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2019 State of CX Report from The Northridge Group

Peter Lavers

I found it fascinating, packed with insightful data and factoids that anybody interested in customer experience and customer service will find extremely useful, such as: 72% of consumers would likely switch brands after one bad customer service experience. 86% of consumers will tell others about a bad service experience.

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3 Best Practices for Travel and Hospitality brands to thrive in the new normal

Interactions

Reduce Employee Effort. Agent experience is directly correlated with customer experience. Therefore, reducing employee effort reduces customer effort, which equals greater customer satisfaction. This results in faster, more direct, and productive conversations between agents and customers. .

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Customer Service is a Gold Mine for Employee Experience Ideas

Russel Lolacher

The customer calls it “shopping elsewhere.”. You call it processing time. The customer sees it as wait time. Sharing the same vocabulary with your #customer puts you on the path to a more customer-centric culture. Make the employee feel special and appreciated. Or how about: You call it churn.

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Create a Contact Center Service That Sparkles

CX Global Media

Service innovation has for years been a central part of my consulting practice, especially those industries with excessive customer contact: hotels, banks, hospitals, retail stores and call centers. On the inside, call center leaders are focusing on the means—IVR, CRM, CTI, AHT, UCD, ACD and ASA. Easy, not laborious.

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Live Chat: Acing the Effortless Support Experience

GetFeedback

Live chat skips the web form and lets customers talk to a human in real time. Wait times are shorter. Support agents can work with more than one customer simultaneously. Plus, the wait is just less painful. Let customers jump right into the chat queue. Reference the customer’s case history.

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A Beginner’s Guide On An Effective Inbound Call Strategy

OctopusTech

Additionally, organizations should regularly seek customer opinions about call center experiences by administering surveys that measure: Net Promoter Score (NPS) Customer satisfaction (CSAT) Customer effort score (CES) 2.

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Top Call Center Efficiency Metrics And How To Improve Them

Playvox

Organizations conduct surveys or interviews based on an agreed-upon scoring system and classify responses such as: Very satisfied Satisfied Not satisfied Very unsatisfied Customer Effort Score (CES) A business metric that measures how easy or difficult it was for the customer to get their issues resolved in your contact center.