I have talked to many friends and colleagues who complain about people who don’t return calls, emails, and texts—either at all, or when they say they will. These are typically business-to-business or business-to-consumer interactions (vs. personal calls), where the supplier tells a customer: “Let me check...
Companies invest heavily in sales and marketing to grow their customer bases. What they do next to nurture those relationships—especially digital-only customers—leaves much to be desired. The good news is that’s changing as companies hire Chief Customer Officers who are increasing focus on Customer Engagement Management...
I’ll forgo the drama momentarily and get to the important part: Yes, you can get a U.S. passport for your business or personal travel in one day (in fact, in a few hours) at one of the 30 U.S. Passport Agencies. So, if it's a nice,...
I attended the Mitel Next conference in Phoenix last week. Though no big announcements came out of the conference, there were some key takeways. Mitel executives conveyed the message to customers and partners that they’re not abandoning on-premises Unified Communications (UC) or contact center customers. Unlike...
Customer ratings are the top metric companies use to track for success or failure in their efforts to improve customer experience, according to Nemertes' 2018-2019 Digital Customer Experience (DCX) research study of nearly 700 global companies. There is no shortage in the types of customer success...
Nemertes recently completed an extensive research project evaluating how companies are transforming their customer experience. All the rage these days is about AI, or artificial intelligence. Enterprise and business leaders do not rate AI as the most transformative technology for their Digital Customer Experience (DCX) strategies,...
An age-old problem in contact centers is high turnover rates among agents. But contact-center leaders are starting to see improvements through various digital customer experience initiatives. Overall, organizations reduced their annual turnover rate from 24.2% to 16.8%, following their digital transformation initiative. The success was even...
The more advanced analytics that enterprises can continue to add to their contact centers, the better. Agent analytics is starting to get the attention it deserves. It's very closely tied to improving customer satisfaction and success, as well as reducing agent turnover. And as a result,...
Developing a solid Digital Customer Experience (DCX) strategy is a large, complex task—not only because of the number of technologies involved, but because of the even larger number of providers. In our 2018-19 Digital Customer Experience research study, we asked 697 global IT and business leaders...
Nemertes recently completed an extensive research project evaluating how companies are transforming their customer experience. We all know technology can improve the customer experience, but exactly which technologies and how do we apply them? Too much technology, too quickly deployed, can result in frustration and failure. In...
Nemertes recently completed an extensive research project evaluating how companies are transforming their customer experience. In this third episode you will learn what makes a truly successful customer interaction? How does that one interaction escalate into an engaged customer with a positive overall customer experience? And...
Nemertes recently completed an extensive research project evaluating how companies are transforming their customer experience. In the second episode of our Digital Customer Experience webinar series, you'll learn: How are companies organizing to transform CX? Who runs the projects, and who is on the teams? ...
