Think Customers

JANUARY 18, 2022

Deflecting low tier operations, 24/7, can improve average handle time and customer satisfaction ratings by giving associates more time to tackle complex questions while the easy issues are handled swiftly by automation. What is a contact center associate?

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 25, 2022

Without a holistic view of the customer experience, contact centers are inefficient. A comprehensive view of the customer is impossible without connecting the dots between touchpoints. The bottom line—quality customer care is highly dependent on digital performance. A Unified Agent Desktop.

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COPC

JUNE 9, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the customer experience (CX) industry, offering businesses new opportunities to enhance their operations. This blog article discusses the importance of employing multiple types of AI, implementing effective controls and guardrails, and adapting specific roles within the CX organization.

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Service Untitled

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Are the customer care professionals who work with Centurion card members hired for that position or do they need a certain amount of years’ experience before they can move up to a role like that?

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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.

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Customer Journey Mapping Average Handle Time Customer Journey Government 53

Comm100

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Three great ways to figure the answer out: Book a demo with one of our live chat specialists to discuss your setup Input your details into our Live Chat ROI Calculator to find out the optimal setup Continue reading this blog! This means that live chat agents are handling more chats than ever before. Live Chat Benchmark Report 2022.

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Customer Satisfaction Average Handle Time Metrics Blog 89

Horizon CX

MARCH 19, 2022

For some strange reason that 10% statistic is popping up more lately—like the recent Bain & Company survey that indicated only 10% of business leaders believe that the primary purpose of their firms is to maximize value for customers. But I digress, that’s another topic for another blog. I tried that to no avail.

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Natalie Petouhof

AUGUST 13, 2015

Operationalizing Social Customer Care on Twitter. One way to operationalize a brand’s ability to track and interact with Customer Service and Twitter is to consider Twitter’s new data and functionality to create improved and transformative customer service solutions for brands. That’s good – but it can be done better.

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Natalie Petouhof

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Customer care extends far beyond the traditional call center. Every touch point or interaction with the company (or even content about the company) can affect the customer’s satisfaction and loyalty to the brand. The components of a business case include: Goals and objectives for the social customer care initiative.

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ROI Social Media Airlines Customer Service 45

Pointillist

JANUARY 25, 2019

Average Handle Time (AHT) Average handle time is the average amount of time an agent spends on a call. By tracking this metric over time, you can determine average handle times for various types of calls—and set a benchmark for your agents.

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Call Center Metrics Definition Net Promoter Score 75

NICE inContact

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to do it: Use social customer service software that routes customer queries to the best agent in real time. KPIs tend to drive the style of customer care a brand provides. We’ve said before that average handle time (AHT) is a dead-end. 3) Be results driven.

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Natalie Petouhof

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Reduce Average Handle Time (AHT). Improve CSAT, NPS, customer lifetime value (CLV)…. With that information, you can begin to strategically decide how to use AI to transform your customer service operations and KPIs, positively impact customer and agent experiences and directly affect your bottom-line.

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Customer Service E Commerce Average Handle Time Metrics 89

Chattermill

JUNE 3, 2019

Generally, this is measured by customer support team, it’s calculated by taking the average response rate time between a customer opening a support ticket and when a rep acknowledges their request. Average Handling Time. Customer Experience Analytics. View an example dashboard here.

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Metrics Measurement Customer Experience Net Promoter Score 85

TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

This type of sentiment analysis has become a key tool for making sense of the multitudes of opinions expressed every day in texts on review sites, forums, blogs, and social media. As companies scale their customer care operations or respond to new marketplace realities, changes to their processes are inevitable and necessary.

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delighted

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Flash forward to today’s tech-driven self-service economy and 70% of customers expect to be able to “help themselves” on a company’s website or application. Even if they have a problem with a product, 50% expect to find troubleshooting help online instead of contacting customer care. Hold times reduce.

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Pointillist

MARCH 1, 2019

For instance, a telecom company could hypothesize that an existing customer moving to a new house is a service journey that usually starts on the website but frequently escalates into a phone call to the customer care center.

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Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Your customers expect agents to understand their unique context, including: Why they contacted your organization The goal they are trying to achieve The steps they have already taken prior to contacting an agent. Without it, you risk frustrating them with interactions that require lots of effort, long hold times and costly escalations.

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Pointillist

MARCH 1, 2019

For instance, a telecom company could hypothesize that an existing customer moving to a new house is a service journey that usually starts on the website but frequently escalates into a phone call to the customer care center.

Call Center 40

Call Center Effort Score Customer Satisfaction Customer Journey 40

NICE inContact

JANUARY 11, 2019

More recently, the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) and its role in customer care has been one that contact center managers have wanted to learn more about. For example, when considering the Average Handle Time (AHT) for a bot, the goal is not only for customers to complete tasks quickly, but to do so seamlessly and efficiently.

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