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. Why it matters: Reflects reduced (or increased) customer effort. Why it matters: Meeting service level targets ensures timely responses, impacting customer satisfaction and overall service quality.

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InMoment XI

JANUARY 9, 2024

Social media marketing platform Hootsuite leverages InMoment to make the Net Promoter Score (NPS) methodology central to its operation. By utilizing the in-app customer feedback software tool, Hootsuite can prioritize CX improvements that will have the most business impact and has been able to triple its Net Promoter Score.

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InMoment XI

AUGUST 17, 2023

Take NPS from a Score to a Strategic Advantage In today’s fiercely competitive business environment, customer satisfaction is paramount to success. By using the Net Promoter Score system as your compass, you can gain a better understanding of what drives customer loyalty and satisfaction.

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Net Promoter Score Self Service Effort Score NPS 370

Kayako

JUNE 16, 2022

Even worse, 81% of customers who had to expend a lot of effort to achieve their CS goals intend to spread negative word of mouth about their experience. The sweet spot for brands is an excellent customer experience with the brand and product or service, backed up by frictionless support experiences that consistently meet expectations.

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Effort Score Measurement Net Promoter Score Self Service 156

Retently

MARCH 11, 2025

A CX Manager is responsible for the entire end-to-end customer journey, making sure every touchpoint from store purchase to post-fulfillment support is smooth, frustration-free, and ultimately leads to happier, more loyal customers. If scores drop, is it because of longer wait times, unhelpful responses, or an issue with a specific agent?

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eglobalis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Unlike B2C interactions, B2B transactions are more complex, involving multiple decision-makers, longer sales cycles, and intricate touchpoints. C-suite executives should lead this effort, ensuring the organization understands the complexity of the customer journey and invests in advanced analytics tools to segment and map these touch-points.

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B2B Strategy Customer Experience Customer Journeys 375

Calabrio

MARCH 11, 2025

These AI-powered QA tools have revolutionized the field, leveraging machine learning, natural language processing and more to help contact centers: Analyze 100% of interactions: Moving beyond limited sampling, AI can scrutinize every customer touchpoint, ensuring comprehensive coverage.

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Contact Center Call Center Effort Score Chatbots 130

InMoment XI

JANUARY 2, 2023

When you start your CX efforts, you need to consider how to measure it. Together, these can give you insight into where you stand and how to improve your CX: Net Promoter Score ( NPS ) Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) Customer Effort Score ( CES ). What Is Net Promoter Score (NPS)? Passives score 7 or 8.

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Net Promoter Score NPS Metrics Effort Score 221

delighted

MAY 4, 2022

If they turn directly to your support team, then you’re missing out on an opportunity to ease customer pain and save your team time through customer self-service. What is customer self-service? Why is customer self-service important? Customers prefer self-service solutions .

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Self Service Knowledge Base Abandon Rate Resources 82

InMoment XI

JULY 12, 2023

Customer experience refers to the overall impression and perception customers have of a brand based on their interactions and touchpoints throughout their journey, encompassing every aspect of their engagement, from initial awareness to post-purchase support and beyond. You need to understand the most important touchpoints and interactions.

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Retently

MARCH 17, 2025

Helps teams react fast to emerging issues in different CX touchpoints (e.g., Impact of CX Initiatives : Are new self-service tools, AI chatbots, or policy changes reducing ticket volume? AI chatbots, expanded self-service) have improved CX the most? Tracks customer pain points in real-time.

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DCX

APRIL 1, 2025

This seven-part framework acts like a CX lens to evaluate and optimize touchpoints in real-time. Use it to: Design interactions customers actually want to repeat Reduce time-to-resolution Scale self-service without sacrificing quality These tools empower you to: Pinpoint where you’re going wrong. Make measurable progress.

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Self Service Customer relationships Effort Score Touchpoint 52

Retently

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Typically, most brands focus on surveying just a couple of key touchpoints, like post-purchase NPS to measure customer loyalty, or post-helpdesk interaction CSAT to gauge service satisfaction. Naturally, the higher the score, the more satisfied and loyal customers are.

