CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

As technologies and consumer expectations develop, the customer service landscape is evolving at an accelerated rate. Megan Neale and Roger Beadle, Co-Founders of Limitless , explore future trends. We will see brands build on their successes (and learn from their failures) to create better experiences for their customers.

Trends 98

Trends Industry Customer Service Chatbots 98

Conversocial

MAY 4, 2021

Bots have come a long way since their inception, but consumer trust still lags behind. In our State of CX Trends 2021 55% of consumers didn’t think bots could provide better CX and 54% have had a bad experience when interacting with a bot. The result; consumer perception still being bots aren’t all that useful.

Brands 111

Brands Trends Consumers Interaction 111

Kayako

JANUARY 24, 2018

Armed with that empathy and over ten years in the business, there’s been one consistent signal that stands out from the noise in this year’s customer service trends: customers want effortless experiences. According to Google trends, search intent for “customer-centric” has been on the rise for the past two years. Probably not.

Customer Centricity 208

Customer Centricity Self Service Trends Customer Experience 208

BlueOcean

JULY 5, 2016

With social networks evolving at a breakneck pace, that leads us to the question at the root of this post: what is the state of social customer care in 2016 and beyond? Top brands respond to customer service requests on Twitter in just minutes , while the worst take hours, if not days. The Facts About Social Customer Care.

Customer Care 120

Customer Care Social Media Contact Center Entertainment 120

Fox Metrics

JUNE 25, 2020

New technologies, strategies, and trends are being introduced now and again to allow companies to meet the evolving interests and behavior of consumers. 76% of respondents of the Adobe 2016 Digital Trends Report think that marketing has changed more in the last two years, than the previous fifty. Voice Search.

Trends 111

Trends Marketing Social Media Advertising 111

Eptica

JANUARY 12, 2017

Date: Thursday, January 12, 2017 What were the top customer service trends of 2016? What were the big trends and how will they evolve moving forward? To help we’ve analyzed all 100+ posts published on the Eptica blog in 2016, and picked a top ten, based on a combination of readership and industry feedback.

Trends 48

Trends Customer Service Contact Center Analysis 48

CSM Magazine

APRIL 20, 2021

After the COVID-19 pandemic, consumer habits have transformed significantly. Social distancing and stay-at-home regulations have forced whole consumer segments to shop differently. A few months into COVID-19, consumer shopping online has increased across different sectors. What Are Consumer Insights?

Consumers 52

Consumers Advertising Trends Entertainment 52

Second to None

APRIL 3, 2018

Capturing new customers is a foundational pillar of a successful fast-casual restaurant brand, but the ability to retain these first-time patrons is the true signifier of a leading Customer Experience. Another impactful trend in this industry is the proliferation of different ordering technologies. Additionally, millennials spend 10.6%

Brands 63

Brands Consumers Rewards Programs Loyalty 63

Alida

DECEMBER 22, 2016

For business leaders, the new year is often a time to reflect on the biggest business trends shaping the corporate world. There isn’t a shortage of predictions on what the next year will bring, and spotting the business trends that truly matter can be difficult. Consumers have less faith in brands than ever before.

Trends 0

Trends Social Media Advertising e-support 0

Tricia Morris

JANUARY 25, 2016

For the first time in the history of Forrester Research’s North American Consumer Technographics Customer Life Cycle Survey , consumers now say they are using self-service FAQ pages on a company’s website for customer service more often than speaking with a live agent via phone. Trends to Watch in 2016.

Self Service 40

Self Service Trends Customer Service Chief Customer Officer 40

CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Temkin Group, a leading customer experience firm, has published its annual list of customer experience trends. As a part of these publications, Temkin is calling 2016 “The Year of Emotion.” ” Here are the 10 customer experience trends to watch in 2016: 1. Effort Metric Expanding. Emotion Arising.

Trends 40

Trends Customer Journeys Customer Experience Contact Center 40

transcosmos Information Systems

MARCH 11, 2016

In recent years, tech support has changed a lot to catch up with the ever-increasing and diversifying technology trends, not just for business clients, but also for consumers. In 2016, these trends will continue to make life fascinating (and potentially troublesome) for tech support groups. Multi-Vendor Calls.

