Three R’s of Contact Center Success: Relationships, Retention, ROI

The goal of any contact center is to provide effective assistance to customers, which in turn maximizes businesses’ contact center services ROI. So, what’s ROI made of? In truth they can be boiled down into three R’s: relationships, retention, and ROI. It is vital that contact center managers take these three elements into account when building out their training and coaching best practices.

Relationships

It is incredibly important for agents to build relationships with their clients in order to provide effective assistance and stimulate heightened customer retention. After all, the more agents understand about their customer, the more likely they will be to be able to understand the problem and help them more efficiently. There are many ways agents can build effective relationships with customers such as garnering insights from their social media conversations, engaging in friendly conversation to personalize their experience and demonstrate empathy and compassion for the consumer.

Retention

Consistently establishing positive relationships with consumers will lead to greater customer retention, a key facet in maximizing contact center services ROI. Any successful business must retain its customers; the value of having a loyal group of customers providing repeat business cannot be overstated. After all, retaining prior customers is far more inexpensive than signing new ones, according to Forbes. Successful customer retention is part of how companies can maximize contact center services ROI. Providing prompt, personalized, and efficient customer service will keep customers satisfied and coming back to your business. This, of course, is all in hopes of creating a strong word of mouth campaign amongst consumers, attracting even more business.

ROI

Just as fostering relationships with clients leads to greater customer retention, greater customer retention yields greater ROI from contact center services. When customers are satisfied, they return to the same company, and as they do, profits increase. Contact centers can increase their revenue by improving their internal practices. Merely training agents to build positive relationships with clients, for example can lead to increased customer retention and ROI.

So keep yours goals within reach by keeping the three Rs of contact center success at the forefront of your mind.

Steve Brubaker began his career at InfoCision in 1985. In his current role as Chief of Staff and as a member of the Executive Team, he is responsible for HR, internal and external communications, and manages the company’s legal and compliance departments. Brubaker is a member of a number of professional organizations, including the DMA and PACE. He also donates his time to serve on several university boards, including the Executive Advisory Board for The Taylor Institute for Direct Marketing at The University of Akron and The University of Akron Foundation Board. He has also been honored with a number of awards and recognitions for his contributions to the call center industry, including the ATA’s highest honor, the prestigious Fulcrum Award.