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Guest Post: The Biggest Value Driver That is Not on Your Journey Map

ShepHyken

Gartner provides various statistics showing that reducing customer effort can greatly impact customer retention and even reduce costs. Consider this mindblowing fact from a Gartner research.

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Four ways to create an effortless customer service experience

Toister Performance Solutions

Advertising disclosure: This blog participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. The research started as a quest to discover the most effective ways to delight customers. What is customer effort?

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A beginner’s guide to understanding customer touchpoints

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Customer touchpoints are the myriad of moments when a person comes into contact with your company or brand. Customer touchpoints can also happen directly – that is, when there’s a physical interaction with your brand (such as in a brick and mortar store) – and indirectly – when third parties (such as social media influencers) are involved.

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Guest Post: The Importance of Surveys For Improving the Customer Experience

ShepHyken

Customer Effort Score (CES). The Customer Effort Score measures the ease of the customer experience. This survey analyzes the effort a user expends to interact with services and products. When customers remain satisfied, they’re likely to remain loyal.

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E-commerce is booming, but what if your revenue is not?

Hello Customer

You are probably advertising to lead people to your website, but if you’re not converting, you lose the acquisition cost as well. Losing precious time: 32% of customers will walk away from a brand they love after a bad experience. Listen to your customers, pay attention to their needs, and act effectively.

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When it comes to customer engagement, all touchpoints matter

Tethr

Whether they’re speaking to someone in your call center or interacting digitally, there is so much you can learn about the customer experience as a whole if you listen to all the ways a customer communicates with your business. Inside every channel, instances of customer effort, frustration, confusion and feedback are prevalent.

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Importance of Consistency Among Different Channels in the Contact Center

Taylor Reach Group

Customers expect consistent service regardless of the channel they employ to communicate with an organization. For the Contact Center, that means that we will be judged by our customers not only based on the service we deliver but also on the consistency of the service we deliver. Click here to tweet this image.