Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 11, 2023

I have been watching the American Customer Satisfaction Index for over 20 years. After nearly two decades of investment in customer experience, only 20 percent of organizations have managed to improve their customer satisfaction scores—leaving the vast majority, 80 %, having failed to do so. Check it out here.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 7, 2023

Every so often, I get a chance to chit-chat with colleagues of mine about the future of customer experience. This time, my colleagues were pioneers in customer experience, Lou Carbone ( Experience Engineering.com) author of Clued In , and Joe Pine (StratgicHorizons.com) , author of The Experience Economy. Check it out here.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Part of the Atlanta Group of insurance brands, which includes Swinton, Marmalade’s approach has picked up recognition and resulted in them being named a finalist in several industry awards, most recently as highly-commended finalists in the UK Customer Service Excellence Awards.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

So, when I share some statistics I read regarding customer satisfaction and leveraging behavioral economics, some of which I felt very glass-half-empty about, I hope a few of you, with your half-glass-full dispositions, will help me see the bright side. What is worse is that since then, American customer satisfaction declined more.

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2024 Customer Satisfaction 2006 2010 78

customer sure

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Customer experience has increasingly become a key differentiator that can make or break a business. Done right, a customer experience programme can deliver astronomical business advantages, propelling a company to new heights. When you think about it, customer experience opportunities truly are everywhere.

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2024 Customer Experience Social Media Healthcare 62

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 20, 2022

Over the last 20 years, Customer Experience has been a concept embraced by businesses. . However, despite this emphasis on providing excellent experiences, customer satisfaction levels have not improved. As you can see, this was pre-pandemic and a time that I think of as the height of the Customer Experience movement.

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Customer Experience Customer Satisfaction Customer Centricity 2010 78

Hello Customer

JANUARY 6, 2022

Customers nowadays want everything easy and we can't really blame them for that. Long queues, having to wait for hours to talk to customer support or browsing an old website that you have to refresh every 2 minutes. It can be the last straw that will make your customers leave you for someone else. Wondering how you can do that?

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Effort Score Net Promoter Score Touchpoint Metrics 98

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. The Great CX Debate: Should Customer Experiences Be Effortless or Exceptional? The key to building customer loyalty, they claimed, was to simply make it effortless for people to do business with you. by Jon Picoult.

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Kayako

MARCH 21, 2022

No matter how much information companies provide before the sale, most customers will still need help. The customer is king” is an old saying, yet it has never been more relevant than it is now. Unhappy customers can swipe left or click a button, and poof ! Collaboration is Key for Customer Service Success.

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Customer Service Social Media 2010 Competitive Advantage 117

Service Untitled

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Ann Arbor based American Customer Satisfaction Index surveyed 1000 soft drink shoppers in June and July and asked questions about different types of sodas and their value for the money. “People who love Pepsi, love Pepsi.

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Retently

MARCH 23, 2023

You can also learn a surprising amount of tactics and strategies by studying the opposite end of the scale – the world’s least successful companies, from a churn perspective – to compare their common weaknesses and find out what makes their customers so unlikely to recommend them to their peers.

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Net Promoter Score NPS Insurance Airlines 113

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

For many years, there has been a debate whether you could assign a dollar amount to determine the return on investment for any Customer Experience improvements. Whilst the transactional business is more interested in repeat purchases and their frequency, the subscription business is mostly interested in how long customers remain loyal.

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Net Promoter Score ROI Customer Experience 2014 164

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 12, 2023

However, with three pioneers of Customer Experience involved, we have an authoritative view on the topic and predictions about what’s happening next. I recently hosted some special guests on the podcast to discuss what 2023 will look like in the Customer Experience space. An authoritative view on just about anything.

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Up Your Service

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Your customers—whether B2B, B2C, or partners within your organization—have always been your focus. The truth is, in many cases, you might only get one try: 66% of B2B and 52% of B2C customers stop buying after a single poor customer service interaction. Another publication reports that poor customer experience is costing U.S.

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Customer Experience B2C 2010 Poor Customer Service 90

Service Untitled

MARCH 3, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Some were more “traditional&# and featured people talking about customer service while some of the others were more upbeat and engaging. You can see Pet Relocation’s video, and more information about the 2010 Fanati Award here.

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GetFeedback

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Customer feedback can reveal opportunities for major business growth—what customers want, straight from their own mouths. Customers benefit from sharing feedback too. Consumers want a personalized customer experience , and they’re willing to hand over data to get it. The feedback conundrum. This is a unique problem.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Customer satisfaction is at the worst point it has been for 15 years. People want positive experiences, so it’s up to businesses that want them as customers to provide them. Customer experience is declining as a driver of change. . Back when I started Beyond Philosophy, Customer Experience was not a thing yet.

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Service Untitled

APRIL 19, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. When the company has identified its goals, the business can choose a cross-section of participants for the interviews and find out how they perceive a particular product or even the efficiency of their customer service. Could it be?

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Tricia Morris

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

With the Institute of Customer Service reporting that customer satisfaction in the U.K. is at its lowest level since 2010 , it has never been more important for U.K. State of Multichannel Customer Service appeared first on Parature. A newly-released 2015 U.K. the United States, Brazil and Japan.

