Identify Your Customer’s Stress & Make It Go Away

1. Identify Your Customer’s Stress & Make It Go Away A primer for digital marketers and online businesses on customer experience management Presented by Chris Ezekiel @chrisezekiel
2. Just a little about Creative Virtual • WHO WE ARE: Creative Virtual is a leader in self-service customer experience solutions for over 10 years. • WHAT WE DO: Our technology helps optimise the customer support, sales, marketing and call centre teams to reduce costs, increase online sales, and achieve operational excellence across mobile, web and social media channels • WHO WORKS WITH US: Organisations like HSBC, Citibank, Autodesk, Verizon, CA Technologies, National Rail Enquires, E*TRADE, Tesco Mobile, JP Morgan Chase, and Lloyds Banking Group rely on our technology. • WHERE TO FIND US: We have offices in the UK, USA, Netherlands, Australia, India and Singapore. You can find us online at www.creativevirtual.com or follow us on Twitter @creativevirtual.
3. Reality Check WARNING! THIS MIGHT SHOCK YOU.
4. You’re Stressing Out Your Customers You strive for engagement, but when customers reach out for help – you drive them away!
5. Customers are DYING for your Attention! Source: LivePerson: The Ideal Online Experience Survey, 2013
6. They Use Multiple Channels To Talk to You Source: Navigate The Future Of Customer Service. Forrester - February 1, 2013 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% Live Agent FAQs Email IM/Live Chat Click to Call Forums Virtual Agent SMS Twitter 2012 2009
7. And Make Choices Based On Your Response Source: DimensionalResearch.com, ZenDesk.com 55% bought from a different company after having a bad customer experience.
8. Service is a Prime Marketing Channel
9. Give Customers What They Want Of consumers prefer telephone support Of consumers prefer online support 6535% % Source: US Online Omnibus Q4 2010
10. You Must Be Where Your Customers Are
11. Provide Personalised Answers
12. Great Service Leads to Great Results Increase in Sales(1) Increase in Customer Satisfaction(1) 6030% % Source: ₁ Navigate The Future Of Customer Service. Forrester - February 1, 2013 Mobile Mobile
13. 3 Steps to Improve Your Customers’ Experience
14. The 3 Steps SYNC PREDICT DELIVER Knowledge Management Sync data across all channels Intelligent Virtual Agents Deliver accurate, consistent and personalised data across all touch-points Conversational Analytics Predict what customers are going to ask next
15. SYNC: Knowledge Management • Eliminate departmental silos • Manage cross-channel content from one platform • Create customer specific conversations for virtual and live agents
16. PREDICT: Conversational Analytics • Use customer feedback to power your decisions. • Gain insights into customer behaviour and interaction. • Understand what questions are going unanswered.
17. Data Helps Optimise Customer Interactions Source: Aberdeen Group, 2012: Multi-channel Contact Center: Establishing the Tie Between Mobile and the Customer Experience
18. DELIVER: Intelligent Virtual Assistants • Multi-channel: – website, blog, smartphones, tablets, game consoles, Facebook, Twitter, etc • Always On/Always Available 24/7 • Engages with thousands of customers simultaneously • Lower cost per conversation
19. Virtual Agents Achieve Many Multi-Channel Goals Source: Aberdeen Group, 2012: Multi-channel Contact Center: Establishing the Tie Between Mobile and the Customer Experience
20. On The Beach “Ask Alison” answers questions with 98% accuracy
21. Autodesk Product Selector Drives 20,000 users per month
22. National Rail Enquiries “Ask Lisa” answered 32,000 questions in one day
23. Renault “Ask Renault” answers questions with 97% accuracy
24. Verizon Mobile self-service traffic increased by 30% with VA (Up from 700 – 24,000 conversations per month)
25. Three Key Takeaways & Action Items • DELIVER: Provide access to consistent and accurate information that is personalised and available everywhere. Deploy intelligent virtual agents. Customer Experience Revenue&Retention • SYNC: There is only one company in the eyes of the customer. Eliminate silos using knowledge management tools. • PREDICT: Answer customer questions before they ask them. Use conversational data.
26. What the Future Holds for Digital Marketers • Customer Service becomes the New Marketing. • Mobile becomes the primary communication channel for customers. • Organisations become more widely hyper-connected. • Virtual Agents live online and offline (think kiosks and holograms) • Ensemble Interactions
27. Get in Touch With Me By email: chris@creativevirtual.com On Twitter: @chrisezekiel On the web: www.creativevirtual.com

