Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

JULY 9, 2018

It begins with setting metrics. The right metrics or key performance indicators (KPIs) should effectively measure a business’s specific capacities. Here’s a list of the most crucial metrics that inbound call center must measure. A 2016 survey by Call Center Helper shared that 62.7% First Contact Resolution.

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aircall

MARCH 23, 2018

For Aircall’s recent survey of 475 customer support leaders , it comes down to self-reflection. Unknown VP of Marketing circa 2016 A.D. Confidence in Customer Support Metrics. A whopping 70% of The Best teams say they’re very confident in the accuracy of their customer support metrics. What does it mean to be “The Best”?

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Surveys CRM Education Metrics 86

Interaction Metrics

OCTOBER 31, 2016

It seems that we’re asked to take a customer satisfaction survey with nearly every purchase. Our 2016 Customer Listening Study, the first of its kind, evaluated the customer satisfaction surveys of 51 top US retailers. The post Retailers Waste Time with Critically Flawed Surveys appeared first on Interaction Metrics.

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Surveys Metrics 48

Toister Performance Solutions

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In reality, what matters most to the dealer is my survey score. An employee has directly asked me to give a good rating on their survey after every one of these service failures. Here's how surveys can make service failures worse. Does your survey focus on the wrong thing? I received a survey the next day.

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Interaction Metrics

OCTOBER 31, 2016

It seems that we’re asked to take a customer satisfaction survey with nearly every purchase. Our 2016 Customer Listening Study, the first of its kind, evaluated the customer satisfaction surveys of 51 top US retailers. The post Retailers Waste Time with Critically Flawed Surveys appeared first on Interaction Metrics.

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Taylor Reach Group

APRIL 9, 2020

A 2019 survey, which interviewed more than 6,000 consumers in Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States says 72% of respondents said, “I am loyal to a certain brand, but as soon as I have a bad experience with them, I move on.” ( Acquia Survey ). Providing poor CX is incredibly expensive!

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LiveChat

JANUARY 11, 2017

One metric that you can’t go wrong with is first contact resolution. First contact resolution is a customer service metric that shows you how many of your cases are handled immediately and in one touch. First contact resolution is a customer service metric that shows you how many of your cases are handled immediately and in one touch.

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Pointillist

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

By Stephanie Ventura Metrics tracking is a vital element of every call center. However, aiming to track all possible call center metrics can lead to information overload. Instead, organizations must focus on metrics that yield the greatest insight. Why is FCR considered so essential? The reason?

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PeopleMetrics

DECEMBER 9, 2016

You’re probably familiar with the classic customer satisfaction survey. So, here at Interaction Metrics, we asked ourselves: sure companies ask their customers to share, but do companies really care about what their customers have to say? We found two main problems with the surveys: Data inaccuracy. Poor customer listening.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 10, 2016

As a contact center manager, you’ve got a lot of metrics to choose from as your key performance indicators (KPIs). In this blog, we help narrow down this long list to help you focus on the metrics that, when improved upon, will really help your contact center thrive. So, what are the top metrics you should be looking at?

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Metrics Call Center Average Handle Time First call resolution 55

Win the Customer

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

According to a January 2016 report from the Ombudsman Service, 82% of consumers said they wouldn’t put up with poor service without taking action. In one Social Habit survey , 32% of respondents said they expect a reply within 30 minutes of contacting a brand on social media. Conclusion.

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SharpenCX

JUNE 23, 2021

Metrics aren’t everything. This guide digs into some of the essential contact center metrics to look out for, so you can pick and choose which ones need your focus. Service level is a fundamental metric. This metric can even mean that your IVR is too confusing , causing customers to give up before reaching an agent.

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ijgolding

JUNE 14, 2016

The ‘frustrators’ for driving a genuine customer centric approach were as follows: Organisations being focused on things other than the customer – short term revenue; sales; restructures; cost cutting (at all costs); wrong metrics in performance management 29%.

