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[Webinar] Measuring Customer Effort: How to stop relying on post-call surveys and start listening for it instead

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In 2008, the research team at CEB (now Gartner) surfaced a new measure, the Customer Effort Score (CES), that would change the way CX leaders evaluated the impact of customer service interactions on customer loyalty. Register for the webinar.

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Guest Blog: In the CX world, tracking these metrics is a way of life!

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seconds in 2008 with a mind boggling 19.19 The theory here is that customers who are highly satisfied are least likely to defect to other brands whereas those who are highly dissatisfied are the most vulnerable to do so. Customer Effort Score (CES). Answer choices ranging from Very Low Effort to Very High Effort.

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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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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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Beyond customer effort score – Understanding and avoiding “chronic suck”

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And many pushed back on the suggestion that they use a metric like our newly invented Customer Effort Score (CES) over traditional measures like CSAT or NPS. It seems everywhere you turn, practitioners and thought leaders alike have embraced the idea of reducing customer effort.

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7 Trends That Will Shape The Future Of Customer Focused Marketing

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Research has shown that a 5% rise in customer retention can boost a brand’s income by 75% and such retention is the outcome of quality customer experience. This is even further proved by another survey by Forrester which revealed that the revenue growth of customer experience leaders is 5.1 times that of laggards.