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Amazing Business Radio: Rick DeLisi and Dan Michaeli

ShepHyken

Many companies claim to be customer-centric yet still expect customers to call them when they need help even in today’s on-screen world. Whether you are a B2B or a B2C business, your customers have learned what the best digital experience looks like from the most successful companies.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of January 20, 2020

ShepHyken

Customer Effort Score or Customer Satisfaction? CustomerThink) Customer Effort Score is a popular metric used to measure customer service satisfaction using one single question. The principle behind this is that companies create loyal customers by reducing customer effort.

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A to Z Guide to Customer Experience Definitions and Terms (Updated)

Lumoa

The situation when B2B CX was very distant from B2C CX has been rapidly changing. Now at least 80% of B2B buyers now expect the same buying experience as B2C customers. We’re moving towards a personalized omnichannel experience in B2B customer journeys. A company usually follows a set of KPIs.

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Guest Post: The Biggest Value Driver That is Not on Your Journey Map

ShepHyken

Gartner provides various statistics showing that reducing customer effort can greatly impact customer retention and even reduce costs. In the process, B2B and B2C customers from the US, Canada, UK, Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia answered 1m+ survey questions.

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How to improve sales: The four “D’s” of better B2C sales performance

Tethr

Today, we’ll take you through our research on successful B2C sales behaviors, and the four lessons we learned about how to improve sales. And we know from prior research we’ve conducted at Tethr that silence time is one of the biggest drivers of customer effort , which we know correlates with churn and negative word of mouth.

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What is Customer Effort Score (CES) and How to Measure It?

Kayako

For many years companies believed that customer service was the vanguard for building customer loyalty. The Corporate Executive Board’s Customer Contact Council (CCC) surveyed 75,000 B2C and B2B customers over three years and published their research in 2010. But what is the Customer Effort Score ?

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5 Customer Effort Villains and their Kryptonite

Kayako

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.