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Guest Blog: Are You Setting the Right Customer Experience Goals?

ShepHyken

We see numerous instances of contact center operators focusing more on improving the tactical side of operations like reducing average handle time or getting more surveys filled out while ignoring the more strategic goal of improving efficiency and eliminating the redundant. Would you ever use that airline again?

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What’s the Deal with Air Canada?

Fonolo

It was just last year that Air Canada was flying high after being named Best Airline in North America by Skytrax, an independent U.K. research firm that surveys 20 million global travelers yearly. On paper, our beloved national airline, this flag carrier, is a nerdy octogenarian with an affinity for collecting accolades.

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Would Consumers (Really) Spend More For Better Service?

Beyond Philosophy

Sometimes it is differentiating, and offers consumers definite benefits – such as practiced by companies like Zappos, Wegmans, Ritz Carlton, Rackspace, Southwest Airlines, Trader Joe’s, Amazon, Baptist Health Care, and Zane’s Cycles – and sometimes it is just one of multiple factors which contribute to customer loyalty or disloyalty behavior.

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3 Keys to Q4 Contact Center Success in 2021

Outsource Consultants

This includes excessive hold times, overwhelmed agents, poor customer satisfaction, and ultimately brand harm. Delta Airlines is hiring 5,000 professionals to help support their customers, but still expects lengthy hold times (some as long as 9 hours) to persist into the fall. It’s no wonder customers have such low expectations.

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The Evolving Landscape: New Trends in Customer Service Strategies

CSM Magazine

These options, such as FAQs, chatbots, and knowledge bases, not only save time for the customers but also reduce the workload of customer service agents. For example, many airlines now offer self-service check-in kiosks at airports, reducing long queues and wait times for customers.

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How To Create a Customer Focus Strategy For Your Organization

Global Response

For example, customer focus can include things like: doing customer research and surveys. Southwest Airlines. If you’ve spent any time traveling—or talking to people who do—you’ll notice that Southwest Airlines has a sizable following, a rarity for airlines. Average hold time or handle time.

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7 Ways Chatbots Improve Customer Service

Quiq

We’re diving into seven times business messaging bots made a customer conversation faster and better. Let’s say, for example, you own an airline with a great reward program. The reward bot reroutes platinum members to a special VIP queue where wait times are shorter and they receive higher support.