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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 5-16-2022

ShepHyken

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Are You Tracking the Customer Service Metrics That Really Count? My Comment: We kick off this week’s Top Five roundup with an excellent article about the best customer service metrics. Yes, metrics matter.

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How to Reduce Customer Effort: Ten Easy Tips

CSM Magazine

Reducing customer effort is key to keeping your customers happy. If they have to put in a lot of effort to get what they want, they will be less likely to come back. In this article, we will discuss ten easy tips that you can use to reduce the amount of effort your customers have to put in. Order history.

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How Implementing AI in CX Can Be the Good, Bad, and Ugly

Beyond Philosophy

We hosted the Global Customer Service Experience Director of Alvarez & Marsal Alex Mead ( alexmead@sky.com ) recently to talk about it, and I wanted to share what we discussed here with all of you, too. Mead says that he believes AI will reduce customer effort in experiences. This year has been the year of AI.

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Four ways to create an effortless customer service experience

Toister Performance Solutions

They did find one thing that creates more loyalty: reducing customer effort. Dixon co-authored a book called The Effortless Experience that details this research and shares practical ways companies can make it easier for customers to do business with them. Why is preventing service failures so important?

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Maintaining Customer Service Excellence in the midst of an Emergency

Interactions

Consumers are scrambling to contact airlines and hotels to cancel or change their bookings. . Amidst this chaos with emotions running high, customers still expect these brands to show empathy and offer fast, efficient, and effective solutions. Reduce employee effort. Employee effort directly correlates with customer effort.

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How To Improve Customer Service Within Your Organization

Global Response

Customer service matters—a lot. How can you convince your organization to invest further in customer service, and what can you do to improve it effectively? How can you convince your organization to invest further in customer service, and what can you do to improve it effectively?

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CSAT vs. NPS vs. CES: A Guide to Customer Service Metrics

NICE inContact

In a previous blog, I outlined 14 different metrics that contact centers should be tracking to improve customer experience. In this blog, I outline 3 critical customer service metrics that organizations are using to answer broader business questions including: Are my customers happy with my products and services?

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