PeopleMetrics

JANUARY 24, 2025

Root Cause Analysis Across Touchpoints As I have mentioned in recent blog posts , AI-powered text analytics dives into unstructured feedback to reveal whats driving customer sentiment. Agents feel more empowered, and customers benefit from faster resolutions. Example: An e-commerce company integrates AI into its VoC program.

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Inbenta

MARCH 6, 2020

We have seen the trends and uses evolve and while user expectations in terms of interactions and conversation have changed significantly, performance metrics have remained quite constant. They remain your main source of analysis to evaluate the impact of an AI chatbot on your company’s results. User experience metrics.

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Nicereply

JUNE 24, 2021

Customer Effort Score seeks to quantify and highlight these very difficult conversations, so that customer service teams can avoid them in the future. Created in 2010, the Customer Effort Score is fairly new to the scene but is becoming increasingly more popular. What is Customer Effort Score (CES)?

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Education Services Group

APRIL 27, 2022

I’m not going to waste time trying to document how to correctly (mathematically) calculate all the three letter acronyms—but feel free to check out our Customer Success Definitions, Calculations, and Lingo…Oh My! Instead, I want to do some level setting on some specific metrics and flaws I see in the industry.

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ProProfs Blog

APRIL 17, 2020

And if you successfully increase customer retention rates by 5%, then you can boost profits by 25% to 95%. That’s one of the reasons why y ou formulate strategies to retain your customers. But without numbers or metric data in hand, coming up with any new strategy would only consume your valuable time. 1: Customer Churn Rate. #2:

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Solvvy

JULY 8, 2022

Quantitative metrics allow you to assign a number to the current state, compare it to the past, and track your company’s progress toward your goals. Managers can use those metrics to guide strategy improvements and employee training. When and how to use those metrics. What is the Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT)?

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Tethr

AUGUST 31, 2021

In this guide, we’ll cover the basics of that new feature: benchmarking for customer effort. What is benchmarking for customer effort? Customer effort, on the other hand, has long been a concept that defies measurement… Until now. So, what is benchmarking for customer effort?

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Mindtouch

AUGUST 7, 2018

If you’re gathering customer feedback, you know that the trouble is not in gathering feedback, but rather, getting actionable insight from the feedback you’ve gathered. Customer feedback analysis, to be precise. But there’s no need to dread the task of analysis. They don’t get bleary-eyed after reading too many comments.

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Interaction Metrics

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Jump to: How Do ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude Stack Up for Text Analysis? Afterall, business audiences need more than stories; they need metrics and clear priorities. But that doesnt tell you whether customers are pleased or displeased with your product or how to improve the product experience. But is AI your best solution?

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Kayako

JUNE 8, 2017

One of the biggest mistakes when measuring customer experience is focusing on what your team is doing instead of what your customers are experiencing. Metrics like time tracking, productivity, and performance take the front seat, but often don’t relate to the experience your customer receives or how they feel about it.

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Calabrio

MARCH 25, 2025

This article delves into how to evaluate call center agent performance effectively, outlining key call center agent metrics and exploring innovative new techniquesas well as too-often-overlooked onesto elevate your team’s success. This means, first, they must be able to track the right agent performance metrics.

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Tethr

AUGUST 17, 2021

As proponents of a low-effort approach to CX , we’ve implemented our own benchmarking metrics for customer effort. And those metrics are exactly what CX leaders need to be tracking in order to start benchmarking customer experience. Don’t believe us? 4 Identify & achieve goals for serious ROI.

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Kayako

APRIL 25, 2017

Viktor Magic will walk you through how to run a customer effort questionnaire and why it’s important to track CES after every transaction. Customers don’t want high effort experiences because difficult experiences make the customer feel exhausted. Transactional metrics.

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Amity

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Tracking the proper metrics is essential in understanding how your business is performing. For now let’s concentrate on the following four main metrics. Customer Health. It is also worth engaging an independent unbiased third party to do a Voice of the Customer project and analysis. Net Promoter Score (NPS).

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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

It requires a genuine understanding of your customer cohorts and their goals, perceptions, and needs. To share how to choose, track, and act on effective onboarding metrics, ChurnZero Customer Success Enablement Team Lead Bree Pecci joined CSM Practice for a drill-down into customer-centric onboarding. Irit: Hi everyone.

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delighted

APRIL 12, 2019

You’ve created the perfect survey with a reliable distribution method, and as a result, have a gold mine of customer input at your disposal. Now it’s time to put that data to use with some customer feedback analysis. Analyzing customer feedback. Categorizing the experiential customer data.

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Outsource Consultants

APRIL 18, 2024

In a recent article for CXM Today, we gave our complete guide to call center tools and metrics to drive CX growth. But, for those ready to dive in now, we draw similar conclusions in our advice for how using CX metrics more strategically can best guide your labor and technology choices. Take Customer Satisfaction (CSAT), for instance.

