ECXO

MARCH 6, 2025

How to Lead a B2B CX Transformation ProgramAnd Avoid Costly Mistakes Introduction: The Importance of CX Transformation in B2B Todays business customers expect seamless, responsive, and value-rich interactions at every stage of the partnership. B2B customers will notice that commitment.

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B2B Customer Journeys How To Effort Score 339

Vonage

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It’s therefore not surprising that many businesses have concerns about social media customer service. However, getting it right has huge benefits, and not offering it at all really isn’t an option in 2017. Every company in the world will have at least one unhappy customer, but it’s what you do about it that really counts.

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Omni-Channel Customer Service Social Media Customers 253

Vonage

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

It’s therefore not surprising that many businesses have concerns about social media customer service. However, getting it right has huge benefits, and not offering it at all really isn’t an option in 2017. Every company in the world will have at least one unhappy customer, but it’s what you do about it that really counts.

Omni-Channel 253

Omni-Channel Customer Service Social Media Customers 253

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Fast forward to 2017: an astounding 15 million plus text messages are sent every minute of the day across the globe, but only a fraction of all those texts are customer service related. Customer expectations are fairy straight forward, as they use SMS / text on a daily basis.

Contact Center 168

Contact Center Omni-Channel Interaction Customer Expectations 168

SuiteCX

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

We all know that customer landscape is changing quickly. Over 90% of customers have higher expectations than they did last year and 64% of consumers switch some service providers every year (source: Accenture research). Customers aren’t your only problem. Step 1 – Understand your customers. Current State.

Customer Journeys 100

Customer Journeys Self Service Analytics Exercises 100

SuiteCX

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

We all know that customer landscape is changing quickly. Over 90% of customers have higher expectations than they did last year and 64% of consumers switch some service providers every year (source: Accenture research). Customers aren’t your only problem. Step 1 – Understand your customers. Current State.

Customer Journeys 100

Customer Journeys Self Service Analytics Exercises 100

Comm100

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Now that 2017 is out of the picture, what can we expect customer service to look like in 2018? The question isn’t new – after all, customer service is always changing. In 2018, customer service will see physical and virtual service become more intertwined. So, what’s a customer-centric company to do?

Customer Service 122

Customer Service Social Media Chatbots Knowledge Base 122

ShepHyken

APRIL 3, 2017

In 2016, the conference organizers added a Customer Service track to the list of 20 or so other tracks. This year, attendance at several Customer Service sessions reportedly doubled from last year. Want Loyal Customers? Prioritize Your Customer Service With These 4 Tactics. Entrepreneur) What makes a brand strong in 2017?

Social Media 76

Social Media Customer Service Hotels Hospitality 76

NICE inContact

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In our new 2018 Customer Experience (CX) Transformation Benchmark the insights were clear on the importance of both. Consumers want true omnichannel customer service, and service that’s seamless, convenient and quick. Only 35% of consumers are highly satisfied* with their experience, regardless of channel and country surveyed.

Self Service 121

Self Service Contact Center Software Contact Center Software 121

C3Centricity

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

If you look up the term, you get redirected to customer satisfaction! My other go-to source for definitions is businessdictionary.com which defines customer centric as: “Creating a positive consumer experience at the point of sale and post-sale.”. Are you living up to your customers’ expectations?

Customer Centricity 184

Customer Centricity Measurement How To Customer Satisfaction 184

ShepHyken

APRIL 24, 2017

2017 Customer Service Expectations Survey by Gladly. Gladly) Trends and insights from surveying 1000 consumers on customer service. My Comment: Our friends at Gladly have released their 2017 Customer Expectations Survey. Top 10 Customer Service Blogs to Follow in 2017 by Daniela Puzzo.

Customer Service 69

Customer Service Customer Service Training Loyalty Hotels 69

GetFeedback

JUNE 12, 2019

In the previous section, we began by asking ourselves to make educated guesses about what our customers expect at each touchpoint; NPS survey comments help us confirm many of these hypotheses with real feedback from actual customers. Ensure that you’re collecting customer data effectively.

