Learn how the world's most innovative companies execute digital optimisation programs built on website / mobile feedback and customer engagement. Understand specific ways to increase loyalty, engagement and conversion across your digital assets.
26. Bankwest were experiencing a
19% site exit on their credit card
online application form. Based on
Qualtrics data, Bankwest
redesigned the page to clearly
show there was one more step to
complete the form and reduced
the exit rate by 48%.
Bankwest implemented Qualtrics
with Adobe Analytics integration to
improve their digital customer
experience and website conversion
rates.
Bankwest captures site feedback at
many customer touch points
across the website customer
journey in order to make it easier
to find key information and make
digital experiences more effective,
easy and enjoyable.
Bankwest uses Site Intercept to
launch pages in hours and with no
IT support. Their website is
constantly updated with optimal
usability based on the needs of
their website visitors which
resulted in increased website
conversion and revenues.
“Qualtricsallowsustounderstandthe‘why’
behindwebsitevisitorbehaviour”
BANKWEST + QUALTRICS
Integration
WITH ADOBE ANALYTICS
48%
REDUCTION IN EXIT
RATE
Site feedback
ACROSS THE DIGITAL
CUSTOMER JOURNEY
Conversion
CHANGES MADE IN HOURS
WITH NO IT SUPPORT
Welcome everyone and thank you for attending this mornings breakfast. My name is Bill McMurray and I am the Managing Director for Qualtrics Australia. I will be your facilitator today.
The topic for today’s event is How to measure and optimise the digital customer experience. We believe this topic is very important to businesses today. Companies and organisations rarely realise how critical their website is to their customer experience. Your customer experience almost always begins online on your website. That is where customers form their first impressions on your brand and make actual purchase decisions. Existing customers are often funneled through the website, where they make a renewal decision. With this in mind, it is critical that you measure and optimise your digital experience!
Companies and organizations rarely realize how critical their website is to their customer experience
Your customer experience almost always begins online on your website. That is where customers form their first impressions on your brand and make actual purchase decisions. Existing customers are often funneled through the website, where they make a renewal decision. With this in mind, isn’t it critical that you measure and optimize your digital experience?
Allow me to share some interesting research findings -
OK – so how do top-tier companies and organizations measure and optimize the website experience?
In our experience, Best in class digital Voice of Customer programs have at least 4 key characteristics:
They offer..
Flexibility to ask only the questions you want, in a way that enhances your experience
Ability to not only capture feedback but also to use that feedback to immediately improve the experience for individuals
Ability to target specifically and only who you want, when you want
A level of control and ease of use that allows you and your team to be free of any roadblock
Where companies fall short in listening to their digital audience is typically when they employ a solution or strategy that misses at least one of these elements
I’m not going to spend a lot of time digging into what doesn’t work; rather, I’m going to spend the balance of my time talking through 6 specific ways to engage online visitors, tips to consider, and the business impact each methodology can offer
We have a very different philosophy at Qualtrics. We believe website experience solutions should allow for 4 key characteristics:
Flexibility to ask only the questions you want, in a way that enhances your experience
Ability to not only capture feedback but also to use that feedback to immediately improve the experience for individuals
Ability to target who you want, when you want
A level of control and ease of use that allows you and your team to be free of any roadblock
With that in mind, allow me to share 6 specific ways to capture website feedback, that keep with these principles
Industries: Consumer Goods,
Company Size: Medium
Type: B2B
Use Cases: MR, CX
Background:
SAP is a German multinational software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. SAP is headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, with regional offices in 130 countries. The company has over 293,500 customers in 190 countries.
SAP Community Network (SCN) is like SAP’s version of Facebook because it’s like the cornerstone of SAP’s strategy to connect with our audience around the globe. We have a very broad and diverse global community that generates around 15,000 discussions and around 1,500 blogs each month on SCN on a variety of different topics around SAP. We have about 2M unique visitors per month and we’re in over 225 countries and territories around the world. This broad and diverse audience is passionate about posting blogs, documents and discussions on SAP whether there are positive or negative. But SAP is immensely interested in hearing how our users are talking about us and our products.
SCN has 5X more traffic than SAP.com and nearly 3X more visits than all other SAP digital properties combined. In 2014 we had over 208M page views!
SCN started in 2002. And they seek to acquire and manage insights on SCN about customers who visit the site.
