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Would Consumers (Really) Spend More For Better Service?

Beyond Philosophy

For several years, up through its purchase by Oracle in 2012, RightNow Technologies commissioned a study (conducted by Harris Interactive), where they stated that great customer service (which they labeled as experience) influences downstream purchasing decisions – at least in online retail. and nine other countries.

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Customer-Centric Cultures are Made of This

Beyond Morale

You can travel the world and the seven seas, everybody’s looking for customer-centric cultures. Some customers want to use you. Thanks to Annie Lennox, of the Eurythmics, for getting me to think about customer-centric cultures in a way that we all can relate to. Without customers they would not exist.

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Connecting Satisfaction With Behavior: Does The Service-Profit Chain (or The Employee Engagement-Profit Chain) Still Work?

Beyond Philosophy

Namely, the connection between satisfaction and behavior, whether by customers or employees, has been challenged and largely refuted in study upon study. Customer Loyalty on the other hand has two definitions. Coincidentally, this definition was also done in a June, 2012 article. Customer Centric Employee Engagement.

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The Problem with Self Service

Beyond Philosophy

While call center usage is about the same, use of FAQ pages increased from 67% in 2012 to 76% in 2014, according to Forrester. Source: North American Consumer Technographics Customer Life-Cycle Survey 1, 2014, Forrester.com.). Clearly, more Customers want self-service options. (Source: Brian Manusama, Gartner.com ).

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Top Five Predictions for Customer Listening in 2020

CSM Magazine

Likewise, for companies to be truly customer-centric, customer feedback and insights must be embedded company-wide: from HQ to frontline teams. We’ve seen many businesses realise that, no matter how golden their customer insights are, if they’re stuck in a spreadsheet in the data department, they’re of no business value.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 11-28-2022

ShepHyken

(Harvard Business Review) Customer expectation in the United States has held steady for the last decade, while customer satisfaction has deteriorated. To reverse this trend, many companies are now strategically leveraging all parts of their organizations to offer customer-centric approaches to increase customer satisfaction.

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Customer Experience – Fact or Fiction?

ijgolding

‘The Know It All’ – this type of company does not think it needs to ‘do’ Customer Experience because ‘we already do it’; or ‘we do not need to do it’. The Confused’ – increasingly, I am coming across organisations that are just confused by Customer Experience. Customer Experience Strategy. Metrics, Measurement and ROI.