InMoment XI

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In the era of customer-centricity, contact center analytics stands as a beacon, guiding businesses and contact centers toward informed, data-driven decisions. Demystifying Contact Center Analytics: More than Just Numbers What are Contact Center Analytics?

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Contact Center Multi-Channel Net Promoter Score Metrics 195

Calabrio

MARCH 25, 2025

Analytics Contact center trends in 2025: Six key takeaways from the State of the Contact Center report Share The contact center industry is at a crossroads. Customer expectations continue to rise, workforce challenges have intensified, and contact centers are innovative AI solutions to help them keep up.

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Contact Center 2025 E-support Omnichannel 52

InMoment XI

MARCH 14, 2025

In any call center or contact center, performance is the engine that powers the entire operation. High-performing call centers do a great job at keeping customers satisfied, and theyre highly efficient, reducing operational costs. Analyzing call center performance is the path to improvementbut youve got to do it right.

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Call Center Metrics Average Handle Time Contact Center 195

Calabrio

MARCH 22, 2025

Best Practices Contact Center Management: Best Practices & Strategies for Peak Performance Share The modern contact center is no longer seen as a mere service function at the periphery of the business. At the same time, contact center operations have also taken on a new level complexity.

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Contact Center Management Call Center Measurement 52

PeopleMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2025

To truly improve the customer experience, you need to combine NPS with metrics like Customer Satisfaction (CSAT), Customer Effort Score (CES), or overall experience ratings to evaluate specific interactions. But knowing the score is just the starting point. Example: A SaaS company tracks CES scores during onboarding.

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NPS E Commerce Effort Score Metrics 118

InMoment XI

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Understand the Importance of the Agent/Customer Interaction One of the most important parts of the customer journey is the experience that the customer has with a contact center or customer support team. 78% of customers prefer to contact customer support through online chat or voice calls.

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Customer Experience Management Customer Experience Management ROI 195

BlueOcean

APRIL 1, 2025

The Changing CX Landscape: What Customers Really Want Customer effort score has become just as important as customer satisfaction score. Make sure that your contact center partner has the appropriate security certifications and compliances in place, like SOC 2. And more importantly, how can we bridge it?

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Customers Effort Score Airlines Customer Journey 156

TechSee

APRIL 30, 2019

How can a company achieve a good Customer Effort Score? The main reason why Company B just gained a loyal customer is because they earned a good customer effort score. Customer Effort Score (CES) is a customer experience metric that measures how much effort a consumer must exert during an interaction with a company.

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Calabrio

MARCH 27, 2025

Analytics What Is Average Handle Time (AHT) in the Contact Center? 5 Best Practices to Improve AHT Share Every conversation in a contact centerfrom start to finishholds helpful insights about the customer experience and service performance. What Is Average Handle Time (AHT)?

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Average Handle Time Contact Center Net Promoter Score Call Center 52

Think Customers

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

For too many years, contact center measurements have been focused on efficiency instead of customer experience. Metrics such as average handle time (AHT), number of contacts handled, average wait time, and average speed of answer have all been heavily used and tracked.

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Contact Center Customer Centricity Metrics Net Promoter Score 88

InMoment XI

DECEMBER 13, 2024

It enables call center management to monitor and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) like call volume, agent effort score, and peak-hour traffic. The dashboard visualizes these metrics on a unified platform to provide insight into agent and call center performance.

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Call Center Contact Center Social Media Metrics 195

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

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.) That said, the contact center accumulates millions of data points every single day. Fighting the Cost Center Mindset. Contact us here. But where do we start?

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Metrics 2019 Customer Care Measurement 219

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 16, 2020

Several frustrating minutes or hours later, you reached out directly to the brand via a call to the contact center or a chat on the site. Can Customer Effort Score (CES) help? Some brands began to care about customer effort thanks to tracking Customer Effort Score, or CES. You reviewed the manual.

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Effort Score Contact Center Touchpoint Customer Journey 214

Upstream Works

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As 2021 unfolds, the stakes have never been higher for contact center leaders to invest in the right technologies. Many contact centers still struggle with the limitations of legacy technology and premises-based systems, and the disruption from COVID-19 has intensified the urgency to modernize.

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Contact Center 2021 Technology Omnichannel 78

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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Customer Service Touchpoint E Commerce E-support 118

Playvox

JANUARY 24, 2022

While it’s hard to argue against the importance of delivering great CX, it’s also all too easy to assume that the experiences your contact center delivers are up to par simply because you are handling interactions efficiently. Unpacking the types of customer interactions contact centers handle provides key insights.

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Contact Center Measurement Customer Experience Net Promoter Score 88

TechSee

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Contact centers are perfectly placed to predict imminent customer queries. With 40% of all calls considered “next issues” following initial contacts, NIA is now a critical strategy for reducing customer effort, reducing pressure on contact centers and increasing loyalty. NIA: The balancing metric.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Metrics Call Center 84

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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Call Center Contact Center Effort Score Average Handle Time 143

InMoment XI

JULY 18, 2024

Contact Center Interactions The customer service department, often run out of an omnichannel contact center , is often the first point of contact for customers who have feedback or complaints. Most often, companies send e-mail surveys for customers to provide feedback about their experience.