We attract a lot of customers who are using our products in their daily roles such as partners who are implementing SAP software, developers who are working to write code for new products, customers who are just using our products, university students learning SAP as they come on to the network and learn all about CRM or ERP or SAP mobility software, and even our employees are visiting SCN.
Challenge:
Prior to 2014, SAP had a different survey process in place for our community network. Historically, we surveyed all of our members, but our surveys were sent out either in an email or we would just host a link on the SCN home page. And these surveys were sent to about 2M people in 230+ countries worldwide. You would think that with such a big user group we would get a ton of great feedback, but unfortunately we only received only around 1,000 responses worldwide. So we realized needed a new tool to revamp our process and understand our customers better. We needed a much more powerful and efficient tool to let our customers share their voice with us so that we could understand how we needed to improve their experience.
In May of 2014, the SAP research manager was asked to develop the strategy to gain better insights for this massive global site. “Being responsible for SCN’s insight strategy made me super nervous because I wasn’t sure what to do, even though at the same time I was excited to take on the challenge. Exacerbating the problem was that I felt like I wasn’t a very technical user even though I had been given this seemingly technical challenge.”
Solutions & Benefits:
SAP evaluated different solutions and chose Qualtrics’ Site Intercept. “I was particularly delighted to discover that Qualtrics’ Site Intercept tool is very user friendly. I was able to jump in to the tool and start using it right away. My first project was to measure NPS so we could understand how our customers were feeling about our products and how they feel about the quality of content being posted. We launched a pilot program in NA and sent surveys to site visitors in the US and Canada and they were asked the standard Net Promoter Score question, plus an additional question asking if they were willing to give more feedback.”
Before Site Intercept, we only sent 3 surveys per year because the process was so laborious. We had to rely on IT support, Design support, and Communication support. This method took a significant amount of time to going back and forth with teams who were often at our headquarters in Germany which made it difficult to make changes or run queries and analyze response rates and trends to base decisions off of. With Site Intercept, we quickly realized that gathering all these insights did not require an entire team of people like it did in the past. We no longer need to deal with anybody in design or communications because Site Intercept makes it so easy to do it myself it feels effortless in comparison. Now we can send beautifully branded surveys continuously throughout the year and manage it in such a way that visitors only see 1 popup per year instead of 3. Plus we get feedback almost immediately as results from those continuous surveys come in throughout the year allowing us to react to issues and opportunities in real-time. Importantly, Site Intercept allows us to target surveys to the right people. We have different surveys for visitors of different pages. For example, if I were on SCN and I answered the NPS survey on the SCN homepage, I would then be taken to a standalone survey to answer homepage related questions. If I were on a different content page, instead of asking the homepage survey questions, we can target those customers to answer questions on feedback.
After we switched to Site Intercept, we were able to immediate take action on the data we were collecting. We had a good Net Promoter Score, but we still had Detractors. And when we looked at our Detractor comments, we saw that some people were saying “SCN is too cluttered”. We took that feedback to our user experience team when they were re-designing the site and said, “We have this great feedback from our customers and we can incorporate our customers into the process and give them what they want to see – or don’t want to see.” Our user experience team agreed and said, “This is fantastic feedback. Can we run another survey to ask more targeted questions about the new redesign?” I said, “Absolutely.” Now I can help teams throughout the company do more research in more targeted ways than we could ever have done before. “It’s fantastic! We’re turning negativity into positivity!” said Krystin, Community Manager, SAP Digital Experience Team.
Another issue we has was spam. Our SCN community is a free community and anybody can register. But in the past year or two there have been many spammers, but their blogs are regarding irrelevant things. It was becoming difficult to manage. We’re asking community members to help us identify which content is spam and should not be on the site. And we use Site Intercept to accomplish that.
Results/Impact:
In the past, the process was super painful, long and not very effective. We were only seeing about 1,000 total annual responses from all our surveys sent worldwide to 225 countries. But with Site Intercept, we received 20X more responses in just 1 month and from just 2 countries! And the process feels effortless. And the insights are resulting in real business outcomes, like SAP being able to increase:
Satisfaction rates by 10%
NPS by 8 points
Conversion rates (Registration) by 13%
Revenue up (via a survey subscription model that is generating new revenue streams)
Customer Quotes:“Qualtrics makes me look like rock star. I can’t advocate for this product enough because it makes life easier for me and my team.” – Krystin, Community Manager, SAP Digital Experience Team
Customer Story Webpage: Coming soon
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Industries: Banking
Company Size: Large
Type: B2C & B2B
Use Cases: Site Intercept
Region: APAC
Background
Bankwest’s Digital Analytic team stats:
Digital analytics team started in 2013
They have 2 FTE
109 stakeholders
800 million data points per year
25 dashboards
92 customer segments
400 questions asked per year
912% return on analytic investment – rolling $12 million
Challenge:
Bankwest uses Adobe Analytics on their website. Before Qualtrics, they could only understand what their website visitors were doing on their site, Adobe Analytics was not able to inform Bankwest of why site visitors were behaving in the manner they were. Bankwest needed a solution which was able to integrate with Adobe Analytics to be able to understand the “why” behind their website behaviour.
