We all know that customer satisfaction dictates success in business. You’ve heard it all before: CSAT scores help determine likelihood of future purchases, customer turnover, branding, and differentiation from your competition. What are you doing now to raise your company’s CSAT scores? What are the biggest pain points you’re trying to solve?
Three CSAT Attributes
Personally, I am happy with a company if our interactions have these three qualities:
- It’s easy. I want it to be easy to find the answer to my questions on the website. Why should I buy X vs Y? Which one fits my needs? If I can’t find the answers on my own, I want to talk to a human quickly. I get very impatient when I have to search for how to contact a company.
- There’s a multi-touch experience with subject matter experts. When I do reach a human—whether it’s through chat, phone or video—I want that person to be an expert and answer my questions, without having to ask one of their peers. They should know what products I am looking at before we start interacting.
- There’s a proactive element in the service. I love it when an agent takes initiative and suggests a solution that I hadn’t thought of. “I know you’re looking at X and Y, but based on the needs you just described to me, I think you should consider solution Z.”
Given all of the budget pressure and changing customer needs, a company needs laser focus on improving customer satisfaction. It takes strategy and execution to transform people, processes and technology. And it takes patience!
Avaya’s Customer Service Success
At Avaya we have been transforming customer service over the last several years. Our CSAT scores have been rising each year. In 2016, once again our customers gave us an all-time high score with 95% rating in the excellent, very good, and good categories. Customers said we improved support services performance by 8% since 2015 in Web Effectiveness, Web Quality of Documentation on support.avaya.com, and in Web Search Function. For the fourth consecutive year, we’ve been awarded the NorthFace ScoreBoard AwardSM in recognition of achieving excellence in customer service and support.
The detailed and transparent opinions our customers give us through direct conversations and surveys drive our strategy. We are focused on providing proactive support. We use data gathered from client satisfaction surveys, service requests, and historical customer design issues to identify potential risks and resolve the issues before customers even know about them. We’ve launched an updated Avaya Healthcheck tool to provide a simple, fast, and easy way to help keep Avaya solutions running at peak performance.
Avaya’s Continuous Improvement Approach
Today, our customers don’t have to repeat any information as they move from a web interaction to a live agent. We assign service requests based on attribute matching. In the future, we’ll know if a customer has been to a particular product hub site, if they’ve viewed Knowledge Base documents, or if they’ve gone to pages to manage their service entitlement. The live agent will see these actions in their workspace as part of the customer journey—a true multi-touch experience.
And that’s not all. We know data breaches are top of mind for all organizations. When we connect to your company via our Secure Access Link to deliver mission-critical support, not only do we resolve your issues 42% faster but you will have the control you need to make sure your company is protected.
Responding to customer feedback is critical to competitive differentiation. We keep striving to give our customers the best and we are thrilled when we receive feedback like this: “The skill set demonstrated by the Avaya Support engineer in resolving the issue was timely and precise, rare commodities in most industries.”
But our work is never done. We’ll keep surveying our customers to see where we need to make things easier, improve performance, and be more proactive throughout our customers’ journey with us. Our services and solutions are about helping other businesses do the same.