Trends 48

Trends Multi-Channel Social Media Video 48

iPerceptions

JULY 6, 2016

As we enter into July and the second half of 2016, marketers and brand leaders should take a moment to process some of the biggest customer experience stories and developments from last month. After all, there are some major trends emerging that will have a serious impact on consumer decisions through the rest of the year.

Customer Centricity 59

Customer Centricity Trends Customers Consumers 59

Eptica

JANUARY 25, 2017

Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 The 5 trends brands need to address for improved customer service. Overall, consumer satisfaction has risen to 77.8, compared to January 2016, marking the fourth straight improvement in results. Overall, consumer satisfaction has risen to 77.8, Published on: January 25, 2017.

Net Promoter Score 48

Net Promoter Score Trends Brands Customer Service 48

Fox Metrics

JUNE 25, 2020

New technologies, strategies, and trends are being introduced now and again to allow companies to meet the evolving interests and behavior of consumers. 76% of respondents of the Adobe 2016 Digital Trends Report think that marketing has changed more in the last two years, than the previous fifty. Voice Search.

Trends 64

Trends Marketing Social Media Analytics 64

Lumoa

AUGUST 23, 2021

In any case, customer experience used to be the largest way to differentiate your brand among the turbulent sea of competition. New ways of interacting with customers A recent study from CMO found that 84% of companies were using social media for brand building and more than 54% have used it for customer retention.

Customer Experience 236

Customer Experience Social Media Video Customers 236

C3Centricity

JULY 2, 2016

Your brand is not what you think it is! It is what your customers think it is; its brand image, personality and its value to them. I was lecturing at Miami University a couple of weeks ago on brand image and personality. These are two vital elements of branding. Why we Buy Brands. Branding Elements.

Brands 159

Brands Marketing Advertising Measurement 159

QuestionPro Audience

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

and they are the fastest growing segment of technology consumers. Whereas millennials consume the trending technology and move on to the next, baby boomers are different. Once they find a brand that appeals to them, they are extremely brand loyal.

Company 186

Company Travel Comparison Social Media 186

QuestionPro Audience

APRIL 6, 2018

With more and more big brands like Sprint, Netflix, and L’Oreal cutting their agencies to take their advertising in-house, ad agencies are scrambling to re-route. ad agencies are not at risk of becoming obsolete, reportedly bringing in over $48 billion in 2016 and employing over 200,000 people, but the growth in this industry is slowing.

Advertising 207

Advertising Consumers Marketing Customer Journeys 207

Alida

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The study, released in November 2016, showed that fintech adoption is particularly high in emerging markets like China and India. In the first quarter of 2016 alone, fintech startups saw an influx of $5.2 How do you build a culture that looks ahead, rather than reacting to the latest consumer trends? billion in funding.

Customer Experience 193

Customer Experience Financial Banking Culture 193

Tricia Morris

JUNE 8, 2016

Below is a sneak peek of just a few of the survey responses from United States consumers polled as part of Microsoft’s 2016 State of Global Customer Service Report, which also includes responses from 4,000 additional consumers across Brazil, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom. The post INFOGRAPHIC: 2016 U.S.

Infographics 40

Infographics Customer Service Report Trends 40

Tricia Morris

JULY 18, 2016

This year, Microsoft customer service preferences and expectations survey polled 5,000 consumers across Brazil, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States and found some interesting commonalities, as well as distinct differences, between location.

Infographics 40

Infographics Customer Service Trends Report 40

Natalie Petouhof

JANUARY 19, 2016

Tweet I’m here with my colleagues, Holger Mueller @holgermu and Doug Henschen @ DHenschen , covering the #OracleCloud Summit 2016 in NYC at the Waldorf Astoria @ WaldorfNYC. B2B Customer Experience: How does an application consume all this data – from service, sales, marketing, mobile… to result in a business outcome?

Trends 40

Trends Software B2B B2C 40

Tricia Morris

JUNE 13, 2016

This year, Microsoft’s annual customer service preferences and expectations survey polled 5,000 consumers across Brazil, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States and found some interesting commonalities, as well as distinct differences between locations. This number jumps to 68% for 18 – 34-year-olds.

Report 40

Report Customer Service Self Service Social Media 40

QuestionPro Audience

JANUARY 17, 2018

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is an annual trade show where the consumer technology world goes to introduce their newest innovations to the marketplace. Even better, it comes with lawn mowing and leaf blowing attachments, so you can retire from yard work forever.

