Education Services Group

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As technology and tools for Customer Success evolve, pioneers in the industry are testing out new engagement strategies every day. In the Inaugural Customer Success Leadership Study , we found that many CS teams are still in the early stages of maturity when it comes to their tech stacks. When 72% of U.S. Fast-forward to 2021.

Customer Success 59

Customer Success Customer Engagement Engagement Self Service 59

Retently

MAY 9, 2024

Boosting your B2B customer retention rates is incredibly important for nurturing a sustainable business. It’s a thrill to land a new customer, no doubt. Many companies get caught in this cycle because they prioritize new customer acquisition so heavily that they overlook how many customers they’re losing along the way.

Customer Retention 130

Customer Retention B2B Customer Journeys Loyalty Programs 130

Alida

MARCH 21, 2018

Note: This article is part of our ROI Matters series , which explores the value of research ROI to C-suite executives and leaders in product innovation , customer experience, marketing and customer insight. . Further, they don’t contribute to the systematic design of superior experiences. Give NPS and CSAT some context.

ROI 252

ROI Net Promoter Score NPS Effort Score 252

SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

The Super-Heroes of Customer Experience are here! Customer Experience – The new focus of 2020! Customer Experience has become a top priority for businesses in 2020. They have not only brought new perspectives on the table but have redefined the customer experience exceptionally!

Customer Experience 132

Customer Experience Consulting Multi-Channel Leadership 132

Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 23, 2015

According to Forrester Research, 93% of corporate leadership teams place customer experience improvement on their list of strategic priorities and 23% businesses have it in the number 1 position. In fact, the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) is reporting customer satisfaction levels that are hovering just above 9 year lows.

Customer Experience 100

Customer Experience Customer Satisfaction Consulting Loyalty 100

Customer Bliss

MARCH 30, 2017

When I work with clients, I always set up a “customer room,” which is another way of thinking about customer experience labs. I’ve written about this idea a few times , including in Chief Customer Officer 2.0. It engages leaders, unifies their decision-making, and creates an accountability forum.

Customer Experience 100

Customer Experience Banking Net Promoter Score Call Center 100

Comm100

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Out of all the customer engagement software tools that are out there, which one is right for your company? Different companies have different needs, and a very diverse number of customer engagement tools are waiting to fill those needs. Popular Customer Engagement Software Tools and Who They’re Good For?

Software 106

Software Customer Engagement Engagement Omni-Channel 106

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Customer experience is about so much more than call-center scripts or proper protocol around customer complaints. The best companies, the ones we know as customer experience leaders, adopt a customer focused view to everything. Silos make understanding the customer journey that much harder.

Customer Focused 275

Customer Focused Employee Engagement Call Center Social Media 275

Vonage

MAY 11, 2016

The Salesforce World Tour London is on May 19 th and we are delighted to have been selected as one of the Salesforce 2016 Customer Success stories. I am excited to be sharing our story and talking about how Vax has transformed its customer service as a key part of the customer journey.

Multi-Channel 60

Multi-Channel Customer Experience Competitive Advantage Effort Score 60

Thunderhead

MARCH 25, 2019

Customer Experience is getting the recognition it has long deserved. In 2018, Thunderhead was named as a Leader in the Forrester Wave for Customer Journey Analytics for the second time. The Wave is comprised of two reports: Journey Orchestration and Visioning. And the concept of an ‘intent-driven journey’ was born.

Customer Journeys 40

Customer Journeys Customer Centricity Analytics Report 40

Avaya

APRIL 3, 2017

An estimated $6 trillion in global revenue is up for grabs due to dissatisfied customers constantly switching providers, seeking a better customer experience—CX. From finance to retail to hospitality, it seems virtually every industry is grappling with above-average customer churn. Consider that 150 million emails and 2.4

Customer Journeys 57

Customer Journeys Contact Center Data Omni-Channel 57

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 30, 2015

It’s not always due to a bad experience- sometimes it’s just time to move on. We know this technique as the peak-end rule , which not only helps retain customers after things go awry, but often has the power to forge stronger loyalty from an otherwise bad experience. Letting customers call the shots. Personality.

