Contractors State License Schools Renews Telephone Mystery Shopping Service With Advanced Feedback

Client renews their mystery shopping services with the San Diego based mystery shopping company -- Advanced Feedback, Inc.

SAN DIEGO, CA, May 16, 2013 – Advanced Feedback, Inc. welcomes back Contractors State License Schools. Originally signed in 2002, the mystery shopping firm previously conducted phone shops for their California State wide locations until 2011.

The campuses rely on phone shops to monitor each sales agent's customer service skills. Mystery shoppers pose as potential students and call inquiring about classes, rates and availability. Agents are scored based on a number of criteria, such as friendliness, helpfulness, positivity, qualification, building rapport, building value, enrollment / appointment offers, overcoming objections and/or fears.

Linda Tran, Account Administrator of Advanced Feedback states, "In today’s economy, many businesses rely on mystery shoppers to be their eyes and ears on their employees. Phone shops gauge agent performance and the first impressions of their potential customers."

On a daily basis, Advanced Feedback provides immediate results to Contractors State License Schools and many other companies. These results include the agent's individual phone shop report and recorded call; all accessible via online streaming and smart phone apps. This immediate feedback allows for correct training and counsel to take place if needed.  To learn more about telephone mystery shopping visit http://www.advancedfeedback.com/mystery-shopper-phone-training.html

Advanced Feedback - Mystery Shopping Company - Telephone Skills Training and Monitoring

New Mystery Shopping Video Services

Advanced Feedback is pleased to announce the launch of it’s entirely redesigned website at AdvancedFeedback.com. The site has a completely new look and provides users with an overview of all customer experience management tools.

Along with a multitude of varying mystery shopping services, Advanced Feedback is happy to announce our newly designed and reformed video shopping services. Our professional video mystery shopping services provide you with the tools and technology to see exactly what is happening between your employees and your customers. Our services not only provide insight into the experience of a customer, but actual, objective evaluation of your team’s selling skills. Concealed cameras film the entire presentation from greeting to closing.

Businesses hoping to take customer service to the next level can benefit with our services by:

    1. Professional and affordable video shopping services for any industry
    2. View customer flow and analyze performance gaps
    3. Monitor procedures and implemented initiatives
    4. Evaluate new hires and staff veterans
    5. Are your employees ethical and interested in customer needs?
    6. Motivate your sales team and drive them to produce results
    7. Video is highly effective in sales meetings and training seminars
    8. Evaluate your competition
    9. A real, authentic, recorded customer point of view
    10. Visual presentations show you exactly where changes need to be made
    11. Stimulate friendly competition between your top performers
    12. Establish total awareness of your sales or business environment

Howard Puterman, VP and General Manager of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, states “Advanced Feedback has been servicing my needs for the past eight years and has been absolutely terrific. They are always responsive to our ever-changing needs.”

Contact them today to see how we can offer you totally customized sales and customer service inspections.

Advanced Feedback takes Mystery Shopping to Canada

Mystery shopping is not just a U.S. based practice. Advanced Feedback provides mystery shopping not only in the states but also in Canada and Mexico.

(Archive - advancedfeedback.com - SAN DIEGO, CA, Feb 19, 2009) – A long time provider of telephone and onsite mystery shopping, Advanced Feedback now provides both services in Canada. "Our presence in Canada was first established when we started using French speaking Canadians to meet the needs of one of our multi-national clients", says Zachary Hooker, President of Advanced Feedback. Inc. "For most secret shopping programs to be successful it is important to recruit and train shoppers that reflect the clients target market – even regional dialects can be a tip-off if the business typically caters to their immediate locale."

During their first few years supporting Canadian businesses with secret telephone shops, Advanced Feedback made all calls from their San Diego location. As the volume increased the mystery shopping firm established a system to use local Canadians, routing the recorded phone shops through their in-house servers. "Our clients use Advanced Feedback's recorded phone shops, Feedback-24 alerts, phone skills tips, and monthly performance trend reports to monitor and train telephone agents. In these times of economic uncertainty it is absolutely essential to turn all inbound calls into appointments, reservations, or sales. You simply can't afford to lose a lead due to poor phone skills" proclaims Zachary.

