Heart of the Customer

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Effort is the bane of your customer experience. ” But is customer effort the right measurement to use? The CEB created the Customer Effort Score (CES) as a transactional measurement. Its original phrasing was “How much effort did you personally have to put forth to handle your request? No related posts.

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InMoment XI

JUNE 25, 2013

Back in November, 2008 the Corporate Executive Board proclaimed the Customer Effort Score™ or CES to be “the best measure of customer loyalty.” CES is derived from a question asked of customers who have recently contacted a company’s call center or experienced some other specific transaction with that company. “How

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TechSee

JULY 9, 2019

In fact, 96% of customers who experience a high-effort interaction become more disloyal compared to just 9% who have a low-effort experience. To help companies improve their Customer Effort Score (CES), we’ve compiled a list of 10 call center mistakes that often result in high customer effort.

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InMoment XI

JUNE 25, 2013

Back in November, 2008 the Corporate Executive Board proclaimed the Customer Effort Score™ or CES to be “the best measure of customer loyalty.” CES is derived from a question asked of customers who have recently contacted a company’s call center or experienced some other specific transaction with that company. “How

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InMoment XI

JUNE 25, 2013

Back in November, 2008 the Corporate Executive Board proclaimed the Customer Effort Score™ or CES to be “the best measure of customer loyalty.” CES is derived from a question asked of customers who have recently contacted a company’s call center or experienced some other specific transaction with that company. “How

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TechSee

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Call volumes in many contact centers are down along with the cost to serve. However, that means successful call center agents must now deal with a far greater proportion of complex issues. Seven types of successful contact center agents. Visual Assistance creates controller culture.

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PeopleMetrics

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Using the Customer Effort Score. The customer effort score (often abbreviated to CES) is a measure of how much effort a customer expends to accomplish his or her goals. It’s typically gauged by responses to one question: "How much effort did you personally have to put forth to handle your request?".

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InMoment XI

DECEMBER 17, 2024

These can include: Net Promoter Score (NPS) Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) Customer Effort Score (CES) These metrics can reflect the changes in how the customers perceive their experience. For example, the average time in queue and resolution time are often used as call center metrics.

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PeopleMetrics

JANUARY 24, 2025

Example: A retail chain uses AI to analyze millions of interactions across its website, stores, and call center. The system maps key touchpoints, identifying friction in digital checkout (CX) and long hold times in the contact center (CS). With this insight, the company can address both issues systematically.

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InMoment XI

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Not that long ago, if we wanted to know what a customer thought, how they felt about interacting with your brand (website, store, call center, etc.), customer effort). Those are typically limited to a specific area, e.g. a call center team, and smaller in nature. or how loyal they are to you, we had to ask them.

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Stella Connect

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

It leads to top performance within the customer service team by driving several KPIs including customer satisfaction (CSAT) , first call resolution (FCR) , and customer effort score (CES). 5 Employee Recognition Program Examples to Try in Your Call Center. Share ‘Weekly Wins’ Emails with Everyone.

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Pointillist

JANUARY 25, 2019

By Swati Sahai Call centers are an operationally-complex element of your business, but they play a big role in your customers’ experience with your company. It’s no easy task, but the right mix of call center metrics and KPIs can help you stay the course.

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SurveySensum

AUGUST 14, 2023

While talking about it may seem easy, improving the customer effort score can be a real struggle. So, after talking to many CX experts around the globe, we created this list of 9 customer effort score best practices that businesses can follow to improve their CES. 9 Best Practices To Improve Your Customer Effort Score 1.

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CX Accelerator

JULY 22, 2019

Through different survey questions, organizations can calculate some of the more common VOC metrics, including: Customer Effort Score (CES) – Measures the level of effort your customers devote to doing business with you (the less effort, the better).

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Calabrio

MARCH 22, 2025

At the same time, contact center operations have also taken on a new level complexity. Aspects of Oversight and Optimization Contact center management, or call center management, is the strategic orchestration of all elements within a customer interaction hub to ensure optimal efficiency, customer satisfaction, and business outcomes.

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InMoment XI

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Not that long ago, if we wanted to know what a customer thought, how they felt about interacting with your brand (website, store, call center, etc.), customer effort). Those are typically limited to a specific area, e.g. a call center team, and smaller in nature. or how loyal they are to you, we had to ask them.

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CX Accelerator

JULY 22, 2019

Through different survey questions, organizations can calculate some of the more common VOC metrics, including: Customer Effort Score (CES) – Measures the level of effort your customers devote to doing business with you (the less effort, the better).

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Talkdesk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

What do customers know they want consistently from your call center team? That’s what Customer Effort Score, or CES, is all about and routinely positive CES scores can create loyalty that is just as lasting. This is what Customer Effort Score (CES) aims to do. Compare CES to past scores.

