Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

We’re honored to be honored for our work alongside so many of our customer service and customer experience colleagues. This is especially true in the customer service industry. Customer Experience (CX) has catapulted into one of the most important aspects of determining business success. Adrian Swinscoe.

Customer Experience 130

Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 130

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. The Great CX Debate: Should Customer Experiences Be Effortless or Exceptional? The key to building customer loyalty, they claimed, was to simply make it effortless for people to do business with you. by Jon Picoult.

Customer Service 88

Customer Service Retail Interaction Hospitality 88

AskNicely

JUNE 18, 2015

The one secret to turning your customers into raving fans and stop million dollar mistakes. The world has been preaching the importance of customer service more than the Bible itself and yet I see company after company running into the same critical mistakes. Your customers are your business! I think you get the point.

Customer Service 170

Customer Service Net Promoter Score NPS Customer Centricity 170

CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Part of the Atlanta Group of insurance brands, which includes Swinton, Marmalade’s approach has picked up recognition and resulted in them being named a finalist in several industry awards, most recently as highly-commended finalists in the UK Customer Service Excellence Awards.

Net Promoter Score 52

Net Promoter Score Insurance Feedback Software 52

customer sure

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

We’re delighted to announce that CustomerSure has been named as a finalist in the Trusted Quality Provider category at the Institute of Customer Service ‘UK Customer Satisfaction Awards’ for 2024. Their personalised service and flexibility came across in all our conversations with the team.

Customer Satisfaction 62

Customer Satisfaction Conference Healthcare Insurance 62

customer sure

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In today’s complex and competitive business landscape, success is not just determined by the quality of products or services offered. Customer experience has increasingly become a key differentiator that can make or break a business. When you think about it, customer experience opportunities truly are everywhere.

Customer Experience 62

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Social Media Healthcare 62

CloudCherry

JANUARY 22, 2020

As with any business solution, it’s not uncommon for companies to feel trapped by their voice of the customer (VoC) vendor once they’ve already implemented VoC tools and attempted to put them into practice. According to the Forrester report, many VoC programs are still immature and face common challenges: Not Listening to Customers.

How To 243

How To Social Media Analysis Feedback 243

Kayako

APRIL 25, 2017

Viktor Magic will walk you through how to run a customer effort questionnaire and why it’s important to track CES after every transaction. Customers don’t want high effort experiences because difficult experiences make the customer feel exhausted. Sending a Customer Effort Survey. Transactional metrics.

Effort Score 158

Effort Score How To Net Promoter Score Survey 158

GetFeedback

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Customer feedback can reveal opportunities for major business growth—what customers want, straight from their own mouths. Customers benefit from sharing feedback too. Consumers want a personalized customer experience , and they’re willing to hand over data to get it. The feedback conundrum.

Survey 225

Survey Net Promoter Score Feedback Abandon Rate 225

Comm100

APRIL 12, 2018

This level of competition has increasingly led companies to research for new ways to get customers while retaining their existing customer base as well. Customers, being more informed than ever due to technology, now expect a certain level of customer service at all times. Understanding Customer Experience.

NPS 154

NPS Measurement Effort Score Customer Experience 154

Retently

MARCH 23, 2023

You can also learn a surprising amount of tactics and strategies by studying the opposite end of the scale – the world’s least successful companies, from a churn perspective – to compare their common weaknesses and find out what makes their customers so unlikely to recommend them to their peers.

Net Promoter Score 113

Net Promoter Score Company NPS Effort Score 113

Hello Customer

JANUARY 6, 2022

Customers nowadays want everything easy and we can't really blame them for that. Not everything has to be hard and complicated, especially when you're using a service or browsing online. Long queues, having to wait for hours to talk to customer support or browsing an old website that you have to refresh every 2 minutes.

