NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Are you measuring Customer Effort Score? First introduced in 2010, Customer Effort Score (CES) is a fairly new contact center metric. Together with the “tried, trusted and true” Net Promoter Score (NPS) and Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) it helps you to measure just how happy your customers really are. Easy, right?

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CloudCherry

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Customer service should be simple right? In his discussion with CloudCherry’s James Gilbert, Matt shares insights from his co-authored book, “The Effortless Experience,” a title that pretty simply sums up what customers want. The biggest takeaway from the book? Hint: It all comes back to K.I.S.S.ing.).

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Are you measuring Customer Effort Score? First introduced in 2010, Customer Effort Score (CES) is a fairly new contact center metric. Together with the “tried, trusted and true” Net Promoter Score (NPS) and Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) it helps you to measure just how happy your customers really are. Easy, right?

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Net Promoter Score Effort Score Contact Center Omni-Channel 120

Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 30, 2015

Keeping Customers is cheaper than getting new ones. Customer loyalty and retention are goals for most organizations as a result. In the past, some companies’ modus operandi to build their loyalty involved a loyalty card with additional benefits. So now what do we do to build Customer Loyalty?

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Loyalty Rewards Programs Loyalty Programs Study 60

Advantage Communications

JULY 14, 2022

Ever-evolving technology is bringing huge change for businesses, especially when it comes to customer service. Today’s technology is introducing new ways to drive up customer satisfaction and improve customer loyalty. Today’s customers demand more from businesses than ever before.

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Call Center Trends Customer Satisfaction Loyalty 52

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.

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ijgolding

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Customer experience is important, that much we know. Readers of this blog won’t need persuading of the link between a company’s success and a great customer experience. Happy customers stay longer, buy more, they tell their friends, and your company grows. Customer feedback is broken. In fact it’s worse than that.

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Feedback Financial Company Customer Journeys 214

ijgolding

DECEMBER 9, 2014

When it comes to the world of Customer Experience, there are also a number of certainties that can be counted on. A few years ago (I think it was 2010), I purchased a pair of Converse trainers from online retailer JD Williams. It is all part of developing ongoing relationships with customers. Sadly, JD Williams did not.

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Hotels Customer Retention Retail Communication 212

CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As the newest generation of consumers enters the marketplace, companies have to ask themselves: is their customer service ready for Gen Zalpha? In this article, we’ll look at the importance of preparing for Generation Zalpha’s needs, and how businesses can make sure that their customer service is ready for them.

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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.

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Effort Score How To Net Promoter Score Survey 158

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 1, 2015

Are, beyond customers who would be loyal anyway, are they driving more purchase activity and narrowed consideration sets? And, what is the impact of loyalty programs on enterprise profitability? This, as they see it, may be indicative of hope among companies with programs that long-term customer value can be generated.

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty Airlines Hotels 60

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

This week we feature an article by Janine Hunt, Client Partnership Director at Kura , a company that provides customer service solutions by outsourcing contact center services and software solutions. She shares how customer service is the deciding factor to your customer’s loyalty to your business.

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Contact Center Loyalty Customer Retention Exercises 62

Interactions

JUNE 24, 2021

Over the past few years, brands have been investing a lot of money, time, and strategy in customer experience. There’s no question that brands– especially the world’s leading brands– understand the impact of a great customer experience. Imagine if we time travelled back to 2010.

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Self Service Customer Experience Contact Center Poor Customer Service 71

ProProfs Chat

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Imagine there is a customer browsing your product page for a while. The customer explores the product images, scans through the features, checks the pricing, and hits the ‘Buy now’ button. . After encountering multiple slow loading pages, the customer leaves without making the purchase. Tips to Enhance Customer Effort Score.

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Customers Rock!

OCTOBER 4, 2010

There has been a lot going on lately here at Customers Rock! social media and customer loyalty, a very new topic at the time. Fast forward two years to 2010. Much has changed in the world of social media, and customer loyalty/customer service is just now being discussed as a social media goal.

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Service Untitled

MARCH 12, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Home About Service Untitled Subscribe for Free Consulting Contact Archives Customer loyalty and Toyota Cheryl March 12, 2010 Behind the Scenes , Customer Service , Specific Companies 2 Comments There have been 8 million Toyota vehicles recalled.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Today, contact center leaders who embrace the cloud are quick to see its benefits – powering engaging customer experiences while positively impacting business outcomes. In an environment where customer expectations are rapidly evolving, and flexibility is key to survival, cloud platforms have set new standards for engagement and satisfaction.

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Contact Center Virtual Agent Net Promoter Score Self Service 120

Customer Bliss

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Mark Weinstein is the Senior Vice President of Customer Engagement, Loyalty and Partnerships for Hilton Worldwide. Like many customer experience executives, he searched for a career path that matched his skills and passion for helping customers comprehensively across the business. Power-winning guest loyalty program.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

But now we’ve weathered the peak of the storm, the time for short-term fixes is over and businesses are looking at long-term strategies, particularly when it comes to attracting the very best candidates and building loyalty and longevity across their team. This is where a different perspective comes in handy. Rather than ‘what can we offer?’

