ATTIC SELF STORAGE

We chose Yomdel based on their reputation for Customer Experience insight and excellence, and they have lived up to it. Yomdel have enabled us to identify and implement improvements within our business, and played a key role in our sales success this year, and in helping us win a FEEFO Platinum Award.

CHALLENGE

Like all highly ambitious businesses, in a competitive market, Attic approached Yomdel with a business growth challenge fuelled by a sales drive. With 3 storage locations and more on the way, Attic are expanding rapidly. By harnessing new technologies and automating processes for maximum customer convenience, Attic are building a phenomenal customer experience for the 21st century.

But Attic know that to stay at the top of your own game, and ahead of the competition, not only do you need to constantly innovate, but also to measure yourself and constantly improve. New processes mean new training, and new standards of excellence, and that's where Yomdel were able to help.

SOLUTION

Yomdel and Attic Self Storage have worked together for several years now, with multiple services in place to help Attic achieve the business results they are pursuing.

24/7 LIVE CHAT

In May 2020, Attic were investing major time and resource in their website (see virtual services below) and UK Coronavirus lockdowns had reinforced their belief in the need to be available 24/7 online for their customers.

Yomdel’s intelligent managed live chat service was incorporated into Attic’s website immediately, to offer online visitors an instant opportunity to communicate with them around the clock. A phenomenal, high-quality service exactly in line with Attic's service ethos and brand values.

Operators nurture visitors to the Attic Self Storage site, ensuring their questions are answered and their needs are met, building trust and empathy through intuitive conversation.

Our Live Chat team are able to qualify visitors, and pro-actively convert them into sales lead opportunities.

Attic have been able to integrate Storage Quotations, and even Reservations, into the Live Chat service that Yomdel provides, offering website visitors an incredibly convenient and supported way to complete their online objectives.

In fact, every month Yomdel and Attic have a call to review results and look for further opportunities to improve service and engagement, constantly fine-tuning the process.

MYSTERY SHOPPING

As far back as 2017, Attic have invested in a constant improvement programme, to assess their customer service performance, train staff and develop their services, and Mystery Shopping has been an essential pillar of that programme.

Yomdel have constructed a monthly recurring, multi-channel Mystery Shopping programme, which now assesses selected Attic Self Storage sites every month, thereby creating a measurement programme which could drive constant improvement through the year.

• Website enquiries are screen captured and documented, all email responses saved and scored on timeliness and helpfulness
• Telephone calls are recorded and scored in the same manner, with follow-ups documented and assessed
• Face to face store visits are videoed and scored against a set of carefully constructed assessment criteria

Yomdel uses a balanced scorecard methodology, incorporating objective best-practice measurement criteria, and also subjective, personal commentary by the mystery shopper. Every branch is measured across 2 key assessment areas: Customer Experience and Sales Compliance.

Highly trained, local shoppers use state-of-the-art equipment, and a customer Self-Storage Sector designed assessment structure, to produce written and video reports across all stages of the customer sales journey on a monthly basis. 

The dedicated Attic questionnaire formats are updated constantly to ensure that incremental improvement opportunities can be identified, month after month. In this way, Attic can target evolving components of the sales process, to drive improvement and revenue growth.

COVID-19 SPECIFIC ASSESSMENT

During the Coronavirus Crisis and the enforced UK lockdown, Attic adapted their customer experience to create a safe environment for customers and staff, ensuring that customers could continue to use their services without risk.

The adjusted customer processes, and limited access restrictions, required Yomdel to adapt the programme, creating an emphasis and focus on Attic's remote and virtual services, which were now their predominant customer interface.

In addition to telephone calls and web enquiries, and in place of face to face in store visits, Yomdel now assessed video visits and virtual tours: services which Attic were quick to offer their customers in Lockdown.

Yomdel created COVID-19 specific measurement criteria that now included assessment of safety measures and customer comfort with new processes.

RESULTS

24/7 MANAGED LIVE CHAT

In the first 6 months of operation, Yomdel has handled over 1200 live chats for Attic, with a remarkable 47% of them happening outside office opening hours.

A full third of all chats are immediately converted to leads by the chat operators, with quotations provided in chat to 71%!

Customer satisfaction scores for the Live Chat service are running at an phenomenal average of 96%.

Attic are incredibly pleased with the service they are offering to their customers, and constantly work with Yomdel to improve operator performance and chat outcomes.

All chats, irrespective of whether they become leads or not, are categorised and analysed to understand what could be done better. In the course of this, Attic have introduced Live Chat operator ability to provide general pricing without a quotation where a customer just wants a quick indication, and also the ability to offer a storage size guide, and even packing material prices.

This sort of innovative thinking, and team collaboration, is what puts Attic at the top of their game, and creates a constantly improving service experience for customers.

MYSTERY SHOPPING

With a consistent monthly measurement programme in place, Attic have been able to create a culture of constant improvement.

From early 2017 onwards, they have consistently achieved improving scores, regularly resetting benchmark targets, following rounds of improvement.

A key area identified for improvement was consistency of quality throughout each stage of their sales process. Some stages were stronger than others, and through focused measurement they have been able to improve performance to consistent levels across the customer journey.

In March 2020, they achieved their highest ever performance scores across the group, with scores over 90%, something which is incredibly motivating for their whole team.

Additionally, the new video visits have already scored at the same levels in their first month of operation!

Attic particularly benefit from our methodology which blends subjective shopper comments, capturing 'soft' outcomes like 'feelings', alongside the objective best-practice criteria driven scorecards. These comments bring scorecards to life, and enable Attic teams to work on soft skills, emotional intelligence and adapting their sales approach to different personalities. 

Attic have made the Mystery Shopping programme a real source of energy for their staff, and a point of pride. Staff are able to listen to their own tested calls, which is an intrinsic part of their learning and development process.

In 2020, Attic were awarded the Feefo Platinum Service Award. This signifies that they have achieved consistently high ratings from customers over a sustained period of 3 years.

Their Mystery Shopping programme has been a fundamental ingredient in this, which has directly translated in to financial success.

Watch this space for the next chapter in Attic's success!

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