05-02-2022 09:27 AM
What are your best practices for what your CSRs do when they are not on the phones? Thanks so much for your thoughts!
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05-02-2022 09:35 AM
I have my girls hand write thank you cards, classify calls, send GLSA reviews, update campaigns/age of equipment, etc. Hope this helps!
05-02-2022 10:00 AM
Outbound calling, clearing abandoned calls, taking courses in the academy.
05-02-2022 10:42 AM
Taking courses in the academy...great idea.
05-02-2022 02:33 PM
Hi! Thanks for asking this question! When CSRs are not taking inbound calls, they should be making outbound calls to book additional appointments to help you meet your desired number of booked jobs. Outbound calls can include happy calls, follow up calls, idle accounts, recurring services, and expired membership calls, etc. We did a great outbound call webinar a few months ago, and added these tips to our contractor playbook linked here.
In addition to outbound calling, use the strengths of your CSRs to assist with other office tasks: permits, warranties, rebates, referrals, financing, or other office duties that will help them cross-train and learn more workflows in the office.
Also, I LOVE having CSRs do ride-alongs with technicians to experience a service call/ maintenance call, etc. It's a great learning experience, and provides industry context for the CSR.
05-19-2022 11:00 AM
Hand write thank you cards, train and role-play, and listen to and score their own calls.
08-03-2022 10:13 AM
As a CSR my office manager gives me a variety of tasks: reclassifying calls, listening to old calls to gain more experience, taking courses in the training academy, listen to podcasts or videos or webinars for training, explore the ST community pages, inventory, uploading receipts into Quickbooks and filing them, registering customer's warranties, ordering parts, doing follow up calls for recurring services, cleaning/tidying of the office, research what brands/products we sell to learn more about them, etc. They always have many tasks to help keep me busy!
05-03-2022 08:17 AM
Thanks @asnow this is helpful. I will read over the linked article.
05-02-2022 10:12 AM
I would say the best thing to have them do is either outbounding or followup.
05-02-2022 10:00 AM
Outbound calling, clearing abandoned calls, taking courses in the academy.
05-02-2022 10:42 AM
Taking courses in the academy...great idea.
05-02-2022 09:35 AM
I have my girls hand write thank you cards, classify calls, send GLSA reviews, update campaigns/age of equipment, etc. Hope this helps!
05-02-2022 10:42 AM
Thanks this is helpful.