ShepHyken

AUGUST 29, 2016

My Comment: Customers want an easy and frictionless experience, especially when they have to connect with a company’s call or support center. In this short article, Mike Cannova, the director of Advance Customer Care for ShoreTel, shares five important strategies and processes to create a better customer experience.

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ShepHyken

JULY 15, 2016

For instance, say your organization relies on customer surveys and other conventional forms of customer feedback but has considered exploring other sources of customer feedback such as recorded calls in the contact center that can be analyzed to identify trends or sources of customer frustration that can be acted on.

Customer Experience 198

Customer Experience Journey mapping Feedback Surveys 198

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

No matter where or why they interact, customers should sense the same passion for understanding and resolving their issue. Using the journey map, analytics and voice of the customer data, identify the specific factors that drive satisfaction within each channel.

Abandon rate 253

Abandon rate Journey mapping Average Handle Time Customer centricity 253

ClearAction

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Customer Care … CRM … Customer Experience — What’s the Difference? Customer Care … Customer Relationship Management … Customer Experience — what’s the difference? Customer loyalty — efforts to expand customers’ share of wallet. Lynn Hunsaker. Originally published on CustomerThink.

Customer Care 66

Customer Care CRM Customer Experience Customer advocacy 66

CX Accelerator

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Beth Gauthier-Jenkin, The Vice President of Customer Care at Gopher Sport recently generated a wonderful culture dialog via email. While Customer Service is his primary expertise, Nate is able to leverage experience in professional services, marketing, and sales to connect dots and solve the big problems.

Calibration 244

Calibration Schedule adherence Coaching Employee engagement 244

CCNG

MAY 10, 2023

Bad customer service is our new normal? In the latest “National Customer Rage Survey” conducted by the Customer Care Measurement and Consulting organization, a whopping 74% of consumers said they had experienced a product or service problem in the past year, up from 66% in 2020. Nope, not on my watch.

Customer Service 195

Customer Service CCNG Journey mapping Consulting 195

ClearAction

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Customer Care … CRM … Customer Experience — What’s the Difference? Customer Care … Customer Relationship Management … Customer Experience — what’s the difference? Customer loyalty — efforts to expand customers’ share of wallet. Lynn Hunsaker. Originally published on CustomerThink.

Customer Care 59

Customer Care CRM Customer Experience Customer advocacy 59

Bill Quiseng

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Many CX professionals have advocated CX as strategies that explain customer journey mapping, the Peak End Rule, or innovative speed technologies among others. You may have been happy because your customers felt satisfied with their experience. But no more.This is our time for a CX Revolution! Why only three?

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Journey mapping Customer Care Education Metrics 97

Lumoa

AUGUST 3, 2021

One way to actively combat inconsistency in your customer journeys is to create a journey map. Journey maps help maintain a customer-centric mindset by listing out all the places a customer will interact with your business. Read our post about customer journey mapping to learn best practices.

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Journey mapping Customer Experience Metrics Customer centricity 97

Totango

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Also, something that makes our team unique is that we have a team of about four or five people who focus on the journey map and the lifecycle management of the customer. So, that team is kind of like the architect who designs the journey for the customer. We didn’t use any special tool. TC : Yes, definitely.

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Journey mapping Accountability Marketing Metrics 115

Bill Quiseng

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Many CX professionals have advocated CX as strategies such as AI, online, self-service, telephone, and face-to-face customer support, customer journey mapping, the Peak End Rule, NPS, CSAT, CES, or other CX metrics, and many innovative technologies to improvetheir customers’ experiences.

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Journey mapping Education Coaching Customer Care 97

GetFeedback

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

For instance, if you want to decrease customer churn , the best survey questions to ask your customers are the Customer Effort Score (CES) survey and the Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey. You can use that mindset to find the right types of surveys, and then determine where they fit in your customer journey.

Surveys 83

Surveys Journey mapping Feedback Customer effort 83

CCNG

OCTOBER 19, 2022

(Accenture, 2018) By industry, supermarket chains provide the best customer experience, while TV and Internet service providers provide the worst. times more likely to have CX efforts in marketing not primarily focused on the path to purchase but on the journey after acquisition.

