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WHAT IS MYSTERY SHOPPING?

Everyone seems to have become consumed with mystery shopping over the last few years. Companies are more involved with secret shopping today than ever before. OnFirst is more than just a Mystery Shopping service.

OnFirst's shoppers are trained in house and are given regular reviews to measure their effectiveness. Our evaluators, posed as ordinary customers, provide accurate written reports or questionnaires after they visit or call on an establishment.

OnFirsts evaluation, surveying, and feedback methods allow your company to gain an in depth understanding of the consumers perspective. Management is given the ability to see what actually occurs when employees interact with customers. As a result, management is more able to monitor, correct, and award the emplyee interaction with consumers. By gaining greater control over the customer service process, your company is able to consistently achieve its customer service goals. It is a high standard of customer service that is the number one factor leading to increased company profits.

Evaluation is an effective, reliable tool used to gather information about the actual customer service experience at the "moment of truth" when your customer interacts with your employee. Factual, observational data enables a company to track customer service delivery much as it tracks financial performance. We can help your company target weak areas that can help your company create a strategic plan to target improvements. More companies than ever before are using these types of programs because they are getting positive and actionable results with such programs.

Along with unrevealed evaluation and surveys, there are other types of programs which could be implemented to increase the effectiveness of your particular study. They are:

  • On Site Evaluations
  • Telephone Evaluations
  • Employee One-On-One Interviews
  • Consumer / General Public On Site Interviews

Some of the things that these programs will evaluate and measure include:

  • Customer Satisfaction
  • Customer Retention Strengths and Weaknesses
  • Environment and Facilities
  • Performance Against Service Standards
  • Politeness and Helpfulness of Staff
  • Suggestive Selling Skills
  • Product Knowledge
  • Product Quality
  • Process Knowledge
  • Refunds and Complaints Procedures
  • Telephone Help Lines, Support Lines, and Sales Lines
  • Public Perception of Company
  • Compliance Checks
  • Discrimination
  • Competition
  • Offer Fulfillment
  • Eligibility for Award

It is important to know that OnFirst will cater programs specifically to the needs of your business. Our programs will be of tremendous value in assessing the needs of marketing and operations within the corporate structure of your company. The objective of a program is to use the information gathered to resolve the existing problems of guesswork on the part of management as to where the problems lie. We can shop a pattern of strengths and weaknesses in marketing, sales, operations, and customer service with immediate results. An ongoing program can greatly improve your sales, and new reports and programs can be created periodically to meet the continual changes that are incorporated into company policy.

WHY WOULD MY COMPANY NEED AN EVALUATION PROGRAM?

Ask yourself if your employees have ever said to a customer:

  • I can't do that
  • Our policy is
  • That's just not possible.
  • You'll have to
  • I dont know.
  • Its not my job.

Maybe in the past you have wondered-

  • How does my staff treat customers when I am not there?
  • Does my sales force explain all the benefits of the product or service?
  • Are employees polite and attentive to the customers?
  • Are my in-home service representatives considerate of the customer and the customers property?
  • Why is my competitor getting my business?

Ask yourself if some of your employees may have fallen into some of the following methods of habit:

  • The "hide and seek" method in which employees feel if customers cannot find them or they appear too busy to speak with customers then they cannot be expected to solve the customers problem.
  • Sending a customer to "repetitive explanation land" in which after listening to a customers problem, the employee passes the customer off to someone else in another department so that the customer may explain their problem all over again.
  • The "Offensive Player of the Year Award" method in which after employees listen attentively to the customers problem, the employee launches into an offensive, argumentative response rather than solving the customers problem.
  • The "stab and stall" method in which employees take a stab at explaining every little detail of why things went wrong (and why it's not their fault) and avoid bringing focus toward a solution for the customers problem.

Contact OnFirst for a Consultation Today!
 
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11816 Battery Pl.
Charlotte, NC 28273
 
Phone (704) 737-2571

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