Mystery Shopping For Franchises

How are your Franchisee sign-up rates? 

What is your turnover rate? 

Do you know your brands' inquiry response times or response quality? 

These issues can prevent your brand from signing on new franchises and allow competitors to take your leads.

• Connect with your Franchisees to ensure their relationship with your Brand is as expected.  Satisfied Franchisees are promoters and evangelists for people interested in becoming a Franchisee with your brand.  Using a VoC-style survey to keep connected is cost-effective and efficient.
• Mystery Shopping allows you to Measure the Customer Experience at each location regularly to ensure that your brand is represented as expected.
• Aggregate all of the Social Media reviews and Feedback of each of your locations in one place to view trends, reward top performers and see where needs improvement to ensure you are keeping to brand standards.
• Create a program using more than one of our services to give you deeper insights and correlations using the insights data for a more holistic scope of your Customer Experience.  

Mystery Shopping & CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE SERVICES WE OFFER

CUSTOMER SALES & SERVICE AUDITS

Our trained and certified mystery shoppers act as your eyes and ears. They’ll visit your establishment under the guise of a typical customer and report back their experience.

Do you really know what’s happening on the front line of your company, especially when you’re unavailable? Just one employee’s poor performance could waste the millions of dollars you spend getting and keeping your customers. (Quoted by Baron Hilton of Hilton Hotels).

Your Mystery Shopping reports will give you detailed, objective and subjective feedback and an accurate view of your business from your customer's perspective.

BRAND STANDARDS AUDITS

Ensuring that your locations are maintaining the expected brand standards can be difficult.  Create a program with either announced, revealed or secret mystery shoppers to measure and evaluate the location to your noted brand standards.  Our shoppers will have completed a customized micro-adaptive learning course based on your standards and requirements before visiting identified locations.  These shoppers will take photos, log supporting information and submit the report based on your requirements.  You can complete this program on its own or in combination with mystery shopping, action planning, internal audits and appeals to capture the whole view of the location's operation. 

COMPETITOR INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM

Want the scoop on the competition?

Our Mystery Shopping Program will shop your competition and provide you with the “competitive edge!” Compare your sales and service strategies and stay one step ahead.

INTEGRITY PROGRAM

Do you have concerns about shrinkage or employee/franchisee integrity issues that you’re unsure how to address?

We’ll work with you to develop a program to help identify and control the issue and assist with incorporating a solution.

ONLINE COMMENT CARDS

Does your business offer customers the old paper method to express their thoughts to you?

Why not give your customers the choice and the convenience of providing their comments online? You may then generate statistical reports from the information collected and save you and your employees time entering and analyzing the data manually.  This is also a way to measure feedback insights to compare the locations in specific regions to each other and create rankings. 

TELEPHONE (CUSTOMER CARE) EVALUATIONS

Often the only chance you have to make a grade-A first impression is via the telephone.  How is your call center handling incoming calls from customers or franchisees?  Are there breakdowns in the communication chain?  Are people getting the answers they need quickly and directly?

Are your employees treating inbound calls as an opportunity, not an interruption or nuisance? Our certified mystery shoppers evaluate the greeting, telephone manner, helpfulness, courtesy, and sales skills. Telephone evaluations are of immeasurable value to Call Centers and Retailers. Calls may also be recorded upon request.

EMPLOYEE/Franchisee REWARDS PROGRAMs

This program entails Customer Sales and Service visits to your establishment. Once the mystery shopper has completed and gathered all of the information they need to know, the employee can either be rewarded on the spot by the mystery shopper or rewarded at a later date.

Rewards are limited only by your imagination. We can help pick the perfect reward for you.

EMPLOYEE/FRANCHISEE SATISFACTION SURVEYS

Learn vicariously through your employees’ or franchisees' experience!

Besides yourself, no one knows your company better than your franchisees. Are they happy? Do they have a great idea to improve morale, sales and brand reputation? Surveys are tailored to discover the necessary information to maintain a successful franchise/franchisee relationship. Surveys may be administered anonymously or otherwise.

WEBSITE and app EVALUATIONS

Our certified shoppers visit your website or evaluate every element, including selling tactics, checking out (purchase), returns, ease of use, and appeal to the target audience/market.  These can be combined with an omnichannel check-up to evaluate the entire customer journey or administrated independently.

VOICE OF THE CUSTOMER PROGRAM (VoC)

Ensure you get the feedback you need to ensure your customers, franchisees or their employees can communicate easily and frictionlessly with your brand. With our Voice of the Customer program, we can gain a greater sense of the customer experience so you can adjust where needed to ensure repeat visits and brand evangelists.

SOCIAL LISTENING REPUTATION MANAGEMENT

Correlating the online reviews and customer feedback with your Mystery Shopping program has never been simpler with our all-in-one portal: view and aggregate data from your Mystery Shop program and your online reviews and feedback in one place.  Respond to and interact with your reviewers while examining the data.  Reward and celebrate your top performers while creating action plans within the system to help all locations rise to the top.

SDK APP INTEGRATIONS

If your brand has an app, we can integrate quickly in the moment or pre-planned surveys through your app!  Our SDK technology uses geofence technology or push notifications to reach your loyal customer or client base in real-time.  Plus, the option to reward with coupons or draw prizes is within your reach too.