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Policies Healthcare Culture Financial 64

Vonage

MARCH 2, 2017

Possibly one of my biggest push buttons in business today is customer service – businesses are so focused on enticing new customers that they often disregard the value of their existing ones. For years companies have focused on making customer service as cost-effective as possible, rather than providing a genuinely valuable service.

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Service Untitled

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Home About Service Untitled Subscribe for Free Consulting Contact Archives What creates customer loyalty? The customer retains that brand loyalty and re-purchases or re-uses that product or service.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Exercises Customer Satisfaction 45

Alida

JULY 28, 2016

To learn more about this topic, join us at the 2016 Customer Intelligence Summit , where Lauren Meewes, senior program manager of seller at eBay, and Catherine Makk, vice president of global insights at HarperCollins, will share how to use customer feedback to give context and meaning to big data. The big data hype is officially dead.

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Data Social Media Analytics Entertainment 100

Solvvy

JANUARY 8, 2020

The ball has just dropped on a new decade—and it’s still hard to believe how much technology has transformed the customer experience in the past ten years, with the growth of self-checkout stations, real-time virtual assistant support, and robust CRMs to track and manage every phase of the customer experience, to name just a few. .

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Self Service Technology Trends Customer Service 88

Service Untitled

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. They stated that customers stay with manufacturers as long as the new warranty lasts, and then move on to independent service providers. Customer relationships are based on a company’s service especially in the auto industry.

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Loyalty Competitive Advantage Loyalty Programs Exercises 41

GetFeedback

JULY 25, 2018

Looking at customer experience (CX) and churn in the SaaS environment from a high level, there’s one theme that stands out from the mix: The fact that we live in what’s called a “switching economy.”. It can be a major driver of customer churn—and it’s already creating an incredible economic deficit in the US.

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Omni-Channel Net Promoter Score e-support Touchpoint 150

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

For many years, there has been a debate whether you could assign a dollar amount to determine the return on investment for any Customer Experience improvements. Whilst the transactional business is more interested in repeat purchases and their frequency, the subscription business is mostly interested in how long customers remain loyal.

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Net Promoter Score ROI Customer Experience Insurance 164

ProProfs Chat

OCTOBER 25, 2019

With so many options in the market, brands find it challenging to cultivate long term business relationships with their customers. With strong customer relationships in place, a business gets to: Increase customer base. But for a brand to reach that level, earning long-term loyalty becomes a thriving factor. Boost sales.

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Customer relationships Loyalty Programs Loyalty Sports 56

Service Untitled

APRIL 16, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. There was no problem with customer loyalty because the stores had no competition, that is – until the appearance of the mall. When the little town had little stores, each store owner knew their customer.

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Customer Bliss

MAY 3, 2017

This especially holds true when it comes to customer service. In fact, CEB data shows that 81 percent of customers today will use self-service channels first before reaching out to a company to speak to a customer service rep live. However, self-service is proving to be a double-edge sword for both companies and customers alike.

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Steve DiGioia

JUNE 20, 2016

Between 1979 and 2010, the median weekly income of full time wage and salary workers grew from 241 to 747 U.S. The median weekly income in 2010 constant dollars only increased from 675 to 747 U.S. But we still expect our employees to be engaged and to work hard under conditions like this, and to provide GREAT customer service!

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Competitive Advantage Employee Engagement Engagement Social Media 167

Amity

MARCH 29, 2016

Managers intuitively recognize new customer relationships should start on a positive note. Creating a beneficial customer experience, especially at the very beginning, pays dividends. Researchers have found that trust is a significant driver in customer loyalty, particularly when customers perceive buying risk.

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Kustomer

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by Matt Dixon from Tethr to reinvent what it means to delight your customers. Delight typically means going above and beyond customer expectations, so what is there to reinvent? Is Customer Delight Expensive?

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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.

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ijgolding

MAY 11, 2016

It is impossible to go online these days without seeing some form of ‘customer driven measurement’. As someone who passionately believes in organisations making money by being consistently brilliant at fulfilling their purpose, ever increasing transparency is a fantastic evolution in the world of Customer Experience.

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Measurement Customer Experience Company Banking 120

CX University

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

of GDP (US Census, 2010). Rising to the Customer Experience Challenge. Since the Millennium, small businesses have lost ground on one of their historical advantages over large corporations: their understanding of their customers. Nowadays, large corporations are trying incredibly hard to walk in their customers’ shoes.

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Customer Experience Feedback Customer Centricity Loyalty 71

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.

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Chief Customer Officer Engagement Net Promoter Score Insurance 100

Daniel Group

OCTOBER 23, 2020

NMC has been a client since about 2010. So here at NMC we’ve had a great team focused on customer experience, as you said, since 2010. I came on and started having a focus around customer experience and became the NMC customer experience champion right about a year ago. Lynn Daniel (04:29): Good.

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