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Outbound Call Center Solutions
As companies have become increasingly competitive, and seek ways to reduce costs,
increase cross-selling and reduce customer churn while increasing new product or service
sales, many are turning to creative outsourcing programs from high quality outsourcers
such as First Call Resolution for outside the box thinking on customer service support,
sales, and retention capabilities.
We specialize in building creative outbound calling solutions for companies across all
industries that help them meet their quality, productivity, and cost goals. We have
developed a unique combination of industry knowledge, sales experience, proprietary
toolsets and technologies as well as support disciplines that set us apart as an outsource
partner. Our capabilities extend to B2B as well as B2C calling solutions.
Our solutions target the following areas of support: Customer Service, Technical
Troubleshooting and Informational Updates, Billing Queries, Collections, Surveys / Data
Gathering, New Product Selling, Up Sell/Cross Sell Programs, Customer Retention
Programs, and Customer Save Programs.
The following are examples of outbound calling programs we have implemented for
companies across most industries:
- Customer Re-Acquisition Calls
- Customer Retention Calls
- Follow up Calls
- Lead Generation
- Loan Counseling
- Order Follow Up Calls
- Soft Collections
- Surveys
- Telemarketing
- Telesales
- Up-Selling
- Welcome Calls
As a customer care / customer service project matures over time, First Call Resolution
has repeatedly shown that as we gradually learn more about our client’s business
philosophies and subscriber base we are able to then provide added value in the following
areas of service, sales and support:
- Reduce customer churn
- Increase new product selling
- Increase revenues
- Reduced fraud
- Increase contract re-ups
- Reduced early termination
- Reduced Bad Debt
- Targeting of preferred subscriber base
- Increased service quality
- Service Volume Reductions
- Increased targeted up-selling / cross-selling
- Increased collections
- Customized reporting
Impact Outsourcing using Targeted Outbound Calls
Through the utilization of creative and flexible outbound programs, in areas such as
welcome calls, 2 week follow up calls, 6 month calls and retention calls, First Call
Resolution is able to build solutions that go above and beyond simply customer care.
The following are advantages First Call Resolution expects our clients to realize as we
creative and customize proactive, next-generation projects such as Welcome Calls,
Follow-up Calls, Surveys and Retentions Calls that target each client’s specific needs.
Our strength is building solutions that focus on specific challenges, and then customizing
over time these solutions to achieve required goals. Our experience has shown that each
application we build for each of our clients can have a positive impact on their overall
business plan both now, as well as down the road. The following are simply examples:
- Ongoing revenue through targeted cross sales / up-sales focusing on increased
revenue per customer
- First Call Resolution strongly believes that there is a direct correlation
between average revenue per customer, perceived customer value and
customer churn.
- Opportunities to increase revenue per subscriber are often programs aimed
at educating customers to additional products and services that fit their
lifestyle and buying habits.
- First Call Resolution can focus on increasing sales or additional product
offerings to the current user base by introducing customers to products and
services specifically tailored to their lifestyle, thus making each client’s
services more valuable to each customer and that customer less likely to
churn.
- Increased service quality at lower costs
- First Call Resolution has consistently proven the ability to lower service
costs while increasing service quality through utilization of our Roseburg,
OR call center.
- With a high quality, yet low cost employee base, we can fit the bill for any
and all solutions and lower your service costs.
- First Call Resolution provides a different approach to servicing each of
our client’s customer bases. We directly incent each service and support
agent with incentive based compensation, basing their salaries on ideas
such as closed sales, service levels, 1st call closure rates, answer time,
keystrokes, etc.
- Reduction in unpredictable inbound call volume
- Providing focused outbound programs to new customers who target
specific goals can significantly reduce inbound customer service calls by
proactively addressing common problems before customers have a need to
call for support.
- Both service quality and agent utilization will greatly increase as each
program stabilizes; and as a result, we can control inbound volumes more
effectively.
- Fraud Detection and Prevention
- New account activation fraud is prevalent across all industries. Initial
outbound calls can provide an opportunity to verify user information,
confirm their order and reduce the time fraudulent accounts are active.
- Increase in Customer Data Gathering and Data Verification
- Through verification of insufficient customer data, First Call Resolution
can provide each client a much more thorough and targeted understanding
of their subscriber base for future marketing purposes.
- First Call Resolution can also use these proactive calling programs to
gather data as to improvements your customers which to see in the near
term.
- Customer Surveys
- Our experience has helped us create models that provide an opportunity to
conduct real-time customer surveys during or at the end of each call to
capture valuable marketing data concerning your customers’ needs and
level of satisfaction.
We look forward to helping you better service, support, sell to and understand your client
base in the future. In addition, ask us to show you how we can create new revenue
opportunities.
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