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How to measure Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty

This guide explains how to measure Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty using KPIs such as NPS, CSAT, and CES.

Knowing how to measure customer satisfaction and loyalty metrics is the most critical factor in making your customers happy and keeping them coming back.

The good news is that measuring these is pretty straightforward. There are three key metrics you should know about: NPS, CSAT, and CES.

NPS tracks your customers’ loyalty over time. CSAT helps you understand how satisfied customers are after those special moments in their journey with you, and CES lets you know how easy it is for customers to get the answers they need.

With data gathered from all three metrics, you’ll have a complete picture of how you’re serving your customers ‒ and where there is room for improvement.

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What is Net Promoter Score (NPS)
Why use NPS?
How to measure and calculate NPS
What is Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT)
Why use CSAT?
How to measure and calculate CSAT?
What is Customer Effort Score (CES)?
Why use CES?
How to measure and calculate CES?
Key Takeaways

What is Net Promoter Score (NPS)

One way to measure customer satisfaction and loyalty is by calculating the Net Promoter Score. NPS measures the likelihood of your customers recommending your product or service to their friends. It is the most widely used CX metric, with nearly two-thirds of businesses using it. Why is it so popular?

NPS is a powerful metric for measuring customer loyalty with just two questions. It is short and simple for companies to implement and track and for customers to answer. The first question is some variation of: How likely are you to recommend [product or service] to others? And the second question is: What is the reason for the score?

Why use NPS?

  • It’s quick, simple, and easy for both companies and customers
  • It calculates how loyal your customers are likely to be
  • It shows the big picture
  • It’s an industry-standard metric: it is widely and well understood, and there are available benchmarks
  • An increase or decrease in NPS helps forecast future revenue gains or losses
  • It’s also used to evaluate word-of-mouth marketing campaigns

How to calculate NPS

How to measure and calculate Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty: NPS survey

Calculating NPS is quite simple:

  • Send an email or a store survey with only two questions
  • Have a scale from 1 to 10 for the customers to rate
  • Sort the respondents into three groups: Detractors, Neutrals/Passives, and Promoters
  • Those who answered 1–6 are Detractors, 7–8 are
  • Sort the respondents into three groups: Detractors, Neutrals/Passives, and those who answered 9-10 are Promoters.

Subtract the total number of detractors from the total number of promoters.
The formula is: NPS = % Promoters – % Detractors
If the results show that 70% of your customers are promoters and 10% are detractors, your NPS score will be 60%.

How to measure and calculate Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty: NPS

What is Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT)

CSAT, along with NPS, is one of the most commonly used CX metrics. It comes in various shapes and sizes, but the most common is using a 1 to 5 scale. An excellent example of CSAT is Google or Facebook ratings. CSAT is a perfect tool for determining whether a customer is satisfied with a one-time interaction. . CSAT is also easily adaptable to any specific needs of an organization.

Why use CSAT?

  • CSAT is simple and efficient to implement
  • Customers’ responses are typically straightforward and quick
  • It’s targeted, and responses help determine which aspects of the product/service customers are most satisfied with or dissatisfied with
  • It can be tailored to any specific area or need
  • It is frequently requested of a customer following a transaction or support ticket to assess the efficiency of the customer service department
  • CSAT is an excellent way to learn what customers think of a brand at the moment

How to measure and calculate CSAT?

  • Send a short survey immediately after customers’ interaction with your brand or their interaction with a specific area of your service or product
  • Usually, the survey contains only one question: “How satisfied were you with your experience/our product/service today?”
  • Provide a scaling system (on a scale of 1-5 or 1-10) from very satisfied to very dissatisfied
How to measure and calculate Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty: CSAT survey

Calculating the CSAT can be done differently, depending on what works best for the business.

