“OK, I have my NPS number. Is it good or bad?” There are two parts to the answer. First, the score does not tell you much on its own. The reasons customers give for the scores and what they want you to improve are more important. Second, the absolute number is meaningless. What matters are […]
New study on relationship between employee and customer satisfaction. Journey mapping. Welcome to the 99th Customer Strategy newsletter. The five topics this week are: Relationship between employee satisfaction and NPS (not much) Customer Journey Mapping and scorecard reporting Latest blog posts – New series on NPS continues Notable items from other sites – Do Detractors really […]
Transactional surveys are by far the most common type of customer research. It is helpful to think of them as feedback about ‘episodes’ or ‘jobs to be done’. Customers interact with you to try to accomplish some individual thing as part of their overall experience with you. An overall season of a TV series, for […]
Unless your company only sells a single product or service, you need a separate process to gather feedback about each product or service you sell. While benchmark and relationship surveys cover a variety of people and job roles at the customer end, product and service feedback should come from the end users. To get reliable […]
Project names matter quite a lot. Does your clock show the same time as your customer’s clock? The five topics this week are: Pick powerful names for your improvement projects Turnaround time disconnects – When does the clock start to tick? Latest blog posts – New series on NPS continues Notable items from other sites – […]
A good relationship feedback process could be described as a non-anonymous mono-vendor benchmark survey. You usually only get detailed information about your own company. If you just have a small number of customers, say less than a hundred, you should simply interview them all face-to-face. If you have a large number of customers, you should […]
Quite a few companies sell NPS benchmark data. Some will do custom surveys to your design. Done properly, benchmark survey trends are the best predictor of revenue and market share trends for your company. Since benchmark surveys provide comparative data, they are actually the only credible predictors. All other survey types cover only your company. […]
Bain Net Promoter System podcast with… me. Two good CX books I have just read. company sometimes goes rotten, and Fred Reichheld reflects on the WSJ article on NPS. The five topics this week are: My 10th Bain Net Promoter System podcast ‘The Human Brand’ and ‘Yellow Goldfish’ – Two CX books I enjoyed Latest blog […]
