Secret Shopping Is Good For Your Business
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This year many secret shopping departments have stepped up to the next level when it comes to secret shopping their very own storage sales reps. Many secret shopping departments are hitting call centers hard and fierce with the secret shopping evaluations in order to better serve their customers and increase the value of their very own employees. They have decided to up the ante if you will.
Now instead of secret shopping departments simply pulling random phone calls to evaluate call centers on, they are narrowing down the search for the random calls to be pulled from those that are store specific. Since there may be something that each storage facility wants to cover, a department will figure that if they make each of the secret shopping evaluations based on a specific store they can then see and evaluate that much closer based on what that particular store has to offer or wants to cover. They are now once again challenging their own to see just how accurate and diligent they can be to better serve their clients.
Secret shopping ones own employees will help in more than just one way. The person being shopped will be able to listen to their own calls and see for themselves how they handled each of the calls that were evaluated. They can listen and critique themselves and everyone is usually their own worse critic, so what better way to teach them? Both the good things that they think they did well and the areas that they know they can improve on will stick out like a sore thumb when listening for to your own calls. Some people who listen to their own calls may not agree with that statement, but if that is the case then they are not being true to themselves and will not progress forward to help improve their own calls. Those that do listen to their secret shopping calls and can find even the smallest flaws in their own calls should be able to pick out something that could have been handled better. Whether they could have responded with something other than what they did, or just if they would have put a little more sincerity into the call. should not be taken lightly nor should it be left out of any on going training you have in place, especially if you have customers that you deal with on the telephone on a daily basis.
Secret shopping comes in many forms and you should be able to find out loads of information about it on the Internet. Many of the hits you will get will be for people advertising for secret shopping jobs. Look around at several different companies that offer secret shopping. Sometimes secret shopping companies will specialize in a certain business field. But many secret shopping companies are flexible enough that they can accommodate any type of business. Secret shopping can help your business now and in the future. It would be in your best interest and your businesses interest to invest in a secret shopping program. Secret shopping is also great for new hires and old timers alike. So, check it out, it will be good for you and your business.
Disclamer: This entry is intended to promote our partner StorageMart and some or all participants received compensation.