In a nut shell, they wanted to link quantitative analysis with qualitative analysis to improve their digital customer experience to drive customer loyalty and website conversion.
Solutions, Benefits & Results:
Bankwest implemented Qualtrics Site Intercept and Research Suite to allow them to understand the “why” behind their website behaviour. The way Bankwest is capturing this is through site exit surveys and feedback links. Below are some examples of these.
Bankwest were experiencing a 19% site exit on their credit card online application form. At the main point where the visitors were exiting, Bankwest performed a site exit survey which asked the question of why they were leaving. Visitors believed that was the end of the online application form. So Bankwest redesigned the paged to clearly show there was one more step to complete the form. As a result exit rate was reduced by 48%.
Bankwest also uses feedback links across multiple customer touch points to obtain feedback on their site visitors experience. Questions asked include:
How likely are you to recommend Bankwest to a friend or colleague?
How satisfied were you with your visit today?
What would you like to share with us today?
Complaint
Suggestion
Other
What do you find most valuable about the Bankwest website?
What is the purpose of your visit today?
Were you able to complete the purpose of your visit today? If the site visitor indicates they were not able to complete their purpose, they are then asked why.
By Bankwest obtaining feedback from site visitors on their purpose of their visit, they are able to uncover the main reasons why people are coming to their site and make this information really easy to find. A recent insight Bankwest was able to obtain through asking the question of “were you able to complete your purpose today” was that many visitors were not able to find any information on mortgage discharge or fee explanations. Bankwest made it easier to find these two elements from the home page and there was no further negative feedback on these elements.
Another recent insight was feedback on a form where the users computer was not letting them complete the address field. Again Bankwest was able to fix this error immediately and the form completion rate was increased.
Bankwest is able to develop a site intercept and launch it on their website in hours and with no IT support. This is allowing Bankwest to ensure their website is constantly updated to improve the usability and provide the information which is important to their website visitors. This ultimately is increasing their website conversion and revenues.
Customer Story Webpage: Coming soon
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Industry: Government, Healthcare
Segment: Large organization
Type: B2C
Use Cases: CX, MR
Background:
Launched in 2013 in connection with the Affordable Care Act, HeathCare.gov is the main portal for Americans searching for and enrolling in health insurance plans in every state served by the federal exchange.
Technical complexity and spiking usage rates from consumers shopping for health care plans during open enrollment periods have made usability and efficiency especially important for HealthCare.gov as over 10 million people are expected to enroll in new health care plans via HealthCare.gov in 2015 alone.
Challenges:
Increase healthcare registration, site user satisfaction and site conversion
Improve response times and visitor engagement with site enhancements that drive better user experiences based on user feedback and site metrics
Solutions:
Switched to Qualtrics from previous vendor Foresee, HealthCare.gov used Qualtrics Research Suite and Site Intercept to analyze and optimize every aspect of the site's user experience, from registration to selection of plans.
Analyzed millions of data points to obtain page-specific insights that are acted upon in real-time for continuous improvement.
Improved ease of navigation and quality of messaging by making insights accessible and easily digestible for the teams who use them to build the design and user experience.
During Jon Booth’s public webinar, an attendee from our competitor asked Jon this question: “What are the response volumes you’re seeing?” Jon answered: “We started off with a different tool before moving to Qualtrics and the numbers were so high that we crashed that tool with the numbers we were seeing. And so we realized we need to move to something else and switched to Qualtrics. If I had to ballpark the numbers, about 10% of website visitors give us feedback. And we do see that number ramp up and spike during open enrollment as people are doing their research and getting ready to enroll.” 10% translates to about 130 million responses.