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Ecommerce Survey Retail NPS 109

InMoment XI

OCTOBER 8, 2024

By improving customer experience, you can: Increase sales revenue by up to 7% Increase cross-sell rates by up to 25% Increase shareholder return by up to 10% These statistics show that customer experience improvement is something that should be a priority across your entire organization, rather than being a siloed effort.

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Customer Experience Self Service How To Net Promoter Score 195

InMoment XI

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

While there are no set principles of the customer journey, an important step to understanding and designing the customer journey in your organization is to create your own set of customer journey principles that represent an effort to develop long-term customer relationships.

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Customer Journeys Net Promoter Score Self Service Touchpoint 195

TechSee

AUGUST 26, 2020

Companies that deliver smooth, low-effort experiences that grab their customers’ attention will be the ones to thrive. However, enhancing the customer journey requires an equal focus on another dimension of customer service: the employee journey. Improve self-service offerings. Companies have taken note.

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Customer Journeys Self Service Effort Score Omni-Channel 124

rethinkCX

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Reduces Customer Churn Addressing pain points and delivering outstanding service keeps customers engaged. Key Strategies to Improve Customer Experience Understand Your Customer Journey Map out customer touchpoints. Train customer service teams to handle queries efficiently and empathetically.

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Lumoa

AUGUST 25, 2020

Your customer service metrics will impact your customer experience, but there are also a few great metrics you can use to track your customer experience more directly, including: Net Promoter Score (NPS). Customer Effort Score (CES). Customer effort score tracks how easy you’re making it for customers to resolve issues.

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Customer Experience Customer Service Effort Score Net Promoter Score 195

Think Customers

APRIL 10, 2025

Customer expectations are changing Todays B2B customers expect seamless interactions, self-service options, and personalized service just like in B2C. reducing churn by 15%, improving customer retention by 10% , increasing customer effort score (CES) by 25% ).

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BlueOcean

AUGUST 19, 2024

CX leaders more than doubled the revenue growth of companies with lower scores within five years. You would think so, but you would be surprised how many efforts to improve customer satisfaction seem to forget the shoppers. The next step is actually doing something about it. Here are three approaches: 1.

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Self Service Contact Center Average Handle Time Customer Satisfaction 156

BlueOcean

AUGUST 19, 2024

CX leaders more than doubled the revenue growth of companies with lower scores within five years. You would think so, but you would be surprised how many efforts to improve customer satisfaction seem to forget the shoppers. The next step is actually doing something about it. Here are three approaches: 1.

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Self Service Contact Center Average Handle Time Customer Satisfaction 156

Wootric CX Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Together, these can give you insight into where you stand and how to improve your CX: Net Promoter Score ( NPS ). Customer Effort Score ( CES ). Customer experience (CX) is the cumulative impact of every touchpoint throughout the customer journey. What is Net Promoter Score (NPS)? Passives score 7 or 8.

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NPS Net Promoter Score Metrics Effort Score 122

SurveySensum

AUGUST 24, 2023

Another research by Harvard Business Review on customer experience reveals that customers who fail in their attempt to use self-service options and are forced to pick up the phone to talk to agents are 10% more likely to be disloyal than those who were able to fully resolve their issues in their channel of choice. Frustrating, right?

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Self Service Brands Effort Score Airlines 52

GetFeedback

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

We kicked off our Customer Experience (CX) Ambassadors Program in January featuring an interview with Myshka Sansoin , manager of customer advocacy and self-service activation at BRP. Throughout his career, he’s worked with hundreds of wineries to further their sales, marketing, and communication efforts with individual wine consumers.

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Self Service Hospitality Survey Effort Score 218

Lumoa

APRIL 28, 2024

In your CX platform dashboard, you can see how your customers behave across all touchpoints and can personalize your interactions with them based on their behavior and preferences. Despite efforts to collect and analyze feedback, employees frequently struggle to pinpoint what affects these metrics.