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2015 Customer Service 2010 Webinar 79

Kayako

JUNE 16, 2022

It is a fact of human nature (and customer relationship management) that people are more likely to complain than they are to give praise. When customers are unhappy, customer service agents are busy. For many years companies believed that customer service was the vanguard for building customer loyalty.

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Effort Score Measurement Net Promoter Score Metrics 62

Service Untitled

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Actually the company’s customer service award can be attributed to the attentiveness and concern for the well-being of their associates. Their philosophy of “happy employees&# has brought in more customers.

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Service Untitled

JULY 25, 2011

Just this week the American Customer Satisfaction Index partnering with ForeSeeResults polled 70,000 users of websites and social networks including Facebook, Google, CNN and Wikipedia. Most of us find customer service and customer satisfaction a challenge just in the businesses and organizations we pay to use.

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GetFeedback

JULY 25, 2018

Looking at customer experience (CX) and churn in the SaaS environment from a high level, there’s one theme that stands out from the mix: The fact that we live in what’s called a “switching economy.”. It can be a major driver of customer churn—and it’s already creating an incredible economic deficit in the US.

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Omnichannel Net Promoter Score E-support E Commerce 150

Oracle

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Augmented reality apps may seem like a cute novelty at first glance, but they can play a valuable and even transformational role in today’s customer experience. Companies are achieving this outcome by designing AR apps that solve customer problems, provide a convenient shopping experience, and make it easier to complete a purchase.

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Automotive 2010 Social Media Retail 83

Service Untitled

OCTOBER 7, 2011

For instance, how is customer service with all of these new fees going to improve? Possibly Related Posts: Bank of America tanks for lender customer satisfaction According to the 2010 US Primary Mortgage Origination Satisfaction Survey. Will lines be shorter? Will someone answer my mortgage questions quicker?

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Banking Customer Satisfaction 2010 Advertising 49

ClearAction

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Customer Centric Internal Branding Lynn Hunsaker. Customer centric internal branding revolves around customer well-being. By the way, what’s promised to customers should, in fact, be what your internal behaviors actually produce.). Living the brand promise is another way of describing customer centric internal branding.

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ijgolding

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Customer experience is important, that much we know. Readers of this blog won’t need persuading of the link between a company’s success and a great customer experience. Happy customers stay longer, buy more, they tell their friends, and your company grows. Customer feedback is broken. In fact it’s worse than that.

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Feedback Financial Measurement Customer Satisfaction 85

Tricia Morris

AUGUST 4, 2015

With the Institute of Customer Service reporting that customer satisfaction in the U.K. is at its lowest level since 2010 , it has never been more important for U.K. billion annually due to poor customer service, consistent delivery of satisfying service across channels has never been more important.

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Poor Customer Service Consumers Brands Customer Service 99

Customer Bliss

MAY 3, 2017

This especially holds true when it comes to customer service. In fact, CEB data shows that 81 percent of customers today will use self-service channels first before reaching out to a company to speak to a customer service rep live. However, self-service is proving to be a double-edge sword for both companies and customers alike.

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NICE inContact

DECEMBER 9, 2015

That passion also extends to delivering outstanding customer service. As their customer support inquiries increased, Columbia Sportswear knew they needed a new contact center solution to support seasonal call volumes, e-commerce, and their unique brands. That was unheard of in 2010.”.

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E Commerce Customer Service Contact Center E-support 75

Quadient

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A new era in government-sector customer experience. As a customer experience (CX) practitioner, I was surprised to find that an Executive Order (E.O.) This ushers in a new era of government customer experience. Executive office customer experience order: what it is. Andrea Haughton. Thu, 12/16/2021 - 19:50.

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Government Customer Experience Multi-Channel Document 52

Service Untitled

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

According to the 2010 US Primary Mortgage Origination Satisfaction Survey by J.D. Power and Associates, Bank of America tanked in their customer satisfaction. So what makes a positive impact on banking customers despite the long wait for approvals? Consumers were measured in four different areas: 1.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Are you measuring Customer Effort Score? First introduced in 2010, Customer Effort Score (CES) is a fairly new contact center metric. Together with the “tried, trusted and true” Net Promoter Score (NPS) and Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) it helps you to measure just how happy your customers really are.

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Net Promoter Score Contact Center Omnichannel Effort Score 59

Service Untitled

JUNE 11, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Yet despite the complaints, customer satisfaction in the airlines industry has noticeably improved according to JD Power and Associates, a California-based research firm. Next year’s surveys should be even more interesting.

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Airlines Customer Satisfaction Blog 2010 41

Alida

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Many smart companies use Net Promoter Score (NPS) to measure how well they’re meeting the needs and expectations of their customers. Enterprise messaging software company Slack, for instance, treats NPS as a leading indicator of growth, using it to improve its interactions with customers and prospects. Source: netpromotersystem.com.

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Net Promoter Score NPS Metrics Measurement 208

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 8, 2023

Convincing other people in your organization to let you spend money on Customer Experience improvements is essential to leading this effort at your organization. Customer research is critical here. However, many organizations in the current environment have cut costs, which might include customer research.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 19, 2019

Customer expectations of interactions with brands and businesses have intensified and show no sign of slowing down. Hand in hand with speed of resolution and responsiveness is the customer’s evaluation of the quality of service they receive, which in turn impacts customer loyalty. Fast forward to today. Effort matters.

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