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 28, 2025

Whether you’re measuring agent performance or overall customer satisfaction, staying aligned with modern standards is key to success. In 2025, achieving the right benchmarks means understanding the metrics that matter, tracking them effectively, and striving for continuous improvement.

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ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

However, at the same time, it is also one of the CX metrics that cannot be measured straightforwardly. Some of the key benefits of in-app surveys related to service quality metrics are: Customer validation for specific offerings, services, and features. Customer Effort Score (CES). Customer Effort Score (CES).

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CX Journey

OCTOBER 15, 2015

At the time, I suppose they were two things that we traditionally didn’t believe went together (yea, right!) – a bit like how many think about metrics and journey maps. Executives love data and metrics, right? Where do the data and metrics come from? You got your peanut butter on my chocolate!” And what kind of data?

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Lumoa

JANUARY 3, 2023

Metric Selection: Optimize for impact within the organization. Then I wanted to talk about two topics that are very controversial – selecting metrics and scales. . Metric selection. There are many different metrics to choose from, such as CSAT, NPS, and Customer Effort Score. Be consistent.

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Calabrio

MARCH 27, 2025

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. This is why the amount of time spent on interactions is a key metric for ensuring the efficiency of your customer service.

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Peter Lavers

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

My most recent post was an older one from this site, encouraging those implementing Customer Effort Score programmes to learn the lessons of what happened with NPS (i.e. don’t waste time arguing over metrics). Ironically this then prompted comments debating the relative merits of NPS, CES or CSat as metrics.

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Callminer

APRIL 20, 2018

Show agents how focusing on customer experience helps them become more successful and then incorporate CX performance measures as metrics to measure employee performance. Augmented intelligence – Not even today’s AI systems are sophisticated to handle complex customer needs.

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ProProfs Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Walk through this blog to gain deep insights into how to effectively measure customer satisfaction and master actionable ways to improve it. What is Customer Satisfaction? Customer Satisfaction is a metric used to measure the happiness of customers after using your products and services.

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Tethr

JANUARY 7, 2019

Reducing customer effort has become a major focus for customer experience professionals in recent years after “ The Effortless Experience ” (co-authored by our own Chief Product & Research Officer, Matt Dixon ) was published in 2013.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Customer churn is the opposite of retention. Customer churn is a critical metric because it is much less expensive to retain existing customers than it is to acquire new customers. Wondering which metric to choose? So why should you care?

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ShepHyken

MAY 25, 2020

Rather, consider it a key metric to guide and improve customer retention strategy and retention rate. My Comment: With all the ways to measure “customer satisfaction,” such as NPS, CSAT, customer effort, and many more, I’ve always felt the most important measurement is if the customer comes back.

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Win the Customer

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Customer satisfaction is not just a feel-good metric; it’s a tangible indicator of how well your products, services, and interactions resonate with your audience. In this blog post, we’ll explore the significance of measuring customer satisfaction and delve into key metrics that provide valuable insights.

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Kayako

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

A growing concern for customer retention, expansion, and cross-sell opportunities is customer effort. This “effort villain” is out to get your customers at every chance. We know that the more effort a customer has to exert, the more likely they are to churn. Not Starting at Google = Bad.

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Mindtouch

JANUARY 23, 2020

To that end, we worked hard this past year to help our customer base run audits to identify the MindTouch ROI and value metrics they care most about—data points not inherently baked into our product. This included metrics around cost savings, efficiency gains, and revenue generation. TALK TO YOUR CUSTOMER SUCCESS MANAGER.

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ClearAction

DECEMBER 5, 2023

4 Gold CX Metrics for CX Leaders Lynn Hunsaker Concentrate on just 4 CX metrics and you’ll see greater progress in more than 20 growth metrics. Otherwise, gaps between these will cost you a lot (negative word of mouth (customer effort score, CSAT), churn, costs to serve, internal productivity, etc.).

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Tethr

JANUARY 7, 2019

Reducing customer effort has become a major focus for customer experience professionals in recent years after “ The Effortless Experience ” (co-authored by our own Chief Product & Research Officer, Matt Dixon ) was published in 2013.

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Fonolo

MAY 16, 2023

They’re valued by c-suites for providing insights gleaned from direct contact via customer service and support channels. But without proper data analysis and interpretation, contact centers – and the businesses they serve – may not reach their full potential. This process begins with identifying the key metrics to track and measure.

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Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

But the majority are still not able to show how the customer experience metrics they collect directly impact business performance or how they are using them to improve customer experience. Take Direct Action Based on Your Customer Experience Metrics. c) Simplify Customer Onboarding.

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Calabrio

MARCH 22, 2025

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. Use VoC analytics software to see whats working, whats not, and adapt accordingly.

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Quadient

JULY 25, 2022

Customer Journey Analysis in 6 Easy Steps. The customer experience is the sum of all the interactions that a customer has over the life of the relationship with the brand. One of the ways we understand the customer’s experience is through mapping and analyzing the journey through all customer touchpoints.

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