VitalPiece offer a variety of services and tools that can assist you in your effort to increase your sales and company growth:

>> In Store Evaluation
Our Mystery Shoppers will visit your business at specified time or randomly depending on your needs. We will evaluate how well your staff perform and interact with your customers

>> Telephone Evaluation
Our Mystery Shoppers will phone your sales and customer service department for real or fictitious reasons to evaluate service from the customers’ viewpoint

>> Comparison Shopping
Our Mystery Shoppers will evaluate your main competitors of your choice base on an agreed set of criteria. Our study may include in-store presentation, marketing innovations, counter checkouts, prices etc.

>> Customer Response Surveys
Our Mystery Shoppers will solicit your customers’ view on such aspects as product availability, prices, incentives, staff availability, product range, alternative buying sources, suggestions for improvement etc

>> Web Site Evaluation / Internet Surveys
Our Mystery Shoppers visit your web sites and evaluate its appearance, user-friendliness, ease of navigation, product range, download times, speed and manner of response to customer queries and comparison with that of your competitors.

>> Internal Shop
Our shoppers will join your company disguise as tempts during working hours to mingle with the staff to study staff Interactions, morale, work conditions, working standards, conflicts etc.

>> Qualitative Research –Focus Groups
Our shopper will conduct targeted focus group to check customer reactions and preferences for pre-launch market test.

>> Service Cycle Mapping
Our shopper will conduct workshop for your sales people to identify the moments of truth (MOTs) and chart the Cycle of Service. Our shopper will obtain feedback through survey or focus group to identify which MOTs have the greatest impact on your customers’ perception of your organisation. Each of the MOT will be rated to identify the weak link in your Cycle of Service.

>> One-Off Special Study
Our Mystery Shoppers also conduct one-off and special studies such as: •Stock replenishment rate and damaged items removed.
•Checking the ratio of store visitors with over those without purchase.
•Assessing the effectiveness of promotional events.
•Shoppers posing as temporary staff or as customer to check on internal or external pilferage.
•Collecting prices of similar products sold by competitors. Etc

>> Training & Consultancy
Our training consultants will help you understand the service ‘gaps’, conduct focus group analysis of training needs, design, develop and deliver customised training and follow through coaching programmes.