Balto

MARCH 3, 2025

These AI assistants work 24/7, managing up to 70% of common customer requests without human intervention. They offer self-service options while maintaining clear paths to human agents when needed. Gen Z and millennial customers show 40% higher satisfaction with automated channels compared to traditional phone support.

Call Center 52

Call Center Interactive Voice Response Average Handle Time First call resolution 52

Mindtouch

APRIL 11, 2018

If your customers want to pump their own gas, you let them. The same goes for self-service. If your customers prefer to solve issues on their own (as it turns out, they very much do ), you need to enable them to do so. Executed well, a web self-service experience can be your 24/7 customer support department.

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Self service Feedback Surveys Enterprise 80

Callminer

APRIL 20, 2018

Customer experience (CX) is evolving. Change isn’t necessarily bad, but it certainly is confusing when you have to cut through the noise and determine which best practices and trends will launch your contact center ahead of the competition. Customers also expect to have their needs met in a timely, effective fashion.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 11, 2025

This comprehensive analysis goes beyond traditional quality monitoring and provides deeper insights into customer sentiment, behavior patterns, and emerging trends. By systematically analyzing every interaction, the system identifies behavioral patterns and emerging trends, signaling potential issues before they become problems.

Customer Experience 62

Customer Experience Calibration Average Handle Time Metrics 62

PeopleMetrics

JANUARY 24, 2025

It can analyze survey comments, social media posts, in-depth customer interview transcripts and support tickets to uncover pain points in both CX and CS. Example: A telecom provider sees high Customer Effort Scores (CES) scores in its call center, indicating customers are exerting significant effort to resolve issues.

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Customer Service Chatbots Journey mapping Feedback 118

Global Response

MARCH 12, 2025

Benefits for business: Tracking analytics can increase customer satisfaction, employee performance, and business efficiency. Types of analytics: Performance metrics are measured using different approaches, including descriptive, predictive, prescriptive, interaction, speech and text, self-service, and cross-channel analytics.

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Contact Center Analytics First call resolution Abandon rate 62

TechSee

MAY 19, 2020

The level of effort involved in proactively registering their products is often too high, even though without product registration, brands cannot validate the warranty in order to provide effective service. Product registration process trends. Visual self-service product registration.

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Self service Sales Customer effort Technology 207

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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Mindtouch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

What’s an effective self-service model? One that improves customer effort , which leads to improved customer loyalty. Bottom line though, it’s about customer effort. How do you achieve an effective customer self-service model?

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Calabrio

MARCH 25, 2025

Customer Effort Score (CES): CES measures the level of effort a customer perceives they had to exert to resolve their issue. This metric helps identify friction points in the customer journey and highlights areas where agents can streamline processes.

Call Center 52

Call Center Metrics Abandon rate Coaching 52

Mindtouch

MARCH 2, 2018

For customer support and success professionals, there are three that likely come up on a frequent basis: customer effort score (CES), Net Promoter Score (NPS®), and customer satisfaction (CSAT)—the primary customer success KPIs. But what, exactly, is customer effort score? Fair enough. Buy a product.

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Tethr

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Today, we’ll discuss some of the 2021 CX trends we believe will come to shape the landscape of customer service interactions in the coming year. #1. Self-Service Digital Channels. As a result, digital self-service channels are a cornerstone of 2021 CX trends and a must-have element of CX right now.

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Customer Experience Agent Empowerment Self service Chatbots 72

SharpenCX

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

2020 call center trends look to finally shake up the stale industry. Because customers still aren’t happy. A staggering 88% of customer service professionals say customers have higher expectations than in the past. As we look to 2020 call center trends, we look past shiny objects. They want more.

Call Center 84

Call Center Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Self service 84

Nicereply

JUNE 20, 2019

It’s important to follow customer service trends because these days, customers can easily jump ship to another brand without a second guess. In this second half of 2019, We’ll show you the customer service trends you need to follow if you’re yet to do so. Self-Servicing.

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Marketing Chatbots B2C Self service 77

JustCall

AUGUST 8, 2023

It eliminates roadblocks in the customer journey and makes the value proposition accessible. The resulting reduction of customer effort makes the experience frictionless and yields a bouquet of benefits from higher customer satisfaction levels to customer loyalty to increased revenue.

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Customer effort Multi-channel support Self service Chatbots 52

Solvvy

DECEMBER 17, 2019

AI brings real, tangible benefits to businesses and customers alike and has been identified by Gartner as one of the top 10 strategic trends every year since 2015. But how is AI being utilized in customer experience today, and how will it be utilized moving forward? CX AI – A Great Wave to Ride.

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ProProfs Blog

AUGUST 28, 2020

Customer service stories such as these impact the customer expectation trends in the market. Note: Factors such as behavior or preferences towards customer service are likely to impact decision making processes that can be termed as customer expectation trends. Basic Customer Expectations.

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Self service Feedback Airlines Metrics 157

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

A key performance indicator (KPI) and strategic metric for any business is the Customer Effort Score (CES). It’s one of the significant drivers of brand loyalty because satisfied customers are more likely to make repeat purchases or talk to your customer service. How can the Customer Effort Score be measured?

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A key performance indicator (KPI) and strategic metric for any business is the Customer Effort Score (CES). It’s one of the significant drivers of brand loyalty because satisfied customers are more likely to make repeat purchases or talk to your customer service. How can the Customer Effort Score be measured?

