CSM Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2025

Aquant , an AI platform built for servicing complex machinery, released its highly anticipated 2025 Field Service Benchmark Report , offering an in-depth analysis of trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the future of the service industries. To access the full 2025 Field Service Benchmark Report, visit www.aquant.ai.

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Benchmark Self service Metrics Contact Center 52

ShepHyken

JANUARY 20, 2020

CustomerThink) Customer Effort Score is a popular metric used to measure customer service satisfaction using one single question. Loyalty Trends in 2020: How Will This Year Be Different? The Wise Marketer) We are fans of mapping out industry trends and predictions at the beginning of each year. by Martin Powton.

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Customer Service B2C Entertainment Customer effort 247

Nicereply

MAY 25, 2021

Why is benchmarking important? This is where benchmarking is helpful. This is where industry benchmarks come in. Check out the following benchmarks to see how you compare in CSAT, NPS, and CES, and inspire your own goal setting. CSAT Benchmarks. NPS Benchmarks. How do we compare to our competitors?

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Benchmark Surveys Entertainment Customer effort 111

Global Response

MARCH 12, 2025

Types of analytics: Performance metrics are measured using different approaches, including descriptive, predictive, prescriptive, interaction, speech and text, self-service, and cross-channel analytics. Tracking first-call resolution (FCR) and other metrics, for example, help you pinpoint where agents excel and where they can improve.

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Contact Center Analytics First call resolution Abandon rate 62

Fonolo

MARCH 16, 2021

Still getting to grips with call center metrics and which ones are the most important? Contact Center Trends 2021. What is First Call Resolution (FCR) in Call Center Metrics? Historically, less attention was paid to FCR, but it’s quickly become one of the most important metrics in the call center.

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First call resolution Call Center Metrics Contact Center 125

ShepHyken

JANUARY 16, 2023

For three decades, the ACSI has been a leading satisfaction index (cause-and-effect metric) connected to the quality of brands sold by companies with significant market share in the United States. Top Customer Experience Trends You Should Watch in 2023 by Scott Clark. Customers love it when you know and understand them.

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Customer Service Benchmark Customer centricity Customer Experience 43

Interaction Metrics

JANUARY 31, 2025

Winner: Interaction Metrics Interaction Metrics took the top spot in the list, but for good reason: It’s the only company on the list that provides 100% scientific, done-for-you customer satisfaction surveys with transparent online pricing. Interaction Metrics company handles everything from start to finish.

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Surveys Metrics Benchmark Consulting 62

Transparent BPO

MARCH 11, 2020

And one of the best ways to measure improvement in the contact center, according to Jeff Rumburg, co-founder and managing partner at MetricNet , a contact center benchmarking and consulting firm, and the subject of this month’s expert interview series , is through the practice of benchmarking. Benchmarking and ROI.

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Benchmark Contact Center outsourcing Schedule adherence 71

AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This trend toward multimodality enhances the capabilities of AI systems in tasks like cross-modal retrieval, where a query in one modality (such as text) retrieves data in another modality (such as images or design files). All text-to-image benchmarks are evaluated using Recall@5 ; text-to-text benchmarks are evaluated using NDCG@10.

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Benchmark Enterprise Construction Engineering 108

ChurnZero

JUNE 9, 2023

8 metrics to position Customer Success as a profit center with finance While sentiment-based metrics like Net Promoter Score ® (NPS) and customer satisfaction are important, they don’t frame CS work from a financial perspective. To that end, here are the metrics you can use to get started.

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Finance Metrics Benchmark Chief Customer Officer 98

TeleDirect

DECEMBER 19, 2024

By analyzing historical data and current trends, we ensure that no call goes unanswered and response times remain swift. At TeleDirect, we invest heavily in ongoing training programs to ensure that our team stays ahead of industry trends and is equipped with the skills to handle any customer interaction efficiently.

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Call Center Average Handle Time First call resolution Benchmark 62

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. However, not everything is easy to measure.

