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Case Studies : How Michael's Saved $47,000 in 3 Months with Visual IVR

How Michael's Saved $47,000 in 3 Months with Visual IVR

Situation

Radial handles the customer contact center for Michaels, America’s largest arts and crafts retail chain.
The customer care team had been utilizing a traditional IVR (Interactive Voice Response) system to help handle WIZMO (Where’s My Order) calls and return status calls. While traditional IVR is helpful in providing consumers with a self-service option, the adoption rate is very low and 60-70% of calls end up with an agent.

The other trend impacting customer care is the customers’ desire for an option of 24/7 self-service, with most calls (up to 60%) being initiated from a mobile device. Since Michael’s customer service is not open 24 hours/day, Radial suggested Zappix Visual IVR, a self-service option that provided this benefit. Michaels also wanted a way to keep their customers informed of their order’s shipping status to further mitigate WIZMO calls.

Solution

Radial recommended two solutions that would help Michaels improve their self-service options, while lowering costs and increasing customer satisfaction rates. Michaels agreed to pilot a Visual IVR solution from Zappix, along with an In-Transit notification solution to assist during the peak season.

The Visual IVR concept is designed to cut down on costly live-agent transfers and greatly improve the mobile service experience. Radial developed a partnership with Zappix, a smartphone Visual IVR software development firm, to implement this solution giving mobile consumers a highly intuitive visual interface as an alternative to a traditional phone tree that still tended to end up with an agent.

With Visual IVR, Michaels customers can choose to quickly navigate a visual-based menu optimized for smartphones, and then simply select options by touch versus listening to a list of options and interacting via voice. The result is a much faster, frictionless, and satisfying support experience that gives customers exactly the information they want — using the channel and device that they prefer.

In-transit notifications are a proactive way to reduce inbound calls by providing timely shipping details as a text or email. Customized alerts to shoppers keep them informed of delivery problems and in transit issues without having to visit a special tracking page for details.

Radial partnered with Convey to leverage their active delivery management platform, helping reduce costs through intelligent issue detection and preemptive communication around product shipment and delivery.

Results

The Visual IVR solution gave Michael’s customers a self-service option that mitigated low IVR adoption rates. Now, when customers on a mobile device call the contact center, they are given the option to proceed using an online interface where they can quickly and independently answer order and return tracking questions.

The pilot allowed Michaels to control and reduce costs associated with live agent interaction. Radial and Michaels experienced over 75% call containment, saved over $47k in 3 months and prevented 13k calls from going to an agent. Customers had positive feedback and gave an NPS rating of 91 for ease of use, 83 NPS to recommend a friend, and 84 NPS for satisfaction when not needing an agent. Average Handle Time (AHT) for calls where no agent was needed was reduced from over 6 minutes per call to under 1 minute. Overall, the Visual IVR solution was a win/win for both Michaels and the customers.

In the In-transit noti cation pilot, nearly 50% of customers opted-in to track their shipment. With the new visibility into shipment tracking, the customer care center could correct over 1200 customer shipments due to incorrect addresses, orchestrate reship activities, and handle damaged parcels.

"We want our customers to have seamless and frictionless interactions with us. We have a loyal customer base, so continuously improving customer satisfaction is important. Radial helped us keep our customers happy with self-service care option and delivery information, while helping keep our customer care costs down throughout the peak season."

— Michaels

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About Zappix:
Zappix transforms the user journey during contact center interactions. The cloud-based Zappix Visual IVR On-Demand platform provides a full visual experience for customers, increasing self-service rates, reducing costs, and providing up-sell opportunities, while improving customer satisfaction.
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About Michael's:
Company LogoMichaels an American arts and crafts retail chain that currently operates more than 1,262 stores as of May 31, 2014. Michaels produces 10 exclusive private brands including Recollections, Studio Decor, Bead Landing, Creatology, Ashland, Celebrate It, Art Minds, Artist’s Loft, Craft Smart, and Loops & Threads. The corporate headquarters are located in Irving, Texas. The average Michaels store now contains 40,000 different products in 18,200 square feet (1,700 m2) of selling space.,
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