Customer Bliss

MAY 3, 2017

Consumers today prefer to do things on their own – and, most importantly, according to their own timeframe. This especially holds true when it comes to customer service. Investments in self-service technologies have helped companies siphon off low-complexity issues (e.g., Guest post by Matt Dixon.

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Tricia Morris

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

With the Institute of Customer Service reporting that customer satisfaction in the U.K. is at its lowest level since 2010 , it has never been more important for U.K. brands and organizations to know as much as possible about consumers and their growing expectations for service across channels.

2015 79

2015 Customer Service 2010 Webinar 79

Solvvy

JANUARY 8, 2020

The ball has just dropped on a new decade—and it’s still hard to believe how much technology has transformed the customer experience in the past ten years, with the growth of self-checkout stations, real-time virtual assistant support, and robust CRMs to track and manage every phase of the customer experience, to name just a few. .

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Technology Customer Service 2010 Social Media 88

InMoment XI

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

For instance, product teams can extract data specific to their products, while service teams can focus on improving customer service. These AI bots can understand and answer customer questions. These tools can understand and answer customer questions quickly. Why is Natural Language Processing Important?

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Insights Social Media Net Promoter Score Events 195

Kustomer

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by Matt Dixon from Tethr to reinvent what it means to delight your customers. Delight typically means going above and beyond customer expectations, so what is there to reinvent? Stay tuned to find out more.

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Customer Service Customers 2010 Net Promoter Score 84

Bold360

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Sure, you know the importance of customer service. One look at customer service statistics and it’s clear that consumer expectations when it comes to service aren’t just rising—they’re skyrocketing. If you want to stay competitive, it’s critical to step up your customer service game.

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Customer Service 2010 Competitive Advantage Poor Customer Service 40

CSM Magazine

MAY 31, 2023

The goal of customer service is to make customers happy, but the logistics behind it can be costly for businesses, especially when they’re not sustainable. Whether shipping packages to customers or transporting products from one warehouse to another, logistics impacts your bottom line and the environment.

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Transportation Customer Service 2022 2010 52

CSM Magazine

JUNE 19, 2019

Customer expectations of interactions with brands and businesses have intensified and show no sign of slowing down. Increasingly time-poor consumers often expect an organisation to know what they are contacting them about, and how to resolve any issues on demand. Stewart Kitson is Head of Customer Service at SmartDebit.

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Loyalty Customer Service Social Media 2010 69

Magellan Solutions

JUNE 15, 2021

In searching for outsource customer service solutions , you must consider how long an agent stays in the company. Outsource customer service solutions offer a wide range of benefits to any SMEs. Is it about the least expensive service? Hence, they can provide a better service quality for your consumers.

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Tricia Morris

JANUARY 11, 2016

“Setting customer expectations at a level that is aligned with consistently deliverable levels of customer service requires that your whole staff, from product development to marketing, works in harmony with your brand image.” Isn’t it time we engage the empowered customer with equally empowered employees?

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Service Untitled

AUGUST 12, 2011

A recent survey conducted by American Express shows Americans demanding better customer service as compared to last year. Statistics showed 70 percent of consumers willing to spend 13 percent more for “WOW&# service as compared to 2010 when only 55 percent of consumers were only willing to spend 9 percent more.

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NetBase

JANUARY 28, 2020

NetBase Quid will give businesses an unprecedented solution to understanding consumer and market data. The combined company is the next generation consumer and market intelligence platform. This new company will provide the ultimate resource in understanding consumer context.”. Leadership View: The NetBase Quid Difference.

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Social Media Airlines 2010 Leadership 124

Retently

MARCH 23, 2023

Since not all NPS® data is public, and most brands aren’t eager to publish their low Net Promoter Score, we’ve taken several steps to find reliable customer satisfaction data that we can use to compare brands: Whenever possible, we’ve sourced data from various NPS benchmarks to gain a picture of the general NPS range within an industry.

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Net Promoter Score NPS Insurance Airlines 124

Forrester

JUNE 21, 2016

To do that we compared five pairs of publicly traded companies where one company in each of the pairs had a significantly higher score than the other in Forrester's Customer Experience Index during the period 2010 to 2015. Then we gathered financial data from company SEC filings like Forms 10-K and 10-Q.

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2016 Customer Experience 2010 2015 75

GetFeedback

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Customers benefit from sharing feedback too. According to AgilOne’s Consumer Survey , over 70% of US and UK consumers expect some form of personalization from the brands they buy from. Consumers want a personalized customer experience , and they’re willing to hand over data to get it. This is a unique problem.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Utilita, one of Britain’s leading suppliers of Smart Pay As You Go Energy, has recruited a digital ‘workforce’ to relieve their human counterparts of laborious, time-consuming tasks and make the business more efficient. The company serves approximately 800,000 customers, managing around 1.3million meters.

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C3Centricity

AUGUST 17, 2020

86% of buyers will pay more for a better customer experience. But only 1% of customers feel that vendors consistently meet their expectations. 89% of consumers have stopped doing business with a company after experiencing poor customer service. RightNow Customer Experience Impact Report. CEI Survey.

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Customer Centricity Social Media Poor Customer Service Airlines 65

Interactions

JUNE 24, 2021

Taking a step back, we know that there are some things that brands are collectively doing right in customer experience. Imagine if we time travelled back to 2010. I’m pretty sure that we would be astounded at the lack of channels, integration, and overall speed, personalization, and convenience of service that we had back then.

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Customer Experience Contact Center 2010 Poor Customer Service 71

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

This week we feature an article by Janine Hunt, Client Partnership Director at Kura , a company that provides customer service solutions by outsourcing contact center services and software solutions. She shares how customer service is the deciding factor to your customer’s loyalty to your business.

