Customer Experience Blog

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.

Caution: Don’t View Contact Center Performance Measures in Isolation

Caution: Don’t View Contact Center Performance Measures in Isolation

Consider a few examples that illustrate the interrelated nature of contact center performance measures: Cost per contact going down may actually be a bad sign. Viewed alone, a dropping cost per contact would seem like a positive indication. However, if errors and...

The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 11: A Multichannel World

The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 11: A Multichannel World

The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 11: A Multichannel World If you were to walk into an Amazon.com customer contact center, you'd see desks turned sideways so that Fire tablet support agents have a neutral background for video calls (one-way, agent-to-customer)....

Recent WebTV Interview on Customer Service Trends

Recent WebTV Interview on Customer Service Trends

Earlier this week, I joined Laura Sikorski on the WebTV show, Sikorski's Think Abouts. In this 12-minute interview, we discuss the trends shaping service and how to meet today’s fast-evolving customer expectations.

How Many Customer Service Interactions Go Wrong?

How Many Customer Service Interactions Go Wrong?

According to a Nuance commissioned survey of 1,000 American consumers, a quarter (26 percent) of customer service interactions are a negative experience. Among Generation X consumers—those born between 1965 to 1980—this number rises to more than one-third (36...