Myntra

Myntra.com is an Indian online shopping retailer of fashion and casual life style products. Overall the years it has become the most popular destination for personalized products in the country.

Submitted by Vidhi Mukhija, Customer Experience Management

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I wanted to present an example of customer centric Indian company. Myntra fits the requirement based on my research as well as personal experience.With giant competitors like Amazon, Flipkart and several other smaller like Jabong, Limeroad, Yepme, Shein, Fashionandyou, Koovs etc., Myntra has outperformed all by continuously addressing consumer pain points and improving. It has personalised fashion and online shopping in India.

Myntra's vision and core values

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Myntra's core values are at the heart of customer expereince management.Customer WowOwnership - to ensure human touchData drives decision - emphasises on the importance of technologyDo more with less - empowers employees to eliminate waste, customize and optimize user experienceContinuous learning and growth - follows Kaizen

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Rapid technology investment

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Rapid team at myntra handles some of it's brands and it has more data scientists that designers. Technology helps them identify which designs are sure to sell and ones which fail are removed at lightning speed. It is one of the many other ways myntra is utlising technology to enhance customer experience.

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Customization based on consumer sentiments

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It personalizes the recommendations of products based on your past purchases and activities.

Human touch

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They have their basics correct. There was an instance when using rapid technology they launched a best seller t shirt from internation market on the Indian platform and it wasn't moving at all. Instaed of relying on technology that it wouldn't sell in India, they realised that it was an issue with the style. Such a t-shirt would only look good with a baggy jeans and a cap. This style was new to Indian market and buyers couldn't imagine it by just looking at the image of the model wearing that t-shirt. So they reshot the images and changed it on the portal. This change made it one of the best sellers.

Customer Wow

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Only watch first 20 secs of the video

Myntra makeover

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Watch from 12 seconds to 24 seconds

Customer relationship management

Customer unforgettables

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Myntra has an ad campaign called "The unforgettables" which is a series of different customer stories about myntra. All ads show real customers, content of course looks more dramatized.

Gamification

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Results:235,000+ participants10,000+ hours spent by consumers on site in 24 hours1 million+ hits on the site100,000+ tweets shared in a day

Making fashion lifestyle

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Myntra provides latest trends, celebrity styles, fashion, styling and beauty tips through blogs and videos on their site, app and social media

Myntra Insider program

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Watch first 15 secs of the video.

Social media

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Myntra is a strong presence on all social media channels.

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2015 360 degree review clearly shows that myntra employees have done commendable job in keeping the negativity away.Some notable points are:They reply within 1 hour.Understand the context and not just copy paste the same response to everyone.Have personalized response to every query / complain.

Customer is king

Continuous improvement

Technology is expanding possibilities

Mass customization applies to all industries

Focus on customer journey

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With focus on NPS before GMV, Myntra has the highest customer satisafction in the industry and continuous improvement in this NPS is it's secret to continual success.It has found opportunities, solved customer pain points and added value at each step of the customer journey.

Pre-purchase

End of reason sale

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Watch first 10 secs of the video

Post purchase

Try before buy

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They offer an option of try and buy where you can order multiple sizes and pay only for the ones you keep after trying on delivery.

No questions asked returns

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Watch first 15 secs of the video.

Last mile delivery

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Myntra understands that during the delivery is their only moment of a physical touchpoint to the customer. So they make sure to provide each customer the best experience by owning their own logistics, training the delivery boys and empowering them with taking decisions for last mile customer satisfaction.

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Live order tracking

Customer care

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Myntra has more than 10,000 customers reaching out everyday through social media, emails, phones and other channels. Without a core philosophy it will all be a disaster.The core philosophyCustomer satisfaction is hard to achieve and even harder to maintain. Folks at Myntra take a proactive approach to understand the customer’s pain points and wow points to excel in customer satisfaction. Sachin, Chief Customer Experience Officer says.

During purchase

Shopping groups

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Enables users to create groups and shop together. The higher their total purchase amount the more benefits they get.

Myntra fit assist

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It solves the pain point of having to worry about the size. Also eliminates a step in ordering process.Watch first 40 secs of the video

EMI option for clothes

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To compete with brick and mortor stores and expand their consumer base, myntra has started EMI payments as low as INR 51 per month, i.e. around 60 cents in euros.

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Personal stylist

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Any dress you select you get styling recommendations as to which shoes, accessories, make up you need to team up with the dress and same way for other products. It enhances customer experience, reduces the effort and time to plan the entire look and increases purchase quantity for myntra.

100% authentic products

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Myntra sources products from various national and international brands and stores them at their own warehouse. Offering 100% authentic products with the model.

Critical review

App only decision

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This decision was taken back in 2015 which did not work well it's consumers and they starting selling in site again in 2017.Why did they take this decision?To personalize experience for each consumer.Monitor and collect more data through app.Why did it mot work?Many costumers are used to opening multiple sites and comparing before making the purchase decision. It became difficult for them to navigate in apps similar way.Users did not want to put the effort of downloading the app.Women found it better to navigate on big laptop screen that to scroll through phone for hours.

Myntra going offline

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Myntra has big plans. The company has been successful till now based on it's costumer centricity, agility and lean practices.One is bound to doubt such a huge step as it threatens their value proposition of low cost based on lean warehouse storage and data driven product offerings. Will myntra be able to provide the same customer experience in the offline stores or will it cannibalize their online sales.The CEO says that offline stores are for 400% y-o-y growing beauty segment in this article so right now nobody knows what's cooking in the Flipkart acquired further Walmart acquired independently running firm. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/retail/myntra-comes-offline-with-cosmetic-products/articleshow/65523679.cms

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Quitting discount model

Powerful growth till now

High risk in future

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Myntra has been a very agile, lean applying customer focus company. It sure had the ability to male quick decisions, function independently, test and run multiple initiatives. With so many new projects in different directions and landing into amazon walmart rivalry the future looks uncertain.

Too many different projects

Competition is becoming global