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.
Customer Service and Contact Center Statistics
Are you looking for meaningful customer experience and contact center statistics? We put together a compilation that can help you make a case for great service. You can find it in the Statistics area of our website—and be sure to check back, because we’ll be updating...
Anticipating Customer Needs
Customer expectations are changing quickly! Here are ways to anticipate their needs.
How Will the Internet of Things Impact Contact Centers?
As more smart devices become connected to the Internet, you can expect increasing impact on contact centers—beginning with the amount of data streaming into service operations. This will add to the workload of reporting and analytics teams, but will also put more...
7 Suggestions for Improving Schedule Adherence
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...