Two Birds, One Stone: How Eastern’s Digital Channel Expansion Lowered its Cost of Service & Improved CX

How Eastern’s Digital Channel Expansion Lowered its Cost of Service & Improved CX

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How does a BPO increase contact rates by 79% and lower their cost per transaction by $6?

By finding a partner invested in their long-term success and adopting technology from a one-stop shop instead of a  patchwork of different applications from different providers. Here’s how LiveVox’s data-driven approach to omnichannel has helped drive faster digital transformation yielding greater insights into customer campaigns.

The challenge

Getting people to pick up the phone these days continues to be a challenge for contact centers, and no one understands this better than Eastern. They needed to expand into the digital world and adopt an innovative platform that could increase connections, lower overhead, and deliver on service goals. 

Eastern’s digital transformation journey

Eastern  Account  System has over  30  years of proven success in handling customer service,  delinquency,  and collections needs for clients.  Their first-party contact center  (E-Center)  hosts a  variety of projects from small boutique programs to large-scale initiatives for customer service applications,  product support,  initial engagement,  fundraising, customer acquisition, and sales and delinquency management.

Matt  Schuster,  VP  of  Strategic  Planning at  Eastern,  was faced with a  dilemma when contact rates were dropping as consumers were declining phone calls. “Over the last 2 years, we’ve noticed people answering their phones less and less. A lot of this has to do with not answering unfamiliar numbers,  but beyond that,  we realized that text messaging was becoming a preferred method of communicating. In order to cover all the bases,  we wanted to be able to offer clients the ability to reach their customers through more than one channel.  That’s  what  began  our  shift  to  omnichannel.” 

In prioritizing digital transformation, Eastern was ready to embark on a path to minimize customer effort,  increase first contact resolutions,  and remediate sources of agent frustration such as limited cross-training opportunities that hampered their ability to learn how to handle multiple functions as well as working in departmental silos. As a prestigious firm pioneering advancements in call center software adoption, Eastern had an awareness of the landscape they were entering into before evaluating LiveVox. They knew what opportunities existed, and, most importantly, they recognized their own areas in need of improvement. Shifting customer demands presented new obstacles for  Eastern.  “In  addition  to  changing  attitudes  toward  voice  calls,”  Schuster  notes,  “People  also  want  to  be  able  to  resolve  their  issues  quickly  —  no  one  has  the  patience  to  wait  on  hold,  and  they  shouldn’t have to.”  

The BPO decided to embrace the opportunity and meet customers where they are – by text message. The organization wanted to modernize its software infrastructure to create a seamless, consistent experience while maintaining the level of service clients and customers alike have grown to expect.  Eastern was looking for a  partner invested in their long-term success. “We wanted to find a one-stop-shop for the latest call center technology rather than cobbling together a patchwork of different applications from different providers.” They also needed to ensure they adopted a  platform that offered the highest caliber of regulatory compliance and included TCPA-approved outreach methods.

The solution 

In order to adapt to changes in consumer engagement behavior, Eastern shifts to digital channels to extract greater value and more revenue for clients by implementing an omnichannel platform. The goals were ambitious: 

  • Improve customer experience
  • Increase contact rates
  • Decrease cost per interaction.

The results

With LiveVox’s Unified Data Model that layers channels over a foundation of customer data, Eastern was able to create a  frictionless link between digital and non-voice channels,  ensuring a  unified and effective experience across all channels while enabling consumer preference management capabilities. Eastern has expanded its omnichannel offering by increasing its  LiveVox usage from primary voice to include both campaign-driven and transactional SMS.

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LiveVox (Nasdaq: LVOX) is a proven cloud CCaaS platform that helps business leaders redefine customer engagement and transform their contact center’s performance. Decision-makers use LiveVox to improve customer experience, boost agent productivity, empower their managers, and enhance their system orchestration capabilities. Everything needed to deliver game-changing results can be seamlessly integrated and configured to maximize your success: Omnichannel Communications, AI, a Contact Center CRM, and Workforce Engagement Management tools.

For more than 20 years, clients of all sizes and industries have trusted LiveVox’s scalable and reliable cloud platform to power billions of omnichannel interactions every year. LiveVox is headquartered in San Francisco, with international offices in Medellin, Colombia and Bangalore, India.

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