous thread across a single agent workspace. For Gulf businesses, getting it right hinges on WhatsApp, Arabic and dialect-aware AI, in-region data residency, and local numbers, paired with phased rollout and the right customer-experience and efficiency metrics.