Editor's Notes

WHY CUSTOMERS ARE AGGRAVATEDYou didn't/won’t deliver on your promisesThey can’t reach you (not open, takes too long, they get cut off)Info not up to date/correctNot willing to be helpfulAgents have an attitudeThey can’t find what they are looking for quickly, easily Image URL: http://goodtoknow.media.ipcdigital.co.uk/111/000002432/3678_orh220w334/a-woman-getting-annoyed-on-the-phone.jpg
You’re inability to service customers effectively, has consequences, affects brand perception and sales.Figures haven’t changed much over the years – and yet the Internet moves so quickly – 8 years ago yesterday first posting on YouTube – now gets 1 billion unique users per month. Launched careers etc.
Different channels have different answers. There is no consistency. Little personalization. But so many channels are hard for organizations to manage. Departmental silos mean different departments have/provide information. But customers see you as ONE company. They don’t care about internal workings. Need to provide ONE COMPANY VOICE. Trend 1: Channel preferences are Changing Rapidly Customers expect to use a broad variety of communication channels — self-service, voice, digital, and social — to interact with a company. Voice is still the primary communication channel that all demographics use, but voice is quickly followed by self-service channels, chat, and email. And channel usage rates are quickly changing. In the past three years, Forrester has seen an 18% rise in online web self-service usage, a 39% increase in the use of communities for customer service, and a 43% rise in chat usage (see Figure 3). In addition, newer channels such as cobrowsing, virtual agents, and SMS have gained traction. Consumer usage is one factor in choosing which channels to deploy; another factor is ensuring that the channels deployed support the corporate brand. For example, for an investment firm catering to high net-worth individuals, voice and other live-assist channels rise in importance compared with a retail brand that caters to a youth audience for whom online, chat, and social channels may be more important.In 2013 and beyond, customer service professionals will work on better understanding the channel preference of their customer base and better aligning their channel strategy to support their company’s brand proposition. They will also work to guide customers to the right channel based on the complexity and time sensitivity of interactions and put proper escalation pathways in place to ensure a seamless transition from one channel to the next without losing context to ensure a pain- free service interaction.Ensemble Interactions (Gartner).
Respondents with good customer service experiences where more likely to increase their purchasing activity, while more than ½ of those with bad experience bought a different company. 58% said they are more likely to tell others about their customer experience today than they were 5 years ago. It’s no secret that consumers are increasingly sharing information online. For businesses, this means positive customer experiences are more valuable then ever, especially since bad experiences have long lasting results.
There has a been a paradigm shift in the way customers want to interact. They are demanding self-service and want to engage with you on their terms – when and wherever they want.
Smartphone use is growing seven times faster than traditional desktop Internet access across the EU (Comscore, May 2012).
Talk about why personalization is so important to engaging with customers
Trend 2: Mobile solutions are Becoming a Must-have More than one-third of US online adults own a smartphone; 43% of them fall into Forrester’s SuperConnected consumers category.8 SuperConnecteds use their phones for information, research, commerce, and service. Mobility is gaining in importance in customer relationship management (CRM), not only because of increased consumer usage and satisfaction with this touchpoint, but also because of productivity gains. In a recent BearingPoint survey, organizations reported that mobile CRM delivered a 60% increase in customer satisfaction, a 30% increase in sales, and a 30% increase in productivity.9 Today, virtually all customer service vendors offer some mobile customer service capabilities.10 Many specialty customer service vendors supporting field agents also have robust mobile extensions of their applications. However, customer service mobile applications remain nascent as more companies focus on their mobile marketing, sales, and eCommerce mobility strategies.In 2013, customers will demand greater ability to interact with customer service organizations via mobile devices. Customers will also demand multimodal capabilities from mobile devices — for example, reading a FAQ while speaking with a customer service agent. Companies will respond to this challenge by creating centers of excellence that span marketing, customer service, eCommerce, and IT functions that are responsible for crafting a company’s mobile engagement strategy and designing mobile architecture blueprints to manage companywide mobile technology investments.12 More companies will move away from duplicating their web presence for their mobile offering and will focus on deploying the right usage scenarios that add value to customers in a mobile environment, with focused user experiences that allow them to accomplish tasks efficiently.
98% of the 120,000 questions asked.
User Feedback“Absolutely fantastic service, much easier than I expected.”“Very helpful thank you”“Very useful as I will be going to Europe in May thank you.”(January 2010)
Between January & December 2010:FiOS TV’s monthly call avoidance increased by 68%, finishing the year with an average of 34.08% Call Avoidance.High Speed Internet’s monthly call avoidance increased by 59%, finishing the year with an average of 27.26% Call Avoidance.
Great customer experiences leads to increased revenue and retention.
Not just sales & marketing, but Sales, Marketing & Service

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