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5 Tips for Productive
Multi-Channel Customer Service
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David Lowy VP, Product Management,
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5 Tips for Productive Multi-
Channel Customer Service
David Lowy,
VP, Product Management
September 12, 2012
Agenda
Importance of the Customer Experience
The Five Tips:
1. Maximize First Contact Resolution
2. Leverage Your Knowledgebase
3. Right Channel Your Customers
4. Create Great Agent Workspaces
5. Push to the Right Channel
Measuring Success
Conclusion
Importance of the Customer
Experience
Better Customer Experiences Drive Revenue
Total annual impact
(in millions)
Better Customer Experiences Cut Costs
7
3 out of 4 consumers move to another channel when online customer service
fails, costing an organization an average of $22 million.
And...Customers Expect You to Respond on Social
Tip 1: Maximize First Contact Resolution
Tip 1: Maximize First Contact Resolution
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First Contact
$49
First Contact First Contact
$49$49
10+ Days
> $300
10+ Days10+ Days
> $300> $300
24 Hours
$61
24 Hours24 Hours
$61$61
2 Days
$155
2 Days2 Days
$155$155
Source: ServiceXRG (www.servicerxg.com)
Service Delivery Costs vs. Time to Resolve
Tip 1: Maximize First Contact Resolution
Tip 1: Maximize First Contact Resolution
Deploy a unified
knowledgebase
Tip 2: Leverage Your Knowledgebase
Tip 2: Leverage Your Knowledgebase
Focus on Dynamic Content
80/20 rule applies
• 80% of questions are answered by 20% of your content
Outline workflow specifically around mission-critical,
high volume content
• e.g. New policies affecting customers, product recalls, new
products
Find the balance between perfect and timely content
Develop a workflow to drive continuous
improvement
Build It Together
Embrace social interactions & collaborate tools
Collaborate, Collaborate, Collaborate
• Customers
• Partners
• Employees: Extend the contact center to the back office
Extend content creation
• Wikis
• Blogs
• Forums
Tip 2: Leverage Your Knowledgebase
Deploy it
EVERYWHERE
Tip 3: Right Channel Your Customers
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
Social Media
Mobile / SMS
Virtual Agent
Screensharing
Click to Call
Community
Chat
Knowledgebase FAQ
Telephone
Tip 3: Right Channel Your Customers
Most Used Customer Communication Channels
Tip 3: Right Channel Your Customers
• Self-service
• FAQs
• Site search
• Virtual agent
• IVR
• Social
Low Complexity
• Virtual agent
• Mobile
• Proactive or reactive chat
• Community forums
Medium Complexity
• Click to call
• Proactive or reactive chat
• Co-browsing
• Telephone
High Complexity
Offer online customer service channels to meet your customers’ needs
Tip 3: Right Channel Your Customers
Web Self-Service: Your First Line of Defense
• Is your Help Center easy to find?
• Does it offer answers to all your most frequently asked questions?
• Does it contain a contextual escalation path to live support?
• Is search prominently featured?
Tip 3: Right Channel Your Customers
Auto Acknowledgement
• Setting expectations
• Pointing to self-service tools
• Bypass Web forms
Auto Response with auto-close
• 100% accurate?
• Describe escalation methods
Auto Suggest
• Multiple questions
• Customer history or data
Auto Delete
• Thank you
• Customer history or data
Tip 3: Right Channel Your Customers
Chat: Location, Location, Location
Every page?
“Contact Us” Page?
Inflection Points?
Proactive vs. Reactive
Tip 3: Right Channel Your Customers
Proactively engage your customers
• Use analytics to determine whether or not to engage a customer
• Use metrics to create conditions and rules for candidates
• Rule and agent initiated customer engagements
Leverage existing Web content during session
• Teach agents the customer experience
• Use Chat Text and Page Push
Data Collection
• Name
• Email Address
• Subject
• Hidden Data
Tip 4: Create Great Agent Workspaces
Tip 4: Create Great Agent Workspaces
Provide access to 80% of needed information 80% of the time
Customize workspaces based on agent skills
Provide simple integration to data – invoices, billing, histories
Tip 4: Create Great Agent Workspaces
A workspace is a user interface which enables an
agent to perform day-to-day activities effectively.
Flexibility – Map workspaces to business processes
• Role-based user interfaces
• Channel-specific agent workspaces
• Controlled access to external data
Productivity – Everything is one click away
• Reduce number of clicks/keystrokes for navigation
• Single view
• Maximize screen real estate
Manageability – Non-programmatic design & deploy
• Drag & drop design
• Edit / read-only access
Tip 5: Push to the Right Channel
Tip 5: Push to the Right Channel
Tip 5: Push to the Right Channel
Tip 5: Push to the Right Channel
Tip 5: Push to the Right Channel
Tip 5: Push to the Right Channel
On your Web site
• Home page
• In global navigation
• Help page - list channels in the order you want customers to use them
Market channels in all customer communication
• Work with marketing to create a service awareness program
- Educate customers on the service options available to them
Remind customers about available service channels whenever possible in:
• Newsletters
• Up-sell, cross-sell emails
• Direct mail
• Social marketing
Measuring Your Success
What’s Next: Measuring Success
Criteria for measuring success:
• Transaction Completion Rate
• Deflection
• Positive Experience
• Repeat Use
• Increased Time on Site
• Conversion Rate
• Customer Satisfaction
• Revenue
• Web Traffic
Watch Out for Common Obstacles
Conclusion
Five Tips to Productive Multi-Channel Service
1. Maximize First Contact Resolution
2. Leverage Your Knowledgebase
3. Right Channel Your Customers
4. Create Great Agent Workspaces
5. Push to the Right Channel
These tips give you a new model for servicing
customers that will increase agent productivity,
reduce cost, and increase profit per interaction.
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