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Touchpoint How To Net Promoter Score NPS 199

Comm100

JANUARY 7, 2020

For 2019 we analyzed 56 million live chats across 14 industries to expose how you can optimize your live chat strategy and exceed customer expectations. of this year’s chats – that’s over 42 million – were sent from a mobile browser or app, more than nearly 23 points higher than 2018 and 30 points higher than 2017.

Data 170

Data Wait Times Chatbots Effort Score 170

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Today’s customers expect omnichannel. customer service. How is omnichannel customer service different from (or: better than?) multichannel customer service? Customer service must support many (“multi”) channels because that is what customers expect. But what really does that mean?

Omni-Channel 136

Omni-Channel Multi-Channel Self Service Contact Center 136

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In our webinar, Boost Contact Center KPIs with Advanced Chat for CXone , you’ll can learn key findings as well as how chat has helped ECSI — customized digital solutions for higher education—transform its contact center , improve its KPIs (key performance indicators) and exceed customer expectations. ECSI’s abandon rate was 26%!

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Abandon Rate Net Promoter Score Contact Center Effort Score 136

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 23, 2017

(Huffington Post) High performing customer service organizations are changing and redefining performance metrics to better align how they measure service delivery success to their customer expectations, according to the worldwide state of customer service research by Salesforce. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

Customer Service 74

Customer Service Retail Customer Service Training Measurement 74

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Fast forward to 2017: an astounding 15 million plus text messages are sent every minute of the day across the globe, but only a fraction of all those texts are customer service related. Customer expectations are fairly straight forward, as they use SMS / text on a daily basis.

Contact Center 120

Contact Center Omni-Channel Interaction Customer Expectations 120

CX Journey

MARCH 13, 2018

It appeared on their blog on December 6, 2017. The good news is, more and more company leaders are starting to get that they need to focus on the customer experience; the bad news is, many – most – are still struggling with the concept , choosing instead to focus on sales, metrics, and maximizing shareholder value.

Customer Centricity 173

Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Customer Experience Professionals Metrics 173

Lumoa

MARCH 20, 2018

We’re moving towards personalized omnichannel experience in B2B customer journeys. b2c customer experience B2C Customer Experience refers to how a B2C customer perceives his buying experience and further interactions with your company. Purposeful Leadership: Leaders operate consistently with a clear set of values.

Net Promoter Score 268

Net Promoter Score Customer Journeys Omni-Channel Customer Experience 268

ReviewTrackers

MARCH 31, 2021

Insurers can create products and services that are tailored to the needs and lifestyle of each customer. A 2017 Accenture survey showed that 44 percent of health insurance customers believe it to be important that their providers not just offer insurance packages but health advice as well. Create a product “ecosystem”.

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Insurance Customer Retention Industry How To 123

ReviewTrackers

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

To understand the restaurant customer satisfaction, you’ll need to understand how behavior has shifted. How the rise of new technology shifted customer expectations. Which consumer habits have changed. How to remap the customer journey. A Change in Consumer Habits in Dining and Delivery.

Customer Satisfaction 114

Customer Satisfaction Industry Multi-Channel Consumers 114

CloudCherry

JANUARY 4, 2018

Furthermore, consumers are beginning to trust these firms more and more, often to the detriment of traditional banks. In other words, customers will see the appearance of apps change depending on how they use it. Less Face-to-Face Interaction with Customers. Expanding Target Markets. Partnerships with Large FinTechs.

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Banking Trends Financial Self Service 170

CX Journey

JULY 5, 2018

It appeared on their blog on December 14, 2017. Companies us the data, the insights, and the linkages to make some real, significant, strategic improvements: they use the data to develop new products that solve problems for customers and help them do some job, and they redesign the customer experience to better meet customers’ expectations.

Data 119

Data Customer Experience Professionals Metrics Analytics 119

Alida

JANUARY 10, 2018

It’s always been easier to keep existing customers than land new one, but keeping loyal customers doesn’t come without its own set of challenges. But marketers tend to have their own ideas about what drives customer loyalty, and those ideas don’t always mesh with what the customer is thinking. What is loyalty, really?

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Loyalty Marketing Net Promoter Score NPS 127

CX Journey

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Customers Expect More Consider these statistics from the National Federation of Independent Business regarding what customers have come to expect in terms of service across channels: When communicating via social media, 57% of customers expect a response within thirty minutes, regardless of the time of day.