Advanced Feedback conducts mystery shopping programs in all states, Mexico, and Canada. For more information visit www.AdvancedFeedback.com

Telephone Mystery Shoppers Find Hard Times Drive Hard Tactics

Good phone skills should be obtained by building a level of rapport with a prospective client before asking for their business.

(Archive - advancedfeedback.com - San Diego, CA, Feb 19, 2009) – With the country now officially recognized as being in a recession since December of last year, businesses are scrambling to adapt. Many are simply trying to hang on, abandoning, at least for now, visions of increased market share. Thus it perhaps should come as no surprise employees who deal with the public over the phone have become more aggressive, says Kurt Adams, Senior Accounts Director of Advanced Feedback, a leading provider of telephone monitoring services. "It used to be we were asked to measure items that tended to make the customer feel warm and fuzzy, such as using their name. Now it seems the sole focus is how many times we get asked for our business", commented Mr. Adams.

While employee interest in getting or retaining a customer's business is undeniably an aspect of good service, how and when this is manifested can be of equal importance. Specifically, Adams' cites asking the customer for the business in the first 10 seconds of the call. "I know it's a bit of an exaggeration, but isn't that like asking someone for a date before knowing their name?" he asked. Good phone skills suggest building at least some level of rapport with a prospective client before getting to the proverbial bottom line. Showing interest in a customer is more than asking repeatedly for an appointment or reservation; other elements include using the customer's name or asking how they happened to be in the market for the company's services. Moderation, as Ben Franklin reminds us, is a good thing.

Twenty Percent of Hotel Guests Report Problems with Their Stay

Negative word of mouth spreads faster than positive word of mouth. With 43% of guests who will not likely return to a hotel in the future, this is an eye opener.

According to Hotel and Motel Management more than 20% of guests who have spent more than $250 a night said that they had experienced some sort of problem during their visit. Furthermore, guests who experience a problem are 43% less likely to return in the future.

With this relationship between problems reported and decreased guest loyalty, it is pertinent to keep service up to par to avoid losing market share. Unhappy guests tend to tell others about their experience even more than guests who have had a positive experience. This means that negative word of mouth spreads faster than positive word mouth and has the potential to significantly hurt occupancy rates.

The solution: Keep as many guests satisfied as possible. As a hotel manager you should be sure to know about your guests experiences. Make note of both the good experiences and the bad in order to pinpoint areas of improvement and reward employees for exceptional behavior.

“The solution to keeping on top of guest experiences lies in having a consistent system in place to monitor their satisfaction” commented Tori Stetson, Account Manager at Advanced Feedback, a San Diego based Customer Experience Management firm. “Mystery Shopping and Guest Surveys are a great place to start. Here at Advanced Feedback we even customize the program to suit not only the needs of your particular property, but also your budget, eliminating obstacles to getting started”.
-Archive advancedfeedback.com SAN DIEGO, CA, March 2nd 2007-

Onsite Polling Success!

Advanced Feedback is excited to add onsite polling to our list of services! We've just completed a round of brand image polls for one of our restaurant clients considering a major logo change. A big thank you to our Las Vegas and Orlando onsite polling teams for helping us execute this project!
- learn more at: http://www.advancedfeedback.com/services-phone-shop.html

Welcome New Clients!

Advanced Feedback, Inc. is proud to welcome the RM Champagne Salon in Chicago - bringing us to four "Element Collective" venues. We also welcome Aloft Hotels (WXYZ Bar) in Texas and Wisconsin.
- Learn more about our mystery shopping company and services at: http://www.advancedfeedback.com/services-phone-shop.html

Advanced Feedback Welcomes a New Customer

Advanced Feedback is proud to announce that TEG Property Management has signed up for our latest On-Demand Phone Shops service for their various San Diego properties. If you are interested in a low cost, contract free service please visit http://advancedfeedback.com/phone-shop-store-2.html for more information and samples.

Phone Shops On Demand

Our on-demand phone shop service provides a no minimum, no contract, cost effective option for businesses of any size or budget. With on-demand phone shops, we call, report, and record all in the same day! This service has proven invaluable for all business managers needing to observe and analyze staff phone skills. Give it a risk-free try today!