Marks & Spencer enhances customer experience through Rant & Rave partnership
Retailer implements technology to understand and respond to customer feedback in real time
Rant & Rave have announced a partnership with Marks & Spencer (M&S) to enable an easier process of capturing feedback from customers. This partnership will support M&S’s transformation to become a digital-first business, a direct response to a highly competitive retail market, which is seeing consumers shift their purchasing habits online and look to engage with brands across multiple touch points.
The programme, which will be introduced into the retailer’s Contact Centres will be made up of the following Rant & Rave offerings:
• Voice of the Customer; which allows consumers to easily share their feedback via a multitude of channels, including email, webchat, SMS and Interactive Voice Response (IVR), and then analyses the sentiment of the responses in real-time.
• Frontline Engagement; which, through a personalised dashboard, enables contact centre staff to track and analyse their own performances, empowering them to self-coach using actionable insight.
These two products will allow M&S’s Chester-based Customer Contact Centre (CSSC), which responds to over 11 million customer contacts per year, to deliver the best possible service. This is thanks to Rant & Rave’s sentiment engine, a platform which understands verbatim customer feedback, whether through voice or written text, in real-time, removing the need for arduous, multi-question surveys.
By implementing Rant & Rave’s platform, M&S will have instant access to real-time feedback across all contact channels for both UK and international customers. The M&S customer insight team (CIU) will then, for the first time, be able to integrate this data seamlessly with all feedback received through other channels, such as in-store surveys, social media interactions and the website. All customer feedback will then be fed directly into the M&S senior management team to create a holistic view of all customer responses, effectively generating one detailed view of their customers.
Through this process M&S will be able to make informed, customer-driven strategic decisions across the business.
Jo Moran, Head of Customer Service at M&S said:
”As we continue to transform M&S into a digital-first retailer, we have chosen Rant & Rave as a new partner across our Customer Sales and Contact Centre Estate.
Putting the customer at the heart of everything we do is a real differentiator for M&S, especially as we look to grow our digital offer in an increasingly competitive retail market. The insight from the real-time customer feedback will help M&S become more relevant, more often to its customers as we listen and respond to their feedback in a faster and more streamlined way than ever before.”
Kenny Bain, CEO of Rant & Rave, said:
“We are delighted to be working with a retailer as well-known and trusted as M&S. As consumer attitudes to brand engagement shift, it’s crucial that businesses are equipped with the right tools to enable them to engage with their customers across a multitude of channels.
By allowing M&S to understand and action real-time feedback, it will be able to continue to develop relationships with its customers and understand how they want to shop with them, generating loyalty and long-term business success.”
Additional Information
Rant & Rave was launched in 2000 and is a leading customer engagement specialist, counting half of the FTSE as clients. Its real-time technology lets brands proactively communicate with and listen to the voice of their customers so they can take real-time, inspired action. In 2017, Rant & Rave has featured in Forrester’s VoC Vendor Landscape and Future of CX Measurement Forrester and Gartner’s Market Guide for VoC Vendors 2017.
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