ARUN ESTATES

“Arun Estates positions its brands as offering a premium service, and having Yomdel available 24/7, supplying super quick and incredibly intelligent live chat fits our goal of being responsive and always available to our customers”

David Lench, Managing Director, Arun Estates

 

CHALLENGE

Live chat immediately produced results for Arun Estates, but it was complicated, and a tough task for the staff involved. 

Web visitors showed a clear desire to engage in real time with human operatives, but with chat being driven by the customer, and speed of response being of the essence, the in-house team struggled to answer chats quickly as they were often busy with other tasks.

Multi-tasking was resulting in them missing almost one in five new chats.

However, the potential was clear – people were engaging, and there were opportunities to capture new business. But without quick, intelligent responses, people were abandoning chats and there was a risk of creating a poor customer experience.

Additionally, while the Arun Estates team initially welcomed the addition of live chat, the sheen soon rubbed off. For the staff it often created more of a problem than a solution.

The question was: How could the true potential of those opportunities be captured?

SOLUTION

Arun Estates recognised they needed help targeting enquiries on their websites, especially during evenings and weekends.

After a few months operating live chat in-house during business hours, they approached Yomdel to explore out-of-hours support to deliver a full 24/7 service.

Yomdel took a close look at the in-house operations, offered advice and guidance to optimise the in-house, daytime live chat service, but crucially implemented Yomdel's fully managed live chat service for Arun Estates out of hours.

As for all clients, we created in-depth knowledge banks and other key information to enable Yomdel live chat operators to represent each of the Arun Estates brands credibly, professionally and effectively.

The leads very quickly started to flow. Yomdel consistently delivered a 15-second initial speed to answer, as opposed to the nearly two minutes that Arun Estates was achieving. In addition, zero chats were missed by Yomdel, compared to the 18% that Arun saw staffing their own solution. Beyond that, the volume of leads that Yomdel was able to generate was substantially more than the in-house team could muster due to Yomdel proactively inviting web visitors to chat.

 

YOMDEL LIVE CONNECT

Yomdel Live Connect is designed for the very best estate agents, who can guarantee their phones will always be answered quickly. The highest value vendor and landlord leads from within live chat are swiftly connected using Yomdel human operators in the UK to client sales teams in real time.

This means the web visitors who are displaying the strongest buying signals (and don't forget a quality Yomdel lead represents an average live chat duration of an incredible 13 minutes) can be immediately connected via voice to the sales team. These, simply put, are the hottest leads available.

Imagine what it's like when a new customer who is very happy in live chat is then smoothly moved on to the next stage of engagement with Arun Estates: to talk to an agent. Rather than keep them waiting, Yomdel ‘patches’ them through to the Arun Estates sales team immediately, with the result that customer conversion rates soar as a direct result of this fabulous service.

RESULTS

As the leads and enquiries rolled in from Yomdel, the Arun management team carefully assessed the results and directly tested them in the market.

“It was a huge surprise to all of us here at Arun Estates that a supplier from outside of the group was able to represent our brands so well. And what’s more, the Yomdel team is a delight to work with, so fast at responding and very in tune with our needs,”

said Richard Shaw, Leader of Arun Estates Biz-e Centre,

“I took it upon myself to call some of these Yomdel leads myself and the results were exceptional”

Customer satisfaction scores also hit an all-time high, with a word-class average of 99%.

After two months of having Yomdel in place out of hours, it was decided that the Arun Estates in-house live chat team would stand down and, in their place, Yomdel would run the service on a 24/7 basis.

The Arun team would instead focus on their core strength of converting the incredible volume of leads that Yomdel was now delivering.

“Yomdel is now integral to Arun Estates as they are the perfect partners to work with and generate significant volumes of new leads. They deliver a phenomenal return on investment, so Yomdel is very much part of our future plans as we continue to innovate and grow the business,” 

said Managing Director David Lench.

 

LIVE CONNECT

In the first five months, Yomdel connected 163 valuation opportunities alone through the service, and the results and return on investment have been dramatic!

Conversion of valuation leads in to actual market appraisals was increased by a staggering 36%. 

And subsequent conversion from market appraisal to new sales listing increased by an equally crucial 22%. 

Overall, Yomdel Live Connect boosted Arun Estates' conversion of Yomdel vendor leads to new instructions by a staggering 67%.

Yomdel Live Connect is now a top priority in the Arun Estates lead management hierarchy, and delivers a consistent and impressive return.

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