Lamps Plus Differentiates From Competitors With Linc CX Automation Platform

Increase in Opt-in rate across

SMS text and Facebook Messenger

Customers get more value

via real-time updates

Summary

Customer Care Automation Results

Opt-in rate across SMS text and Facebook Messenger by almost 30%
Increased engagement: customers get more value via real-time updates
Improved customer experience: customers get convenience they want, Lamps Plus captures feedback

Angela Hsu

Sr. VP of Marketing and eCommerce | Lamps Plus

Lamps Plus

“When customers place an order, they expect immediate updates and answers via communication methods including Facebook Messenger, Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. Linc’s CX platform enables us to enhance and automate our customer communications reducing our costs.”

Challenge

Changing Customer Expectations

Lamps Plus, the United States’ largest lighting retailer, recognized a need to take action to cement their market-leading position.

Shoppers’ buying behaviors changed, and to evolve with customers’ preferences, they needed to deliver improved customer experiences across channels that customers used more than email. Angela Hsu, SVP of Marketing and eCommerce, identified the need to provide real-time updates and answers, to deliver the convenience and accessibility that customers wanted, to solidify their loyalty.

Given consumers’ increasing preference for shopping online, Hsu saw the opportunity to improve customer communications.

For Lamps Plus, this meant establishing communication via SMS Text and Facebook Messenger. It also meant going beyond basic transform: notifications and updates to provide more convenience and meaningful value to customers

Explaining the vision behind the initiative, Hsu said:

“Customers shopping with us expect real-time updates and answers via the channels they are already using every day.”

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Angela Hsu

Sr. VP of Marketing and eCommerce | Lamps Plus

Lamps Plus

Approach

Setting a New Standard in Customer Care Automation

To be competitive, brands need to differentiate in areas beyond product or price.

With Linc’s Customer Experience Automation Platform, Lamps Plus provides improvements over what is offered by competitive online retailers, and in doing so, reaps the rewards with a lift in customer engagement and satisfaction, and reductions in costs.

Lamps Plus selected Linc’s CX Automation Platform to give customers a seamless experience.

The CX platform leverages purpose-built automation technology and commerce-specialized capabilities, avoiding the expense and risk of a custom-built solution, and delivering results from day one.

Lamps Plus

Results

The Linc CX Platform gives Lamps Plus an advantage, and business results.

Building Opt-In Audience: Lamps Plus gives customers the ability to opt-in to the channels they prefer to use. Across SMS Text and Facebook Messenger, the multichannel organic opt-in rate is almost 30%

Increased engagement: Customers are kept in the loop about their order, with real-time updates available via SMS text and Facebook Messenger, plus live-updating maps and order information via email and web.

Improved customer experience: Customers have the convenience they are looking for, with clarity about every order and ease of staying up to date. Lamps Plus instantly captures customer feedback from their purchase and experience and utilizes this data to continue advancing their customer care strategy.

With automation delivering results across channels, Lamps Plus is positioned to expand the services offered to customers, and increase use of 2-way conversations on voice assistant and chat platforms.