  • Use Happy-Neutral-Unhappy Ratings
  • Use 5-star ratings
  • Use one of the Two different formulas:
How to measure and calculate Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty: CSAT formula

With these formulas, you can:

  • Take an average of all the results. In this case, the CSAT formula is to add all scores and divide the total by the number of respondents. Then, multiply the result by 10 to get the CSAT score %.
  • To calculate an average customer satisfaction score, take the number of “Very Satisfied/Satisfied” responses, divide by the total number of respondents, and multiply by 100.

Here are examples for both:

  • Your CSAT survey had 20 respondents. If the total of their scores is 100, you have a 50% CSAT score.
  • If you had 20 respondents and ten said “Very Satisfied/Satisfied,” the CSAT score would be 50%. (0,5 times 100).

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What is Customer Effort Score (CES)

CES analyzes the amount of time and number of steps taken before the customer reaches an answer or solution. Lower effort means a higher level of client satisfaction with the service. It is the third most popular customer experience metric that involves the customer’s input.

The more accessible (and more effortless) you make the customer experience, the more likely your customers will buy from you again.

According to research, 94% of customers who had an easy experience are more likely to buy again. Also, 81% of the customers who felt like buying was too much effort are more likely to share their negative experiences, compared to 1% of those who had an easy time.

The CES is typically calculated by asking customers, “How easy was it to solve your problem today?” on a scale of 1 to 5 or 1 to 7.

How to measure and calculate Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty: CES survey

Why use CES?

  • CES is simple and efficient to implement
  • It assists you in analyzing the product/service’s complexity
  • It evaluates the ability to improve usability. Furthermore, reducing effort may increase customer loyalty. As a result, CES may be the best metric for predicting loyalty

How to measure and calculate CES?

  • Send the survey immediately after the customer interaction. Ask your customers to rate the interaction from low to high in the survey. To calculate the score, see the average and distribution of scores.
  • The formula is: CES = Sum of all customer efforts score / Total number of responses.
How to measure and calculate Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty: CES formula

Key Takeaways

We’ve covered the three most popular metrics on how to measure customer satisfaction and loyalty: Net Promoter Score (NPS), Customer Satisfaction (CSAT), and Customer Effort Score (CES). These metrics will provide you with important insights on how to enhance various elements of your business and will give you a sense of how easy your customers find it to use your product or service. This can result in satisfied consumers who stick around longer and spread positive word-of-mouth marketing. 

If you have difficulty identifying, tracking, and measuring Customer Experience metrics, you can always reach out to us. FrontLogix provides strategies for improving your overall customer experience and improving the NPS, CSAT, and CES scores.

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How to measure Customer Journey

This is a super-comprehensive guide on how to measure the Customer Journey as a whole, by phases, and by specific touchpoints.

By measuring the Customer Journey, you can get actionable insights into your customers’ motives, emotions, and behavior. This can reveal areas where customers may be dropping off or facing friction, allowing you to then use that knowledge and improve your Customer Experience.

The Customer Journey can be analyzed in a variety of ways, including measuring the entire journey as a whole or breaking it down into individual stages and touchpoints.

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What is the difference between Customer Journey and Customer Experience?
Why measure Customer Journey?
What is a Customer Journey Map?
How to measure the Customer Journey as a whole
How to measure Customer Journey by phases
1st phase: Awareness or Evaluation
2nd phase: Consideration or Onboarding
3rd phase: Purchase or Adoption
4th phase: Retention or Renewal
5th phase: Loyalty or Advocacy
How to measure Customer Journey specific touchpoints
Drawing a conclusion

What is the difference between Customer Journey and Customer Experience?

The Customer Journey is the process a customer goes through when engaging with a brand to purchase its product or service. It covers the specific progression of the customer across every touchpoint, starting from when they first discover the brand (awareness stage), to the final purchase and turning into a brand advocate.

Consumer Experience, on the other hand, refers to a customer’s overall impression of a brand based on interactions throughout the customer journey, including aspects such as product quality, customer service, and any other factors that influence their opinion.

The Customer Journey plays a great part in the overall Customer Experience. CX is, however, more holistic and includes a wider range of factors than just the Customer Journey.

What gets measured, gets done.

Why measure Customer Journey?

