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Top Customer Care Trends to Consider as You Plan for the New Year

BlueOcean

As customer care teams start planning for 2024, we’ve seen how easy it can be to get stuck in a rut. The quickest way to get re-inspired is by getting a finger on the pulse of current news and customer service trends in the industry. How are other customer experience leaders delivering?

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Utilize Customer Journeys to Transform the Customer Experience

Lumoa

As we see the business world shifting towards a more remote and digital landscape, the communication between customers and service employees is playing a more pivotal role in customer experience due to the lack of opportunity for face-to-face interactions. How to transform the experience by looking at customer journeys 1.

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How Omnichannel Customer Care Weathered the Storm of COVID-19

BlueOcean

A couple of years ago, we explored the state of omnichannel customer care , recognizing the fact that consumers have more channel options available to them than ever before. With more than a year of pandemic impacts under our belts, let’s dig into the far-reaching impacts of COVID-19 on omnichannel customer care.

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Unraveling the Tangled Vines of Omnichannel Customer Care

BlueOcean

Instead, the opposite has happened – adding more channels has complicated the customer journey, adding more contact points and sparking more channel switching activity. Gartner research shows a direct correlation between the number of available channels and the number of customer contacts in a single resolution journey.

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Drive Employee and Customer Satisfaction with SLAs

Speaker: John Goodman, Vice Chairman, CCMC, Customer Care Measurement & Consulting

Technology has elevated every aspect of the customer journey. All aspects that is, but one: customer complaints. Too often, CSRs use technology as a crutch rather than a tool, and it's starting to show--57% of customer rage results are technology-based. and master customer rage for an insightful webinar on September 23rd.

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Validating Your Outsourced Customer Care Partnership: Is Your Incumbent “Still the One”?

BlueOcean

Total Value Returned Rate is a key metric that also has to be tied to customer retention. It doesn’t matter how much equipment your team is able to retrieve if they cost you the lifetime value of that customer in the process. This is what relevant service level metrics look like in today’s customer care center.

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Four Tips for Using Customer Data to Improve the E-Commerce Experience

InMoment XI

So what can these brands do to get ahead of customer expectations? The key is to dive into your customer data. Tip #1: Rethink the Digital Customer Journey. Now that the “new normal” is underway, e-commerce brands should rethink the digital customer journey. Tip #2: Invest in Customer Care.