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As 2025 begins, this list of 25 Recommendations for Customer-focused Organization may be a useful tool to think through your customer service review. Now is a terrific time to take stock of what is working well and what may need to be improved with a frontline customer service review. 25 Recommendations for Customer-focused Organization Speak […]

Competitive Reasons

1. Measure your competition’s phone skills.  You may know how well your employees handle incoming phone requests for information on your company, but do you know how effective the competition’s employees are during phone experiences? Gathering intelligence with competitive mystery shops allows you to measure how well your employees stack up against the competition.

2. Assess competitors’ in-person customer service.  It’s equally important to know how your employees rank against the competition in terms of in person customer service experiences. Are there areas where the competition is “wowing” the customers?  If so, is it enough to make customers want to buy from the competitor company rather than your company?

3. Learn about competitive product/service offerings.  Many times, it isn’t easy to gather information on competitor offers. With competitive mystery shops, mystery shoppers pose as regular customers and therefore can gather objective information on the latest competitor products and services.

Mystery Shops Have Uncovered Surprises – “When I visited the branch, the employee told me to wait to open an account since the merger process was not complete. “ That would be an unanticipated revelation revealed with a mystery shop to a bank manager, right? Imagine that you are the bank manager reading this mystery […]

Mystery Shop Your Competition? Why would our business want to do that? Admit it. Every now and then, when you are online browsing your competitor’s webpage. Why are you doing that? You want to see what they are doing and how they are doing things differently compared to your business, right? While perusing things online […]

Want to test the waters before entering into a full-scale mystery shopping  program?  A mystery shop pilot lets you do this.  Prior to beginning a mystery shopper program narrow down what your team wants to accomplish and determine what employee behaviors and front line performance you want to measure with a pilot. Sharing Seven Key Insights […]