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Reducing customer effort through advocacy language

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Reducing customer effort has become a major focus for customer experience professionals in recent years after “ The Effortless Experience ” (co-authored by our own Chief Product & Research Officer, Matt Dixon ) was published in 2013.

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Reducing customer effort: The essential step most companies miss

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Reducing customer effort has become a major focus for customer experience professionals in recent years after “ The Effortless Experience ” (co-authored by our own Chief Product & Research Officer, Matt Dixon ) was published in 2013.

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Stop asking your customers about effort and start listening for it instead

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In 2008 when we first reported on our findings, we recommended companies use a new metric—the Customer Effort Score—to gauge the level of effort in their customer experience. The original CES was a survey question that asked customers how much effort they had to put forth to get their issue resolved.

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Ready To Eliminate Recontacts? Stop Asking This Question.

Tethr

The second, more important reason that it’s such a bad question to ask is that it doesn’t accurately capture what it’s intended to capture—namely, whether the service rep resolved the customer’s issue. Specifically, customers told us that companies only managed to resolve their issues 40% of the time. Targeted coaching intervention.

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17 Must-Read Books for Support Managers

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The Service Culture Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Your Employees Obsessed with Customer Service By Jeff Toister Published: 2017 Length: 190 pages If your company or team culture sucks, your customers will be negatively impacted. No amount of coaching, training, or quarterly feedback surveys will prevent it.

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How to Improve Call Center Customer Service

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Call center customer service has a strong bearing on customer satisfaction and your business as a whole. So, improving call center customer service becomes necessary in order to make your business stand out. You want to create emotional bonds that make the customer experience in call centers as positive as possible.

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The worst question a service rep can ask a customer

Tethr

The second, more important reason that it’s such a bad question to ask is that it doesn’t accurately capture what it’s intended to capture—namely, whether the service rep resolved the customer’s issue. Specifically, customers told us that companies only managed to resolve their issues 40% of the time.