Communication 137

Communication Brands Social Media Touchpoint 137

NICE inContact

JUNE 17, 2019

Would you want those customer experiences factoring into your NPS? In a 2017 study titled Modern Standards for Managing Contact Center Quality, ICMI found a huge gap between the percentage of organizations that are using digital channels to communicate with customers and those that are using Quality Management (QM) to evaluate these channels.

Analytics 136

Analytics Customer Experience Management Contact Center 136

NICE inContact

JUNE 17, 2019

Would you want those customer experiences factoring into your NPS? In a 2017 study titled Modern Standards for Managing Contact Center Quality, ICMI found a huge gap between the percentage of organizations that are using digital channels to communicate with customers and those that are using Quality Management (QM) to evaluate these channels.

Analytics 136

Analytics Customer Experience Management Contact Center 136

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 23, 2024

Customer experience leaders are not just expected to keep up with trends in the marketplace, customer expectations, and technology, we simply MUST do so to serve customers and stay ahead of the competition. Streaming platforms, podcasts, and even this article are self-selected by the media consumer.

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Trends Self Service Customer Experience Customer Journeys 143

Topdown

JANUARY 12, 2018

Customers don’t just think of it as a nice thing to have anymore — they demand it. According to the 2017 Global Consumer Pulse Research , published by Accenture, 48% of consumers expect specialized treatment for being a good customer, with 33% of those consumers who abandoned a relationship doing so because personalization was lacking.

Customer Expectations 48

Customer Expectations Meeting How To Consumers 48

Ann Michaels and Associates

DECEMBER 27, 2018

. • Nearly 95% of shoppers read online reviews before making a purchase (Spiegel Research Center, 2017). • 94% of customers read online reviews (Fan and Fuel, 2016). • 93% of local consumers use reviews to determine if a local business is good or bad (BrightLocal, 2017). • Consumer engagement with reviews. •

B2B 73

B2B Hotels Consumers Brands 73

ReviewTrackers

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

More and more consumers are reading and writing reviews about businesses. Therefore, getting reviews from current customers is an important part of reputation marketing. Consumers go online when researching a new business. percent of consumers say they are likely to look at online reviews on Google before visiting a business.

Brands 104

Brands Marketing Social Media Sports 104

Comm100

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Sixty-one percent have plans to incorporate (or continue incorporating) AI into their customer experience. It’s not just companies – studies show that the majority of customers already accept or even prefer Chatbots. It’s not easy to cut costs around staffing while also fulfilling customer expectations.

Chatbots 180

Chatbots Self Service ROI Contact Center 180

ijgolding

JUNE 21, 2017

On occasion, we may think of certain government institutions that would fit into this category – institutions that the consumer (or citizen) has no option but to partake in a customer journey that may, or may not, have been designed with the customer experience in mind. Sufferance, Tolerance.

Customer Experience 181

Customer Experience Airlines Travel Transportation 181

ShepHyken

MARCH 14, 2017

Shep and Keith will discuss the motivation behind businesses doubling down on customer service as customer expectations evolve in the always-on, on-demand environment. According to the report, 85% of business executives believe that customer experience is a key competitive differentiator. They don’t think that way.

Social Media 83

Social Media Customer Expectations Call Center Trends 83

Alida

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Asia is the fastest growing region in the world with rapid consumer evolution and growing digitally-minded young populations. There’s never been a more crucial time for brands to keep a finger on the pulse of changing customer needs – or risk falling behind the pack. . Vision Critical (@visioncritical) October 11, 2017.

Groups 100

Groups Competitive Advantage Customer Journeys Feedback 100

Kayako

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Outside of your support job, you might even be one of the 41% of consumers who prefer live chat over any other support channel – phone, email, Facebook or Twitter. It would be easy to assume that in 2017, most live chat providers can meet these standard requirements. Customer experiences are compromised by average live chat tools.

Chatbots 123

Chatbots Consumers Tools Survey 123

Retently

JULY 28, 2023

By 2019, according to Gartner’s CXM Survey , only 11% of companies lacked a CXO and 10% a CCO – a 24% increase compared to 2017. This data reflects a growing recognition of the importance of CX leadership in driving business success and delivering exceptional customer experiences.

Chief Customer Officer 122

Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Call Center Metrics 122