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

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 Analytics 236

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. What’s stopping your customers from being loyal? Graham Jones) Most business leaders appreciate that 80% of their profits come from 20% of their customers. Keeping loyal customers is the “holy grail” of business. by Graham Jones.

Customer Service 124

Customer Service Loyalty Customer Success Resources 124

Wired and Dangerous

JANUARY 4, 2016

Welcome to 2016! We believe this year will be remembered in years to come as one in which people in the world of work embraced the spirit of consistently providing customers with great service across the entire customer journey! Great concierges are intensely loyal to a customer and consistently deliver great service. .

Call Center 70

Call Center Resources Consulting Study 70

CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The ongoing aftereffects of the pandemic, massive political disruption, and the spiraling cost of living crisis are combining to only make it more challenging to meet customers’ needs. This has led retail brands to investigate new forms of communicating with and serving customers, notably chatbots.

Chatbots 52

Chatbots Retail Communication Brands 52

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

CloudCherry

MARCH 15, 2018

The customer experience wave has disrupted several industries and Telecom is one of them. Today, customers aren’t just leaving some of the biggest telecom brands in the world (Comcast ring a bell?) Customer retention is, therefore, the most pragmatic solution to tackle customer churn. It gets even better.

Wireless 210

Wireless Customer Retention Call Center Advertising 210

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

ShepHyken

JANUARY 14, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Consumer Trust Languishes at 2016 Levels by MarTech Cube (MarTech Cube) Consumers’ trust in the organizations they do business with has not recovered from its pandemic decline. Here are my top five picks from last week.

Customer Service 58

Customer Service Retail Consumers Metrics 58

Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

When I was asked to do a TEDx talk about a year ago, I keyed in on the message that your brand (be that your individual brand or your corporate brand) is little more than “what people say about you when you are not around.”. Of all things for which Ed is known, “signature baseballs” is a substantial element of his brand.

Brands 113

Brands Hotels Leadership Guest Experience 113

ijgolding

JANUARY 17, 2017

In my exclusive column for CustomerThink in October 2016, I shared my ‘top tips’ for creating the right culture to enable an organisation to become genuinely customer centric. In November 2016 I did so with tip number 1 – how to make Customer Experience a priority for the whole company – you can read it here.

Customer Experience 168

Customer Experience How To Customer Centricity Tips 168

ShepHyken

JANUARY 14, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Consumer Trust Languishes at 2016 Levels by MarTech Cube (MarTech Cube) Consumers’ trust in the organizations they do business with has not recovered from its pandemic decline. Here are my top five picks from last week.

Customer Service 56

Customer Service Retail Consumers Metrics 56

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

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. The Hidden Costs of Poor Internal Customer Service By Joanne Wortman. Integrify) Of course, every business understands the need to maintain a high commitment to providing excellent customer service. Here are my top five picks from last week.

Chief Customer Officer 83

Chief Customer Officer Customer Service Lifetime Customer Loyalty 83

Tricia Morris

APRIL 1, 2016

Customers’ expectations for brands and organizations delivering the right answer at the right time, whether through assisted or self-service, continue to grow. In Microsoft’s Global State of Customer Service Report, 90% of consumers surveyed now expect a company website to include a self-service application.

Infographics 40

Infographics Self Service Customer Service Report 40

Eptica

JANUARY 12, 2017

Date: Thursday, January 12, 2017 What were the top customer service trends of 2016? 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. Is a lack of consistency letting your customer service down?

Trends 48

Trends Customer Service Contact Center Analysis 48

Alida

JULY 11, 2018

In a panel session moderated by our very own Karen Eisen, experts from Canadian Tire, Jamieson Laboratories, CIBC and Flipp shared how they are using customer insight to improve the customer experience. Canadian Tire: Use insight to meet the needs of different customers. Customer insight also helps reduce risks at CIBC.

Industry 141

Industry Brands Banking ROI 141

Hallmark Business Connections

MARCH 9, 2021

If you’re a brand marketer, that meant pivoting your strategy to account for the “new normal,” tossing out (or heavily revising) now-defunct messaging, and collaborating with teammates over Zoom rather than in person. Granted, these wheels were already in motion pre-pandemic: In 2016, 64 million people , roughly 20% of the U.S.

Marketing 97

Marketing Brands Tips Financial 97

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Technology, human behavior, Customer Experience are intersecting through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and taking marketing in a new direction. We spoke to Messina on a recent podcast about this concept and how it applies to customer-driven growth. In other words, brands behave like humans in these channels.

Meeting 166

Meeting Social Media Call Center Multi-Channel 166

Tricia Morris

DECEMBER 18, 2015

This year’s lineup of contributors includes: • Bill Patterson: Microsoft General Manager of Service Engagement. Jeanne Bliss: Chief Customer Officer Author and CXPA Co-founder. Sumair Dutta: The Service Council Chief Customer Officer and Former Aberdeen Customer Experience Analyst.

Trends 40

Trends Chief Customer Officer Customer Service eBook 40

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

The question was as follows: What value has our business experienced as a result of all the Customer Experience (CX) work that has been done? Only recently I wrote about an experience a friend of mine was (and still is) having with BT – it was the perfect example of the RANDOM or UNINTENTIONAL Customer Experience.

