When you say the word ‘Norway’ what comes to mind? Is it the fjords? Skiing? Or maybe the glorious Vikings? Whatever stereotype you choose, good Norwegian customer support is likely not in the top ten. IdeasUnlimited is here to help change that. We can help take your companies’ online web presence and sales and elevate them so that you are creating connections while upselling. This allows you the freedom to focus on improving your value offering while we provide exceptional Norwegian customer service.
Apparently, there is national recognition of passivity or inaction in retail. ScienceNordic details a study conducted recently which concluded that “companies are once again paying attention to the importance of how their employees treat customers”.
This research campaign brought to light a tendency to forget upselling and a decrease in securing final sales from 18 to 14 percent. Norwegian salespeople are now much better at greeting customers with that sunny smile and Nordic disposition, but there just has not been that follow through to secure the sales. IdeasUnlimited’s Norwegian customer service representatives can manage phone sales and even online orders to increase your company’s conversion rate. As a company, we have a large pool of native Norwegian speakers. Hence, you will have that cultural continuity with our Norwegian customer support while being assured that your hires will be trained to fit your standards. This allows your efforts to be spent best on optimizing your core business competencies.
IdeasUnlimited’s Norwegian customer support service can also provide you workers to oversee quality assurance or customer satisfaction research for you. This can be vital, as “asking customers how satisfied they are does not always give a true picture of how well employees do their work”, especially when asked directly. Responses are often much more honest when done behind a barrier, so to speak, or anonymously to an individual who can hold accountability. You can only then receive honest feedback as to the tone of the interaction, how empathetic the customer service representative was, and whether customers were offered incentives to stay with your brand. You can know exactly where changes need to be made. It isn’t enough to just meet your sales goals, you need a team who believes “an understanding of what it is that drives people is more important” to continue progressing to the next level. By visualizing your customers perceptions, you can carve out solutions.
One of the examples that Norway is learning from is Tesla. They are a story of what exactly not to do then taking the time to make corrections. As of 2018, Norwegian Tesla owners reported “ridiculously long wait times and un-returned phone calls as Tesla’s service centers in Norway are overworked and low on parts”. Many customers had to make trips to customer care centers specifically just to find someone to communicate with who could direct them to help. Others were given surprise notifications for repair dates that they had not made. At one point, the lack of communication within their customer service department was so pervasive that messages were actually being sent to the founder, Elon Musk. Luckily, 2019 has seen several changes in procedures.
Several initiatives like seeing service team sizes doubling by the end of the year were introduced. But what were the actual results? Well, Tesla grew its service team in Norway by 30% this year and added more shifts. Greater coverage meant more claims could be taken in. Customers could finally speak to a human being within a reasonable time.
But IdeasUnlimited knows you can do better than that. That you WANT better than that. This is why we want to set you up with a Norwegian customer support team that will make this a reality. When you have the right product or service, a perfect ratio of customer service and a unified management, you can do just about anything. So, let us find the right local customer service representatives for you while you strengthen your retail strategies.
