Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 14, 2016

Based on insights from the Temkin Group report’s State of CX Metrics, 2015, a recent LinkedIn infographic post by CXPA co-founder Bruce Temkin labeled customer experience metrics as “Immature, But Improving”. Lack of taking action based on CX metrics (57%). Poor communication of CX metrics (41%).

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Call Design

JULY 6, 2021

The contact centre industry is the backbone of brands all over the globe. It provides the necessary contact point for customers to connect with brands, whether that be troubleshooting, simple questions or administrative needs. Customer Satisfaction. Customer Effort Score.

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Metrics Average Handle Time Schedule adherence Calibration 148

ShepHyken

APRIL 2, 2021

Delivering excellent customer service means understanding the ins and outs of your customer personas, your competitive landscape, your business, and – of course – your own organization and industry. Misconception #3: Speed is the most important customer service metric.

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Customer Service Self service Metrics Average Handle Time 293

TechSee

JANUARY 7, 2020

With the telecommunications industry at saturation point, and with services largely commoditized, providers suffer from exceptionally high rates of churn. Accenture reports that 77% of consumers are no longer loyal to any particular brand, telcos must work harder than ever to retain their customer bases. Churn in the telecom industry.

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Customer retention Interactive Voice Response Telecommunications Wireless 136

ShepHyken

JANUARY 20, 2020

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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Customer Service B2C Entertainment Customer effort 238

Genroe

APRIL 13, 2015

It’s similar with customer feedback metrics. Should you use Net Promoter ® or Customer Effort Score or Customer Satisfaction or some other new fad metric ? In it, through a series of surveys and advanced statistics, the authors investigated: The predictive power of a range of customer feedback metrics.

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Customer effort Customer retention Metrics Feedback 91

ClientSuccess

AUGUST 23, 2022

As a customer success manager with unlimited access to industry thought leadership (thanks, internet!), you know exactly how rapidly things change and how quickly new metrics pop up on the scene. But what about the Customer Effort Score? But what about the Customer Effort Score?

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Customer effort Metrics SaaS Surveys 79

GetFeedback

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

NPS, CES, and CSAT are customer loyalty metrics. They’re used to measure the level of loyalty that a customer has toward your brand. Customers are considered loyal when they consistently purchase from your brand over an extended period of time. . How do you get loyal customers? Customer Effort Score (CES).

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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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Metrics Customer retention SaaS Surveys 142

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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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. The Resolution.

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Metrics Surveys SaaS CRM 98

Tethr

JUNE 22, 2021

We talk a lot about the customer effort score (CES). Between our work in customer experience, the research that went into The Effortless Experience , and our own effort measurement score, the subject comes up, well, kind of a lot. What is your customer effort score? How can I measure effort?

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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? It’s all science.

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Benchmark Customer effort Metrics Customer emotions 69

Nicereply

JANUARY 23, 2023

Measuring your customer experience (CX) can feel complicated. There are so many different CX metrics you could track. Studies show that focusing on creating a great customer experience reduces customer churn, creates l oyal customers , and increases customer engagement. What is Customer Effort Score (CES)?

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Call Center Weekly

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

This could be a simple notification of what is to come, advise on a product that will meet additional needs, or anything else of value to reduce the customer's effort. I mproved KPI's/Metrics- In almost every instance, a well trained, knowledgeable agent, will have a positive impact on metrics.

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Customer Service Government Contact Center Metrics 212

24-7 InTouch

JUNE 15, 2021

Prioritizing metrics that matter most to your brand should not only be based on company culture and operational style, but also on today’s digital customers. As consumers change how they live, work, and purchase, brands’ customer service metrics need to adjust accordingly. . Customer Effort Score.

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 28, 2025

With the advancement of the contact center industry, benchmarks continue to shift and challenge businesses to meet higher customer expectations while maintaining efficiency. Whether you’re measuring agent performance or overall customer satisfaction, staying aligned with modern standards is key to success.

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Benchmark Contact Center Abandon rate Average Handle Time 52

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. This really depends on your industry so you want to familiarize yourself with industry benchmarks. CSAT Score (customer satisfaction).

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Metrics Best practices Customer retention SaaS 76

ShepHyken

MAY 16, 2022

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Are You Tracking the Customer Service Metrics That Really Count? My Comment: We kick off this week’s Top Five roundup with an excellent article about the best customer service metrics. Yes, metrics matter.