Customer Experience 195

Customer Experience Journey mapping Metrics Surveys 195

ShepHyken

MAY 29, 2020

A customer-centric business understands and knows that business is all about the customer, that the purpose of a business is to create and to nurture a customer. The critical part of customer understanding is to do something with what you learn. You’ve got to act on it.

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Customer centricity Journey mapping Feedback Customer Care 165

BlueOcean

MARCH 3, 2025

Will your customer experience be strengthened or hit a slump because of the programs in that budget? Not to add another thing to your plate (sorry), but theres another question to ask that can impact all those answers: Is this the year customer care outsourcing takes a more central role in your go-forward plan?

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outsourcing Contact Center Journey mapping industry standards 62

Totango

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Also, something that makes our team unique is that we have a team of about four or five people who focus on the journey map and the lifecycle management of the customer. So, that team is kind of like the architect who designs the journey for the customer. We didn’t use any special tool. TC : Yes, definitely.

Journey mapping 91

Journey mapping Accountability Marketing Metrics 91

Nicereply

MARCH 23, 2021

Jeanne Bliss – Jeanne’s a strong advocate of the Chief Customer Officer (and author of the book with the same title). In creating a customer-centric business, journey mapping can be a great tool, but even the language we use to name the stages of the #CX journey should reflect the customer's point of view!

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Chief Customer Officer Customer Service Consulting Consulting 141

Interactions

MAY 28, 2020

Are you ready to forgo the ‘novelty’ customer care channels and focus on your main channel of customer contact? Walking in your customers’ shoes. Customer Journey Mapping is one of the most important exercises in improving customer service.

Journey mapping 83

Journey mapping Virtual Agent Self service Government 83

ProProfs Blog

MAY 30, 2019

Your brand should be able to engage your customers and help them throughout their journey of buying a product or service. Your customers should not feel the need to move away to your competitor because they found your customer care operators to be inefficient or your support mechanism to be weak.

Employee engagement 110

Employee engagement Journey mapping Customer Support Feedback 110

Fonolo

OCTOBER 18, 2017

The reports on today’s list are focused on more specific topics within the realm of the call center such as agent management, journey mapping and self-service. Methodology: CCW Digital surveyed customer experience, contact center, marketing, customer care, IT, and operations professionals in February and March 2017.

Call Center 117

Call Center Journey mapping Self service Interactive Voice Response 117

ClearAction

AUGUST 29, 2015

Closing the loop with a customer about a low rating on a survey or an issue they've contacted the company about is in almost everyone's recipe for customer experience improvement. Breaking Down Silos for Customer Experience Management. Shared Vision is Essential for Customer Experience Strategy.

Customer Experience 117

Customer Experience Employee engagement Journey mapping Surveys 117

Natalie Petouhof

APRIL 7, 2016

Customer self-service is one of the key capabilities of any company that actually cares about their customers. Companies contemplating a self-service customer care solution to support digital customer experiences should consider the following five steps: 1. Tweet It’s just not true.

Self service 53

Self service Journey mapping Average Handle Time Government 53

ProProfs Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

You can lend a personalized approach to customer care, only when you have access to a complete customer profile. Map Out Customer Journey. Ensure your help desk customers relish a great service experience by directing that experience on your own. Implement a Knowledge Base.

Customer Service 92

Customer Service Journey mapping Entertainment Customer Support 92

ClearAction

JANUARY 28, 2015

Reactive versus Proactive : In many firms our CXM strategy is primarily around service, making up for snafus caused by other parts of the company, with ongoing investments needed in shipment expediting, issue escalation, returns, and customer service focused on remedial actions. People & Process Investments for Profit Growth.

