Helen Dewdney

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Customer Service Week is organised by the Institute of Customer Service (ICS) and takes place during 3-7 October 2022. It is a week-long celebration of customer service. Although I welcome any focus on customer service, I believe that every week should be customer service week!

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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. In social media, customer service has been something of an afterthought and is still very much in its infancy.

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Tricia Morris

AUGUST 4, 2015

With the Institute of Customer Service reporting that customer satisfaction in the U.K. brands and organizations to know as much as possible about consumers and their growing expectations for service across channels. Download the 2015 U.K. A newly-released 2015 U.K. Sixty-three percent (63%) of the 1,000 U.K.

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Comm100

AUGUST 24, 2016

We all want our customers to be happy with our products and services. As much as we want to assure the total satisfaction of each and every one of our customers, unfortunately, this is a practical impossibility. The problem might be with the quality of your product/service. You rarely—or never—have repeat customers.

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Helen Dewdney

MARCH 7, 2022

It has been a hard couple of years for companies in the travel industry and also for their customers. Many airlines have not treated customers well, such as British Airways taking advantage of the law not being clear on refunds. 86% of respondents said that they would pay more for better service than Ryanair gives.

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Uniphore

JUNE 9, 2021

With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing rapid digital transformation and the complexity of customer interactions on the rise, most companies recognize the need for new approaches. Break out of the traditional model with a “joined-up” service that utilizes resources and information from across the entire company. Download Now.

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Vonage

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

It’s natural to always be on the lookout for ways to improve customer service at your organisation – but, sometimes, we’re so busy looking elsewhere that we don’t recognise what’s right under our own noses. The fix: Provide customer service that’s proactive as well as reactive. Being reactive, not proactive.

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TeamSupport

AUGUST 24, 2018

This is especially true in a communication dominant field such as customer service where two conversations can be drastically different, yet still have the potential to hold the same value in a spreadsheet. With all of this said, here are the top 3 most misleading customer service statistics….

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Kustomer

JUNE 27, 2022

In a post-pandemic world, consumers have undergone an inadvertent shift in mindset and expectations surrounding customer experience (CX). Today’s consumer, as a result, finds great benefit in a hybrid customer experience that combines the spark of human communication and the convenience of sophisticated digital assistance.

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Service Untitled

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. According to The Australian , the company now plans to spend $100 million over the next four years to improve their customer service. Brookes also plans to equip 65 stores with 4,000 touch screen registers.

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Comm100

JANUARY 14, 2016

Consequently, as newer technologies enable more ease in performing business transactions, consumers will have higher expectations when it comes to customer service and sales support. In recent years, consumers have placed greater importance on the quality of customer service than on the price and quality of products alone.

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TeamSupport

APRIL 26, 2019

Customer service is a concept that can mean many things to different businesses. At the heart of it all however, serving the customer is what keeps a business running. The constantly evolving landscape means that business-to-business (B2B) customers have all the power. Offer personalized services.

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Kustomer

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The modern customer wants to buy a product, but they don’t want to be treated like a transaction. Unfortunately, most companies are still living in the early-digital Dark Ages, treating their customers like tickets in a queue rather than individuals with real desires and concerns.

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Helen Dewdney

JANUARY 25, 2022

The Institute of Customer Service has released its annual UK Customer Satisfaction Index today, 25 January 2022 and reveals that complaints are up! It is not necessarily that customer service is getting any better! The number of customers who made a complaint to a company increased to 13.1% from 11.7%

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TechSee

JANUARY 7, 2020

Accenture reports that 77% of consumers are no longer loyal to any particular brand, telcos must work harder than ever to retain their customer bases. Acquisition costs far outweigh those of keeping current customers, further motivating companies to implement innovative strategies to boost customer retention in the telecom industry.

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TeamSupport

AUGUST 24, 2018

This is especially true in a communication dominant field such as customer service where two conversations can be drastically different, yet still have the potential to hold the same value in a spreadsheet. With all of this said, here are the top 3 most misleading customer service statistics….

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GetFeedback

AUGUST 14, 2019

Let’s talk about customer satisfaction. . In customer experience (CX) terms, we often dismiss Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT) measurement as too simple. But I see a place for Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT), based on organizational goals, resources, and structure. Can CSAT improve customer experience? .

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Win the Customer

MARCH 20, 2017

The cost of poor customer service is going up, rising from $41 billion lost in 2013 to $62 billion in 2015 , according to research reported by NewVoiceMedia. Independent retailers are in a unique position to really set themselves apart from big corporations with the special touches they add to customer experience.

