5 Simple Tricks to Attracting New Customers in 2022
So we wanted to share some ways your business can use 800response to generate more sales in the new year. Here are five simple tricks to attracting new customers in 2022.
To have a successful business, it is imperative that you give people an easy way to contact your business immediately after hearing your commercial or seeing your ad. The best way to do this is with a toll-free vanity number. Initiating a phone call with a memorable number means you are one step closer to a sale. … Read more »
6 Reasons Customer Interaction Analytics Will Grow Your Business
It’s no secret that customer service and the customer experience are now the key differentiators between competing businesses. That’s why companies spend a lot of money on gathering customer data. But the most successful companies know how to use that data to ensure customer satisfaction and understand what motivates their customers.
Kohler is a good example of a company that used customer insights to better understand their customers and give them what they want. Not only did this help Kohler provide better customer service; it also gave them an opportunity to capitalize on the insights they gained to help grow their business…. Read more »
CallFinder-800response Provide Business Resources to Gain Customer Insights
Our sister company, CallFinder, recently made a suite of resources available to businesses that are looking to extract customer insights from their recorded calls with customers, allowing them to gain the data and knowledge they need to improve voice of customer analytics programs, and improve their operations and efficiency.
CallFinder is making their suite of free white papers available to guide businesses in using cloud-based call recording and speech analytics technology, also known as audio mining, to help them identify why customers call their business, what makes them satisfied, and what causes dissatisfaction…. Read more »
Speech Analytics Accentuates the Positive, Eliminates the Negative
In the words of Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers…”you gotta, accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative.” We’ll skip over the part where he sings “don’t mess with Mr. In Between” because when dealing with analysis of the conversations taking place between your employees and your customers, it is essential to mess with the in between as well, meaning all recorded phone calls.
Speech Analytics technology has been around for several years now, though businesses are still slowly gravitating to the automated solution for analyzing business calls. For many years, and still to a pretty big degree, call centers – internal our outsourced – have been analyzing calls manually by listening in and analyzing their real-time, and in some cases recorded, conversations with their customers. And while we’re all aware that call center conversations are monitored for quality purposes, speech analytics will take a conversation and analyze it through software; therefore automatically and in real-time…. Read more »
New Call Tracking Feature Helps Customers Categorize Calls by Employee
BURLINGTON, VT – August 1, 2013 – 800response, the leading provider of vanity 800 numbers and web-based call tracking, announces the release of a new Employee Codes feature, designed to enhance their existing call monitoring services.
Employee codes are unique three-digit numbers used to tag inbound calls, allowing businesses to categorize, filter and monitor their phone calls by individual employees or departments. The new tracking feature helps businesses conduct employee performance reviews, train new and existing employees, and categorize their calls by department or product code…. Read more »
5 Reasons Why Voice Remains a Vital Channel
As published in Connections Magazine, June issue…
This article gives a great overview as to why voice communication with customers, meaning phone conversations, remains important to the nature of business today.
With all the fuss, excitement, and chatter about new media marketing channels – digital and mobile – it’s a wonder we can hear and think about anything else. But the voice channel remains a vital conduit for customer engagement, sales, and service. In fact, the digital marketing explosion, featuring tools such as push-to-call and mobile advertising, is actually driving more consumers to the phone. Companies therefore, have to keep the consumer phone-call process vibrant, dynamic, and effective…. Read more »
Call Analysis Can Help Improve Your Sales Staff’s Closing Ratios
Have you been looking for a way to improve your sales staff’s closing ratios? If so, you may want to obtain an 800 vanity number. An 800 vanity number makes it easy to conduct call analysis, which may be used to increase your business’ profits. Here’s more:
Telephone sales are typically lost due to a myriad of reasons. Those reasons may include, but are not limited to the following:
Depending on the provider, an 800 vanity number may contain features like speech analytics, call recording and call tracking. If it does, consider analyzing the calls with the aid of speech analytics first. It will help you to identify which objections were raised during the telephone call…. Read more »
Speech Analytics of Vanity 800 Phone Number Provides Invaluable Data
The basic premise behind an 800 vanity number is for ease of remembering when you need to make a call to your contractor, auto dealer and service provider, or financial planner. If a potential customer is frustrated looking for a phone number in order to reach your business, they will most likely give up and call the first one they online find instead. However, someone looking for a plastic surgeon will very easily remember a number with “image” as the last five digits, for example 800-NEW-IMAGE. The same is true for any type of business if the vanity 800 number is extremely suitable to the business, conveying what they do, and memorable…. Read more »
Auto Dealer Uses Vanity Numbers, Call Analytics to Gain Customer Data
This is an interesting use-case of an automotive dealer who is successful at using a vanity number to bring in more calls from his TV ad campaigns, and then reviews the recorded calls using speech analytics technology to identify areas where they need improvement; what are callers looking for, how many calls do they get related to financing, what percent of their inbound calls are due to customer complaints, and what pricing strategies are their competitors using to lure customers…. Read more »
How Businesses Benefit from Audio Mining
Audio mining technology is continuing to improve and call centers can take advantage of this software to help the bottom line. Audio mining can provide direction for improving training for employees, identifying process improvement opportunities and consequently improving customer service.
What is Audio Mining?
Audio mining is software that is programed to review recorded phone calls to recognize specific words and phrases; for example words such as “bill”, “calling back”, “ask my supervisor” or “I don’t know”. Specific words and phrases can be identified in recorded conversations, and then categorized by the speech analytics technology into groups, such as “marketing”, “sales” or “customer service”. Because it is a software program, a large amount of information that is contained within the recorded calls can be scanned and analyzed much faster than if a person were to manually listen to recorded calls in their entirety…. Read more »