Results:
“The consumer experience this year will be easier and faster,” said Andrew M. Slavitt, the acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, unveiling a website that has been overhauled and improved. “The response time will be 40 percent faster than last year.” Source: New York Times article
+40% Faster Response Times
+30% Increase in Conversion Rates
+10% Increase in Engagement Rates
Reversed Negative Press Trends and Generated Positive Press
Customer Story Webpage: Coming soon
Webinar (DIGITALGOV): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZtfdD5RNac
Case Study: (WEBINAR NOTES): https://drive.google.com/a/qualtrics.com/file/d/0B2fAa5FGx0amVmliR3FnNkpyTW8/view
Video: (QUALTRICS ANIMATION): https://goanimate.com/videos/024lngxq5cgs?utm_source=linkshare&utm_medium=linkshare&utm_campaign=userconten
Industries: Technology, Multimedia, Entertainment
Company Size: Large organization
Type: B2B, B2C
Use Cases: MR, CX
Background:
CBS Interactive (CBSi) is an online content network for information and entertainment with engaging branded websites covering entertainment, news, sports, technology, games, music, food, and business. CBS Interactive brings together ad sales operations, as well as CBS television, sports, and news groups involved in program development. cbsinteractive.com
Challenge:
How to improve online ad effectiveness, targeting ability, and site conversion in order to attract more advertisers and grow our business?
Solutions & Benefits:
Qualtrics is our main tool for primary research. We use it to conduct various types of market research studies such as ad sales, attitudes and usage, product redesign, and tracking. CBS Interactive conducts many surveys throughout the year on all our sites such as CBS.com, CNet.com, TVGuide.com, Gamespot.com, and others. For all these sites, we collect a ton of data that provides us with consumer insights to help us better serve our advertising sales initiatives and site visitor experience.
At CBSi, we conduct two types of research: primary research - which is what we use Qualtrics for – plus syndicated, third party research, such as Nielsen and comScore. The combination of these two research methods enables us to paint a really clear picture of our audience and our brands. We can also get a sense of where we are now vs. where we can go in the future, as well as measure how we’re performing vs. our competitors.
From a business perspective, we’re always looking to drive revenue. Like most media companies, advertisements are one of the primary sources of revenue. In order to make a sale, you have to make a case of why your site and your brand are beneficial to the advertiser. As a researcher, I’m always using quantitative data to accurately tell the story of why our brands meet and exceed potential clients’ target audiences. For example, think about a large cloud computing company that is streaming paid content (video and other media). I use data to show them how and why our audience is heavily engaged in streaming and open to discovering new shows to stream Qualtrics helps me understand the behaviors and underlying motivations of our audience better than other tools.
We also periodically conduct Net Promoter Score (NPS) studies across all our CBS Interactive sites, which is very helpful for us to understand how our brands are tracking over time. The NPS data provided by Qualtrics helps our product teams to understand what our consumers are currently thinking about our brand, the extent that they are willing to recommend us to others, and how we can improve our products for the future.
From a customer perspective, we’re always striving to make our products useful and relevant so they keep coming back to our brands rather than the competition. In addition to NPS, we use Qualtrics for general attitudes and usage studies. For example, before we re-launched a website and an app, we had to understand our users’ current needs, how well our products are meeting those needs, and current marketplace offerings. Then, we adapted our products as needed to maintain a competitive spot in the marketplace today. Qualtrics really helps us to get at that and we love having a platform where we can quickly design surveys however we want. The display and skip logic just works. The programming is easy. Creating and updating a dedicated panel of users makes fielding simple. Distributing our surveys on Site Intercept and email invitation is great. The ability to quickly pull down Qualtrics data and take action on it makes for results that move the needle for CBS Interactive.
Results:
Qualtrics helps CBS Interactive drive millions of dollars in ad sales every month. A key audience behavior metric is the amount of time spent watching TV, which is of particular interest to our advertisers. In order to demonstrate continual TV engagement, we use Qualtrics to ask our audience what they watch, how much they watch, and which platforms they use at a particular time of year. By sampling the same audience over time, we can observe changes to all types of TV viewing. Qualtrics data gives us actionable insights into our audience that provides a powerful proof point for advertisers who are deciding how many advertising dollars to spend on CBS Interactive.
"Qualtrics survey data helps position CBS Interactive with actionable insights to improve our products and make effective sales pitches to potential clients. These insights have resulted in successful product launches, millions in increased revenue, and double digit increases in brand awareness, all of which help to position CBS Interactive competitively in the digital marketplace.”
Customer Story Webpage: Coming soon
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World-class companies are constantly asking this question – what do we want to learn from our customers?