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InMoment XI

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Customer Effort Score (CES) Customer Effort Score (CES) surveys ask the customer, “How much effort did you have to expend to handle your request?” This is scored on a numeric scale. After you take these actions, you measure the response to your improvements and determine the success of your efforts.

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Calabrio

MARCH 27, 2025

How to Calculate AHT in the Call Center The calculation of AHT involves adding up the totals of these componentstaking talk time, hold time, and the duration of post-call activities from all interaction across the contact centerthen dividing the sum by the number of customer calls.

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Magellan Solutions

MAY 27, 2021

The best call center providers focus on quality customer services over vanity numbers. Enough with the call center power rankings. Quality over quantity, that’s the principle call centers should start to uphold. In short, call center services , like customer service, can make or break your business.

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Advantage Communications

JULY 10, 2019

When it comes to outsourcing your customer service to a call center, there are a range of metrics that call centers use to ensure they are delivering a superior customer experience (CX) for your customers.

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GetFeedback

MAY 9, 2019

There is an array of metrics to choose from, but three that you will see come up time and time again are Net Promoter Score (NPS) , Customer Effort Score (CES) , and Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT). This includes feedback from all client-facing channels, such as call centers, social media, events, etc.

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Playvox

JUNE 22, 2023

Call center leaders are under increased pressure to improve operational and agent efficiencies and look for cost-cutting opportunities while delivering outstanding customer experience (CX) — a tricky balancing act for sure. What Are Call Center Efficiency Metrics? Is your call center prepared?

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Second to None

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

One pillar of the brand experience that is especially influenced by employee engagement is customer support, especially within your organizational call-center. Typically, customers will call these helplines to resolve a specific issue and it is vital that your team is striving to reduce as much effort when completing these requests.

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Thematic

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Call center sentiment analysis can also help you develop tailored training programs that better meet your customers’ preferences. Supervisors and Managers Supervisors and call center managers can use sentiment insights to evaluate agent performance and assess how their team can improve customer interactions.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 2, 2020

Most VoC programs include the Net Promoter Score (NPS) metric to track loyalty behavior. Other metrics like Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT), Customer Effort Score (CES), and Customer Churn Rate or Customer Retention Rates might also be included. Leverage call center recordings. Not even close. .

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GetFeedback

JULY 19, 2019

Use real quotes, call center recordings, and other powerful emotional data to share what’s really going on with your customers. Customer Effort Score (CES) . How much effort did it take for your customer to work with you? This wonderful combination is what helps us really hear the Voice in Voice of the Customer.

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

A high NPS score after one successful interaction doesn’t guarantee a customer won’t switch brands next month. Thus, NPS, CSAT, and other scores like Customer Effort Score (CES) are still only a fraction of the big picture when it comes to improving the end-to-end customer experience.

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Talkdesk

MAY 25, 2016

A few weeks ago, we wrote about the importance of leveraging data in the call center and the impact of Net Promoter Score® (NPS). We learned about how NPS is measured, how it applies to the call center and how to use NPS to improve the caller experience. How does CSAT apply to the call center?

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Pointillist

MARCH 1, 2019

For a business, that means high costs and inefficient call center operations. Call centers, therefore, want to improve first call resolution rate, reduce call volume, and excel at customer service while reining in high costs. But how exactly will customer journey analytics work in a call center operation?

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InMoment XI

AUGUST 19, 2024

Net Promoter Score (NPS): A measure of customer loyalty based on their likelihood to recommend your brand. Customer Effort Score (CES): A measure of the ease with which customers can interact with your business. Customer Satisfaction (CSAT): A measure of how satisfied customers are with your products or services.

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 8, 2019

Call Center Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) is, together with other customer related measurements like Net Promoter Score (NPS) and Customer Effort Score (CES), among the most widely recognized and frequently used KPIs in the call center. Let’s investigate. . Let’s leave that for another post….

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 27, 2018

Find all of the surveys being sent from marketing, call centers, product development, partners, and so on. I call these the kitchen-sink surveys because they have so many questions that have been bolted on over the years. Are some measuring customer satisfaction, some measuring customer effort scores, and some measuring NPS?

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Kustomer

OCTOBER 7, 2022

SMS is significantly less costly than routing all support inquiries to a call center. A Forrester study shows that, on average, a customer service phone call costs $16, while an entire SMS thread between agent and customer costs between $1 and $6. The more effort required, the more frustrating the experience.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 6, 2020

You need a partner who is committed to gathering and interpreting a wide range of data to build the big picture.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 22, 2019

According to CEB, “Companies practicing next issue avoidance dramatically reduce the likelihood of another 3- to 5-minute phone call (with an upset customer, no less) by taking an extra 15 to 30 seconds to simply forewarn the customer.”. Tactics for effective NIA. Enhance agent training.

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