Measuring the Customer Journey will help you understand how you are seen by your customers. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are a great way to track and measure CX, but understanding WHICH ones to measure, WHEN measurements should be taken, and HOW to interpret the results can be tricky.

To start measuring your Customer Journey, you need a plan. You could measure the journey as a whole, measure the stages of the journey, or measure individual touchpoints. 

But first, it would be helpful to have a Customer Journey map. This map will identify all the journey phases and touchpoints for a more straightforward measurement.

What is a Customer Journey Map?

A Customer Journey Map is a visual storyline of the Customer Journey. It depicts the individual touchpoints and steps a customer goes through while engaging with a brand ‒ from customers’ initial awareness of the product or service to post-purchase review. 

Its purpose is to help businesses better understand the customer experience, identify pain points and areas for improvement, and align business goals with customer requirements and expectations.

How to measure the Customer Journey as a whole

Measuring the customer journey means measuring customer success during all phases and via all journey touchpoints. The essential metrics for overall success are:

  • Net Promoter Score (NPS): Measures customer loyalty and advocacy, or how many of your customers are likely to recommend your products/services to a friend. This is usually done on a scale of 1 to 10. It can help you understand how the overall experience works in the journey, including customer sentiment towards products, pricing, onboarding, retail experience, marketing, touchpoints, brand, and customer service.
  • Customer Satisfaction (CSAT): Determines how satisfied your customers are with your products/services and the customer experience you provide. This measures how happy or unhappy they are with an overall product/service or specific features (for example, returning a product).
  • Customer Effort Score (CES): Measures the effort customers require to achieve what they want, including placing an order, getting a question answered, resolving an issue, or returning a product. Usually, the higher the customer effort, the lower the customer loyalty.
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How to measure Customer Journey by phases

Measuring customer journey phases means measuring each stage your customers will go into when becoming part of your journey.

There are 5 most common customer journey phases (for both SaaS and B2B).

1st phase: Awareness/Evaluation
2nd phase: Consideration/Onboarding
3rd phase: Purchase/Adoption
4th phase: Retention/Renewal
5th phase: Loyalty/Advocacy

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1st phase: Awareness or Evaluation

Are your customers aware of your brand, products/services, and features?

The essential metrics to measure in this phase are:

  • Share of Voice (SOV) in the market: Measures your brand’s market share compared to your competitors. SOV measures your brand’s visibility and how much you control the conversation within your industry.
  • Website visits/website users: Measures the number of visits or users created on your website over time.

    2nd phase: Consideration or Onboarding

    Are customers looking for your brand when they want to buy the type of product/service you offer?

    The essential metrics to measure in this phase are:

    • Organic keyword traffic: Measures the volume of a keyword used in search engines to attract free website traffic over time.
    • Direct website traffic: Measures the volume of visitors that arrive at your website directly, without first clicking on a link on another website.
    • Monthly Active Users (MAU): Measures how many users actively engage with your product or service over a specific time. In this case, the number of active users in a month.
    • Store visits (if physical store available): Provides the number of people who have visited your physical store over time.

    3rd phase: Purchase or Adoption

    Are customers completing their purchases once they begin the purchasing process?

    The essential metrics to measure in this phase are:

    • Abandoned cart rate: Determines the total number of completed purchases divided by the number of carts created.
    • Store visits vs. Purchases (if physical store available): Measures how many people have visited your store and purchased a product/service you are selling.

    4th phase: Retention or Renewal

    Do your customers return to your brand for a second purchase after the initial one?

    The essential metrics to measure in this phase are:

    • Customer Lifetime Value (CLV): Determines ​​the total value of a customer to a company throughout their relationship.
    • Customer Retention Rate: ​​Measures the number of customers who return to your business or continue to pay for your product/services after a certain period.
    • Customer Churn Rate: Measures how many customers have left your company over time or are no longer paying for your product/services.
    • Customer service ticket volume: Measures the number of tickets customers submit over a period of time.
    • The number of return visitors: Measures the number of customers that return for a possible second or third purchase after their initial one or after they have visited your store within a determined time frame.