Brands 110

Brands Retail Consulting Touchpoint 110

Experience Matters

APRIL 7, 2015

In its third year, these awards recognize companies that provide products and services that help companies improve the customer experience they deliver. 1) Company Overview: Clarabridge’s customer experience management platform helps hundreds of the world’s leading brands understand and improve the customer journey.

Groups 120

Groups Multi-Channel Omni-Channel CEM 120

Eptica

JANUARY 15, 2016

Date: Friday, January 15, 2016 Insurance, the Internet of Things and customer experience. This has dramatically changed how insurers operate , and increased the focus on the customer experience as companies look to engage with consumers and retain their business. This has tripled since 2014.

Insurance 48

Insurance Customer Experience Policies CRM 48

CSM Magazine

MARCH 13, 2020

Facilitating customer self-service using automated contact channels, such as IVR and chatbots is a recognised method of reducing strain on contact centers during spikes in demand. Deploying a range of chatbots, each suited to a specific task, can greatly enhance the customer experience and deliver substantial benefits to the business.

Self Service 64

Self Service Chatbots Contact Center Policies 64

ChurnZero

MARCH 6, 2020

Customer Success Starts Within: 6 Ways to Put Employees First. The Customer Success industry is obsessed with cracking the code on customer experience and loyalty. So, it’s easy to see how a fixation on the customer can overshadow the very people who make that success possible: the employees.

Customer Success 69

Customer Success Customer Journeys Culture Study 69

ProProfs Chat

JUNE 14, 2019

Do you know how to keep your customers satisfied? Customer service is a high-stakes game. Every company is competing for the same customers, and customer satisfaction is one of the main differentiators between success and failure. For this reason, customer experience has become the key to business success.

Self Service 90

Self Service Customer Service Social Media Poor Customer Service 90

CX Journey

OCTOBER 23, 2014

It appeared on their blog on June 19, 2014. What is the customer experience inflection point? I think the customer experience plays a huge role. I don''t think there''s a big event within the organization itself that signals you''ve reached the customer experience inflection point. Don''t think so?

Culture 173

Culture Leadership Employee Engagement Customer Centricity 173

delighted

JANUARY 7, 2020

Back in 2015, Forrester Research uncovered that customer experience was the number one priority for business and technology leaders. A Walker study found that by the end of 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator.

Trends 40

Trends Brands Customer Experience Survey 40

Eptica

JUNE 1, 2016

Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 What is holding back chat in customer service? Author: Neil Cox Amongst consumers, chat is fast becoming a mainstream channel for customer service. Research indicates that millennials in particular are very comfortable using chat for customer service from their mobiles. Published on: June 01, 2016.

Customer Service 48

Customer Service Knowledge Base Contact Center Consumers 48

Team HGS

AUGUST 29, 2017

3 Ways to Rethink Customer Service in the Subscription Economy. What started with newspapers and magazines has now evolved to real-time, contextual, and personalized product ownership experiences. Customers are buying differently these days. Customers are buying differently these days.

Customer Service 52

Customer Service Retail B2B Video 52

CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

A good customer success team drives continuous value to the customer at every point in the customer life-cycle journey. Customer success teams use playbooks and strategies in their ongoing efforts to ensure customers achieve operational success and maximize value from your solution offerings.

Metrics 59

Metrics Net Promoter Score Effort Score NPS 59

Comm100

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Now that 2017 is out of the picture, what can we expect customer service to look like in 2018? The question isn’t new – after all, customer service is always changing. Use this list of 2018 customer service and business trends to plan your customer experience strategy for the new year, and to stay one step ahead of the competition.

Customer Service 102

Customer Service Social Media Chatbots Knowledge Base 102

CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

A good customer success team drives continuous value to the customer at every point in the customer life-cycle journey. Customer success teams use playbooks and strategies in their ongoing efforts to ensure customers achieve operational success and maximize value from your solution offerings.

Metrics 52

Metrics Customer Success Net Promoter Score Effort Score 52

CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

A good customer success team drives continuous value to the customer at every point in the customer life-cycle journey. Customer success teams use playbooks and strategies in their ongoing efforts to ensure customers achieve operational success and maximize value from your solution offerings.

