E Source , a provider of independent research, advisory, and information services to utilities, major energy users, and other key players in the retail energy marketplace, recently released its  2011 Review of North American Electric and Gas Company IVRs and 3 of the top 7 ranked utilities are leveraging ClickFox customer experience analytics to optimize IVR effectiveness and increase self-service success. One top-ranked provider  increased IVR containment from 30% to 70% with…

This week, Carl Lyon, Discussion Chairman for The QoE (Quality of Experience), a forum designed to foster collaboration and best practice-sharing within the customer experience industry, met with ClickFox experts in Denver to exchange insights on customer experience trends, measurement and business impact in the modern age. The QoE brings together senior executives from large organizations to explore the issues and address the challenges involved in delivering exceptional customer and…

Fast Company has just released our latest infographic (below) on the topic of Social Media and its impact on businesses as a customer service channel. Consumers are increasingly using social media channels to talk about the companies they do business with, but they are also directly interacting with businesses and fellow consumers through online communities, like forums and blogs, to access information, service and support. The Social Media survey sought to discover:

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ClickFox CEO, Marco Pacelli, has a new column over at Business Insider . We’ll be sure to cross-post his articles here as well. Enjoy!

Has a customer service experience ever made you want to scream? You’re not alone. As consumers, we have high expectations for the companies we invest our money in. And when they fail on service, send us through migraine-inducing communications loops and waste our time, we’re…

A few weeks ago, Rob Strickland (Former CIO of T-Mobile and ClickFox advisory board member) sat down for an interview with siliconANGLE TV at EMC World in Las Vegas to discuss, among other things, ClickFox and customer experience analytics. We’ve isolated two particularly powerful snippets from Rob’s interview, each about a minute long, that succinctly describes why customer experience and analytics are so important in today’s enterprise and how ClickFox is addressing the most critical business…

I had an interesting conversation the other day with a colleague who works for one of the largest airlines in the world and we talked about a recent incident that was widely publicized and made them look really bad. He told me there was nothing they could have done to prevent it, so I asked if there was a way to prevent it from happening again, to which he said…

We’ve been busy lately, building a team of top sales talent from software giants Oracle, SAP, IBM, Salesforce.com and others to address the growing need among the Fortune 500 for better customer intelligence tools to improve service and streamline business.

The new hires, attracted to the ClickFox solution and market opportunity over the past six months, comprise a powerful direct sales team to help clients analyze and solve the growing challenges in an increasingly complex customer…

Working with some of our customers, we (and they) see previously unimaginable results. I’m not only talking about hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue and costs savings. I’m talking about huge gains in customer satisfaction scores and mainstream, objective recognition by the likes of  ACSI  and JD Powers  as well as praise by industry analysts (Gartner, Forrester, etc). But then along come some other reports like the annual “MSN Hall of…

In the latest  CEA ⁱ customer experience industry research, ClickFox examined behaviors in customer identification (authentication) during web and phone self-service interactions for more than 300 million consumers in the financial services, telecom, utility and insurance industries. Analysis revealed insight into the following:

• How do authentication rates vary across industries?
• What are the best methods of identifying customers?
• How does authentication impact operations…

Customer retention is a top priority for most companies, especially in highly competitive industries, like insurance or travel. I wanted to share a quick example that demonstrates how a company can be completely blind to the events leading to customer churn. In this case we're talking about an insurance company that I've been a loyal customer of for the past 5 years.

One of the websites I use to…