    5th phase: Loyalty or Advocacy

    How likely is it for your customers to recommend your brand after shopping with you?

    The essential metrics to measure in this phase are:

    • Customer Referral Rate: Measures how many people refer and recommend your brand to their friends or colleagues. It is the ratio between referred purchases and total purchases.
    • Net Promoter Score (NPS): Measures the likelihood of your customers recommending your product/service to others.
    • Sentiment via social listening: Measures what is being said about your brand on social networks and if it is negative, positive, or neutral.
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    How to measure Customer Journey specific touchpoints

    Measuring specific Customer Journey touchpoints means defining all possible touchpoints (how customers act with your brand) and setting specific measures to see how each touchpoint performs.

    Here are some examples:

    Example #1: Digital touchpoint metrics (in case of an online store or web-based service placement):

    • Chat/call/ticket volume: Measures the number of chats, calls, or tickets received over a certain time period. This shows precisely how many of your customers need help.
    • First contact resolution: Measures how many of your customers resolved their problems in a single interaction.
    • Average resolution time: Measures how long it takes to resolve a customer’s problem, on average.
    • Average response time: Measures how long it takes for the customer experience rep (CXR) to respond to a customer query.
    • The number of tickets reopened: Measures the number of tickets reopened over a specific period because the customer was dissatisfied with the initial support and must return for the correct solution.
    • Average handle time (AHT): measures the total amount of time spent in conversation with each customer by each contact center agent – including hold time and time spent completing forms or other tasks as a result of the conversation – and the length of the conversation itself.
    • Customer satisfaction survey: Determines how satisfied your customers are with your customer support, services, or products.
    • Frequency of up-sells & cross-sells: The number and frequency of up-sells/cross-sells made.

    Example #2: Physical touchpoint metrics (in the case of a retail store):

    • Store visits vs. number of purchases
    • Total order value/cart size
    • Overall sales in retail
    • The number of queries for the staff
    • Overall cross-sell & up-sell

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    Drawing a conclusion

    Measuring your customer experience is more than necessary. It’s crucial. There are so many factors to consider and so many metrics to follow. Those metrics will tell you different aspects of your customer’s journey with your brand.

    If you have difficulty identifying, tracking, and measuring all those metrics, you can always reach out to us. FrontLogix provides strategies for improving your overall Customer Experience and KPIs.

    Contact us today.

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    How to improve Customer Experience

    If you’ve read previous entries of this blog, you already know the importance of exceptional Customer Experience and its impact on business growth. But reaching Next-Gen Customer Experience is not an easy job! This guide reveals what to do to improve your customer experience.

    It’s all about the people

    No matter what the tech companies say about chatbots and AI, you still have to have the right people! No software will help customers as much as talking to a real human will. So, to improve Customer Experience, you need to have a dedicated team of Customer Experience Representatives (CXRs) who will always be there to take proper care of your customers.

    This team of skillful, knowledgeable, resourceful, creative, educated, well-trained, and helpful people will be accessible whenever your potential or existing customers need them. They’ll listen to your customers, understand their questions, and keep them happy. Your team needs to prioritize learning everything about your business, its products, competition,  strengths, and weaknesses, and knowing how to provide solutions best to help your business grow.

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    Get there on time

    Customers hate being on hold, no matter how nice the music is. 
    A report by TalkTo shows that customers spend, on average, 43 days of their lifetime being on hold, which is equivalent to 13 hours per year. That is 43 days (and nights!) that one can spend doing something – less frustrating.

    Reduce call wait times and improve the scheduling and coverage of your contact center. Have flexible support personnel available during peak times.  Add extra call queue settings like Queue Call Back, which provides callers with a call-back service as soon as possible. The queue to Voicemail, which allows callers to leave a message rather than wait in line, and Queue Size Limit, which sends callers directly to voicemail when the maximum queue limit has been reached.

