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7 Solutions to Reduce Hospital Readmission Rates

Hospital Readmissions When a patient leaves the hospital, the last thing they want to do is go back. Yet, hospital readmissions happen all of the time with studies showing 1 of every 4 patients is readmitted following hospitalization. Studies also show that one of the most common reasons for this is insufficient communication for a …

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How Your Contact Center Can Become the Key Driver of Customer Survey Responses

Well, we’re here, and it’s happening: Back in 2013, Walker Insights made the bold prediction that, by 2020, customer experience would overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator –and today’s customers are reporting that it’s true. Consider the following findings from Salesforce Research’s State of the Connected Customer report, second edition: This emphasis …

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Practice What You Preach: A Demonstrated Commitment to Customer Service

Here at Plum Voice, we talk a lot about how our IVR solutions can help improve your customer service offerings. It’s not enough, however, to simply talk the talk. It’s just as important to lead by example, to walk the walk. We recently asked our customers to fill out a survey through TechValidate to let …

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IVR and Audio Transcription: Find the Method That’s Right for You

Quantitative data makes the business world go ‘round and qualitative data provides the nuance and shading to help contextualize all those numbers. But qualitative data can be difficult to obtain and analyze. Using IVR to record and transcribe the customer responses is one way to get qualitative data. There are two different methods that we …

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Case Study: Second To None Expands Voice of the Customer Offerings with Plum Voice

As the old adage goes, the customer is always right. For Second To None, a customer experience research and analytics agency serving leading brands across North America, one of its clients wanted to add telephone surveys to their Voice of the Customer program. At the time, Second To None lacked a voice option for this …

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Case Study: 145% VoC Response Rate Increase with Plum Insight

Customer feedback is the lifeblood of an organization. However, that information is only useful if it’s actually put to use. Collecting data for the sake of collecting data doesn’t do anyone any favors. When it came to customer feedback for their claims department, the Erie Insurance company relied on a manual process. The cost of …

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The Right Tool for the Job: Finding the Best Survey Approach for Measuring Customer Experience

When you think about it there aren’t different survey types. Not really. A survey is simply one or more questions intended to elicit a response on a given topic. Where things start to get complicated is when we factor in the goals we want to achieve by using surveys. When we talk about “survey types” …

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3 Uses of Customer Service Technology in Insurance

Our last post noted how important it is to control the initial customer interaction when it comes to customer self-service over the phone. Once you’ve got control a new challenge arises, namely what do to with that control. Our advice is to wield a scalpel in your approach rather than a hammer. Some of the …

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A Holistic Approach to Customer Satisfaction

The Buyer’s Journey In marketing there is a lot of talk about the “buyer’s journey.” This is a not-so-fancy way to describe the process by which a person discovers and purchases a product or service. So if we’re talking about buying a car, the journey isn’t the picture on Instagram of someone standing next to …

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