Streamlining Success: Unveiling the Transformative Benefits of Outsourcing Customer Service
In today’s competitive market, being able to grow your business while not compromising on quality is a must for the best customer experience and budget margins. In industries such as finance, excelling in customer service is essential for gaining an advantage over your competitors and transforming your business.
By outsourcing your customer service initiatives, you’ll better benefit from the several advantages and services that can be offered to you and your customers. From experienced staff to using developed technology for the job, there’s a lot we can offer in the finance space.
We grow with your business
One of the main benefits of outsourcing customer service is the ability to expand or reduce your services depending on your business needs. Outsourcing is a flexible and scalable option that works with your business to get the activity you need without paying more than is necessary.
Our established teams mean that you can scale up your efforts during ramp periods to ensure that each customer is seen in a timely and efficient manner. Hence, the quality of the customer experience never drops.
Our rapid scalability and recruitment activity ensure that each of our customers has the resources they need for high-volume calls and communications. One client fed back positively after the delivery of the recruitment groups with an additional 10% over delivery on day 1 and 6% additional delivery into operations against initial requirements. This boost in recruitment meant that we exceeded KPI performance, with operations increasing by 44% during the period.
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Improve your customer experience
By trusting your customer service with an outsourcing partner, you’ll be able to benefit from an improvement in your customer experience. We have years of experience working with over 50 of the world’s leading brands across sectors, including finance, utilities, and charity – improving and supporting customer experience in each industry.
Our advisor teams are skilled in communication and have the industry knowledge to provide exceptional customer service with the expertise of an in-house advisor. If you’re looking to combine the best industry knowledge with high-quality customer service, outsourcing is your answer.
Through our highly skilled advisors and operational efficiencies, we have helped our clients achieve better customer service, including a five-year high customer service score of +85.
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Focus on core business activity
Transforming your business means being able to spend more time on core business activity. Outsourcing customer service means taking one more activity away from your in-house specialists so they have more time to focus on growing your business and providing the best quality services. Non-core business activities are the perfect processes to outsource as you can trust experts in the field to represent your company best, with the results to show for it.
By removing these non-core activities from your daily business work, you can even gain a competitive advantage. The free time found through these collaborations can offer your company the space it needs to develop within a competitive market. By adopting your customer service and implementing our insights and developments into customer service strategies, we’ve been able to save some of our clients over 2,000 hours of time—both offering them the time to transform their business and the cost efficiencies that come with these time savings.
Cut costs
Cost-cutting is a vital benefit of outsourcing. One cost-benefit of outsourcing is removing the in-house customer service costs. You won’t only have to invest in the recruitment of experts if you were to provide customer service in-house, but you will also need the time, resources, and technology necessary for providing a high-quality service. This can be a costly expense for businesses. However, by outsourcing, we can absorb those costs as we already have the people, technology, and expertise in place to take over your customer service needs.
You can also save the money associated with delays as our developed infrastructure means that we can start adopting your customer service approach instantly. This means that your customers won’t experience any further delays when accessing the information, support, and advice they need. Avoid customer frustration by moving your customer service to an outsourcer.
Our expertise doesn’t stop there. In fact, our strategies and solutions can save you money by cutting down call times, increasing one-stop resolutions, achieving KPIs, and more. For one client, we saved £413,000 spend through our CI initiatives.
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Access experienced advisors
Outsourcing customer service means accessing a range of experienced advisors within your industry. We have over 40 years of experience and a strong reputation within the finance sector, as well as experience working with industry-leading insurance companies.
By combining our industry knowledge with our customer-centric excellence, we’ve been able to better support companies with their customer service. The customer experience doesn’t only mean providing excellent communication; it also requires sector-specific knowledge alongside personalised approaches to ensure that your customers’ frustrations and needs are recognised and addressed correctly.
With our expert teams dedicated to customer satisfaction, we’ve been able to support our customers who have a history of customer dissatisfaction. Through multi-site offering, advisor coaching, and better resource planning, we were able to offer our clients stronger first-contact resolution than BPOs with 4x higher tenure. We also boosted KPI delivery from 20% to 90% and retained 4/5 customers.
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Transforming your business means having the space and flexibility to scale within a competitive market. By outsourcing your customer service initiatives, you won’t only receive the benefit of time and cost savings, but you’ll also have access to resources and expertise designed to assist your customers within your specific industry. Through strategic developments, insights, and a strong infrastructure, contact centres such as ours are designed to support the finance industry expansion without additional pressure in-house.