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Toister Performance Solutions

MAY 4, 2017

We've all gotten a survey invitation on a store receipt. A 2016 study from Interaction Metrics found that 41 of the 51 largest U.S. retailers included a survey invitation on the standard receipt. The surveys were evaluated to see how useful and engaging they were. Not a single one was fully engaging and scientific.

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Surveys Advertising Metrics Accountability 52

Comm100

JANUARY 14, 2016

As we enter 2016, it appears that this consumer behavior trend will continue through 2016 and beyond. Still, many companies have been slow to adapt their websites and infrastructure to accommodate this technological growth – however, this will change significantly in 2016. billion PC users.) What does this mean for your company?

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The Temkin Group’s 2017 Customer Experience study showed a severe decline in customer experience ratings from 2015 to 2016, but the number of companies that scored ‘good’ or ‘excellent’ increased from 18% in 2016 to 38% in 2017 – the highest rating ever. FCR is Undeniably the Most Important Metric.

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Connecting the Dots

APRIL 3, 2024

Download the PDF version of this White Paper RETHINKING THE CURRENCY OF THE EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE AS MEANINGFUL WORK & INTERNAL SERVICE FRUSTRATIONS By: John Goodman, Scott Broetzmann, and Ted Nardin “The annual employment survey needs to be retired. The reason companies do these surveys…remains as important as ever.

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Connecting the Dots

APRIL 3, 2024

Download the PDF version of this White Paper RETHINKING THE CURRENCY OF THE EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE AS MEANINGFUL WORK & INTERNAL SERVICE FRUSTRATIONS By: John Goodman, Scott Broetzmann, and Ted Nardin “The annual employment survey needs to be retired. The reason companies do these surveys…remains as important as ever.

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Surveys Best practices Feedback Calibration 62

Toister Performance Solutions

APRIL 19, 2018

The customer service survey falls into that category for many companies. Smart customer service leaders should either fix their broken surveys or stop doing them altogether. The chances of you filling out a survey about surveys when you really don't like surveys is pretty low. You'd probably stop it immediately.

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Surveys Airlines Advertising Customer retention 48

CSM Practice

MAY 22, 2020

Soft metrics like the number of advocates, level of adoption, and unpaid training can also be tracked and compensated. Soft metrics like the number of advocates, level of adoption, and unpaid training can also be tracked and compensated. However, the variable payment doesn’t have to be limited to revenue generation alone.

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SaaS Metrics Accountability Customer centricity 126

Interaction Metrics

OCTOBER 31, 2016

It seems that we’re asked to take a customer satisfaction survey with nearly every purchase. Our 2016 Customer Listening Study, the first of its kind, evaluated the customer satisfaction surveys of 51 top US retailers. But do you ever wonder…do they really care what I have to say?

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Toister Performance Solutions

AUGUST 10, 2017

It's the most common question I get about surveys. So my clients want to know, "What is a good response rate for our customer service survey?" My advice to clients is to use a different set of criteria for judging their survey responses. Here's how to evaluate your own survey response rate the same way I do.

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Surveys Feedback Metrics Customer Service 48

ProProfs Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Over half of the surveyed population reported that, if they like a brand, they will rarely purchase something different. A decade long survey from 2006-2016 examined the growth trends of loyalty programs in the US and found that memberships have grown from 3.3 billion from 2014 to 2016 alone. What Loyal Consumers Want.

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Interaction Metrics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

This morning, my rep texted me from the shop where my car is serviced: “You’ll receive a survey from us. I get what he wants, but this is NOT how to do a survey. Since I frequently negotiate with my rep, I have nothing to gain by taking this survey truthfully. Why Issue Surveys? . We hope you recommend us.”

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Surveys Airlines Feedback Analytics 54

PeopleMetrics

APRIL 17, 2015

A recent Gartner survey found that 89% of companies plan to compete primarily on the basis of customer experience (CX) by 2016. Nonetheless, optimization is a critically important metric that we must quantify and strive to improve. Today, we offer a guest post examining customer experience from a digital marketing perspective.