    Your customers just want their questions answered or their issues resolved. Not in minutes, seconds. And at any time, day or night. So, no matter the time zone, business hours, or communications channels – You. Have. To. Be. There.

    The Omnichannel experience

    The omnichannel experience combines interactions from several channels into a single, seamless experience. As a result, if a customer abandons an item in their shopping cart on one platform, they will see an advertisement for the identical item on another. This ensures a personalized customer experience, which leads to improved conversion rates, more sales, and increased customer loyalty.

    Furthermore, omnichannel support links to every customer service channel. As a result, data is centralized, and customer effort and time are reduced across all interactions. Customers can carry on a conversation with customer care from chat to email, an app to phone call, without having to describe their problem from the beginning.

    That’s exactly what customers expect from brands—seamless communication and exceptional care. 

    Delivering the omnichannel experience is challenging but will improve your customer experience and business growth. Make sure you put effort into everything you do

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    Seven tips on how to improve the Omnichannel experience

    1.     Mobile-Friendly

    Aside from being informative, stable, and speedy, it is critical that your website be mobile-friendly, given that over 63% of Google queries are mobile-related.
    There are two ways to optimize the website for mobile devices. The first is through a responsive web design, and the second is a “mobile-first” approach.

    A responsive web design automatically resizes the elements in the website to make it look good on all devices. Mobile-first refers to initially developing a website for the more restricted mobile phone version and then expanding its functionality to build a tablet or desktop version.

    While responsive website resizes – but keeps – all the content to make it physically possible to read, mobile-first websites have proactive changes in the overall design. Mobile-first design reduces bulky content and considers factors such as white space, font size, and load time, resulting in a better overall user experience.

    When designing the mobile version of the website, avoid including too many animations and other elements, as these will make loading the page’s content more challenging. Remember that visitors will leave your website if pages don’t load quickly enough.

    Thanks to a mobile-friendly website, anyone who attempts to access your website on a mobile device will have a positive experience, encouraging people to view you as a reliable source of information, goods, and services.

    2.     Live chat support

    Many of us fret about making phone calls and choose to message instead. At the same time, we seek immediate solutions.  With live chat, you give your customers a method for immediate contact and fast problem resolution.

    In an ongoing chat, agents can evaluate the customer’s tone and create rapport by mimicking style or changing formality to match the customer’s. Aside from providing a more genuine method to demonstrate your agents’ personality, chat tools facilitate query resolution by allowing the agent to share a screen with the customer or provide links and screenshots.

    Even if your customers don’t need to talk immediately, being ready to assist them creates trust.

    Have a chat prepared with quick and instant replies, or for connecting with a CXR. Live chats are an excellent tool for immediate response and an appropriate bridge for linking with a CXR.

    3.     Social support

    According to Statista, the average daily social media usage of internet users globally was 147 minutes per day in 2022, with 86% of users following a brand on social media and 25.1% doing so to communicate with them, according to a report from Sprout Social.

    Whether the experience was pleasant or negative, many customers use social media to share their thoughts and communicate with brands. Social media is a wealth of opportunity for developing a meaningful relationship with your target audience. 

    Customers need to find you via social media. If you have the proper communication and support on social, it will massively add to your CX equation.

    4.     Self-service solutions

    While some customers may contact you for an immediate answer, some customers would rather self-serve to find a solution by reading a FAQ or watching a video. In fact, more than 60% of consumers prefer digital self-service over alternative service choices. The reality is that customer self-service, in actuality, serves a distinct need; it delivers faster fulfillment. 

    Apart from contributing to improved customer experience, self-service reduces costs by allowing you to assist a huge number of consumers simultaneously. It also improves customer service by decreasing duplicate requests in your queue, making support work pleasurable, and contributing to more engaged and happier agents.

    Bear in mind that not all self-service is effective at assisting consumers. Complicated technology and poorly configured chatbots that make it challenging to find a quick answer keep customers in endless loops can only add to customer frustration.

