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Increasing Customer Loyalty in Your Contact Center

Contaqt
10/14/19
Increasing Customer Loyalty in Your Contact Center

Customers are more segmented, diverse, and critical about the brands they purchase services from. However, every customer desires a positive experience to keep coming back.
Introduction
Nowadays, determining what drives consumer behavior, especially your target audience, can be difficult. With the digital age, customers are more segmented, diverse, and critical about the brands they purchase services from. This means that a variety of different people have different needs and wants. Overall, however, every customer desires to have a positive experience in order to keep coming back for your services.
Focusing on the experience of your recurrent customers is cost-efficient as well as rewarding for your customers, which keeps them coming back happy and increases your contact center’s customer loyalty. There are numerous ways in which you can easily boost the experience your customers have with your contact center, including ones that customers encounter before they even call.
Make Your Contact Center Known
One of the biggest and most important factors in keeping customers coming back is enabling them to find information about your contact center quickly and easily.
Before customers call, they may research your contact center about something simple, such as hours of operation, or deep digger to find reviews from people or companies who have already had an experience at your contact center. Regardless, the majority of customers research your contact center, so it is crucial for you to provide them with easy-to-access information.
Besides the digital information that customers will want to research, they may also view additional sites or speak to a friend. Take note of sites where your contact center may be featured and take advantage of the information you may be able to upload on those specific sites, which can then spread awareness of your contact center.
A Trait Customers Seek: Consistency
Whether customers are seeking support or are interested in a service, they have high expectations for the type of customer experience they will receive.
Consistency in customer experience is key to increasing customer loyalty. When customers receive the same great customer experience every time they call, they are surely to come back as well as recommend you to new customers.
To achieve consistency in customer experience, keep track of agent performance, wait times, and other KPIs. By evaluating your contact center often, you can identify the services or knowledge your contact center may be lacking.
In many cases, contact centers lack the correct tools to achieve the exceptional level of customer experience that customers seek.
No One Wants the Same Old Thing
Personalization makes the difference between the type of experience customers will never come back to receive again and the type of experience that will keep them coming back every time.
Customers may be exposed to personalization tools such as text-to-speech technology, which enable your contact center to create customizable voice messages derived from the contact center CRM systems using an external API request. Overall, personalization tools create a personal connection between the customer and your contact center.
Personalization tools significantly increase customer loyalty, however, they may be difficult to convey to the customer without a powerful platform.
Contact Made Convenient
The easiest way to create recurrent customers is to give them all the ways in which they can contact you with concerns, comments, or questions. Omnichannel programs do just that.
By adopting omnichannel programs, such as SMS or chat, customers are more likely to want to contact you due to the convenience non-voice communications provide. Customers want to reach you through whichever channel they want and if they can’t, it can seriously hurt your contact center and risk those customers not coming back. On top of that, customers who get frustrated by the lack of convenient channels are more likely to report a negative experience than customers who can contact you through their preferred channels.
Conclusion
Maintaining exceptional customer service is essential to increasing customer loyalty. Customer loyalty, however, is not as easy to obtain as you may think due to modern customers’ high standards.
By being aware of where and what contact center information is listed on your website or other sites online, maintaining consistency, personalizing customer experience, and adopting omnichannel programs, customer loyalty will be headed your way. It is important to keep in mind that a powerful platform will make or break the services your contact center can provide.
Be sure to always be on the lookout for platforms that contain the tools you lack to create more recurrent customers and help scale your contact center.