Effort Score 98

Effort Score Net Promoter Score Touchpoint Metrics 98

Kayako

OCTOBER 29, 2015

The customer support rep role has travelled the world and back. The birth of mainstream outsourcing: 2000 – 2010. Customer service was one of these areas. His outsourced hires were acting directly as customer support reps for his old business BrainQUICKEN. A customer had an item held at customs.

Poor Customer Service 120

Poor Customer Service Feedback Metrics Customer Service 120

Service Untitled

MARCH 3, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Some were more “traditional&# and featured people talking about customer service while some of the others were more upbeat and engaging. The winner this year was a company called Pet Relocation.

Video 41

Video Exercises Consulting Culture 41

Service Untitled

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Actually the company’s customer service award can be attributed to the attentiveness and concern for the well-being of their associates. Do toll-free numbers help customer service?

Exercises 41

Exercises Customer Satisfaction Policies CRM 41

Up Your Service

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Your customers—whether B2B, B2C, or partners within your organization—have always been your focus. You listen to their feedback about your product or service so you can better meet their needs. Customer experience now reigns as the supreme brand differentiator, with no shortage of data to back it up. companies $136.8

Customer Experience 90

Customer Experience B2C B2B Poor Customer Service 90

Feedback

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Since I work in marketing technology, I was tasked with comparing the products and stores on my phone as we shopped: the customer experience in the 21st century. As I bounced around from Yelp , then my local Sears store, to my local Best Buy , then to Google Maps, to Target , I found myself lost in a loop of customer feedback.

Customer Experience Management 100

Customer Experience Management Software Customer Experience Management 100

Tricia Morris

JANUARY 11, 2016

“Setting customer expectations at a level that is aligned with consistently deliverable levels of customer service requires that your whole staff, from product development to marketing, works in harmony with your brand image.” Most customers now update their personal technology every one to two years.

Trends 40

Trends Customer Service Chief Customer Officer CRM 40

InteractionMetrics

JUNE 19, 2023

The best way to think about CX vs. UX is that customer experience spans the ENTIRE customer journey. CX (short for customer experience) and UX (short for user experience) are sometimes used interchangeably. The best way to think about CX vs. UX is that customer experience spans the ENTIRE customer journey.

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Net Promoter Score Touchpoint User Experience 52

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Twenty years ago began a shift to contact center outsourcing to offshore locations, especially the Philippines and India, and away from the local market where customers on the other end of the phone were located. I’m old enough to remember all the hype and hyperbole that all contact centers would be offshore by 2010.

Contact Center 120

Contact Center Contact Center Software Competitive Advantage Call Recording 120

Tricia Morris

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Lessons from the holiday classic can be applied to almost any topic, in this case, customer service: 1. Your Customer Service Past Cannot Be Changed. A brand or organization’s customer service past cannot be changed, no matter how some wish it could. There is No Time Like the Customer Service Present. . “He

Customer Service 40

Customer Service Airlines Poor Customer Service Social Media 40

Service Untitled

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Of course, companies use these customer feedback surveys to gain more insight into their brands, but I often wonder how does a company know how I really feel about my shopping experience without asking me to actually describe it?

Feedback 42

Feedback Hotels Survey Social Media 42

Service Untitled

DECEMBER 16, 2011

In a global survey, Accenture wrote about deteriorating customer service and how most of us have at least switched one of our own service providers because we were displeased that our expectations had not been met. The consumer no longer will deal with that organization, and the company has lost a customer.

Customer Service 50

Customer Service Airlines Customers Loyalty 50

LiveChat

APRIL 19, 2016

Social media has become an essential ingredient of great customer service, but there are some aspects that are specific to certain businesses, and need to be adapted as such. However, once you’re done, you’ll end up with a customer service that’s ready anytime for any type of reaction from the people using your service or product.

Social Media 28

Social Media Customer Service Training Feedback 28

Service Untitled

MAY 13, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. High ratings for customer satisfaction directly correlates to a happy, knowledgeable and friendly staff. Appreciate the staff, and collect the data to improve customer satisfaction.