    Good self-service provides flexible automation features, FAQ knowledge base, video tutorials and product training, and chatbot escalation options. 

    When effectively implemented, good self-service solutions increase business productivity while decreasing customer-service expenses

    5.  Email support:

    Customers prefer to communicate via email since it leaves a solid paper trail, is easier to track and preserve, and is essential for some more official exchanges.

    Have an email dedicated to your customer’s queries, and check it frequently. Reply to their emails immediately, and provide solutions right into their mailboxes.

    Email support is excellent for lengthy discussions and sending large files. It also comes in handy for boosting sales. The advantage of using mail is that it allows you to incorporate promotional materials and recommendations while replying to consumer inquiries. Email is an efficient, quick, low-cost communication and marketing tool that adds to the funnel.

    6.     Phone & SMS support

    Phone support – the essence of customer service – is still the preferred method for customer issue resolution. In an age of automation and device-mediated interactions, phone assistance gives your business a human and personalized touch.

    As the human voice has a significantly stronger influence on the brain than written text, phone support allows you to make a pleasant and lasting impression on customers. The phone is still the number one contact method when customer experience complicated issues.

    Always have a dedicated support number available for your customers.  A line that they’ll be able to reach at any time. And if they prefer to text instead of call, give them that too. They will appreciate the effort.

    7.     In-app support

    Finally, have a prepared solution for all your customers who don’t text or call and don’t prefer email or live chat. Find out the channel or the app they use and be there. Customers who are used to communicating via messaging apps will find in-app assistance a familiar experience. Provide support via Messenger, WhatsApp, and any other platform your customers use and find valuable. Adjust to their communication habits and show up in the right places. You will not believe the satisfaction you’ll get with such a simple step.

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    The Bottom line

    Customers will have all sorts of questions. While you can’t predict everyone, you can foresee how customers will try and get in touch to ask them. Make sure you make it easy to contact you in the ways they prefer. They need to feel appreciated and heard because served customers are satisfied customers!

    We at FrontLogix firmly believe in this cycle. Every situation has a solution, and we are here to provide one. Get a quote today.

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    Customer Experience (CX) and its impact on business growth

    Here we list nine ways CX impacts business and drives growth.

    Great CX improves customer satisfaction and loyalty, leading to higher sales, increased revenue, and improved brand reputation. A growing body of evidence shows that companies can increase their revenue 5-10% by improving their customer experience strategy. Still not convinced how a great CX can impact your bottom line? Here are nine more reasons:

    9 ways Customer Experience impact business

    1. CX improves relationships with your customers

    Good Customer Experience and customer satisfaction go hand in hand. The better the Customer Experience, the higher the customer satisfaction. Therefore, companies focused on providing seamless, outstanding, and consistent Customer Experience across all customer journey touchpoints are more likely to increase overall customer satisfaction. And what does it mean to have satisfied customers? It means they will buy more!

    2. CX enhances customer retention

    Getting new customers is hard. But keeping customers and persuading them to come back is even more challenging. This challenge is called customer retention.

    Retaining a customer means that your company’s brand, product, or service is more valuable than your competitors’. This is precisely why customer retention is a critical key performance indicator (KPI) to be tracked, observed, and improved over time.An excellent Customer Experience shows your buyers how valuable they are, which helps retain them and drives business growth. If you want to learn more about how CX enhances customer retention, download our guide.

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    3. CX improves Customer Lifetime Value

    Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) is one of the most important metrics for a company. Essentially, CLV measures the total income a company may expect from a typical customer as long as they remain on board.

    And how do you keep them on board? By keeping them happy, valued, and heard by providing an outstanding Customer Experience. Improved CLV also means improving customer retention and avoiding customer attrition (churn). It drives repeat buys and encourages high-value sales, increasing profitability and growth.

    4. CX reduces customer churn

    Customer churn is inevitable. At some point, your buyers will stop using certain products or services. And there can be many reasons for this, like fierce competition, price, product quality, and most pertinent to this post, poor support and customer service.

