Showing posts with label crm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crm. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Graveyard Not Bad At All

One of the worst things in life is getting stuck with an enduring question that keeps popping in and out of your head while you go out and try to make a living for yourself. A question that goes in and out but you don’t get to answer because you are anxious with an activity called work. What is worst is if that question is directly related to it

We enlisted the help of some alleged "experts" when it comes to doing the graveyard shift and they came up with almost the same answers. Normal answers like hassle free traffic to and from the office stands to be the best reason to do graveyard. Yeah, I think they do have a very good point there. I would rather cross the Avenue knowing that I wouldn’t get to see yuppies, old time employees and newly grads strolling along and making the beeline to the nearest building entrance. Another reason would be the less hassle on your pocket. I can probably say that I can survive one shift with P20.00 in my pocket because I don’t have to worry about any parking fee and other incidentals that come along with doing a morning shift. Yes, it’s less expensive in the evening.

Some of our more trendy "experts" would reason out negligence in dress code as one big factor why graveyard is so cool. Doing the morning shift gives you the feeling of formality. The graveyard shift provides you with an outlet to be whatever you are, just as long as it is within the bounds of the company's rules and regulations. Call Center “owls”, when it comes to fashion, only have one motto, diversity.

Some also consider the non-presence of the sun as one big aspect why they prefer to do graveyard. With all factors considered. I thought long and hard and I came to the conclusion that hey, it’s not all of the above mentioned factors that made me understand that I made a good decision with sticking to graveyard. It’s the vibe, the feel that you are doing something out of the ordinary; something that feels different from the norm. Sure, I'll graduate eventually into a morning shift that comes with a shift in priorities. But as of now, I will enjoy the fact that some time within my so called life, I came to do something different and I enjoyed it, made some money out of it and made some lasting relationships along the way.



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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Follow up calls to the client? Ineffective

The most normal system of consumer’s fulfillment measurement is the follow-up phone survey, where a person often a survey specialist at a third-party firm calls the customer anywhere from one hour to several days after dealing with the call center and asks the client quite a few questions concerning his or her experience. This method is straightforward trendy and, according to experts… ineffective.
“While issues exist with all customer satisfaction measurement methods,” says Dr. Jodie Monger, president of Customer Relationship Metrics, “this method is the least money-spinning, has many biases allied with the compilation method and results, and provides the largest challenge to reliably linking results to a CSR.”
Some call centers still use mail surveys, which, says Monger, are also not very cost-effective and have even more biases associated with them. Even more awkward is the issue of timeliness when using such surveys; consumers normally don’t receive the survey in the mail until three to five days after the interaction with the call center took place making it nearly impossible for the customer to clearly remember the details of the experience. Consequently, consumers either ignore the assessment or respond as best they can despite the time that has lapsed, which can lead to watered-down ratings or comment that doesn’t perfectly reflect what transpired during the operation.
Timing is the whole thing in consumer’s satisfaction capacity according to analysts at Gartner Group.
Real-time consumer feedback is the pulse by which an enterprise can regulate and modified its designed consumer experience to guarantee that it meets and exceeds, where necessary customers’ expectations. …The most significant aspect of response is timing. Gartner has determined that feedback composed instantly after an event is 40 percent more accurate than response collected 24 hours after the even the affair.

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Monday, October 8, 2007

CRM On Demand

The popularity of CRM applications in a business cannot be denied at all. But now in the last few years, there has been yet another change on the CRM front.

Traditional CRM software has been replaced by much sharper and precise on demand solutions called ‘CRM on demand’. What exactly does CRM on demand comprise of and what does it offer to your business that more conventional forms of CRM applications don’t? Well, for starters it is completely tailored and created just for your business. So you save a lot of time and money on upfront IT investment.

There are of course a lot more benefits of CRM on demand.

Benefits for your business
• One of the most important benefits that has been instrumental in the growth of ‘on-demand CRM solutions’, is the cost.
• While more traditional forms of software will cost you on a yearly basis with costs running up to millions of dollars up front, the on demand CRM software comes with a monthly subscription charge per user.
• Exclude the cost of implementation, infrastructure and yearly support and you have a deal that you simply cannot afford to lose out on.
• Also the pricing can be altered as you wish. There are many CRM vendors who allow you to pay only for the services that you need.
• Since most ‘On demand’ CRM solutions are web based, it eliminates the need for servers, databases and a complex network system.

Features
• On demand CRM solutions will bring about a marked improvement in all aspects of your business including sales, marketing and service.
• You are giving your sales reps a powerful tool that enables them to make faster and improved decisions.
• Your marketing team will be able to hit the right target audience at the right time with the right message.
• Increased efficiency will help you to keep your customers loyal and minimize costs.

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By: venkatbabu