Feedback 44

Feedback Customer Satisfaction Poor Customer Service Exercises 44

Ann Michaels and Associates

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Customer service training is one of the smartest investments a company can make… Ever talked to a phone representative who was anything but helpful? With proper training, companies can make sure their employees provide service with a smile—and make customers smile in return. . Customer Service as a Key Value.

Handbook 61

Handbook Customer Service Training Training Measurement 61

Retently

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The first is to acquire new customers. The second is to focus on retaining existing clients and increase customer lifetime value (CLV). Don’t forget – the longer you can keep a customer, the greater is the provided value during their lifetime relationship with your brand. What Is Customer Lifetime Value?

Social Media 130

Social Media NPS Omni-Channel Effort Score 130

ClearAction

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Customer Centric Internal Branding Lynn Hunsaker. Customer centric internal branding revolves around customer well-being. By the way, what’s promised to customers should, in fact, be what your internal behaviors actually produce.). Living the brand promise is another way of describing customer centric internal branding.

Customer Centricity 59

Customer Centricity Brands Customer Satisfaction Advertising 59

Avaya

JANUARY 29, 2019

Equally important is the quality of customer experience that agents deliver to customers. After all, customer experience in its simplest definition is measured in the relationship customers have with a brand. But that is only half of the conversation. Minimize upfront investments. Take advantage of usage-based pricing.

Engagement 67

Engagement Customer Experience Contact Center e-support 67

Russel Lolacher

JUNE 29, 2021

First, a Social Media Day definition from NationalDay.com : “World Social Media Day was launched by Mashable on June 30, 2010. We champion proactive customer service, creating content that provides context and understanding based on the questions front line staff receive. . line staff receive. .

Social Media 98

Social Media Infographics Travel Government 98

Customer Bliss

APRIL 26, 2016

In this episode, I speak with Margie Dillon, the EVP and Chief Customer Officer for Liberty Mutual , about her unusual path from Chief Financial Officer to Chief Customer Officer. Finally, Margie and I discussed the build-out and results coming from their new and quite extensive customer room. Episode Overview. The overall U.S.

Chief Customer Officer 100

Chief Customer Officer Engagement Net Promoter Score Insurance 100

Second to None

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Consumer trust is a lucrative yet brittle aspect of any brand’s customer experience platform and the viral potential of negative public relations can instantly tarnish the public’s perception of your organization. However, these enhanced connections do not always have a positive impact on customer relationships.

Consumers 109

Consumers Brands Social Media Voice of Customer 109

Service Untitled

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. The International Customer Association began Customer Service Week in 1988, and in 1992 Congress proclaimed Customer Service Week a nationally recognized event.

Customer Service 44

Customer Service Video Social Media Exercises 44

Service Untitled

MAY 26, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Home About Service Untitled Subscribe for Free Consulting Contact Archives Exceptional Customer Service Starts at the Top – Are You Setting a Positive Standard? What has Biggby done right? What do you think?

Exceptional Customer Service 40

Exceptional Customer Service Customer Service Culture Social Media 40

Comm100

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

When the live chat going gets tough you might think to yourself, what do customers truly expect from me? But several live chat features make it easier than ever to anticipate customer pain points—and with proactive chat, you can dazzle customers by reaching out before they even think to make their way to the “contact” page.

Abandon Rate 100

Abandon Rate Guidelines Customer Satisfaction Feedback 100

Service Untitled

JUNE 14, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. It is our willingness to show our customers that we really do care about them, and carry with this an unspoken pledge to respond to a customer’s request for information or help.

Customer Service 41

Customer Service Customer Service Representative Culture Airlines 41

Service Untitled

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. The pleasant voice on the Zappos end assured her that she could return the dress, and there would be no delivery or return charges; just that the customer would have to “touch&# the box to return it.

Customer Service 44

Customer Service Customer Service Representative CRM Exercises 44