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Client Inquiry:Uptime/Availability Statistics For Retail Sites

Are there any uptime/availability statistics for retail sites that Forrester can provide?

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Tool:Call Center Satisfaction Correlates With Retention

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Report:Want Loyalty? Improve Your Call Center Customer Experience

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...

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Report:How Satisfied Are Consumers With Web Site Experiences In 2010?

Consumers Rate Their Satisfaction With 87 Web Sites Across 13 Industries

Forrester recently asked US online consumers to rate their satisfaction with Web site experiences at companies they've done business with across multiple industries. When the results were tallied,...

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Report:How Does Social Media Contribute To Customer Experience? Let Us Count The Ways

It's Time To Document Best Practices For Social Media And Customer Experience

Social media already plays a role at each step of customers' complex journeys to discover, evaluate, buy, access, use, and get support for products and services. Customer experience professionals...

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Tool:Tested Grocers' Sites Showed Common Shortcomings

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Tool:Change In Satisfaction With Phone Interactions Between 2008 And 2010

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Report:Health Plan Customer Experience Professionals' Introduction To Making Proactive Chat Work

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...

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Tool:Overall Results For Tested Grocers' Sites

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Report:Attention Health Plans: Consumers Want Control Over Their Communications Preferences

Health plans want to engage consumers, but are their communications getting through? Consumers want control over their communications preferences, and only a third say that health plans do a good job...

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Report:The Business Impact Of Customer Experience, 2011

Improvements Can Add More Than $1 Billion In Revenue For Wireless Carriers And Hotels

Customer experience professionals must clearly articulate the business benefits of improving customer experience. Years of Forrester data confirm the strong relationship between the quality of a...

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Client Inquiry:Measuring In-Store Customer Experience

How do companies measure customers' experience after visiting a retail store? What methods do companies use to identify, contact, and survey customers after they have interacted with staff in a...

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Report:Case Study: Pizza Pizza Cooks Up A Successful Mobile App

One of Canada's largest pizza chains wanted to be the first to market with a mobile experience that offered greater convenience to its customers. The company partnered with mobile agency Plastic...

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Tool:Call Center Satisfaction Correlates With Positive Word Of Mouth

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Report:How Satisfied Are Consumers With Phone Experiences In 2010?

Consumers Rate Their Satisfaction With Phone Experiences Across 13 Industries

For many companies, the phone is a major channel through which they interact with customers. Forrester surveyed 4,653 consumers to find out how satisfied they were with the phone interactions they...

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Report:Best And Worst Of Website Experience, 2011

Benchmarks: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook

This report is an update to "Best And Worst Of Website User Experience, 2011" originally published on November 18, 2011. This report outlines how customer experience professionals can benchmark...

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Report:Mothercare Uses Knowledge Management To Unify Customer Experience Across Touchpoints

Specialty retailer, Mothercare Group, worked with self-service vendor, Transversal, to improve knowledge management across its three key touchpoints — the Web, call centers, and retail stores....

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Report:Call Center Experiences Leave Consumers On Hold For Something Better

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...

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Report:The Customer Experience Index, 2012

Benchmarks: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

This report provides benchmarks of the quality of customer experience at major companies. It should be used to help customer experience professionals set goals and optimize as they transform their...

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Report:Best And Worst Of Website User Experience, 2010

Lessons Learned From 35 Website User Experience Reviews Across Six Industries

In 2010, Forrester reviewed the website user experience of sites in six industries: banks (Canadian and US), discount retailers, health plans, marketing software vendors, PC laptop manufacturers, and...

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Report:The Business Impact Of Customer Experience, 2010

What A Higher Customer Experience Index Score Can Do For Revenue

To help customer experience professionals prove the business value of a better enterprise customer experience, we built simple models that show how revenue increases when a company's Customer...

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Report:Banks And Retailers: You Cannot Price Your Way Out Of Bad Customer Experiences

Why Customer Experience Matters More To Loyalty Than Price

Have you ever wondered whether it makes more sense to invest in customer experience or in dropping your prices to improve customer loyalty? We tested the relationship between customers' perceptions...

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Tool:Increase In Three Loyalty Measures With A 1-Point Increase In CxPi Score

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Tool:Assumptions Used As Inputs For The Customer Experience Revenue Model

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Report:A Market Researcher's Introduction To The Future Of Online Customer Experience

The types of devices people use to connect to the Web are proliferating. Portable devices are rapidly getting more powerful, and as a result, the tradeoff between mobility and capability is...

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