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Metrics Surveys Brand ambassadors Benchmark 106

AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2024

NR AI responds by analyzing current performance data and comparing it to historical trends and best practices. It examines service performance metrics, forecasts of key indicators like error rates, error patterns and anomalies, security alerts, and overall system status and health. The following diagram illustrates the workflow.

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Customer Experience Engineering Enterprise Benchmark 106

Callminer

AUGUST 1, 2017

Metrics, Measure, and Monitor – Make sure your metrics and associated goals are clear and concise while aligning with efficiency and effectiveness. Make each metric public and ensure everyone knows why that metric is measured. Jeff Greenfield is the co-founder and chief operating officer of C3 Metrics.

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Contact Center Call Center Average Handle Time Real estate 334

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

These are just some of the findings in this year’s Customer Success Leadership Study, ChurnZero’s third annual report on the top trends and opportunities in Customer Success, presented in partnership with ESG and sponsored by Higher Logic Vanilla and involve.ai. The top metrics in CS are all revenue metrics. However, 76.5%

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SaaS Metrics Best practices Benchmark 98

AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This integration provides a powerful multilingual model that excels in reasoning benchmarks. The integration offers enterprise-grade features including model evaluation metrics, fine-tuning and customization capabilities, and collaboration tools, all while giving customers full control of their deployment. You can find him on LinkedIn.

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Enterprise Benchmark Technology APIs 110

Comm100

JANUARY 18, 2022

Every year, we dig into the Comm100 platform to uncover the latest live chat benchmarks so you can understand where your team is performing well, and where it needs some improvement. Download: Live Chat Benchmark Report 2022. Download the full Live Chat Benchmark Report 2022. Download: Live Chat Benchmark Report 2022.

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Benchmark Metrics Wait times Quality management 52

Nicereply

DECEMBER 17, 2024

One key metric that helps SaaS businesses gauge their success in these areas is the Customer Effort Score (CES). In this article, we’ll explore the importance of CES in the SaaS industry, how it differs from other customer satisfaction metrics, and why reducing customer effort is crucial for long-term success. .”

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Customer effort SaaS Benchmark Surveys 52

ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

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. Onboarding metrics serve two main purposes. Basing onboarding metrics on your internal operations can produce false positives.

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Metrics SaaS Surveys Self service 98

Joe Rawlinson

MAY 17, 2022

To get the most return out of their pay-per-click (PPC) campaign, businesses should learn which metrics to focus on and exert the most of their efforts. Now, the question is—what are the metrics and figures to benchmark for every industry? CPC is a metric that measures the cost an advertiser pays to the publisher (e.g.,

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Benchmark Advertising Entertainment Real estate 15

Nicereply

JANUARY 23, 2023

There are so many different CX metrics you could track. That’s exactly what NPS , CES , and CSAT metrics do. In this guide, we’ll explain the difference between these three most common CX metrics so you can make an informed decision on what’s right for your biz. But which one(s) should you actually use?

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Metrics Customer effort Surveys Feedback 98

Totango

APRIL 26, 2019

By tracking the right customer onboarding metrics and then using that information to guide customer engagements. Creating and Tracking Customer Onboarding Metrics. All your customer onboarding metrics should be created and tracked within a customer success platform. Customer progression. Customer response rate. Why it Matters.

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Metrics Benchmark Surveys Education 94

NobelBiz

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Call centers predict future call volumes and other metrics so demand can be better met and good service levels can be maintained with optimized resources. Aids in Strategic Planning Long-term forecasting provides critical insights into trends and patterns, empowering call centers to anticipate future demands.

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Call Center Workload forecasts Average Handle Time Contact Center 52

Lumoa

JANUARY 31, 2023

Set a common customer experience metric and target for the organization. Consolidate customer experience insights into one single dashboard and give all the teams access to the same insights about what is driving the metric up or down. The Net Promoter System is a powerful metric for target setting. Eliminate company silos 1.