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Tricia Morris

OCTOBER 1, 2015

But are customer service preferences and expectations? The 2015 Global State of Multichannel Customer Service Report published by Parature, from Microsoft and Microsoft Dynamics CRM shows that geography does play a role in customers’ views on service. Global Similarity Highlights.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 8, 2017

Neither of them provides a Customer Experience worth mentioning—at least not in a positive light. We asked the Customer Experience professionals there to name a Telecom they admired for the experience they provided. Rather than this be a rant let’s look at the key issues with Telecom’s Customer Experience? It’s lose-lose.

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Tricia Morris

JULY 7, 2015

As customer service and the overall customer experience become key differentiators for brands and organizations across all industries, it has never been more important to know as much as you can about your customers and their expectations for service and engagement across channels. Download the 2015 U.S.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 3, 2016

Poor customer experience is costing UK brands at least £234 billion a year, as customers abandon online purchases in frustration and take their business elsewhere, according to new research from cloud-based contact centre solution provider Magnetic North.

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Natalie Petouhof

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Tweet The phrase “customer service is the new marketing” has gained popularity with brands realizing that poor customer service takes current, and even potential customers, out of the marketing funnel. Customer care extends far beyond the traditional call center. Think about it. Social media metrics.

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CSM Magazine

APRIL 4, 2019

Most likely you downloaded them once only to never open them again, or maybe you left negative feedback only for your complaints to go unanswered. The fact of the matter is great customer support goes a long way to improving your app uptime and quality. No, they’re more likely to contact customer support to ask about their problem.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2019

Effective complaints handling is essential for fostering customer loyalty new research by resourcing and complaints handling specialists at Huntswood has revealed. Polling 3,000 consumers across the UK, the study reveals that current complaints procedures are falling flat with customers.

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SurveySensum

OCTOBER 23, 2023

GetFeedback is a customer feedback platform that empowers businesses to capture real-time data from customers at different touch points of the customer journey. The tool provides several exciting features, like survey customization, a gamified user interface, feedback segmentation, custom reports, and many more.

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SurveySensum

OCTOBER 12, 2023

InMoment is a customer feedback platform that helps you understand the voice of your customers , get actionable insights from qualitative feedback, and auto-categorize unstructured feedback from surveys, online reviews, support tickets, and more. Read customer reviews online, right? Here’s a customer review on this limitation.

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ProProfs Chat

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Improving customer support has become more important than ever, given the never-ceasing expectations of customers. As leading researchers indicate that organizations lose about $62 million every year due to poor customer service , you can’t expect any good with an average customer support. Take a look. .

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Tricia Morris

MARCH 14, 2016

A quote from well-known customer service and customer experience advocate Bill Quiseng encourages organizations to “work as hard to keep a customer as you do to find a new one.” Think of the additional customers and lifetime value that could be delivered through a little extra attention to retention.

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inmoment

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Research shows that telecommunications companies consistently receive lower customer experience (CX) scores than any other industry. That’s partly because people tend to have much higher customer experience standards for telecoms than they might have for other businesses. Engage Customers on Their Own Terms .

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Service Untitled

MARCH 4, 2009

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. What interested me was how the importance of customer service varied in different industries. What have you noticed about service in countries besides the United States? Both factors are probably at play here.

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Service Untitled

AUGUST 24, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Examples of perks awarded for poor customer service can include coupons, discounts, free upgrades, travel miles, free hotel accommodations, movie tickets, and the list goes on.

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GetFeedback

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Learn about the top two customer surveys for predicting and increasing customer retention. Anytime a customer cuts ties, you experience the negative impact of customer churn. Here are 40 customer retention statistics that reinforce the growing need for customer experience management. American Express ).

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SurveySensum

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Delighted is a customer feedback platform that helps businesses gather, track, and analyze thousands of actionable customer, product, and employee feedback. This includes managing contact lists, tracking customer attributes, difficulty setting up web surveys, tracking customer attributes, lack of advanced reporting, etc.

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Opinionator

JANUARY 7, 2019

Restaurant Customer Defection. Having customers return to a restaurant is vital to long-term its long-term success. Yet the customer retention performance of most restaurants is terrible and current restaurant feedback methods are partly to blame: Study finds 70% of retail and restaurant customers never make a return visit.

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Magellan Solutions

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Many of these companies based abroad have opted to contract call centers with the belief that their workers are able to provide their clients with better customer-focus services. Poor customer service will affect the company’s reputation, sales, and ultimately, their bottomline. Why test a Call Center.

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Eptica

MARCH 23, 2016

However, a new study by Bruce Temkin of the Temkin Group shows that this focus on service doesn’t transfer across to subsequent customer service interactions. Buying something, whatever the industry, provides a much more positive emotional response than interacting with customer service.

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