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Customer Service Airlines Metrics Journey mapping 165

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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Metrics SaaS Surveys Self service 98

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? Tethr’s benchmarking feature shows you where you stand. #2

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Benchmark Metrics Customer Experience Customer effort 76

GetFeedback

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Fixing problem areas in your customer experience can yield the greatest benefits, including increased growth around revenue and customer advocates. In this post, let’s take a deeper look at the role customer effort plays in retention and churn, as well as how you can measure this throughout the course of a customer relationship.

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Customer effort Entertainment Feedback SaaS 68

CX Accelerator

JULY 22, 2019

The main reason companies measure things like their call-handle time, first-call resolution, and internal quality management (QM) scores are to improve customer satisfaction. Although these metrics are valuable, they are internal to the organization, and they may or may not affect satisfaction. Back To CX Accelerator Blog.

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Contact Center Analytics Interactive Voice Response First call resolution 182

TeleDirect

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Measure and Optimize Consistently measure CX performance using metrics like Net Promoter Score (NPS), Customer Satisfaction (CSAT), and Customer Effort Score (CES). Real-World Examples of CX Excellence Amazon Amazons obsession with customer satisfaction has made it a leader in CX.

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Customer Experience Journey mapping Call Center Chatbots 62

GetFeedback

AUGUST 16, 2018

Plus, it’s directly tied to revenue as it affects customer happiness and churn rates. But when it comes to service quality, how do you measure where you really stand with customers? Here’s a look at the top 11 customer service metrics you should start measuring today. Customer Happiness Metrics.

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Metrics Customer Service Surveys Self service 79

CX Accelerator

JULY 22, 2019

The main reason companies measure things like their call-handle time, first-call resolution, and internal quality management (QM) scores are to improve customer satisfaction. Although these metrics are valuable, they are internal to the organization, and they may or may not affect satisfaction.

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Contact Center Analytics Interactive Voice Response First call resolution 174

ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

However, at the same time, it is also one of the CX metrics that cannot be measured straightforwardly. While the proper development of items used in this framework offers rich item-level information, the service quality dimensions must be adjusted for optimal performance in different industries. #2. Customer Effort Score (CES).

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Metrics Customer Service Surveys Customer effort 78

Contact Center Pipeline

JULY 28, 2015

Our omnichannel series has offered key insights from industry experts on the top challenges that contact centers face when transitioning their strategy from multichannel to omnichannel, the important first steps to take on your journey, how to prioritize customer channels, and how to track the customer’s experience through multiple channels.

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Metrics Multichannel Contact Center Customer effort 100

Calabrio

MARCH 25, 2025

Analytics Contact center trends in 2025: Six key takeaways from the State of the Contact Center report Share The contact center industry is at a crossroads. Customer expectations continue to rise, workforce challenges have intensified, and contact centers are innovative AI solutions to help them keep up.

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Contact Center Self service Strategic Value Metrics 52

delighted

MAY 4, 2021

When you talk about measuring customer experience and satisfaction, three metrics inevitably come up as THE ones to use: Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT) vs Net Promoter Score (NPS) vs Customer Effort Score (CES). CSAT can be either a relationship or transactional study metric. So, which is best for you?

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Metrics Surveys Feedback Benchmark 77

Tethr

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Reducing customer effort can feel like a monumental task, especially for big companies with legacy business processes, policies, systems, or companies in regulated industries. But these first three steps will get CX and customer care leaders started quickly and effectively. So how do we measure customer effort?

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CSM Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The answer varies for different companies, but the customer success team performance metrics below are an excellent place to start. As a customer success team leader , these metrics provide a solution to demonstrate the value of your customer success team to top executives and other teams. Customer Health Metrics.

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Metrics Customer advocacy Customer centricity Customer effort 59

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. Customer Connectedness: Customer insights are infused across the organization. Wondering which metric to choose?

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CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Naturally, Customer Experience and AI were on the tip of everyone’s tongue. There is no doubt that the contact center industry is poised for massive changes. The AI revolution is truly at the doorstep of Customer Service…and it will change the face of the industry forever. NPS still has value.

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Journey mapping Contact Center Metrics Benchmark 140

TeleDirect

AUGUST 10, 2022

Regardless of the industry you’re in, your company’s call center is the beating heart of your whole operation. It’s your main source of communication and customer service and the first place your clients turn when they have questions, experience issues or require support of any kind. Call Center Metrics: What Are They?

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Call Center Metrics First call resolution industry standards 62

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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Average Handle Time Best practices Contact Center Metrics 52

Pointillist

JANUARY 25, 2019

By Swati Sahai Call centers are an operationally-complex element of your business, but they play a big role in your customers’ experience with your company. So how can you balance the need for operational efficiency with meeting customer expectations? That adds up to 40+ days on hold for every person over the course of a lifetime.

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Call Center Metrics Abandon rate Average Handle Time 75