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Expert insights on customer experience, employee engagement, and service leadership. Stay ahead with Brad Cleveland’s blog—featuring CX trends, actionable strategies, and real-world solutions to help you improve customer satisfaction, streamline operations, and drive business success.
Providing a Poor Customer Experience Is Costly
When customers go through what they consider to be major customer service failures, the company providing the poor experience pays a heavy price. According to a recent study by SDL: 64% of customers stop recommending the company, start looking for alternative brands,...
How Will the Internet of Things Affect Customer Service?
As the world becomes increasingly connected, the Internet of Things, or IoT, is becoming more prevalent. (IoT refers to the connection of wireless devices to the Internet and to each other. These devices have the ability to sense their environment, both internal and...
Can Social Media Generate Revenue?
You bet. Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) has been interacting with customers through social channels since 2010. They currently have a team of 150 agents dedicated to social interactions, operating 24/7 and supporting 14 languages. According to VentureBeat, they handle...
Too Many Contact Centers Missing the Boat
According to Dimension Data’s 2015 Global Contact Center Benchmarking Report, 52% of contact centers do not share customer intelligence across the broader organization. This is an inexcusable miss—this intel can be a rich R&D opportunity, helping the organization...
Three Major Developments in Service Delivery
Does Service Impact Stock Price?
Yep. Over a seven year period, the S&P 500 Index gained 51.5%. According to Watermark Consulting, customer experience leaders enjoyed a stock increase 77.7%. And laggards? They saw a drop of 2.5%. Follow Watermark Consulting for updates. Or in any country or...
Connecting Hiring, Training and Coaching
55 Billion
According to ICMI, 55 billion agent-assisted interactions are handled in the U.S. annually. Couple that statistic with Dimension Data’s research showing that 74% of organizations worldwide predict an increase in customer interactions. Pondering these numbers should...
Communicating Access Alternatives to Customers
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