article thumbnail

Are You Using 1999 Metrics to Measure 2019 Customer Care?

BlueOcean

It’s 2019, which means contact center metrics from 1999 are almost old enough for their first legal beer (and already knocking them back in Canada.) Those metrics were born in an era when customer service was a race, where whoever got to the finish line first (i.e. One Metric to Rule Them All. But where do we start?

Metrics 219
article thumbnail

Help Customers on the Support Journey and up the Loyalty Ladder

Kayako

Imagine a world where reply time, a pillar of customer support metrics, wasn’t the critical factor — but it was customer context? When support teams know the history of a customer’s journey through your business, the customer needn’t explain their struggle for the umpteenth time or how they ran into the problem.

Loyalty 224
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Complete Retail Customer Experience Guide

InMoment XI

Why is the Retail Customer Experience Important The retail customer experience has become increasingly significant in the success and sustainability of any business operating in the modern marketplace. Consumers can quickly become lifetime customers and brand advocates when they have continuous positive experiences with a brand.

Retail 260
article thumbnail

Bilingual Customer Support: Where Live Agents and AI Coincide

BlueOcean

When one in five of your customers speak something other than English as their first language, providing bilingual customer support is critical. Without it, you risk taking a hit to your CSat scores, your brand loyalty, and your bottom line. The value of that improved metric plays a big role in the client’s bottom line.

article thumbnail

Why SaaS Leaders Should Outsource Their Customer Success Program

BlueOcean

Work with your outsourcer to identify and measure CSS-specific metrics (this isn’t an average handle time kind of situation) and give their team a transparent view of your data to be able to measure their own performance effectively. These types of leading indicators measure success across the entire customer lifecycle. It’s possible.

article thumbnail

Validating Your Outsourced Customer Care Partnership: Is Your Incumbent “Still the One”?

BlueOcean

What Service Level Metrics Are Most Relevant to Your Business Now? Let’s face it: Contact center metrics that measure customer service as if it’s some kind of race (think Average Handle Time) are frankly table stakes. Is your partner focused on metrics that help you assess and elevate customer loyalty or promotion and advocacy?

article thumbnail

Delivering Customer Experiences that deliver Value

CloudCherry

Merely investing in a Customer Experience Management tool doesn’t suffice. When you’re investing in CX, it’s because you want to improve customer loyalty, retention, and ultimately be successful as a brand in the long run. Link metrics such as CSAT, NPS and CES directly to business outcomes.