Struggling to keep your head above water when it comes to customer support? Outsourcing some, most, or all of your company’s customer support may be the right option. But if you don’t have sole decision-making power at your company, you may need to present the case for outsourcing to your CEO or other C-suite executives.
How can you push past common objections, show the benefits of working with a partner, and convince your executive team that outsourced customer support is a good idea? We listed five ways below.
At the The City Club of Cleveland on October 13, 2023, our CEO, Sam Falletta, delivered a compelling speech on the evolving landscape of the workforce. His insights into the systemic changes reshaping our industries captivated the audience, leaving a lasting impact on everyone present. Here, we summarize the key points from his speech, highlighting how these transformations are influencing businesses and employees alike.
Outsourcing customer experience (CX) is a pivotal decision for any organization. Your chosen partner will become the face of your brand, so it’s critical to ensure they align with your company’s values and goals. At Incept Results, we understand the significance of this decision and want to guide you through the process with five essential questions to ask a potential CX partner.
Providing a great customer experience should always be your top priority. And if your business is starting to outgrow your in-house customer support team, it may be time to work with an outsourced call center partner.
Outsourcing customer experience (CX) is more than just a cost-saving measure; it’s an opportunity to enhance service quality and achieve significant business results. Selecting the right partner requires careful consideration. Here are five essential questions to ask to ensure your partner can deliver the outcomes you need.
When your customers have been the foundation of your business’ growth, it’s understandable (and even expected!) that there’s a high importance on those relationships. As an expert in conversational marketing, we know what it takes to form and maintain the relationship with your customers.
Whether you have an in-house contact center or you have an outsourced partner, these customer service skills need to be top of mind for all of your call center agents.
Churn is the most important word to your subscription business. A Gartner Group reports that 80 percent of your future revenue will come from 20 percent of your current customers. By investing directly in those relationships, you can ensure you are maximizing the lifetime value of each customer. A study conducted by Bain & Co. cited that increasing customer retention rates by 5 percent increases profits by 25 to 95 percent.
Everyone’s family has a secret recipe for Thanksgiving that’s been passed down over the years. The pie, the stuffing and even the cranberry sauce all have a personal touch that has been tested and perfected lovingly over time.
Many times creating exceptional employee engagement can seem just like that Thanksgiving pumpkin pie – a mysterious recipe that seems just out of grasp, so secret you can’t wait for the day when someone will tell you how to make it perfect. You might test a few techniques here or there, but when the result isn’t perfect, it’s often times blamed on not having that top-secret recipe.
Your workforce is the single largest line item expense on your balance sheet, and yet far too often this number is exasperated even more by unnecessary turnover. It is estimated that replacing an employee costs about 20% of their salary, although some estimate even more. Multiply this by the number of employees that leave your company every year and you’ve got a serious problem.
Employee engagement is a workplace approach that focuses on a company’s environment, values, goals and the overall well-being of employees.
From a psychological standpoint, it’s all about creating positive attitudes and behaviors that lead to improved work productivity. It’s also instilling your company’s values and goals into every action and decision that the company makes.
Whether you have an in-house call center, or you have an outsourced telemarketing partner, it is so important to know how to measure performance and success. Answering a call is great, but if the customer isn’t satisfied, what’s the point?
As an experienced telemarketing company, we know how important it is to not only track the following important key performance indicators, but continually work to improve your inbound telemarketing stats. Below are three important KPIs for inbound telemarketing services are essential to not only retain happy customers, but also to help your business continue to grow!
Incept’s most significant competitive advantage for many customers is a pay-for-performance pricing model in which Incept is only compensated for delivering the desired results for their client, be it a donor, sale, or retained customer. Simply put, Incept doesn’t succeed unless our clients succeed.
To accept this level of risk, we have to consistently recruit, train, and retain our employees better than our competitors. Our long-term success has been the result of a very intentional focus on developing a culture that rewards innovative ideas and fearless front-line leadership. This culture has led to numerous Top Workplace Awards, including being the highest rated company from Stark County for several years by Workplace Dynamics and the Plain Dealer as well as the Smart Culture Award by Smart Business in the last 2 years.
