Customer experience consulting for online brands

Sydney Standard looks after the small details of how customers are treated after they order, from support and returns to the automation behind them, and measures what changes.

CX Health Check

A review of your post-purchase journey, support contacts, reviews and returns, five interviews, and a ranked 90-day fix list.

Duration
About 2 weeks
Fee
Fixed, quoted after a call
Start with a Health Check

Where customers go quiet

Customers go quiet, and nobody can say why.

The cause is usually small: a vague reply, a late update, a return form that asks too much.

Contacts are handled one at a time, so the pattern never reaches the people who can fix it.

Services

Each engagement has a fixed scope and a fee agreed in writing before work starts.

CX Health Check

A clear view of where customers go quiet, and a ranked 90-day list of fixes.

Duration
About 2 weeks
Fee
Fixed, quoted after a call
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Journey Teardown Workshop

One critical journey mapped with your team, ending in a top-10 list of friction points.

Duration
Half a day
Fee
Fixed, quoted after a call
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Support and Automation Tune-up

Your helpdesk, AI agent and workflows reviewed, tested and tightened, with a runbook your team can keep.

Duration
About 2 weeks
Fee
Fixed, quoted after a call
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How it works

  1. A 30-minute call

    We agree what you want to fix and whether the fit is right.

  2. The Health Check

    About two weeks reviewing journeys, support contacts, reviews and returns, plus five interviews.

  3. The ranked list

    You get a 90-day list of fixes, in order of effect and effort.

  4. Fix it together

    Scripts, flows, service standards, measures and automation, scoped after the Health Check.

Point of view

Most customer experience problems are operations problems in disguise.

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Nick Bowker

Sydney Standard is led by Nick Bowker, a customer experience specialist in Sydney with a background in ecommerce customer service and retail. He is particular about the details, and measures what changes.

About Sydney Standard

Experience

  • eCommerce Customer Service Manager, PVH Corp
  • PetCulture, part of Woolworths Group
  • Retail management for Oakley, Bose and Ralph Lauren

Questions

Who do you work with?

Online and direct-to-consumer brands in Australia whose customers are going quiet after they order, and who want the small things fixed and the results measured.

How is pricing set?

Each engagement has a fixed scope, a set duration and a fixed fee agreed in writing before work starts. I quote after a short call.

Is the work remote or on-site?

Remote by default, from Sydney. On-site in Sydney can be arranged.

How is my information handled?

With care. I work from the access your team gives me, customer details stay in your systems, and we agree how everything is handled in writing before work starts.

How do we start?

Email nick@sydneystandard.com. If it is a fit, we book a 30-minute call, and the next step is usually the CX Health Check.

Start with a short conversation

Tell me what is not working for your customers. I will say how I can help, and whether a CX Health Check is the place to begin.