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Measuring what matters in 2025
Using a one-size-fits-all approach to metrics is like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Every organization is unique, with distinct goals, customer expectations, and operational challenges. So why should your metrics be any different? Traditional metrics like Average Handle Time (AHT) have their place, but they don’t always capture the full picture. As customer needs evolve and businesses prioritize different aspects of the customer experience, the focus is shifting toward measuring what truly matters for your organization and your customers.
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4 Ways to Make Technical Support Easier
As a customer, your goal when buying a new technology is simple: you want it to work as promised. You want the experience to be easy and straightforward, and you want the technology to provide you with the benefits you were offered during the selling process.
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Ten Tips for Stellar Online Customer Service
Customer support can be a costly proposition to companies. However, providing a solid online customer service structure will stop customer erosion and add long-term repeat customers.
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The Online Customer Service Landscape
The search for the ideal customer experience has become a quest across all industries. These days, it’s all about providing the means for your customers to reach you on the channels they choose, and then treating customers with the respect and consideration they deserve.
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Customer Experience: Show Customers Love at Every Stage
Business-to-customer relationships parallel person-to-person relationships in the most basic way: everyone wants to be shown a little love. In business, that translates into providing a great customer experience.
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When it Comes to Customer Service, the Customer is Not Always Right
Since Harry Gordon Selfridge, department store founder, came up with the phrase “the customer is always right,” many companies have used it as a cornerstone for their businesses. Truthfully, though, basing your customer service activities around this concept is bad for business.
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Grow Customer Satisfaction by Practicing Respect
If you respect your customers, they are more likely to respond positively to you and you will increase customer satisfaction.
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Customer Experience Lessons from Buddy the Elf
Wouldn’t it be great if all customers were like Buddy, the naive character played by Will Ferrell in the popular holiday movie “Elf“? All customer experiences would be completely perfect, as demonstrated in this scene where Buddy stumbles on “The World’s Best Coffee.” Even though the coffee being offered in the clip is clearly sub-par, the sign next to it says it’s the “World’s Best”, so Buddy thinks it must be. It’s a customer service agent’s dream.
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10 Ways to Use Customer Service to Say Thanks to Your Customers
There are many reasons for businesses to be thankful to their customers during Thanksgiving, over the holiday season, and throughout the year. Being grateful to your customers should be a central point in your customer service training.
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10 Hard-Hitting Stats on the Importance of the Customer Experience
Incredible customer experiences don’t exactly happen by accident.