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Contact Center 2010 Loyalty Customer Retention 62

Interactions

DECEMBER 18, 2019

It’s not often that rapidly forward-moving industries like customer experience and Conversational AI look back on the past (to be honest, there’s really just no time), but If you did, you would find that customer experience was way different 10 years ago. . Which takes us to 2019, which was a big step forward from what we saw in 2010.

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2019 Customer Experience 2010 Contact Center 62

Kayako

JUNE 16, 2022

When customers are unhappy, customer service agents are busy. For many years companies believed that customer service was the vanguard for building customer loyalty. Their research showed that customer loyalty is correlated with brand attachment and overall experience with a product or service.

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Effort Score Measurement Net Promoter Score Metrics 62

ProProfs Chat

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Imagine your customer makes multiple calls to the customer support team before their query is resolved. It involves a great effort which is both time-consuming as well as frustrating. But on the other hand, less wait time indicates efficient customer service and low customer effort.

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CloudCherry

JANUARY 22, 2020

Direct feedback from customers can still come from surveys, focus groups, and interviews, all of which are important for product development. But voice of the customer data can also come in real-time. Your VoC program isn’t just a project for the marketing or customer service department — it affects the entire company.

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White Paper Social Media Feedback 2019 243

LiveChat

APRIL 19, 2016

Social media has become an essential ingredient of great customer service, but there are some aspects that are specific to certain businesses, and need to be adapted as such. However, once you’re done, you’ll end up with a customer service that’s ready anytime for any type of reaction from the people using your service or product.

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Social Media Customer Service 2010 Document 50

CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

It will also help you make sure that your customers can solve any issues within minutes and that your employees have access to the overall expertise held within your organization. Customer Relationship Management. In 2010, It was worth $14 billion and by 2025, it is expected to reach $80 billion, which is about a 600% increase!

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Social Media 2025 Financial 2010 97

Hello Customer

JANUARY 6, 2022

With the publishing of an HBR article titled Stop Trying to Delight Your Customers in 2010, the Customer Effort Score gained traction. It states that the best approach to improve customer loyalty is to make the interactions with your company easier and more effortless. Following an interaction with customer service.

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Effort Score Net Promoter Score Touchpoint Metrics 98

NetBase

JUNE 4, 2020

And Pinterest is perfectly positioned to sell recipe ingredients to its significant and highly engaged consumers! If you aren’t thinking about how to rebuild your business strategy to adapt to this new consumer capability, you should be! Social media truly becoming a one stop shop for consumers. Do consumers ever need to leave?

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Social Media 2010 Retail Consumers 70

Service Untitled

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

The trade industry organization Airlines for America has reported customer service for airlines improving in three different areas. drop from 2010. The Department of Transportation received 11,545 complaints – up 5 percent from 10,988 in 2010. CNN states mishandled baggage was at an all time low for 2011 – 3.39

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Airlines Customer Service Transportation 2010 48

Magellan Solutions

MAY 3, 2022

As the lifeblood of most industries, there is no wonder why even the largest multinational companies aim to attract and please as many consumers as they can. In Microsoft’s State of Global Customer Service Report , 95% of respondents named customer service as an important factor in choosing and being loyal to a brand.

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Call Center Telecommunications Banking Financial 81

Service Untitled

DECEMBER 16, 2011

In a global survey, Accenture wrote about deteriorating customer service and how most of us have at least switched one of our own service providers because we were displeased that our expectations had not been met. The consumer no longer will deal with that organization, and the company has lost a customer.

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InteractionMetrics

JUNE 19, 2023

In contrast, companies with an appointed CX director aim to improve customer relationships at all touchpoints — packaging, store layout, customer service, onboarding, repairs, billing, product returns, and more — not just the products and websites. Test : End where you started: with the consumers.

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Service Untitled

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

In 2010, Forrester Research stated that retail online sales had grown 11 percent and expected increases of 10 percent a year through 2014. By 2014, consumer purchases using e-retail is expected to exceed $249 billion. Customers like to touch, feel, and taste; it’s all part of the retail experience.

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Customer Service Strategies Customer Service 2014 2010 48

CSM Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2021

The current situation has highlighted the need for a robust and deliverable customer service strategy. One company that is leading the way with a strong customer-centric approach is Blindster , the nation’s leading custom-made window treatment retailer.

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Kayako

OCTOBER 29, 2015

In this post, I’ll walk you through the recent history of customer service, showing you why some companies have chosen to outsource their support teams, (not to be confused with offshoring which is when the work is done overseas but still remains part of the business), and others prefer to keep them in house.

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inQuba

APRIL 24, 2022

In 2010, the HBR published another compelling piece, “Stop Delighting Your Customers” 2. It suggested that businesses should stop trying to delight their customers and simply reduce customer frustration. As suggested in Shep Hyken’s blog 3 , 10 years ago good customer service was appreciated, and today it’s expected.

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Net Promoter Score NPS 2003 Measurement 52

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Bain and company estimates that the amount spent to attract new customers as high as seven times more than keeping an existing customer. And the key to keep your customers is improving your customer experience because 68% of the customers that leave you do so because they are upset with the Customer Service they received.

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Net Promoter Score ROI Customer Experience 2014 164

Customer Bliss

APRIL 26, 2016

Finally, Margie and I discussed the build-out and results coming from their new and quite extensive customer room. This will be quite interesting for those of you wanting to pursue your own customer room. Consumer Markets at Liberty Mutual. Consumer markets business has 17,000 employees and generates $16.8B

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Chief Customer Officer Engagement Net Promoter Score Insurance 141