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CSM Practice

MAY 28, 2020

Soft metrics like the number of advocates, level of adoption, and unpaid training can also be tracked and compensated. Soft metrics like the number of advocates, level of adoption, and unpaid training can also be tracked and compensated. However, the variable payment doesn’t have to be limited to revenue generation alone.

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Nicereply

JUNE 18, 2020

Track the right metrics. To successfully deal with all these activities you are also going to need a reliable system of metrics for tracking customer retention. Even though it may seem to you like something complicated, this rate is metric whose value grows every time a customer decides to bail on your business. What’s more?

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Toister Performance Solutions

MAY 25, 2017

Customer are constantly getting pummeled with survey requests. A 2016 study from Interaction Metrics found that more than 80 percent of America's top retailers offered a customer survey on purchase receipts. The study also found that most surveys were total garbage. Use them to put your existing survey to the test.

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Surveys Customer retention Feedback Customer effort 48

Lumoa

APRIL 3, 2018

Keep in mind that NPS only becomes a truly valuable metric, if its “why”-question is properly collected, analysed and heard. “ NPS has been a good metric to benchmark and help brands understand the overall outcome of their experience. . ” The more popular NPS was getting, the more misused the metric became.

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Talkdesk

AUGUST 3, 2016

In this week’s Customer Experience Weekly, we’ll be exploring customer service metrics. Here’s what we found: Choosing the Right Customer Service Metrics Requires Alignment to Your Brand. Customer service quality cannot be measured by a single metric. It must be determined by an individually selected set of metrics.

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Interaction Metrics

JULY 22, 2019

In other words, you would expect their patient surveys to be relevant, well-written, and to the point. From what I observe, when it comes to measuring the patient experience, good survey design is rare. Example: Kaiser Permanente Survey. About a day later, I received a request to take a survey.

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Surveys Healthcare Feedback Benchmark 48

Interaction Metrics

JULY 22, 2019

In other words, you would expect their patient surveys to be relevant, well-written, and to the point. From what I observe, when it comes to measuring the patient experience, good survey design is rare. Example: Kaiser Permanente Survey. About a day later, I received a request to take a survey.

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Surveys Healthcare Feedback Benchmark 48

C3Centricity

AUGUST 17, 2020

CEI Survey. A recent report from OnBrand Magazine on the KPIs used by marketing showed that Marketers are using a variety of metrics to measure the impact of their brand marketing activities. A 2016 Spencer Stuart survey shows data analysis and insights are one of the three main areas where CMOs need the most development as a leader.

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Customer centricity Airlines Big data Marketing 118

Talkdesk

AUGUST 25, 2016

When customer satisfaction dips, many in the industry pile on increasing layers of call center metrics to locate the problem. So the question becomes: Can traditional call center metrics zero in on how to meet customer expectations? How do these unquantifiable experiences fit together with traditional metrics? The solution?

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CX Journey

OCTOBER 19, 2016

It appeared on their blog on March 31, 2016. The second flaw is: the metric, not the customer, becomes the focus. Companies focus on the metric, on moving the metric, and not on the customer and the customer experience. Instead, too many conversations start with, "How do we improve the metric?"

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Interaction Metrics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

This morning, my rep texted me from the shop where my car is serviced: “You’ll receive a survey from us. I get what he wants, but this is NOT how to do a survey. Since I frequently negotiate with my rep, I have nothing to gain by taking this survey truthfully. Why Issue Surveys? . We hope you recommend us.”

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Surveys Airlines Feedback Analytics 48

Comm100

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In a global survey of executives by McKinsey that analyzed the level of investment in digital customer service, it has been found: “During the pandemic, consumers have moved dramatically toward online channels , and companies and industries have responded in turn. Now, ask yourself… are you surprised that agent turnover is so high?”.

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