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Harnessing the Power of Data to Improve First Contact Resolution

The Northridge Group

The study found that churn in the telecom industry is most often due to high customer effort and revealed that, of those who canceled contracts with their providers, 51% cited having to call more than once about the same issue as a reason. Often resolving an issue during the first call necessitates a longer than acceptable handle time.

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Quality, Productivity, and Striking the Right Balance

Customer Service Life

This article was originally published on the ICMI Blog on March 19, 2019. In a traditional call center, we might use average handle time to understand how many calls agents are handling per hour, but this is a tricky metric when we look at newer channels like email, chat, text, social, etc. Measuring Productivity.

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Are You Using 1999 Metrics to Measure 2019 Customer Care?

BlueOcean

It’s 2019, which means contact center metrics from 1999 are almost old enough for their first legal beer (and already knocking them back in Canada.) Those metrics were born in an era when customer service was a race, where whoever got to the finish line first (i.e. Read these related articles next: The True Cost of Losing a Customer.

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Technical Reps or Agent Techs? The inter-changing roles of technical support and customer service

TechSee

They must be able to empathize and build a rapport, problem solve, communicate effectively, and be trained in appropriate technical knowledge and expertise to fulfill their customer support roles and responsibilities. Focus on reducing customer effort.

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From Making Sandwiches to Making the CX Journey Better: An Interview with Customer Experience Expert, Nate Brown

Vistio

After authoring The CX Primer, he was dubbed the “CX Influencer of the Year” by CloudCherry in 2019, and a top global CX thought leader by ICMI, Exceeders, Netomi, Martech and many more. What did that do for our customers? I mean, it’s a brilliant question and that customer effort score represents a reality that is tangible.

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From Making Sandwiches to Making the CX Journey Better: An Interview with Customer Experience Expert, Nate Brown

Vistio

After authoring The CX Primer, he was dubbed the “CX Influencer of the Year” by CloudCherry in 2019, and a top global CX thought leader by ICMI, Exceeders, Netomi, Martech and many more. What did that do for our customers? I mean, it’s a brilliant question and that customer effort score represents a reality that is tangible.

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Winning in the Experience Economy – Working up the CX Maturity Curve

NICE inContact

The most mature ones are open cloud platforms that provide unlimited options to build personalized and customized experiences for every single customer. Register for our webinar CX Transformation in 2019 to learn more on CX transformation. CX metrics are not your operational KPIs. Set a goal, measure, iterate and improve.