Humm launches on-premise, real-time customer feedback technology

AUSTIN, USA: Humm, an Austin-based startup aimed at changing the way guest-centric businesses interact with customers, officially unveiled its patent-pending technology and analytics platform.

Since initially taking their product to market in February 2013, Humm has been quietly making significant impacts on the local and national restaurant scenes.

With Celebrity Chef and Entrepreneur, Robert Irvine as a partner, Humm is providing restaurateurs and other guest-centric businesses, like retail and health & wellness, with unprecedented access to real-time customer feedback, enabling them to improve their guest experience and head off online negativity.

Humm's proprietary platform has helped its clients capture and analyze guest feedback in real-time at unprecedented response rates of 85-95 percent (versus the 1 percent response rates of traditional methods). By allowing guests to voice their opinions while still in the establishment, companies adopting the Humm platform have experienced up to a 43 percent reduction in negative customer reviews on user-generated review sites.

In their first year, Humm also prompted more than 150,000 interactions between businesses and their guests, allowing business operators to authentically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their operations.

"The service industry is facing the most empowered customers the world has ever seen," said Bernard Briggs, Humm founder and CEO. "Given the state of the industry, developing tools to engage with these customers at the right time and in the right way is paramount to their survival, and it's what Humm is maniacally focused on providing."

Powered by an Android tablet exclusively running Humm's customizable application, the easy-to-use Humm platform empowers customers to voice their opinions in an elegant, client-branded and intuitive method prior to leaving the establishment. This unique approach is also yielding impressive opt-in rates by customers to join email lists and loyalty programs, which customers can also do right on the device.

The feedback shared by each customer on their experience is captured and instantly uploaded to Humm's Insights Portal, a proprietary cloud-based software that business owners and managers can directly access to view actionable insights from raw customer data in real-time. The Humm Insights Portal also features a robust mix of tools that allows stakeholders to stay in-tune with their business while on the go.