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How to measure customer service training

Inside Customer Service

The team needed to average 90 points on mystery shopper evaluations within 30 days. The valet team needed to bring its average mystery shopper score from 78 points to 90 in order to do that. Recent mystery shopper results provided a baseline for their performance. The goal was to keep the contract.

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Friendliness is more important than speed for fast food chains

Inside Customer Service

How friendliness connects to customer satisfaction The Intouch Insight study used mystery shoppers to evaluate the drive-thru experience at ten fast food brands. Accuracy and speed are less important to customers One of the factors rated by mystery shoppers was whether they received the correct order.

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How to write customer service procedures your employees will love

Inside Customer Service

The hotel used mystery shoppers to evaluate its operations, and the valets had earned a string of poor reports. Next, the manager started sharing each mystery shopper report with the team. The manager used a simple strategy to turn things around. He called a team meeting and revealed that the contract was in jeopardy.

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Look beyond mystery shopping to improve your customer experience

Qualtrics

We’ve heard of them before, but what does a mystery shopper do and how can they drive customer experience improvements? What is a mystery shopper? A mystery shopper, or a secret shopper, is a person who is hired to audit a company to see if they meet standards. Who hires them? What do they do?

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7 Highly Effective Call Center Improvement Strategies

Fonolo

As a contact center manager, you might choose to listen in on some phone calls, review recordings, or even use a “mystery shopper” to get a sense of what’s working and what isn’t. First, audit the quality of service that your call center is currently offering.

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3 Questions To Guide Your “New Normal” Customer Experience Strategy

Kerry Bodine

Secret shopping: Certain business-to-consumer industries — most notably, but certainly not limited to retail — lend themselves to having a large number of mystery shoppers evaluate their experiences while shopping or getting service. Just don’t rely solely on this research method. How have our customers’ needs and expectations changed?

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Go Beyond Surveys to Understand Customers’ Lives

Customer Bliss

Alison: We also do a mystery shopper, which not very many libraries do. ” Listening to customers is about 'how are we engaging you through the stages of your life?' ' and 'how can we bring you back in when you're ready again?' ' Click To Tweet.