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Happy customers shaking hands with service providers

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The next level: customer engagement

Companies are talking about customer engagement and the concept is causing a stir in service-driven companies. But is customer engagement just a new buzzword for customer experience or is it taking companies to the next level? Andrew Cook explores...

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Apples vs oranges

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Apples and oranges: the dangers of bad Net Promoter Score benchmarking

When we think about Net Promoter Scores, it’s easy to leap to Apple as the ideal player to emulate: how many other companies can boast such a fervent...

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Why is CSAT an important metric?

A company’s customer satisfaction score, or CSAT, may not be a crystal ball for understanding every aspect of your customers’ needs, but it can be an...

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Customer shaking hands with a sales person

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Is it hard to be your customer?

The Customer Effort Score (CES) is rapidly gaining popularity as a way to measure customer experience. While both the Net Promoter Score and Customer...

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Young professional discussing his NPS statistics

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Is the NPS a predictor of growth?

18 December 2014 – Andrew Cook

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Aim high for your customer satisfaction score

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Aiming high on your Customer Satisfaction Score

In a competitive marketplace where businesses vie for customers, your Customer Satisfaction Score is a key differentiator and, increasingly, has...

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Woman Rating her experience via cellphone

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Effecting efficiency and the Customer Effort Score

Measuring the key drivers of customer retention and loyalty is a key focus for organisations seeking to refine their knowledge on how transactional...

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Red arrow representing the bottom line

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Up Your Net Promoter Score, Up Your Bottom Line

The rule of thumb in advertising when it comes to accessing the success of a TV commercial or any other radio, print or outdoor campaign is quite...

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Customer rating their experience

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Building customer-centricity solutions through adaptable software

Business, like life, can be messy. A one-size-fits-all approach to your customer-centricity solutions in today’s fast-paced and demanding business...

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Customer Courney

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Why you need customer journey mapping for your business

7 November 2014 – Andrew Cook

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Why measuring customer satisfaction is vital to reduce the churn rate

Measuring customer satisfaction can help you reduce the number of unhappy customers. This is particularly vital when you consider 1st Financial...

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Contact centre staff making a heart shape

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What’s your customer care strategy? Follow Mr Lawn’s example!

Every business should have a customer care strategy. Surprisingly, most of the businesses we encounter don’t. When problems or complaints arise, as...

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Woman giving feedback with her phone

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What is enterprise feedback management?

As we enter the “age of the customer”, we need to use and understand all of the tools that can assist businesses in getting to know their customers...

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Email Survey

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Using email surveys for business analytics

As business shifts focus from big data to data analytics, we’re starting to find that more businesses are benefiting from the value that can be...

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Trying to understand customer needs

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What are customer requirements?

Do you remember the comedy film What Women Want, starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt? Many organisations feel like customer requirements are similar...

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Woman listening to customer on the phone

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All listen and all action – the voice of the customer

American author Ernest Hemingway once said, “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” It is good, practical advice that...

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Too many emails

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Is email feedback the perfect survey choice?

Did you know that in the time it took you to read this sentence over 204 million emails had been sent around the world? It is a statistic that both...

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The battle of customer experience

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Customer satisfaction wars

Customer satisfaction has become absolutely essential in achieving business objectives as it provides a metric against which to measure and improve...

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Business people shaking hands

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What difference do customer experience management solutions make?

The importance of sound customer experience management solutions cannot be stressed enough. It provides business with the differentiator that’s...

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