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.

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