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Revision as of 20:50, 9 December 2014
1 Overview
A key part of any form of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is staying in touch with your customers. There are numerous methods to be able to get in touch: door to door, phone calls, sms and mms text messages, emails and letters. There are many approaches to be able to do these follow ups. The word campaign is used heavily in this area as a Campaign. A campaign can be defined as "To engage in an operation planned to achieve a certain goal" [1]
By the very definition a campaign usually has a limited time window of operation. It also has a goal and the measurement of this goal will be a measurement of the success of the campaign.
There are many types of campaigns
- Data Cleaning
- Upsell / Cross Sell
- Surveys / Questionnaires
- Business Development
- Sales (Business-2-Business)
- Follow up of Inbound Contact
The primary operational training on this area is available from the Contact Centre training document Contact_Centre_Training CC-2-3 Outbound contact management
2 Considerations
It is important to bear in mind, as a company, just contacting people isn't always allowed. The Commission for Communications Regulation of Ireland (ComReg) http://www.comreg.ie/ set very clear legal rules as to when it is ok and not ok to be contact customers. The Data Protection commissioner http://www.dataprotection.ie spells out what is safe to do and not to do regarding communications.
- Phone Calls http://www.askcomreg.ie/home_phone/How_do_I_prevent_unwanted_calls_from_direct_marketing_companies_-_cold_calls.213.LE.asp
- Emails and SMS http://www.dataprotection.ie/docs/Guide-to-dealing-with-Unsolicited-SMS-messages/406.htm
- Post http://www.dataprotection.ie/docs/A_Consumer_Guide_to_Dealing_with_Unsolicited_Direct_Marketin/288.htm
- Door to Door http://www.consumerhelp.ie/door-to-door
3 Planning your campaign
So if you have permission to contact your customers you decide on your method of contact. bxp software (bxp) can make the delivery of your program even easier.
To facilitate understanding an outbound campaign, lets build one.
3.1 The Contact List
This is the first step. A list of people or businesses to contact. Lists can come from a number of sources.
- Existing customers
- Your Outlook Contacts
- You can purchase a list from a list broker such as
- Data Ireland http://www.dataireland.ie/Services/Pages/Business-Lists.aspx
- Bill Moss http://www.bill-moss.com/
- Contacts generated from inbound contact
A sample one is available from http://www.allnone.ie/presentations/uk-500.xls and documented on Form_-_Create_from_Excel
3.2 The communications approach
With your list ready to contact you now choose how you are going to get in touch. If you have marketing permissions to group email or SMS bxp can help with that. The most common campaign approach we see is calling the customers.
In your list of data it can be handy to flag if you're going to Email, Phone, SMS or Post out to the customer.
For this example we're going to phone the customers.
At this stage: we have decided to use phone contact
3.3 Creating the form
It is really easy to create a form from an Excel spreadsheet or by building it from scratch.
- To create the from an Excel spreadsheet Form_-_Create_from_Excel
- To create the form from scratch Contact_Centre_Training using CC-1-3 Introduction to Blended Form Structure
At this stage: we have a form and it has been loaded with records to contact
3.4 Ownership Strategy
How you distribute the records is the next question. There are a number of options available. Form_-_Record_ownership_strategies
The simplest and quickest to set up for Outbound Campaign management is First Come First Served (FCFS)
To set up the work and begin processing the contacts you've loaded, please review Outbound_-_Queue_Management
At this stage: we have records queued up and ready to be contacted
3.5 Managing the Outcomes
The outcomes Form_-_What_is_an_Outcome provide the insight into how the campaign is going. Depending on the type of campaign being run outcomes usually include:
- Sale
- Not Interested
- No Answer
- Callback later
After extensive experience our base recommendation for outcomes to be considered for a sales campaign are:
- Contact - Callback - Afternoon (Incomplete)
- Contact - Callback - Evening (Incomplete)
- Contact - Callback - Morning (Incomplete)
- Contact - Callback - Personal (Incomplete)
- Contact - Emergency escalation (Incomplete)
- Contact - Not interested (Complete)
- Contact - Sale (Complete)
- No Contact - Disconnected tone (Complete)
- No Contact - Flagged exception (Complete)
- No Contact - No answer (Incomplete)
- No Contact - No phone number (Complete)
- No Contact - Voicemail (Incomplete)
- No Contact - Wrong number (Complete)
At this stage: we have outcomes and enough feedback to launch the campaign
3.6 Finishing touches
There are a number of further considerations you may wish to include in your build.
- Validate the spelling and logic of your form - to catch spelling mistakes and logic mistakes Form_Validation_Script
- Validation of data - to improve quality of data stored Form_-_Outcome_Validation
- Email communication - to provide instant after call communication and reduce after call work Contact_Centre_Training "CC-1-5 Introduction to Form Outcomes"
- SMS communication - to provide instant after call communication and reduce after call work Contact_Centre_Training "CC-1-5 Introduction to Form Outcomes"
- Mail Merge - to reduce after call work in printing and filling out contracts Form_-_Outcome_-_Mail_Merge
- Training documentation linking - to enable consistent delivery and explain how data should be filled in and what processes to use
- System Integration - an outcome can push data in real time to other systems again reducing after call work and improving customer experience
- CTI Integration - bxp can be linked to a phone system where a dialler could be used to do the calling Scenario_-_bxp_Integration_with_a_Phone_System
3.7 Go Live
3.7.1 Security Access
In order for users to access the records in the form they need to be given access to the form.
Main Menu > System Access Management > Security - Content Access > Form - Multiple Add Users by Form > Choose the form > Tick the users to grant access to
3.7.2 Easier Access
To save the users from having to navigate the system, especially if they only have one campaign to work on, there is a handy interface modification known as a Start Here bar Interface_Bars_-_Start_Here
Find the Id of the form you built. Form_-_Finding_the_Form_Id
Using a standard BER8 Interface bar combination replace the X in the following with the Id of the form. 17,22,25,2,7,28-6-X,4,18,13,19,5,26
If the user has multiple campaigns to work on, set the X to 0
Copy this into all of the users accounts
Main Menu > System Access Management > System Management > Group User - Modify Details > Lookup all users >
- From the top box choose "Interface Bars - Main"
- In "Main Menu" just below paste in the numbers from above
- Below select all the users to have their system updated
4 Reporting
There are numerous pre-built reports within bxp as well as customisable reports.
For an outbound, if the outcomes are set up correctly then customisable reports shouldn't be necessary.
4.1 Data Reports
4.2 Statistics Reports
4.2.1 General Statistics
4.2.2 Drill Down Statistics
4.3 Visualisation Reports
5 Summary
bxp software is the ideal for outbound campaign management capable of delivering an easy to use tool kit with extensive reporting and a speed to Go Live simply not possible in other systems.