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In this post, we introduce a brand-new offering: Tethr Essentials.
Customer expectations have never been higher. In our own research, we find that customers are in a state of always-on consideration, with comparison shopping merely a click away. For CX leaders, it’s never been more important to ensure that every customer is heard. But, at the same time, there is widespread and growing acknowledgment among CX leaders that surveys, while a powerful and easy-to-deploy tool for customer listening, are under incredible pressure in the form of a growing reluctance by customers to actually fill them out, let alone provide actionable feedback to companies.
As a result, CX leaders are on the hunt for alternative ways to lower their reliance on survey-based feedback by leveraging different sources of VoC data to find the insights they need for driving business improvement.
The idea of leveraging latent data assets such as recorded phone or chat conversations to extract insights is incredibly tantalizing. No more waiting for customers to complete surveys. No more concerns about low response rates. No more worries about how to interpret partial feedback and truncated verbatim. No more extreme response or recall bias to contend with.
While the idea of using a speech analytics solution to tap into customer voice for CX insights sounds great, there are some serious flaws to this approach that vendors won’t tell you about.
First, deploying AI-based speech analytics can be very expensive and time-consuming, involving complicated IT projects and – more often than not – the need to hire an army of data scientists to actually make it work.
Second, even if you manage to get it up and running, you’ll soon discover that the “insights” are limited to surface-level descriptive analytics and that getting anything more out of the data will require significant resource and time investments (often in the form of expensive consulting projects).
Finally, nearly all speech analytics solutions on the market were built for frontline workforce management market and QA automation, not customer listening, making it difficult to “retask” these solutions for a different purpose.
Solving for these inherent challenges is what we’ve done with Tethr Essentials: a new offering we’re excited to announce.
Tethr Essentials is an extremely easy-to-deploy, low-risk, and cost-effective solution that is purpose-built for customer listening. As with all Tethr plans, Essentials comes out of the box with dozens of dashboards, hundreds of our most validated and tested pre-configured machine learning categories and benchmarking measures. Users also enjoy many of the easy-to-use features Tethr customers have come to expect, such as Tethr’s lightning-fast search and browse capability, which allows managers to quickly pinpoint opportunities across massive amounts of voice data and Tethr’s industry-leading, customizable reports and dashboards that are configurable by the average practitioner with minimal training. Tethr Essentials is a living product as Tethr’s product team rolls out new categories and dashboard templates (for different use cases and verticals) throughout the year.
Right away, Tethr users will have ready-to-use dashboards with measures in such areas as:
Tethr Essentials, as with all Tethr plans, will also feature our new Tethr Effort Index (TEI)--the industry’s first automated, machine learning-based, predictive effort score--built by some of the same researchers who wrote The Effortless Experience and invented the Customer Effort Score. Customers will see their TEI score on every customer interaction and will be able to benchmark and track it over time, allowing managers to make informed and targeted investments for reducing customer effort, decreasing disloyalty and minimizing customer churn.
Best of all? Tethr requires no specialized, dedicated resourcing on the customer’s behalf. No data scientists. No professional services fees. No statements of work. Access to Tethr is also unlimited within a customer’s organization--there are no seat licenses to pay. And, finally, it’s incredibly cost-effective (starting at $4200 per month for 10,000 customer interactions per month) and low-risk (all Essentials customers have a three-month opt out if they don’t see value in the offering).
Tethr Essentials provides super easy answers to the most important and pressing CX questions of the day. It’s as easy to deploy as a survey and as prescriptive and robust as having a deeply experienced consulting team onsite advising you on how to improve your CX, but without the downside of low-response surveys and expensive consulting engagements.
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