Customer service is the act of supporting your customers in a way that ensures their satisfaction with your product or service. While this is traditionally done over the phone, customers are seeking service though many other channels too, including email, web, text message, and social media .
At Incept, we believe that every customer interaction is an opportunity to grow or weaken a relationship and customer expectations are higher than ever. To keep the importance of this top of mind and to inspire our team to be the best possible version of themselves, we put together a list of a favorite customer service quotes to inspire both your team and yours!
The landscape of communication is rapidly evolving so we strive to keep tabs on latest contact center trends so that we can provide our clients (and their customers) with the best service. Being in a mindset of growth and advancement always proves to be effective in helping our clients achieve their customer service goals as well as improving our own business.
Whether the current call center trends include tactics that we already employ or methods that we see on our horizon, here’s what our team is most excited about in 2019:
Customer churn is the single most important factor in predicting a subscription box service’s future success, according to David Packman, a well-known industry investor. But alarmingly, McKinsey & Company found that more than one-third of subscription box consumers cancel within three months. S what can be done to increase the retention of subscription box customers?
Well-designed customer retention programs can help to reduce customer churn as well as identify critical service issues that may be creating customer dissatisfaction. In our experience, it's best to customize your subscription customer retention strategies to one of the following two approaches:
Contact centers have one of the highest turnover rates of any industry, with an average organization needing to replace 1/4 of their front-line staff each year. Continuously replacing team members takes a toll on any organizations, both financially and culturally. And while many believe that simply increasing the hourly wage is the answer to this problem, it’s been proven that the most successful employee retention strategies revolve around recognition, rewards, and overall company culture.
Incept’s CEO, Sam Falletta, was recently featured on The Market That Moves America podcast where he talked about Incept’s path from rapid expansion to focused growth. With nearly two out of five middle market businesses lacking a clearly defined strategy to guide business decisions, this podcast is worth a listen for any business interested in learning from one company’s journey towards strategic growth.
Incept was recently spotlighted by The National Center For The Middle Market in their Strategic Planning for Growth research analysis. Through their research, the NCMM uncovered three critical components of strategy—definition, development process, and execution—that work together to enable companies to achieve their growth goals. Below is a short video summarizing the key findings of the analysis followed by an excerpt from the report: Incept’s journey from rapid expansion to focused growth.
Incept is a place where relationships matter. We're a creative, diverse, and engaging community uniting more than 200 team members with Fortune 500 companies, blood centers, and B2B sales teams across the United States and we want to share some of the stories from the people that make this team great every day.
Today we bring you Sarah Nelson, Incept's Marketing Manager.
Incept is a place where relationships matter. We're a creative, diverse, and engaging community uniting more than 200 team members with Fortune 500 companies, blood centers, and B2B sales teams across the United States and we want to share some of the stories from the people that make this team great every day.
Today we bring you Nina Vorndran, Incept's Program Results Supervisor.
We're headed to Denver, CO next week to attend the Subscription Summit, the largest event dedicated to the subscription industry. The Subscription Trade Association (SUBTA) launched this event in 2016 and has since grown it into the premier forum for leaders and partners dedicated to the rapid evolution of how consumers discover, buy and experience new products.
Incept is a place where relationships matter. We're a creative, diverse, and engaging community uniting more than 200 team members with Fortune 500 companies, blood centers, and B2B sales teams across the United States and we want to share some of the stories from the people that make this team great every day.
Today we bring you Dave Walter, Incept's Vice President of Operations.
One of our closest and longest-standing partnerships is with a leading provider of Internet-based postage subscription service. This subscription enables small businesses, enterprises and online retailers to print U.S. Postal Service-approved postage with just a computer, printer and Internet connection, right from their home or office. They count on us to deliver a seamless customer experience, through new customer welcome calls, customer service, technical support, retention, and lapsed customer reactivation.