Customer Experience 208

Customer Experience Poor Customer Service Financial Return on Investment 208

CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

As technologies and consumer expectations develop, the customer service landscape is evolving at an accelerated rate. Customers (and companies) faced unprecedented problems causing query volumes to spike, which put huge pressure on customer service teams. Think about it: who would you rather get customer service from?

Trends 98

Trends Industry Customer Service Chatbots 98

Customer Bliss

OCTOBER 10, 2017

As Senior Vice President, Consumer Operations and Chief Customer Experience Officer (CXO), Maury is responsible for overseeing our end-to-end customer experience and the execution of customer-centric strategies to enhance customer loyalty and business growth. We’ll get into further detail later: Brand.

Customer Experience 154

Customer Experience Banking Hospitality Leadership 154

Michelli Experience

JULY 18, 2017

Customer Experience and Trust…hmmm. and, 3) What percentage of Americans answered “True” to the same question in 2016? drumroll please… In 1964 77% of respondents said “most people can be trusted” but only 31% viewed most others as worthy of trust in 2016 (thus causing my negativistic prediction about you today).

Customer Experience 164

Customer Experience Contact Center Consulting Policies 164

Comm100

JUNE 15, 2022

Digital customer engagement is always evolving. Just as live chat was a technological leap over telephone communication and is proving to be the most essential of all channels, chatbots are the latest technological milestone in customer support. Provide cost-effective 24/7 support to improve customer engagement.

Chatbots 197

Chatbots Industry Customer Service Wait Times 197

Vonage

JULY 25, 2016

Today’s connected shoppers have access to an unprecedented volume of information, which, in turn, has allowed them to take near full control of the customer experience. In a recent blog published by Salesforce , John Zissimos described this development as the ‘Age of the Customer’. Using feedback loops for continuous improvements.

Feedback 120

Feedback Brands Exceptional Customer Service Social Media 120

Tricia Morris

JUNE 13, 2016

Expectations for customer service have grown over the past few years: around convenience, speed, agent knowledge and insights – and by far around channel availability and digital transformation. 56% of global consumers say they have higher expectations for customer service now than they had a year ago. Get the Report.

Report 40

Report Customer Service Self Service Social Media 40

COPC

JANUARY 6, 2017

have published an executive summary of the survey results for the 2016 Corporate Edition of the Customer Experience Management Benchmark (CXMB) Series. The CXMB survey focused on where brands stand as they transition from multichannel to omnichannel support for their customers. Execs In The Know and COPC Inc.

Survey 40

Survey Omni-Channel Customer Experience Management Groups 40

BirdEye

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

I’m thrilled to announce the acquisition of Cube Online– Australia’s leading customer experience platform — giving us the opportunity to help local brands and businesses worldwide. I want to extend a warm welcome to the entire Cube team and the thousands of Cube customers. This is a pivotal moment for Birdeye and our customers.

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Touchpoint Culture 98

Team Support

JANUARY 9, 2024

There are more ways than ever for customers to get in touch with tech support. Ever wonder what customer service looked like 50 or 60 years ago? Here’s a look back at how customer support technologies evolved over the last century, and a peak at where they’re going next. One of the early pioneers in CRM software was ACT!

Technology 59

Technology Chatbots Call Center Social Media 59

ShepHyken

JUNE 20, 2016

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. World’s 3 MOST Customer Centric Companies: How do they do it!! Customer Guru) Here are our top three picks for the most customer centric companies and some lessons on how they manage to be customer-centric despite their size and diversity.

Customer Service 78

Customer Service Loyalty Programs Customer Centricity Chatbots 78

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. Customer Journey Designing.

Trends 40

Trends Customer Journeys Customer Experience Contact Center 40

ReviewTrackers

JUNE 27, 2019

Managing online reviews and customer feedback is one of the biggest investment priorities for hospitality brands and organizations in 2016. One of the most fundamental and effective ways to manage reviews is by responding to them. Impact of Reviews and Responses on Reputation and Revenue.

Management 85

Management Hospitality Hotels Net Promoter Score 85

AskNicely

AUGUST 17, 2018

Why is Customer Obsession a Priority? And 23% of CEOs list customer service as one of their top three business priorities. Savvy CEOs understand that growth and employee engagement can be created by listening to customer feedback while following one guiding principle: Be customer obsessed. 28% say workforce.

Competitive Advantage 150

Competitive Advantage Feedback Net Promoter Score NPS 150

NICE inContact

AUGUST 25, 2016

According to Gartner’s report, Bridge Silos of Customer Engagement, or Risk Killing Your customer Experience , “Customer engagement is frequently delivered in silos, even though this is a known, significant customer experience issue. It has never been more important to focus on empowering the frontline.

Customer Engagement 121

Customer Engagement Connections Engagement Contact Center 121

NICE inContact

DECEMBER 12, 2016

When I think about “great” service, I envision a customer interaction that required little customer effort, that was resolved on the first contact, by the first agent, and in which the agent served as a positive ambassador for the brand. Agents Want to Solve Customer Issues – But Can They?

Contact Center 185

Contact Center Customer Service Culture Interaction 185

Michelli Experience

APRIL 14, 2017

According to Bruce Temkin’s 2016 study , after a positive emotional experience, customers are 15 times more likely to recommend a company. But do the current solutions deliver on the key question that companies should be asking themselves: How can we provide a positive emotional experience to our customers?

Analysis 223

Analysis Feedback Effort Score NPS 223