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Effective Customer Retention

Customer retention has never been more relevant for businesses than it is today. With a critical focus on supporting customers, any defections can seriously undermine a business’s capacity for profit and growth, making retention key to a company’s existence.

CTL Europe offers three distinct strengths:

1. Focus – whilst supporting the retention requirements across multiple sectors, we offer particular expertise in more dynamic markets driven by the pace of technology. It’s where our management team offers a wealth of experience and success.

2. Culture – customer service is what we do. We have established and managed customer call centres for over ten years. That’s not to suggest that maintaining a positive customer experience is an easy feat in today's economy. Customers demand excellence as standard and businesses cannot afford to fall short as the cost is their goodwill and custom.

3. Smart applications – we develop applications specifically to optimise the customer experience thereby promoting loyalty. They help us support our clients’ end users and we also deliver them bespoke to customers as “SmartDesk” solutions. SmartInform and SmartCallback are key:

Using SmartInform, we deliver both highly targeted and personalised messages to customers en masse in minutes by voice, text and email. Voice technology gives us real power in communication, not least as an instant response mechanism for your customers. SmartCallback ensures your customers receive callbacks precisely when agreed. We also use the system internally to promote efficiency in our own retentions fact-finding and solutions.

Together these three strengths deliver insight, the X factor in any effective retention programme.

Let’s not forget one vital ingredient.

Top tips for retaining customers
(a call centre perspective)
Ensure you have the opportunity to retain before too late!
Ensure you have the right tools and resources
Establish specialist retention skill sets and/or teams
Look beyond the stats – at the behaviour and experience
Keep your customer promises
Recognise the customer at every stage of the lifecycle
Review how and where you interact with your customers
Empower your agents to take ownership

Download the Customer Retention PDF