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Customer effort Contact Center Self service Call Center 52

Etech GS

APRIL 30, 2019

While many companies may not strive to recreate the Zappos customer experience model, most want to continue evolving to meet consumers’ needs in a way that builds brand loyalty. Here are five trends to consider employing to elevate the level of service offered by your business in 2019. .

Contact Center 71

Contact Center Coaching Feedback Healthcare 71

SharpenCX

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

2020 call center trends look to finally shake up the stale industry. Because customers still aren’t happy. A staggering 88% of customer service professionals say customers have higher expectations than in the past. As we look to 2020 call center trends, we look past shiny objects. They want more.

Call Center 67

Call Center Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Self service 67

Mindtouch

MARCH 14, 2018

The ways we measure efficacy—with customer success KPIs like CSAT and NPS® , for example—ultimately reflect the kind of experiences we deliver when our customers seek support. Here are five trends to keep an eye on in 2018, trends that promise to drive both customer experience and call center ROI. We know this.

Call Center 54

Call Center Self service CRM Contact Center 54

HGS

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Melissa’s research coverage includes customer experience management services, exploring ties with marketing operations and developing thought leadership around intelligent automation for contact center and vertically-specific customer engagement business processes. Wendy: Can you share the trends you’ve seen in customer service?

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Fonolo

APRIL 24, 2018

Key findings: Reducing customer effort ranks as the #1 customer experience priority for the coming year. That makes sense, but the term “customer effort” is so nebulous, it’s hard to extract much meaning from this data point. See Is Chat Eating into Phone-Based Customer Service? in the past year.

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Contact Center Call Center Self service Surveys 99

Tethr

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

So your organization set a goal around improving your Customer Effort Score, now what? Without knowing where or why effort is occurring in customer interactions, where do you start? Step #1 – Use the Tethr Effort Library to identify instances of effort in customer interactions.

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Customer effort Surveys Coaching Self service 48

Uniphore

AUGUST 6, 2021

While self-service could relieve some of the pressure to agents, it couldn’t keep pace with the flood of complex calls. In fact, Gartner estimates that of the 70 percent of customers who attempt self-service during their resolution journey, only 9 percent of calls are resolved through that channel alone.

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Contact Center Self service Call Center Customer effort 98

aircall

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

In 2017, customer service trends will continue to drive success. Customer service is the new marketing, don’t you know? Some customer service trends will fall by the wayside, others will be increasingly decisive. As far as customer service trends go, this is a tall order.

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TechSee

MARCH 24, 2021

With the new digital-first mentality, the need for remote support and enhanced customer engagement, brands are recognizing the need for a visual-first strategy for acquiring and keeping their customers. The visual assistant can recognize the product and its parts, identify the issue, and provide the resolution for the customer.

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Self service Upselling Chatbots Contact Center 109

TechSee

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Here are five key drivers that are steering field service organizations towards introducing and building on their remote support offerings: Pandemic-driven need for safety. Growing focus on reducing customer effort. Advances in field services technology. Growing focus on reducing customer effort.

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Kayako

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

CEB, the insight and technology company that investigates customer loyalty best practices, reported that 67% of customers prefer self-service over talking to your team. So how can we meet our customer’s self-service demands? Structure, layout, and design of your self-service center matters.

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Mindtouch

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

This trend has caught the attention of other companies. When it comes to customer support and help content, the implications of these trends are quite significant. It’s very similar to the way traditional online self-service experiences begin. A Significant Self-service Opportunity.

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GetFeedback

MAY 17, 2018

So how is this innovation and growth affecting customer support as a whole? Zendesk explores the ins & outs of modern service in their latest report. 91% of consumers will use a self-service knowledge base if provided. Which support channels do you offer, and which ones are customers most satisfied with?

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TechSee

DECEMBER 28, 2020

They must be able to empathize and build a rapport, problem solve, communicate effectively, and be trained in appropriate technical knowledge and expertise to fulfill their customer support roles and responsibilities. Focus on reducing customer effort. The future of technical support and customer service.

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Technical Support Customer Service Enterprise Scripts 186

COPC

JUNE 24, 2024

Several factors contribute to this downward trend. Rising customer expectations, accelerated by digital transformation, are difficult to meet. Automation and AI, intended to enhance efficiency, often result in impersonal interactions, leaving customers disconnected. The average score on the index is now 69.3

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Customer Experience Multichannel Self service Telecommunications 76

Kayako

JUNE 8, 2017

Customer experience should be treated as a KPI in understanding what makes a support experience great. Great support is more than just the results of your Net Promoter Score, customer effort score, or customer satisfaction surveys (though, it is worth running these surveys to keep tabs on overall loyalty ).

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Metrics Customer Experience Average Handle Time Surveys 96

Mindtouch

MAY 24, 2019

Content channels are splintering based on customer demand. Some key stats from Gartner about self-service illustrate the influence of customer self-service expectations : 15% support interactions will be handled via artificial intelligence by 2021 – a 400% increase from 2017.

Self service 84

Self service Chatbots Metrics Feedback 84

DMG Consulting

AUGUST 10, 2018

Voice biometrics is another high-tech solution that is going mainstream; a leading bank’s recent ad campaign publicizes that they know customers “by the sound of their voice.” IVAs are self-learning; their ’intelligence; is continually evolving based on data inputs from each new interaction. Omni-channel self-service.

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Interactive Voice Response Virtual Agent Self service Contact Center 78