BlueOcean

OCTOBER 6, 2020

What Service Level Metrics Are Most Relevant to Your Business Now? Let’s face it: Contact center metrics that measure customer service as if it’s some kind of race (think Average Handle Time) are frankly table stakes. Is your partner focused on metrics that help you assess and elevate customer loyalty or promotion and advocacy?

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Customer Care Contact Center Effort Score Net Promoter Score 156

ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Are Your Customer Care Metrics Customer-Centric? Customer care metrics are a barometer of performance across a variety of customer interactions such as chat, text messages, email, social media and communities. Both of these orientations tend to be company-serving rather than customer-focused.

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BlueOcean

JULY 12, 2018

The only constant in the customer care world is change, and if you don’t keep up, you’ll be left behind. That’s why we’ve compiled these must-read articles to keep you updated and give you some food for thought as you think about the future of your outsourced customer care. The Role of Chatbots in Customer Care. “

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BlueOcean

AUGUST 27, 2020

And, of course, your company’s plan to launch a new outsourced customer care program. Your customers are already struggling with the times, and now you’re thinking about overhauling the customer care process? Check out these articles: 60 Customer Care RFP Questions for the Contact Center of 2020.

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BlueOcean

APRIL 15, 2019

How outsourcers build that connection between agent/customer/client brand is the secret sauce – and if you are going to RFP for a new customer care provider, that’s where you should be probing for specific examples and process details. Empowering Your Team to Deliver Kick-Ass Customer Experience. Read this next!

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GetFeedback

AUGUST 16, 2018

But when it comes to service quality, how do you measure where you really stand with customers? Here’s a look at the top 11 customer service metrics you should start measuring today. Customer Happiness Metrics. How can you quantify how customers feel about your brand? Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) Score.

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Metrics Measurement Net Promoter Score Customer Service 199

BlueOcean

MAY 11, 2020

Situation: You’re tasked with choosing a new outsourced partner for your organization’s customer care program. Did the pandemic expose cracks in your current customer care solution, whether that is in-house or outsourced? To save precious time, you can start with a solid RFP template for customer care solutions.

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BlueOcean

MAY 11, 2020

Situation: You’re tasked with choosing a new outsourced partner for your organization’s customer care program. Did the pandemic expose cracks in your current customer care solution, whether that is in-house or outsourced? To save precious time, you can start with a solid RFP template for customer care solutions.

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Customer Care Travel Contact Center Effort Score 156

BlueOcean

JULY 5, 2016

If the call to customer care is a dreaded and distasteful last resort, how do we adapt and improve the experience? 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? The Facts About Social Customer Care.

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TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

When a customer searches through FAQs, follows a video tutorial, asks a question on a user forum and still does not have a satisfactory answer to their question, resulting in a call to customer service, is that resolution considered a first contact resolution (FCR)? New Self Service KPI Metrics. Call Deflection Rate.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Finding Bilingual Support That Suits Your Customers Best We’re an onshore Canadian contact center outsourcer and pride ourselves on delivering sophisticated (bilingual) customer care through strategic partnership. The value of that improved metric plays a big role in the client’s bottom line. It’s our thing.

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Inbenta

MARCH 6, 2020

We have seen the trends and uses evolve and while user expectations in terms of interactions and conversation have changed significantly, performance metrics have remained quite constant. Therefore, we have gathered the top 10 key metrics to monitor when measuring your chatbot’s performance. Identify the key metric for your AI chatbot.

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Kustomer

AUGUST 6, 2020

Unless you want to potentially lose about 80% of your business, you need to stay on top of your customer service performance. If you’re not exactly sure how to measure customer service performance, consider the following methods and metrics. Satisfied Customers Are Critical to Business Success. Average Resolution Time.

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Russel Lolacher

MARCH 2, 2021

In BC, I’m the public service director responsible for the government social media customer care for our ministry, but my dad still doesn’t understand what I do. As a director in your government agency, what are the most important KPIs you use to measure customer experience benchmarks? “Yes, but what do you do?

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ClearAction

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

8 Customer Experience Metric Silos Mask Momentum Lynn Hunsaker. Metrics selection can be the most pivotal decision you make in your customer experience management strategy. The trick to successful metrics selection is to connect the dots between cause-and-effect. That’s because what gets measured gets managed.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Supply chain problems and the Great Resignation have caused challenges on every aspect of customer care. The work we’re handling has surged and become more complex, while the employees … Continue reading → The post Do your goals and metrics foster employee engagement? appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 19, 2022

This enables marketers to rise above opens and clicks and connect campaign performance to customer experience goals and business objectives such as revenue, cost, and retention. Customer Care and Customer Service Team. Scaling success within Customer care and service effort is a nerve-wracking deal.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Likewise, many organizations have established their own ESG guidelines and metrics—or been certified by third party validations—to hold themselves and their chosen vendors accountable. With that said, how do you ensure your outsourced customer care partners or potential partners are holding themselves accountable to robust ESG standards?

