How Botsplash Took Top Flite Financial's SMS Strategy to New Heights

The Problem

Ninety-Five Percent (95%) of text messages are read and responded to within three minutes of being received. However, many companies still haven’t adopted an SMS texting strategy when trying to reach prospective clients. Despite statistics, sixty-five percent (65%) of brands still don’t have a formal strategy in place for bulk SMS messaging. Top Flite Financial’s number one priority is making the mortgage process as painless as possible all while providing the most advanced products and service technologies available. Recognizing that the vast majority of customers text daily, the TFF team decided to include SMS as part of their marketing plan.

Before implementing the Botsplash platform into their processes, the TFF team could not find an effective SMS communication solution. The challenge stemmed from CRM shortcomings when it came to lead distribution and a lack of necessary quick-help features. While their CRMs didn’t offer these features, the TFF team understood that if they didn’t use SMS to engage with prospects, high-intent customers would be lost from their funnel.

Botsplash provided TFF the opportunity to truly transition from a multi-platform approach to an omni-channel strategy.

Integration Process

Botsplash’s team successfully integrated TFF's proprietary CRM and Velocify system into one turn-key solution, providing a unified experience for the first time.

The Top Flite Financial team noted that the integration process was seamless, efficient and relieved their worries as Botsplash's customer success team strongly focused on minimizing downtime during the transition. Botsplash makes every effort to ensure integration is timely and efficient with a typical goal of less than two weeks.

Loan Officer Experience

Approval from Top Flite Financial's Loan Officers has been overwhelming. Because the Botsplash platform is available via mobile app and desktop, LOs now have the ability to monitor and organize conversations wherever they are, at any time. As a result, Top Flite Financial saw an uptick in capacity and after-hours correspondence which has led to more closed deals.

Currently, Top Flite Financial’s customer conversations are responded to in seconds when they were frequently overlooked before Botsplash adoption, due to lack of immediate access to the platform.

Compliance Team Approval

As an added bonus, TFF’s compliance team appreciates that all communication channels are in one place. The compliance team also supports Botsplash’s canned message feature allowing pre-approved comments that can be selected for fast and efficient responses to commonly asked questions.

Lead Distribution

Traditionally, most lead assignment and distribution strategies follow a round-robin approach where the system designates leads to the next agent in line. Unfortunately, such a system has flaws. An agent may show themselves as available, so as not to miss a lead, but is preoccupied with other prospects, may be on break, or is away from their desk. This leads to customers’ wait times increasing and agents unaware of a person needing assistance.

Distribution strategies like these can be effective for asynchronous / offline engagements such as email follow-ups, outbound calls, support ticket processing, and more. However, engagement that requires time-sensitive responses demands a smarter distribution strategy.

The Botsplash platform actively checks which agent is online, measures response time, and examines filters based on availability for chat vs. call. Benefits include:

• The most efficient response time for the customer
• The elimination of round-robin lead distribution
• The ability for an agent to take a conversation based on availability‍

Top Flite Financial has seen a 17% increase in contact ratios for leads purchased off-peak. Additionally, overall contact ratios are up to 10%.

Reporting and Features

Botsplash’s real-time reporting gave Top Flite Financial the ability to make strategic SMS campaign decisions. The newly adopted reporting structure allowed TFF to not only measure performance in detail but also made it possible to make adjustments on the fly. Additionally, the Botsplash platform allowed TFF to pick up new features previously not available to them through their legacy systems.

TFF reported the following benefits post-implementation:

The Ability to Track Real-Time Deliverability
- TFF can now see what messages have been flagged allowing it to immediately update - this has increased their deliverability rate to 98%
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- TFF has experienced a 30-40% lift in deliverability from what it received with its CRMs prior to Botsplash integration.

• Documents Can Now Be Sent   In Messages
• Added Canned Message   Functionality
• Added Scheduled Send   Functionality
• Mobile App Compatibility
• Group Chat Capability‍
  

Results:

In less than a year, Botsplash increased Top Flite Financial’s contact ratios and validated the need for a comprehensive omni-channel and SMS strategy. The use of Botsplash’s reporting system, added features, and mobile application has enabled TFF to increase revenue, improve client satisfaction, and build agent morale.