Customer Experience 89

Customer Experience Management Journey mapping Employee engagement 89

Taylor Reach Group

JANUARY 21, 2019

has been an industry leader in call and contact center consulting for more than 15 years, the main area of focus has been on establishing great customer care in the business sector, especially in retail and service industries. While The Taylor Reach Group, Inc.,

Journey mapping 70

Journey mapping Government Contact Center Consulting 70

Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Journey orchestration is most successful when embedded within a comprehensive customer journey management approach, which enables teams across your organization to improve CX and business outcomes simultaneously. The customer care team oversees the call center, IVR, chat and other customer service channels.

Personalization 128

Personalization Interactive Voice Response Enterprise Upselling 128

Skybridge

DECEMBER 14, 2020

I’m sure that most of us in the customer care realm have formed a few (or more) opinions on that topic. Build innovation into your CX journey map. This is where building a customer experience journey map that supports a lower cost to serve as well as savings to invest in new initiatives and/or markets can help.

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Journey mapping Banking Customer Care Marketing 52

ClearAction

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

This is particularly evident when you consider that many customers buy multiple products, in multiple locations. And the need for cross-functional harmony becomes obvious when you look at a customer experience journey map. This is a metric silo (mis-match) that’s a show-stopper in the big scheme of things.

Metrics 67

Metrics Customer Experience Journey mapping Customer Care 67

Totango

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Also, something that makes our team unique is that we have a team of about four or five people who focus on the journey map and the lifecycle management of the customer. So, that team is kind of like the architect who designs the journey for the customer. We didn’t use any special tool. TC : Yes, definitely.

Journey mapping 62

Journey mapping Accountability Marketing Metrics 62

CX Global Media

JULY 11, 2019

About David Hadobas : David started CCNG in 1991, recognizing limited resources for information among contact center /customer care management. While Customer Service is his primary expertise, Nate is able to leverage experience in professional services, marketing, and sales to connect dots and solve the big problems.

Contact Center 120

Contact Center CCNG Morale Coaching 120

CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Step 1: Create an End-to-End Journey Map, including marketing and sales processes. Step 2: Identify preventable customer key points of pain (POP) – Using the journey map, identify five to ten top customer POP that cause frustration for customers and employees. About the Author.

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Journey mapping Consulting Consulting Surveys 61

Interactions

JUNE 25, 2020

In fact, it could be argued that an easy implementation can’t provide the advanced level of customer care that is needed to deliver excellent customer experience. We recommend first taking an honest assessment of your current customer experience through customer journey mapping.

Virtual Agent 71

Virtual Agent Journey mapping Self service Contact Center 71

CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Standardization of business processes leveraging journey mapping, human-centered design, and industry best practices (e.g., certification across delivery centers and geographies) CX Impacts Business Research shows companies have made progress on the level of customer care provided, but brands still must do better.

Journey mapping 59

Journey mapping Government Transportation Customer Care 59

ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Furthermore, voice-of-the-customer managers envision survey responsiveness that maximizes referrers, while loyalty managers envision renewals that hit monthly quotas, digital marketing managers envision personalized interactions, and customer care managers envision first contact resolution. 7) Assumption Silos.

Customer Experience 106

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Surveys Journey mapping 106

BlueOcean

JANUARY 22, 2019

Also read this: Customer Journey Mapping in the Contact Center. or: Secrets to Incredible Customer Service with Paul R. If you’re going to RFP for an outsourced customer care solution in 2019, read this first. The True Cost of Losing a Customer. Are You Ready for the Future of Customer Service.

Customer Experience 81

Customer Experience outsourcing Journey mapping Contact Center 81

Lumoa

MARCH 12, 2023

Improving your customer experience always pays off for your business. Most companies have a good gut feeling about the top issues customers care about, but it’s hard to quantify and prioritize those issues. A CX platform offers: Improved customer engagement. Streamlined customer journey mapping.

Customer Experience 78

Customer Experience Journey mapping Analytics Consulting 78

Pointillist

MAY 19, 2020

But what makes some organizations more effective than others at managing customer journeys, measuring outcomes and improving experiences? Pointillist surveyed over 1,050 CX, analytics, customer care and marketing professionals from a variety of industries across the world to discover what separates leaders from laggards.

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Management Journey mapping Analytics Customer centricity 94