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Self Service Customer Journeys Multi-Channel Feedback 195

ShepHyken

APRIL 2, 2021

Misconception #2: Customers only want self-service options. However, according to Stella Connect’s Customer Service Trends for 2021 report , 80% of survey respondents prefer to talk to a real support agent, versus figuring out the issue with self-service options. In the U.S. of all sales.

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Self Service Customer Service e-support Average Handle Time 118

InMoment XI

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Modern customers interact with many touchpoints before making a purchase. One of the most crucial touchpoints in their journey is the call center. It enables call center management to monitor and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) like call volume, agent effort score, and peak-hour traffic.

Call Center 195

Call Center Contact Center Social Media Effort Score 195

Kayako

AUGUST 19, 2022

Gathering customer service information about context is like taking snapshots at different touchpoints in the customer journey. In customer service, companies can now optimize context for platforms and technology to serve the customer, from self-service help options to chat to live calls. Less Customer Effort.

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Customer Experience Customer Service Effort Score Self Service 156

Uniphore

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Scoring an “Ok” Satisfaction Rating Isn’t Enough. Contact centers are the main touchpoints with members, greatly impacting overall member satisfaction. A Forrester poll of members of 17 of the largest health plans in the country found an industry average score of 70.2

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Self Service Healthcare Contact Center Effort Score 130

SurveySensum

AUGUST 18, 2023

Think of some companies that you stopped doing business with because of their terrible customer service and the amount of effort it took on your part to do a simple task. With an age-old customer experience metric called Customer Effort Score (CES). Why Is Customer Effort Score Important?

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Effort Score Self Service Customer Experience Loyalty 52

Comm100

APRIL 25, 2018

With the size of their customer base and their ability to physically interact with their customers on a day to day basis, this phone company is able to offer a level of service that is truly hard to beat. Regarding low effort service, the Richmond Telephone Company is the epitome of effortless issue resolution.

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Self Service Company How To Effort Score 112

SurveySensum

AUGUST 10, 2023

The major reason for customer churn lies in the fact that how much effort they had to put in to get a certain product or service and this is usually unknown to the company. Measuring Customer Effort Score (CES) can help you find out why customers struggle to do business with your company. Let us help you with that!

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Effort Score Self Service Loyalty Tips 52

TechSee

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

To encourage this kind of collaborative culture, organizations can implement collaborative KPIs that encompass the efforts of multiple departments, such as Total Time to Resolution. 5: Reduce customer and employee effort. 6: Encourage self-service and automation. 3: Proactively resolve customers’ issues.

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Self Service Contact Center Effort Score Knowledge Base 109

SurveySensum

AUGUST 15, 2023

It’s about how smoothly customers can use your products, access your services, and get help when they need it. This is where the Customer Effort Score (CES) steps in. CES is a metric designed to gauge the level of effort customers have to put forth when engaging with your company. Tip: The scale you use (e.g.,

Effort Score 52

Effort Score Customer Satisfaction Self Service Social Media 52

COPC

JUNE 24, 2024

Despite massive investments in CX technologies and strategies, scores have reached an all-time low, with 39% of brands experiencing a notable decline. The average score on the index is now 69.3 Personalization efforts also improve customer satisfaction. Only 14% of US companies deliver good CX, a stark drop from previous years.

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Self Service Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Effort Score 76

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

From lead conversion rates (CVR), click-through rates (CTR), and Net Promoter Scores (NPS), companies use multiple metrics to analyze the effectiveness of their CX strategy. Then, use metrics like churn rate, CSAT, and CVR to gauge which touchpoints are negatively impacting CX.

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Strategy Customer Experience How To Multi-Channel 195

Kustomer

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Other great uses of proactive support include: Dynamic FAQs: FAQs are a simple but very effective method of proactive customer support through self-service, and the more dynamic they are, the more information and satisfaction the customer will get out of it. Have robust customer self-service tools in place.

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Self Service Effort Score Omni-Channel Chatbots 88