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Customer Effort is a measurement of how easy a business is for consumers to engage with. Customer Effort is a measurement of how easy a business is for consumers to engage with.
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Customer Effort is a measurement of how easy a business is for consumers to engage with.

The metric provides a deep understanding of a brand’s customer service, offering more robust insight into the effectiveness of a company’s customer experience than other metrics, such as NPS.

We believe that Effort makes up 30% of customer loyalty. The great news for brands is that every building block that influences a positive Effort score is completely under your control.

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The Results

Here are the Customer Effort Index rankings by sector and region, then the top brands in the UK, US and Australia by sector. Look for the starburst icon for overall Effort scores.

Customer Effort: The Markets View

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It’s not often I feel a sense of national pride. I watched, unphased, as England were knocked out of the last World Cup and I can’t pretend to have any particular sentimental feelings to quintessentially British things like tea, meaty full English breakfasts and politeness.

But upon seeing the UK’s performance across the CEI industries this wave, I almost had to wipe a tear from my eye. This little island, for this quarter at least, now boasts the highest scores for Customer Effort in Financial Services (bumping the USA to second place) and has overtaken Australia in the Technology Retail rankings.

It’s been another wave of interesting developments in the CEI, and my congratulations go to the T-Mobile, Chase, Amazon (twice!), Vodafone (also twice!), Nationwide, Bendigo and Office Works that top their particular industries and georgraphies.

Whether it’s measuring the rise of the digital banks in the UK or the tightening up in competition in Financial Services. We continue to see Customer Effort proving invaluable for measuring what really matters to your customers. So grab a drink – maybe an English Breakfast tea? – and enjoy!

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The Customer Effort Index is based on interviews with 6,000 interviews a year with consumers across the UK, US and Australia. In-depth surveys ask respondents to rate their most recent interaction with a brand according to several dimensions e.g. “making me feel valued as a customer” and “having details explained clearly to you”.

These are then tallied to form our four pillars within Customer Effort: (1) Knowledge & Expertise (2) Style of Communication (3) Speed solving the problem (4) Valuing the Customer.

Responses are collected online.

ContactEngine sponsors the Customer Effort Index

ContactEngine believes that a great customer experience is an effortless one, where life is made as easy as possible for the customer. ContactEngine commissioned the Customer Effort Index to measure how real people perceive the effort it takes to be a customer of some of the leading brands in the world. By enabling a comparison of effort not only within an industry, but across industries, we can identify and learn from the brands who lead on making it easy for their customers to do business with them.