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Customer Experience Customer centricity Metrics Feedback 165

Callminer

JANUARY 18, 2021

They are an easy way to track metrics and discover trends within your agents. They fall into the same bucket as quality, call control, customer satisfaction, absenteeism and other metrics. They engage in performance management, they set targets, they may even terminate employees for these metrics.”

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Best practices Call Center Contact Center Scripts 226

ShepHyken

APRIL 13, 2018

As has been widely noted in today’s marketplace, your customers’ opinions and expectations – for good or bad, reasonable or not – are your company’s new benchmark. The reasons are obvious: surveys help your business understand the emotional and psychological factors that drive customer behavior and affect your metrics. Social Media.

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Feedback Contact Center Journey mapping Surveys 206

Interaction Metrics

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

At Interaction Metrics, we take a smarter approach. Thats where Interaction Metrics comes in! We also benchmark your NPS against industry standards, providing critical insights that show where you stand compared to competitors. Dig Deeper into Your Scores Your NPS is an outcome, not an isolated metric. The result?

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Surveys Benchmark Feedback Metrics 62

AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 11, 2025

Logging and monitoring You can monitor SageMaker AI using Amazon CloudWatch , which collects and processes raw data into readable, near real-time metrics. These metrics are retained for 15 months, allowing you to analyze historical trends and gain deeper insights into your applications performance and health.

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Metrics Benchmark Enterprise Telecommunications 77

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. Source: 2017 HDI Metric of the Month. Why is FCR considered so essential?

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First call resolution Call Center Metrics Benchmark 74

TeleDirect

MARCH 20, 2025

Call auditing helps ensure that customer interactions meet established quality benchmarks while identifying areas for improvement. Regular QA Monitoring Consistent monitoring helps maintain high standards and identify trends or recurring issues. Data-Driven Insights Leverage analytics to spot patterns and trends from audited calls.

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Best practices Calibration Average Handle Time First call resolution 62

Fonolo

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Check your past metrics and data reports, and analyze them for any trends that might be useful. Most of this information will be qualitative data, meaning you’ll need to take some time to assess their feedback and draw trends from their responses. Create a benchmark for success. Dive into your data history.

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Contact Center Abandon rate Average Handle Time First call resolution 148

Interaction Metrics

APRIL 24, 2025

Introduced by Matt Dixon and Corporate Executive Board (CEB) in 2010, CES is now a core metric in many customer experience programs. Interaction Metrics is a leading survey company. Weve seen how strategically measuring your customer effort score can reveal moments of struggle that other metrics miss. One question. One number.

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Customer effort Metrics Surveys Self service 48

Calabrio

MARCH 11, 2025

Call center QA, or contact center QA, is a strategic, data-driven process that evaluates every facet and channel of customer interactionsfrom voice calls and live chats to emails and social media engagementsagainst established performance benchmarks. Ensure agents fully understand these standards, including the metrics used for evaluation.

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Best practices Contact Center Chatbots Call Center 52

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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Call Center Metrics Abandon rate Coaching 52

Balto

JANUARY 28, 2025

Instant insights AI that surfaces trends without manual data digging, accelerating decision-making. Real-time guidance that helps agents respond faster and smarter. Automated QA that enhances teams by handling repetitive tasks, allowing for focus on complex issues. What to ask your vendor: What KPIs have you improved for similar companies?

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CRM Benchmark Feedback Metrics 52

CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

It also sought to understand the major trends of customer health scores. This blog will discuss takeaways and trends in customer success about one of the most popular tools – the customer health score. That said, trends in 2020 revealed that companies using a customer health score had better control over their churn rate.

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Surveys SaaS Benchmark Upselling 64

ChurnZero

MARCH 18, 2022

With so many SaaS metrics floating around, and even more opinions on when and how to use them, it can be hard to know if you’re measuring what really matters. Leading SaaS expert, Dave Kellogg, and ChurnZero CEO, You Mon Tsang, sat down to answer all the questions you want to know about SaaS metrics like ARR, NRR, GRR, LTV, and CAC (i.e.,

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SaaS Metrics Surveys Enterprise 98