Metrics 52

Metrics Customer Success Net Promoter Score Effort Score 52

Natalie Petouhof

APRIL 12, 2016

Salesforce announced Salesforce for Messenger Platform which will empower companies to create entirely new sales, service, marketing and app experiences for customers on Messenger. Often Marketing “owns” the Facebook page and had not worked out what to do with Customer Service issues.

CRM 40

CRM Ecommerce Connections Leadership 40

CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Every customer success metric you can measure falls into one of these four categories: Customer Health Metrics. Customer Financial Metrics. Customer Usage Metrics. Customer Success Team Performance Metrics. In this blog series, we’ll examine each customer success metric category in separate blogs.

Metrics 52

Metrics Net Promoter Score Customer Success Customers 52

CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Every customer success metric you can measure falls into one of these four categories: Customer Health Metrics. Customer Financial Metrics. Customer Usage Metrics. Customer Success Team Performance Metrics. In this blog series, we’ll examine each customer success metric category in separate blogs.

Metrics 52

Metrics Net Promoter Score Customer Success Customers 52

Eptica

AUGUST 19, 2015

Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 Robots – the future of customer service? Author: Derek Lewis Recent Forrester research pointed out the importance of understanding customer emotion and creating empathy with consumers if brands are going to deliver a successful customer experience. Published on: August 19, 2015.

Self Service 48

Self Service Customer Service Wireless Contact Center 48

Qualtrics

MARCH 20, 2019

In 2018 49% of consumers shopped in a physical store compared to 36% in 2014, according to PwC’s 2019 Global Consumer Insights Study. It’s experience. In-store shoppers can experience and feel the products they’re buying. Customer behavior online correlates with that in the real world. The reason for this is simple.

Social Media 37

Social Media Study Customer Journeys Consumers 37

Tricia Morris

AUGUST 21, 2015

The top challenges organizations say they face in delivering a superior customer experience are: (1) consistency across channels, (2) ensuring that all inquiries are responded to and documented, and (3) utilizing customer data to identify trends. Customer experience is how a customer feels about a company over time.

CRM 40

CRM Customer Focused Self Service Conference 40

SaleMove

MAY 8, 2018

Every business that takes the time to implement a customer experience strategy likely has the same goal: for their customers to have a seamless customer journey when doing business with them and become brand ambassadors. 89% of companies expect to compete on the basis of customer experience in the near future.

Omni-Channel 40

Omni-Channel Strategy Customer Journeys Customer Centricity 40

Beyond Philosophy

MAY 19, 2015

Having a great Customer Experience is no accident. Companies that excel in providing a great Customer Experience engaged in lots of deliberate designs to make their experience what it is today. 1: Top CX Companies Predict Customer Behavior. In many ways Customer Experience is like an iceberg.

Exercises 60

Exercises Employee Engagement Analytics Groups 60

Martin Hill-Wilson

MAY 27, 2015

The options that each grabbed a quarter of the online vote were: “Steps Towards Understanding Your Customer Digital Profile” and “Checklist On Going Digital”. Do you know how fast your customers are adopting new digital behaviour? Do you know how fast your customers are adopting new digital behaviour? Why Digital Profiling?

Self Service 40

Self Service Social Media Multi-Channel Consumers 40

ClearAction

MARCH 21, 2017

Is customer engagement, artificial intelligence, digital marketing, predictive analytics, big data, or some other “shiny object” the key to driving business performance? When you think about it, that makes a lot of sense: 40-70% of customers switch loyalty due to a perceived attitude of indifference.

Culture 88

Culture Roadmap Customer Centricity Measurement 88

Eptica

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 How to prevent utility customer service delivering a shock. Author: Michael Cheung Recent research from charity Citizens Advice found major differences between how UK utilities handle customer service. So how can they better connect with customers? Published on: October 06, 2015.

Self Service 48

Self Service Customer Service Social Media Contact Center 48

ClearAction

MARCH 21, 2017

Is customer engagement, artificial intelligence, digital marketing, predictive analytics, big data, or some other “shiny object” the key to driving business performance? When you think about it, that makes a lot of sense: 40-70% of customers switch loyalty due to a perceived attitude of indifference.

Culture 69

Culture Roadmap Customer Centricity Measurement 69