    More than 80% of customers are likely to churn if not given a good CX. While you may be unable to control what your competitors are doing, you have complete control over how your customers are treated. Lowering churn is the same as increasing revenue.

    5. CX improves CSAT scores

    CSAT is one of the most important KPIs for you to watch. Short for Customer Satisfaction Score, CSAT determines if a customer believes a company’s products or services have met their expectations.

    And how do you improve that percentage? By making more of your customers happy and satisfied. You can do this by improving the Customer Experience through care and support of customer needs.

    6. CX boosts sales

    Great CX and improved sales are linked. Delighting your customers during their journey results in higher sales and more revenue. 

    The cycle is quite simple. Customers that feel heard, understood, and valued will be happy. Happy customers will always ask for more and, even better, will spread the word to new customers.

    7. CX increases brand loyalty

    We would argue that brand loyalty is among the most important (and hardest to achieve) aspects of your business. Why? It reflects the image your customers have of your business. It’s the reason they have chosen you in the first place and why they’ve stayed with you.

    Loyal customers are the ones who keep purchasing. Loyal customers are repeat customers, even when the competition offers something cheaper or better.

    Loyalty is gained through amazing CX. Personal communication, dedicated onboarding, assistance during purchase, post-purchase care, and attention make your customers feel like they belong. 

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    8. CX creates strong brand advocacy

    Once you have all those happy, loyal, returning customers – you have your brand advocates! Satisfied customers stand behind their brand of choice, refer it to others, and recommend it constantly. And not surprisingly, most of the customers recommend a brand based on their Customer Experience.

    Word of mouth is one of the most trustworthy kinds of advertising. To be precise, 92% trust the word-of-mouth recommendations. So, by having an exceptional CX, you’ll quickly gain the promoters that will bring you the growth you want and need.

    9. CX creates a competitive advantage

    You can have an advantage in many business areas and stand out from your competitors. Providing a superior CX is one of the most critical competitive advantages. Customers care that you care. To show you value your customers more than the competitors do is something every company is now fighting for.

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    The big conclusion

    Business growth comes from various areas.  But Customer Experience is always at the core of it.

    Outstanding Customer Experience will help you attract customers, introduce them to your brand, hook them, and keep them in your ecosystem.

    Satisfied customers will become your advocates, make you stand taller than the competition, and help your business grow. So it’s not a question of whether Customer Experience supports business growth. 

    The biggest question is: When will you start improving your Customer Experience and, more importantly, how?

    How FrontLogix can help:

    Front Logix offers personalized solutions to build stronger customer relationships, increase sales, and improve retention rates. Here you can read more about the services we offer. Contact us today.

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    Why is customer experience so important?

    Everybody is talking about customer experience nowadays, but what is CX, and why is it so important?

    The customer’s interactions with your company, brand, product, or service are known as the customer journey. How they feel about all those interactions is Customer Experience.  As the customer moves from discovering the brand and receiving information about products or services, pricing models, and purchasing options to post-purchase handling, troubleshooting, and support, it shapes the Customer Experience. Whether their interactions are offline (in a physical store) or online (e-commerce or social media, email, etc.), doesn’t matter.

    Customer Experience = Brand Experience.

    Each brand is unique, as is every single one of its customers. Therefore, today it’s all about knowing your customers, asking them the right questions, listening to their responses, and acting on their feedback. All of this adds up to a fantastic Customer Experience. Making your customers feel heard is the key to success, as healthy customer relationships create stable and long-lasting businesses. Excellent customer experience improves Customer Lifetime Value (CLV), customer retention, and CSAT score, increasing loyalty and brand advocacy. And this is precisely why Customer Experience is so important.

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    The power is in the customers, not in the brands.

    If you and your company fail to meet a customer’s need – you’re doomed. They sit on the throne today. Customers have the power to shape how business is done like never before.  Because at the end of the day, every business exists to serve its customers.