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Supply chain problems and the Great Resignation have caused challenges on every aspect of customer care. The work we’re handling has surged and become more complex, while the employees … Continue reading → The post Do your goals and metrics foster employee engagement? appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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Think Customers

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

How do you balance data decision-making with the human side of customer experience? TSF: I have an entire reporting department in my group that presents volume metrics as well as the complete voice of the customer. The post Behind the Scenes of Dow Jones’ Customer Care appeared first on 1to1 Media.

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Bill Quiseng

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Many CX professionals have advocated CX as strategies such as AI, online, self-service, telephone, and face-to-face customer support, customer journey mapping, the Peak End Rule, NPS, CSAT, CES, or other CX metrics, and many innovative technologies to improvetheir customers’ experiences. And, yes, educate everyone.

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Customer Journeys Self Service Customer Service Training NPS 97

BlueOcean

MARCH 13, 2023

Like most people in the customer care sector, we are diving deep into where ChatGPT fits, or might fit, into the contact center world. The question of the moment is: what role is ChatGPT going to play in delivering a loyalty-building customer experience? Can AI Handle Complex Customer Care?

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Bill Quiseng

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Let’s be revolutionary to transform CX Into CXM, customer service to customer CARE, and customer service training to an education in customer CARE or customer CARE University. You may have been happy because your customers felt satisfied with their experience. Why only three?

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Customer Journeys Sports Customer Service Training Customer Care 97

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It’s 2019, which means contact center metrics from 1999 are almost old enough for their first legal beer (and already knocking them back in Canada.) Those metrics were born in an era when customer service was a race, where whoever got to the finish line first (i.e. One Metric to Rule Them All. But where do we start?

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Win the Customer

DECEMBER 14, 2015

I recently worked with an organization who wanted to tap into more detailed information about their customer interactions only to find out that their phone provider was greatly lacking in offerings for call center metrics. The post Getting Started With Advanced Call Center Management and Metrics appeared first on Win the Customer!

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Advantage Communications

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Outsourcing a major part of your business is never an easy decision, but when it comes down to something as important as your customer service strategy , it’s generally the right one.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

AUGUST 9, 2022

Collecting customer feedback is a piece of the puzzle. Take the Proactive Path: Whenever another survey, a new metric, or even an ongoing feedback program is rolling along, customer experience leaders need to ask one critical question: WHY? Customer experience goals are loose and ill-defined. Reactive Reality #2.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 13, 2024

Overall, the enhancements empowered customers to engage with the brand on their channel of choice – whether self-service, email, web or chat. Beyond the quantifiable metrics, the project also delivered a vastly improved experience for Sweaty Betty’s customer service agents.

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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 18, 2018

AI can be a powerful tool, but it is just one cog in the customer care engine. AI should enhance the customer experience through seamless, elegant integration with live agent support – allowing agents to focus on higher value or higher complexity scenarios requiring human intelligence and decision-making. MEASURING SUCCESS.

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Contact Center Self Service Chatbots Case Study 195

BlueOcean

MARCH 31, 2022

When Billy Beane used a highly specialized system of metrics to help his scrappy low-budget Oakland A’s teams compete with juggernauts in the league, the lessons weren’t lost on us. When we talk about “running the numbers” in the context of customer care, it’s a little bit like going to practice every day.

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Remember when social media was the young upstart of the customer care channels and voice was still king? Way back in the good old days of the early 2010s… It seems like a lifetime ago that we were asking ourselves how to handle customers in such a public forum. Or was it customer service? Easier said than done.

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Horizon CX

JUNE 27, 2023

Imagine a scenario where a company’s marketing campaigns project an image of exceptional quality and superior customer care. However, when customers interact with the company’s representatives or use their products or services, the experience falls short of the promised brand perception.

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COPC

MARCH 25, 2016

Here are the five changes we recommend: #1 Redesign the quality form to align with key customer drivers. #2 2 Score only output metrics and use sub-attributes to capture. 3 Measure quality using three metrics instead of one overall score. #4 2 Score only output metrics and use sub-attributes to capture reasons for error.

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Metrics Effort Score Customer Satisfaction Customer Care 40

CSM Magazine

APRIL 5, 2018

Or can contact centres start to leverage the move towards AI and create a more customer-focused environment that will result in higher levels of customer care? Moving your CC team to video chat gives you the metrics you need to convince management of the value. Text chat has less than 60% and ChatBots even less.

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Storyminers

JUNE 3, 2022

Not everything that matters to customers can be measured and not everything we measure matters to them! Have at least one customer value creation metric in your measurement mix to stay connected to what your customers care about most. Which CX metrics do you think are the most important?

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Trends Customer Experience Wireless Entertainment 147

Lumoa

JUNE 14, 2023

You’ve designed your NPS survey and emailed it to all your customers—and the results are in… but not those you were expecting. When it comes to gauging customer sentiment and loyalty, few metrics enjoy such widespread acclaim as the Net Promoter Score (NPS). By starting from the inside.

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Lumoa

MAY 7, 2018

Are you not only deliver a value and a good product, but also looking after your customers properly? Use all the metrics you want, but in the end it comes down to “How many customers would you be terrified to run into someday in public? You need to know that you will have to let some customers go every now and then.

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