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Feedback Social Media Net Promoter Score Customer Journey Mapping 221

Playvox

APRIL 5, 2022

But without getting contact center performance right, all other CX elements – such as marketing, user experience, etc. How do you build a high performance contact center? These enable you to make progress on your most pressing challenges and transform into a high performance contact center. Perhaps not.

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Contact Center Net Promoter Score Metrics Average Handle Time 77

eglobalis

JULY 2, 2024

Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) : Evaluates satisfaction with specific interactions or transactions. Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) : Estimates revenue potential from a customer over their lifetime.

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NPS Feedback Net Promoter Score B2C 456

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

A Look at Customer Effort Score and How It Can Help Build Better CX by Dom Nicastro. CMSWire) Customer Effort Score (CES) is a metric used to determine the amount of effort it takes customers to accomplish a specific task within a brand experience. State of the In-Store Experience [2021] by Bobby Marhamat.

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2021 Article Customer Service Net Promoter Score 27

Calabrio

MARCH 25, 2025

This is where modern contact centers are turning to cutting-edge solutions, including AI, to deliver real-time performance tracking and more actionable coaching. Agent performance is at the core of overall contact center productivity as well as customer experience quality.

Call Center 52

Call Center Measurement Contact Center Metrics 52

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 6, 2021

For example, if a goal is to reduce wait times for customers, then including a feedback loop with contact center leaders might be an important step in staying ahead of pain points for customers. As you define roles, look beyond the committee and define how most of the organization will be involved. .

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Document Net Promoter Score Government Leadership 358

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Great companies are regularly assessing the ongoing value of their partnerships – but how do you measure the true value your contact center outsourcer is delivering? Whether it’s your own culture that shifts over time or that of your outsourcer, keeping a pulse on cultural alignment in your outsourced contact center is essential.

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Customer Care Contact Center Net Promoter Score Metrics 156

TechSee

DECEMBER 22, 2019

The contact center agent’s job is getting harder. 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.

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Call Center Contact Center Culture Average Handle Time 124

Playvox

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It’s hard to ignore the fact that contact centers are plagued with high agent burnout and turnover rates. According to industry studies , average annual turnover ranges between 30-45 percent – with some centers experiencing turnover into the triple digits. Some contact centers experience almost no turnover at all.

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Contact Center Culture Effort Score Call Center 68

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MAY 12, 2020

Confusing instructions lead to contact center chats to clarify. Earlier we talked about saving employees time; now let’s run a quick equation to see what difference can be made financially, using inbound contact center calls as our base. Number of contact center calls * Cost of each call = Cost of contact center.

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Contact Center Metrics Net Promoter Score Financial 162

CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 25, 2018

There is no doubt that the contact center industry is poised for massive changes. As Justin Robbins says, even the basic tool sets in most contact centers are broken. It is not too late for contact centers to fix the core and pave the way for the future. Twitter - @CustomerIsFirst LinkedIn - Nate Brown

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Net Promoter Score NPS Contact Center Metrics 140

InMoment XI

DECEMBER 7, 2023

After all, customers use a variety of channels to interact with your brand, such as your store, website, mobile app, contact center, social media, online review websites, and so much more. Customer Effort Score (CES) Customer Effort Score (CES) surveys ask the customer, “How much effort did you have to expend to handle your request?”

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Metrics Net Promoter Score Measurement Customer Experience 195

Call Experts

MAY 2, 2019

Contact center protocols develop, manage, evaluate, and optimize your customer journey. Organizations are redefining their contact objectives. Contact centers focus on three main objectives to enhance the efficiencies in your business: Empower agents to develop meaningful connections. More Blogs Menu.

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Contact Center Call Center 2018 Effort Score 56

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 10, 2018

In the second episode, Building Continuous CX Improvements in Your Contact Center, Nate Brown, co-founder of CX Accelerator, shared his expertise regarding how to build an all-star contact center. CES – The Customer Effort Score was introduced by the CEB (now Gartner) in 2013.

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Contact Center Net Promoter Score NPS 2013 48

TechSee

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Companies therefore need to plot every conceivable customer flow, including call defection from the contact center to self-service, initiation of self-service sessions from all channels, and the potential need for a warm transfer between self-service and live agent service. Step 3: Choose the right engagement channels.

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Net Promoter Score Effort Score Contact Center Customer Journey 95

Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

Meanwhile, in customer service, a contact center may strive to improve the CX it delivers by quickly and efficiently resolving customer concerns, while driving overall customer satisfaction. Let’s consider an e-commerce platform that aims to develop its customer experience through a detailed VoC program.

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2025 Contact Center Omnichannel Net Promoter Score 40

Think Customers

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The contact center industry is driven by customer experiences that are easy, difficult, joyful, stressful and everything in between. Learn more about contact center metrics today. The post CSAT vs. CES vs. NPS: How to turbocharge key metrics for contact center success appeared first on 1to1 Media.

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Contact Center NPS Metrics Net Promoter Score 52

InMoment XI

OCTOBER 9, 2024

By gathering feedback on how well your customer service team and contact centers are handling customer interactions and resolving issues, you can determine key areas for improvement. Measure your CX performance. Use icons and emojis to create short and sweet surveys.

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Feedback Social Media B2C 2024 195

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. Your contact center agents? Click To Tweet. Your executives?

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Social Media Net Promoter Score Metrics NPS 162