Consumers 236

Consumers Innovation Technology Measurement 236

Michelli Experience

MARCH 15, 2017

Of course, there are those sophisticated brands like Fiji or Pellegrino. My favorite is Ethos water, a Starbucks brand that offers a portion of the proceeds from each bottle I purchase to help secure safe drinking water in a world where 1 in 6 people don’t have a reliable, healthy source.”. I drink my share of bottled water.

Trends 230

Trends Brands Sales Course 230

Alida

JULY 11, 2017

Customer experience is middling at best, and that’s troubling for brands. Forrester’s 2017 Global Customer Experience Trends report found the vast majority of firms in digital and traditional retail, banking and insurance around the world only earned the research firm’s Customer Experience Index (CX Index) score in the “OK” range.

Customer Experience 183

Customer Experience Effort Score Omni-Channel Retail 183

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Messina coined the phrase Conversational Commerce in 2016 to describe all the changes happening in the way we interact with customers in the consumer marketplace. Specifically, it relates to how brands and consumers are going to communicate through messaging and social media. . Messina is an expert on this subject.

Meeting 166

Meeting Social Media Call Center Multi-Channel 166

C Space

MAY 20, 2020

The Brand Move Roundup – May 19, 2020. We’re tracking the notable brand moves & highlighting the companies who are tackling this challenge successfully. Keep checking back here for the latest updates on how brands are dealing with coronavirus. Nobody has that information, [but] we could showcase that information.”

Brands 52

Brands Video Retail Consumers 52

C Space

MAY 4, 2020

The Brand Move Roundup – May 4, 2020. We’re tracking the notable brand moves & highlighting the companies who are tackling this challenge successfully. Keep checking back here for the latest updates on how brands are dealing with coronavirus. L’Oréal ’s first-quarter sales dropped 4.8%

Brands 52

Brands Airlines Advertising e-support 52

NetBase

AUGUST 11, 2020

The mutually beneficial partnership brings promotional power to both brands and is an exceptionally savvy move to make at any time, but particularly right now from a consumer and market intelligence standpoint. Gaining consumer love by catering to unmet needs. Emerging Trends in the Morphing Music Space.

Social Media 90

Social Media Consumers Trends Video 90

Eptica

JULY 8, 2016

Date: Friday, July 8, 2016 Delivering what US consumers want. Published on: July 08, 2016. First run in 2008 and based on a representative sample of consumers, it tracks how people feel about their financial prospects and the impact that this has on their buying habits and behavior.

Consumers 50

Consumers Self Service Multi-Channel Financial 50

Joe Rawlinson

JANUARY 27, 2016

With a saturation of marketing and advertising, companies rely more on consumer emotions to sell a product. But these four emotions and strategies are key ways to engage new customers in 2016. The company that creates iPhones, iPads and Mac computers is selling us its brand on a passive level, but at an emotional level.

Consumers 60

Consumers Marketing Advertising Hotels 60

Alida

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Government regulations and changing patient expectations are major drivers of this trend in the medical marketplace. Business leaders in health care organizations can’t afford to take the M&A trend lightly. The reality, however, is that mergers don’t necessarily improve patient care or lower costs for consumers.

Airlines 138

Airlines Hospitality Employee Engagement Entertainment 138

Alida

MARCH 21, 2018

Similarly, customer experience (CX) and market researchers must look beyond just fixing individual transactions and in-the-moment interactions with consumers to effectively demonstrate the return-on-investment (ROI) of their research efforts to the executive suite. What they need is a full picture—the “why” of customer behavior.

ROI 252

ROI Net Promoter Score NPS Effort Score 252

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 23, 2023

(This is updated version of our most popular blogs: 52 RFP Questions (2013), 51 RFP Questions (2016), 60 RFP Questions (2020)) Every few years we update our recommended list of contact center RFP Questions. Agent Workforce An outsourcer’s ability to attract and retain the right people for your brand and your service requirements is essential.

Customer Care 177

Customer Care Contact Center Comparison Employee Engagement 177

Alida

JANUARY 19, 2017

According to Recode , e-commerce giant Amazon is preparing to launch its own activewear private label brands. Sales in athletic apparel rose 12 percent in 2016 , according to the market research firm NPD, as more consumers wear their workout clothes outside the gym. But as the market grows, so does the competition.

Retail 100

Retail Apparel ROI Loyalty Programs 100