Telco digital customer engagement: What makes a winning strategy?
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Our research into 47 global operators reveals divergence in telcos’ levels of digital customer engagement. In this report, we examine three strategies that emerge (Digital Nascent, Multichannel and Omnichannel) and the key factors for success, drawing on lessons from case studies in banking, retail and hospitality.
Description
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Pages: 44 pages Charts: 18 Author: Dalia Adib Publication Date: September 2017Table of Contents
- Preface
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Characterising operators’ digital customer engagement strategies
- Commerce: selling more digitally and selling digitally more
- Telcos’ online channels are still not being used enough by customers and prospects
- Revenue benefits from online channels are relatively lower
- Leveraging digital channels to upsell customers is one way to help drive online revenue
- Data use is the key differentiator for a successful digital commerce approach
- What is best practice for commerce?
- Commerce Case Studies
- Marketing: this time it’s personal
- A (good) personalised marketing approach is more likely to secure returns…
- …but most telcos’ marketing still uses traditional customer segmentation
- What is best practice for marketing?
- Marketing Case Studies
- Sales & Service: Delivering the promise
- Customers of the Omnichannel operator group are most actively engaged on digital channels
- Online service engagement requires adequate channels and functionality
- Omnichannel operators add value to customer service by ensuring complete visibility of customers
- What is best practice for sales & service?
- Sales & Service Case Study
- Conclusions
Table of Figure
- Figure 1: Respondents by region and peer group
- Figure 2: Mapping operator digital customer engagement strategies
- Figure 3: On average, less than 20% of total sales are from online channels
- Figure 4: Variation between average telco and best performer across online sales
- Figure 5: ARPU tends to be higher for customers who purchase their core package on offline channels
- Figure 6: Mature Market operators have higher online attachment rates than Mobile First
- Figure 7: Most operators are offering at least one online channel for upgrades
- Figure 8: Omnichannel operators out-perform in digital commerce
- Figure 9: Our research shows a link between the levels of personalised marketing and online marketing conversion rates
- Figure 10: Most operators are not using personalised marketing techniques
- Figure 11: On average, most customer interactions are not contextual
- Figure 12: Online marketing conversion rates are at 31% across operators
- Figure 13: A minority of purchases are being scale up
- Figure 14: Omnichannel operators excel in app-based customer engagement
- Figure 15: Omnichannel operators are ahead in the number of channels a customer can use to raise a ticket
- Figure 16: Omnichannel operators excel in the functionality of their channel offerings
- Figure 17: Omnichannel operators lead converged billing capabilities
- Figure 18: Omnichannel operators are on average twice as likely to have complete and partial visibility of customers compared with Digital Nascent operators
Technologies and industry terms referenced include: Amazon, benchmark, bundling, Customer Engagement, customer experience, Cx, Data analytics, Digital marketing, Digital maturity, Digital Sales, digital transformation, E-Commerce, KPIs, Metrics, Omnichannel, Online channels, self-care, Self-serve, Single customer view, Survey