How Your Inbound Call Center Failed You and Your Customers This Past Holiday Season
How Your Inbound Call Center Failed You and Your Customers This Past Holiday Season
Inbound Call Center- When Your Partner Fails You
How Your Inbound Call Center Failed You: It was supposed to be a banner year for retailers this past holiday season. Shoppers were poised to spend like they haven’t done in several years – and they did. But your holiday season lacked the sparkle you counted on, didn’t it? You had fantastic products, and great holiday pricing. So what went wrong? Your inbound call center failed your customers. And in doing so, they failed your business.
The thing is, your inbound call center doesn’t have to be awful to damage your reputation with customers.
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There’s a big difference between taking orders and serving customers
No one knows that better than your customers. We’re betting your customer “care” agents didn’t even bother to say thanks – in word or demeanor. Or their “have a nice day” was delivered so robotically that it lacked even a pretense of personal interest. How do you feel when you’re treated with indifference? Or impatience?
There are lots of other ways your call center might have dropped the ball this holiday season. You can uncover precisely what went wrong by using this quiz to grade your fulfillment efforts. We’re guessing you’ll discover there’s a lot more to an exceptional inbound call center than you might think. That’s good news, though, for two reasons:
- You’ll know not only what you’re missing but how you can upgrade your call center to really wow customers.
- The improvements you make based on what you learn will ensure that both your customers and your company have an exceptional experience every day in 2018, not only when the holidays roll around again.
What makes an exceptional inbound call center?
At USA Fulfillment, we call it “high touch” – an unswerving dedicating to treating very one of your customers as if they were our customer. Because they are. Companies like yours may be our clients, but we cannot wow you unless we deliver exceptional customer experiences on your behalf. Consistently.
We’re the first to admit that not every company out there is a good match for our high touch approach. For many, getting things mostly right, most of the time, is acceptable. After all, no one’s perfect, right? But if your brand promises the best, then you cannot afford to give your customers anything less than that, in any detail. You need a high touch inbound call center.
But there’s more
Customer orders are just the beginning. To really wow them, you need a fulfillment partner that delivers a high touch experience all the way to each customer’s door. How can you find such a partner? Reading our free e-book, “Choosing the Right Fulfillment House for Your Company,” is a great place to start.
With the right partner, you can replace customer failures with greater-than-ever customer spending and loyalty.
