Articles - Customer Effort

Customer effort plays a major role in shaping how people feel about your service. This hub of expert insights, case studies, and practical guidance explores how to identify and remove friction points that make customer interactions harder than they need to be. Learn how to measure effort with the CES metric, streamline processes, and design simpler experiences that save time for both customers and advisors. The resources also share real-world examples of how reducing effort can increase loyalty, efficiency, and overall satisfaction.

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Customer Effort and Emotion – 10 Reasons to Take Action Today
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Top 10 Customer Experience KPIs
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How to Improve the Customer Experience – With a Checklist
6 Key Metrics for Your Call Centre Dashboard
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The Top 10 Customer Service Strategies That Stand the Test of Time
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What Is Proactive Customer Service? With Examples
How to Reduce Friction and Add Rewards to the Customer Experience
9 Strategies to Improve Customer Satisfaction
14 Best Practices from the Vax Contact Centre
7 Ideas for Lowering Customer Effort
Recorded Webinar: How to Reduce Customer Effort in the Contact Centre
12 Ideas Taken from HomeServe’s Contact Centre
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How to Calculate Customer Effort
Less Than 20% of Contact Centres Calculate Customer Effort
7 Things That World-Class Contact Centres Do Well
How Do I… Predict My Customers’ Behaviour?
How Can Technology… Make Life Easier for My Customers?
This Shouldn’t Happen to a Customer…
NetPromoter vs Customer Effort – Which is Best?
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25 Ways to Reduce Customer Effort
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Recorded Webinar: Customer Effort and the Contact Centre
Is Customer Effort the Best Metric?
How to make your customers feel loved
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19 Tips for Reducing Customer Effort