    Customer Experience has become a top priority for almost every company today. If you want your brand to remain in good standing in the eyes of your customers, you ought to thoroughly evaluate CX.  If your customers like your brand and the experience, they WILL tell people.  They will share on social media, spread word of mouth, review, refer and bring new customers in. BUT they will do the same if they’re unsatisfied. Likely even louder and more aggressively.  Few forces in nature equal an unsatisfied customer.

    The shift from a profit-centric to a customer-centric business model

    As Customer Experience has become a real game-changer,  businesses have become obsessed with delivering mind-blowing customer experiences. The latest trends show a shift from a profit-centric to a customer-centric business model. However, building a customer-centric business and excellent Customer Experience requires company-wide commitment and trustworthy partners. Many times this is easier said than done. And as much as companies want to make this shift, many fail to deliver.
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    Getting your business to the next level

    Today, an average customer uses at least three devices for communication. In their ideal world, they want a seamless transition from tablet to smartphone to desktop to person. This should be the foundation for Next-Generation Customer Experience. But all of this is an exhausting and overwhelming process, and not all companies can do it well. Especially when “well” is not good enough anymore. CX needs to be amazing! That’s why many businesses decide to outsource  Customer Experience to BPO providers and contact centers.  By outsourcing CX, you ensure your customers are handled professionally and promptly. Create satisfied customers, keep them coming back, and elevate your brand to another level.

    Frontlogix takes your success and customers seriously. We provide dedicated CX and many other outsourced business solutions. Contact us today.

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    Bigger or smaller Contact Center BPO: which is better?

    Does the size of Contact Center Business Process Outsourcing providers really matter?

    Well, this can be quite a difficult question. When choosing a BPO provider, there is a lot to know and be aware of, just like when choosing any other business partner. In this guide, you will learn whether you should go with a mid-sized (or smaller) Contact Center BPO over a larger one, and if and why the BPO’s size matters.

    How big is your company and what are your outsourcing needs?

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    The size of the contact center BPO provider depends on the size of the organization looking for those services. Companies often choose the wrong-sized outsourcing partners as they fail to anticipate their outsourcing needs. If you held a party for 100 people and only planned for 50 you would have a lot of hungry guests and overworked waiters. If you planned for 500, you would have food going to waste and staff being paid to stand around. Either way, your party would be a flop. 

    It’s more or less the same in Business Process Outsourcing. You need to have a clear idea of the >>what<<, the >>how<< and the >>how much/how many<< so you can successfully choose a BPO partner that will be able to deliver appropriately.

    The major decision: bigger or smaller contact center BPO?

    There’s one common misconception: the larger the contact center BPO, the better the quality of the service. On the contrary, compared to larger BPO contact centers, mid-sized or even smaller contact center BPOs can provide exceptional and cost-effective services. These smaller players are also more likely to offer tailored, dedicated, and detailed solutions to meet specific requirements. Smaller contact centers usually deliver better outcomes because of the higher levels of staff engagement and offer more customized attention and service to clients.

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    Excellent service comes from outstanding teamwork

    There’s one common misconception: the larger the contact center BPO, the better the quality of the service. On the contrary, compared to larger BPO-contact centers, mid-sized or even smaller BPOs can provide exceptional and cost-effective services. These smaller players are also more likely to offer tailored, dedicated, and detailed solutions to meet specific requirements. Smaller contact centers usually deliver better outcomes because of the higher levels of staff engagement and offer more customized attention and service to clients.

    6 simple yet powerful strategies to improve customer retention

    Can you remember the last time you re-engaged with your customers and tried to win them back?

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    Slightly smaller team, but immense customer satisfaction

    Customer happiness is, ultimately, the most crucial aspect of your business. To achieve this, you must thoroughly research the BPO pool before choosing one to partner with. At the end of the day, regardless of the size, it must produce satisfactory outcomes and deliver the best solutions.

    So, does the size of the Contact-Center BPO provider really matter? It most certainly does! It’s one of the most crucial considerations to make at the start of your BPO partner hunt. You are the only one who can say if “bigger is better” or “less is more” is the right approach for your business.