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What do you guys do?
 

We help leading business worldwide in two primary areas:

  • Asset Retrieval -- we help companies who have equipment in their customers' locations (businesses or homes) get those assets returned or replaced when needed. By utlizing our RL360™ methodology and services, we're able to get client assets returned more quickly and completely, saving those companies substantial amounts of money on Capital Expenditures and Operations. In addition, our proactive customer outreach provides a superior customer experience during this process; turning a potentially negative situation into a positive experience for the customer.

  • Customer Experience Management -- we help our client companies better manage their diverse customer contact opportunities; providing data-driven, actionable insights to help them deliver a continuously improving customer experience. Using our CE360™ methodology and services, our clients can educate their customers on new product features and offerings -- as well as assess the success of a self-installation or technician-assisted installation of equipment and services. For some clients, we manage order processes, schedule installations, and help activate products and services as well.

Why is it important to me?
  Frankly, it can mean millions of dollars to your company. Separately, or in many cases, together, these service sets work to improve revenue streams, lower operating costs, make better use of limited Cap Ex and create tangible competitive differentiation based on service quality. So, if those things are important to you, we should talk.

What kinds of companies use your services?
 

Our client companies are leaders in the fields of Broadband Services, including Cable, Satellite and Telco, Wireless Communications, Medical Devices, Infrastructure Technology manufacturers and providers and Computer Equipment. Have a look at our home page to see some sample clients. We think you'll agree you'd be in good company.


How do you do it ?
  With apologies to Gerry and the Pacemakers, we do it with a proprietary combination of sound, proven methodologies, data collection and analysis, proactive outbound calling, and a lot of hard work by a lot of dedicated people who are focused on the success of our clients. Apparently, we're pretty good at it -- many of our clients have been with us for five years or more.

Do you have any stats on your operation?
 

We have a few facts you might be interested in:

We handle over 66,500 customer communications each day, across the world, in 11 languages;

We handle over 15.9 million transactions annually, involving over $8.9B in client inventory;

We are 100% US based and devoted solely to Reverse Logistics and Customer Experience Management services.


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What is RL?
  It's an abbreviation for Reverse Logistics (see below). It's also part of the trade mark of our RL360 Asset Retrieval service offering.

What is Reverse Logistics?
  Reverse Logistics is a defined methodology to recover company owned assets that have been deployed to the field to support various customer issues and requirements. In retail industries, it primarily involves the return of goods to a store for a refund. In the business-to-business world, it can encompass warranty replacements, end-of-life equipment recovery or product recalls. Our component is facilitating the efficient retrieval or recovery of those assets.

How do you measure that?
 

Actual inventory recovered and velocity of recovery. Increased recovery rates and reduced time inventory is in the field. Daily weekly and monthly reporting giving our client complete visibility into where each asset is at in the supply chain, ship date, hard receipt, etc.

Our clients typically see a positive and substantial ROI as a result of their work with us.


What's the difference between collections and reverse logistics/asset retrieval?
  They operate from different goals, perspectives and intended outcomes. Collections processes typically focus on financial damage issues (debt collection) as opposed to asset retrieval (a component of the supply chain). Our approach provides a proactive communication methodology. It focuses not only on the asset recovery (and resulting loss reduction), but turning a potentially negative customer situation into a positive. Our Reverse Logistics / Asset Retrieval effort is typically driven by maintaining an existing customer relationship vs. minimizing the loss from a bad debt.

What are the benefits of your RL360 program?
  The benefits are both financial and logistical. Significant savings based on amount of returned inventory and speed of recovery. Visibility into the process through comprehensive, data-based reporting. Significant capital expense reductions, operations savings (better service warranty exchange), and a measurably better customer experience.

What do you provide that my internal program isn't giving me?
  Significant improvement in total assets recovered and velocity of recovery. Focus, discipline and visibility into the status of your equipment. Comprehensive reporting and actionable insights. If you currently have a program, we can improve internal use of resources. If you don't, we can offer improvements to your financial results and your customers' experience.

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What is CE?
  It's an abbreviation for Customer Experience. It's also part of the trade mark of our CE360 Customer Experience Management offering.

What is Customer Experience Management?
  From our perspective, it's the total approach to understanding all of your customer touchpoints and how they can materially affect your business results.

Are you a sales, telemarketing or teleservices company?
 

No. We do reach out to your customers through various means including phone calls, but we are not selling anything to your customers. We proactively communicate educational points, and gather customer response and feedback from recent interactions with your company (e.g., installations, product activations, service calls, upgrades). We provide our clients with valuable, actionable insights into their customers' experiences. As part of a program outcome, we provide data-driven, actionable insights so that you know where to focus remedial steps in your operations.

There can also be a financial benefit to the client through increased usage of services and resulting increased revenue flows. If your customer understands all of your services, features and functionality, it's almost certain they will use and enjoy them more, creating higher revenue per customer and higher satisfaction and loyalty.

We're also different from a telemarketing / teleservices company in that our approach is holistic. We are not a point solution with whom you contract to make "X calls per hour at Y dollars per call". We make outbound calls and take inbound calls but only as a component of an overall engagement. Our programs are built around a specific operational or market challenge. We provide processes and build teams that become completely immersed in our clients' products and business challenge. We provide the people, technology, data analysis & reporting that will address that business need. Our methodology is one of proactive communication, measuring the financial and customer relationship impact of those programs.


Are you a survey company?
 

No. It's a piece of what we do but not the outcome or end in itself. We are not a point solution. We perform research including customer interviews but only as a component of an overall engagement. We are typically communicating with your customers communicating educational points, assessing the quality of their service interactions with your company, or helping them return your equipment and assessing their satisfaction with the experience.

As a result of our interactions with your customers, we provide you with data-driven, actionable insights so that you know what areas of your customer experience have the most impact on their satisfaction, and where best to focus improvement in your operations.

It's not just about answers to questions, its about what actions to take to measurably improve your business.


What are the benefits of your CE360 program?
 

We can give you visibility into your customer experience touchpoints that you can't currently get.

Our proactive approach can help identify areas of improvement or challenge before they become critical issues.

As part of a program outcome, we provide data-driven, actionable insights so that you know where best to focus remedial steps in your operations.

We can help you increase subscribers (where applicable), revenue per customer, improve cash flow and reduce Capital Expenditures. Our clients have seen measurable increases in customer satisfaction levels and reduced churn, as well as lower service costs.


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