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Boulder Colorado The Creative Alliance Digital Marketing Agency has a New Resource on Customer Service KPIs

May 20, 2022 Episode 174
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Boulder Colorado The Creative Alliance Digital Marketing Agency has a New Resource on Customer Service KPIs
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Boulder, Colorado based digital marketing agency, The Creative Alliance, has a new resource on customer service KPIs and user experience design.

If you’ve ever been on the receiving end of a frantic call from a customer, you know that it takes a great deal of patience and understanding to de-escalate the situation, address their concerns, and turn their disappointment into delight at a satisfactory resolution. It also takes a great deal of empathy, which is an important common thread between great customer service and exceptional user experience (UX) design.


In growing companies that don’t have UX design teams, customer service representatives often bear the burden of compensating for poor interface design by filling in the information gaps and handling tasks a user can’t complete on their own. This can leave a customer service team feeling like it’s drowning in a flood of calls, emails, and endless negative feedback.

Leveraging Metrics to Inform UX Design

When you’re ready to make the long-term investment in better UX in order to take some stress off your customer service team (and to increase conversions as a bonus!), where do you begin? 

How might you better understand the unmet needs of your customers? And if your goal is to reduce the friction customers experience when interacting with your website or apps and support higher interaction volumes, how will you gauge the success of the UX enhancements you make? 

The key is to gather data both before and after a UX-improvement initiative. Changes in customer service metrics can not only help you identify the areas that need attention, but they can also help you determine the effectiveness of the UX changes implemented to address those customer roadblocks.

A Deeper Dive for More Helpful Insights

Many customer relationship management (CRM) systems can track key customer service metrics, like:

  • Call and email volume
  • CSAT (customer satisfaction)
  • FRT (first response time)
  • AHT (average handle time)

These are great metrics when you want a bird’s eye view of your support operations. They not only indicate how your customers feel about the support they’re receiving, but also the products or services you’re offering. However, these figures are really just scratching the surface. 

Let’s say you’re experiencing a spike in email volume and a drop in customer satisfaction. Your natural response will likely be, “Why?”

Undesirable changes in KPIs should prompt research into the cause or causes of those changes. Capturing and analyzing both quantitative and qualitative feedback can help you pinpoint the source of poor customer experiences and then develop and implement changes to correct the problem.

In our example, you might begin by determining why an increasing number of customers are calling and emailing. Can you and your team identify the top five reasons for customer calls and emails? Of this list, are there any tasks a user can complete on their own, without customer service support? That might factor

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