12 Days of Xmas #4: My contact centre manager said to me: We have to simplify our contact channels
On the 4th day of Christmas my contact centre manager said to me, “We have to simplify our contact channels”
Many marketers complain about the unresponsiveness of customers, but have they thought about just how hard it is to make contact with your organisation? Channels, media, intermediaries and aggregators have proliferated, making it harder to listen and respond even for B2B companies.
I was once asked to review the situation regarding national helplines for a particular service. We uncovered:
- 27 different national telephone helplines published across all media; 3 of which were dead; 1 transferred to another!
- Lots of general propositions; some errors and unclear messages
- Multiple choices of where to seek assistance
- Variety of call costs & differing opening hours
- High cost-to-customer as well as high cost-to-serve
- No strategic overview of the MI or interaction quality
This had a massive detrimental impact on the customer experience:
- High customer effort
- Customer journey dead-ends & customers giving up
- Risk of customers receiving differing (possibly conflicting) advice; or no answer to their question!
Maybe you should treat your company – and your customers – to an outside-in review of channel and media listening and contactability.
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Peter Lavers is a co-founder and Director of Customer Attuned Ltd.
An expert in CRM and customer experience management, Peter is regularly recognised as a top influencer in the subject.
He's a SAS Collaborator and IBM Futurist; and regularly features in "top people to follow" lists for Customer Experience, Customer Service and Customer Success.
His early career was 18 years with Rolls-Royce and Bentley Motors, after which he jumped the fence into business consulting, helping clients improve customer experience and value.
An expert in CRM and customer experience management, Peter is regularly recognised as a top influencer in the subject.
He's a SAS Collaborator and IBM Futurist; and regularly features in "top people to follow" lists for Customer Experience, Customer Service and Customer Success.
His early career was 18 years with Rolls-Royce and Bentley Motors, after which he jumped the fence into business consulting, helping clients improve customer experience and value.
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