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Consumers Rate Their Satisfaction With Call Center Agent Interactions Across 13 Industries
Consumers report low satisfaction for conversations with call center agents. PC manufacturers, TV service providers, and Internet service providers receive the brunt of their ire. The good news? The...


Call Center Satisfaction Ties To Loyalty Across 11 Industries
Call center satisfaction correlates with three loyalty metrics: consumers' willingness to repurchase, reluctance to switch, and likelihood to recommend. Call satisfaction also correlates highly with...
We currently use the Key Survey tool and internal resources to monitor website satisfaction. This process has been in place since 2006 with little change. We are considering outsourcing this process...
Focus On Hiring, Training, Incentives, and Metrics
Call centers offer companies daily opportunities to create meaningful connections with customers. When this happens, businesses increase customer loyalty and generate incremental revenue. But...
What Customer Experience Professionals At Other Firms Can Learn
Health insurers need to improve customer experience to gain customers' trust and boost engagement. While most insurers focus on self-service in isolation, Regence BlueCross BlueShield decided to...
What are the differences in the approaches to enterprise feedback management (EFM) for the customer experience (CX) role versus the market insights (MI) role?
Forrester Applies Its Web-Phone User Experience Review Methodology To Four Top US Firms
Forrester applied its Web-Phone User Experience Review methodology to the experiences at four large PC laptop manufacturers: Apple, Dell, HP, and Toshiba. The results: Apple came out ahead, but the...
Adopt An Outside-In Approach To Shift The CRM Mindset
Well-intentioned customer relationship management (CRM) efforts that focus on internal processes and objectives have largely failed to serve the most important stakeholder: the customer. Customer...

What tool sets does Forrester recommend for collecting feedback from users? We are interested in knowing more about newcomers in the space.
Social Media Management Gives Control To Members And Builds The Brand
Giffgaff, a low-cost mobile virtual network operator, uses an online community for customer support, sales and marketing, as well as product development functions. To ensure a positive customer...
IBM SPSS, Globalpark (QuestBack), and Confirmit Lead A Strong, Close Pack
In Forrester's 76-criteria evaluation of five market-insights-focused enterprise feedback management (EFM) vendors, we found that IBM SPSS; Globalpark, a QuestBack company; and Confirmit led the...
Health plan customer experience professionals are tasked with reducing administrative costs (principally by diverting calls from the call center), while driving customer satisfaction scores up. This...
Customer experience professionals depend on surveys for their voice of the customer (VoC) and customer experience (CX) measurement programs. But with so many surveys coming at each individual...
Medallia And MarketTools Lead With Strong Performers Close Behind
In Forrester's 76-criteria evaluation of enterprise feedback management (EFM) satisfaction and loyalty solutions, we found that Medallia and MarketTools led the pack with comprehensive software...
What is the difference between enterprise feedback management and voice of the customer programs?
Best Practices In VoC And CSAT Research For Market Insights Professionals
Market insights professionals often carry out customer satisfaction (CSAT) surveys — a key component in voice of the customer (VoC) research — but then struggle to turn results into...
We are looking for information on the expected rate of return or the high/low rate of return on customer satisfaction surveys. Is there an average rate of return that can be expected or a high/low...