Frequently Asked Questions

What is Scoutnet?

Scoutnet Develops and provides a direct distribution, work from home FSCA compliant sales and service platform, agents and leads for sales, service and collections of recurring premium insurance and value-added products. In other words, we are a “virtual contact centre” where all our staff and agents work remotely, and our platform makes this all possible with great success.

We work with full time and part time agents, tapping into the Work From Home and GIG economies.

  • We have access to talent anywhere in the country and provide a great work environment for our agents and staff. This means we attract the best talent and qualifications
  • It is easy and fast to scale your campaigns up or down
  • Because of our business model we are very cost effective, up to 50% saving on seat cost
  • Our digital environment is extremely secure and safe
  • We report at the most granular level on every metric that goes into delivering superior results
    • Agent productivity
    • Agent performance
    • Agent quality
    • Lead performance by source
    • Product mix and performance
    • Dynamic lead and dial management powered by AI
    • One-page dashboards for snapshot views
    • Integrated data warehouse marches performance data cross lead, Agent, Customer and product via a BI dashboard

You will be GDPR compliant from your destination with total locked down digital environment deploying military grade data security protocols.

The solution is designed in such a fashion that agents only see information that they are working on, and cannot access, download, or upload anything from their devices.

We have passed and surpassed every data security and POPIA audit that we have engaged in and in fact are more secure than on-premises solutions.

Our large corporate customers are mostly large volume players with many customers on their books and want to distribute retail insurance or other financial products directly to consumers.

Typically, they are UMA’s, Insurers, Telcos and Retailers, but we also have clients that deployed early-stage collections or large-scale consumer surveys.

We aim to build a long-term relationship with small, medium, and large companies alike, across the globe.

We have speciality in Insurance sales, but our clients also have collections and customer services campaigns with us.

In response to the market move toward WFH and remote work solution, Scoutnet established a modern innovative End-to-end, Secure and robust, Cloud based, WFH sales environment, that delivers a cost advantage and allows rapid scaling on a variable cost basis.

  • Our agents are 3 times more productive than in-center agents
  • We use full omnichannel sales process to reach clients where it’s appropriate improving conversion rates. Our top campaigns deliver 30% sales to lead conversion
  • Our digital training platforms gets agents up to speed and keeps them smart in half the time and cost
  • QA and compliance is baked into the process in a way that boosts results instead of being a cost factor evident by better than industry lapse and churn rates
  • Our remote recruitment process is backed by years of profiling that allows us to rapidly scale… Full time or part time with time to performance reduced drastically

The workforce is entirely flexible which means we work when our customers are active and when leads are generated.  That means we can dial anytime from 7am to 8pm, as allowed by the DMA rules.

For our international campaigns we work to suit the time-zone they require.

Our freelance agents can do other work as long as it does not conflict, and are on-line when they choose to be, with minimum performance standards.

Our full-time agents are not allowed to do other work and are tied to the campaign that they are deployed into.  For some of our clients we placed the staff on their own payroll.

We almost always advocate a trial period to ensure campaigns are viable for our customers, however in some cases we immediately ramped the campaigns to full production.

Let’s start with a conversation for us to understand your requirements and needs and then we can jointly determine how best to tackle your needs.  Just complete your contact details and we will be in touch asap.