Customer experience is important, that much we know. Readers of this blog won’t need persuading of the link between a company’s success and a great customer experience. Happy customers stay longer, buy more, they tell their friends, and your company grows. But let them down and your revenue shrinks instead. Knowing what to do is [...]
The whole idea of the Net Promoter Score (NPS) is based around asking customers the question ‘How likely is it that you would recommend our company/product/service to a friend or colleague?’ and proposing to them a variety of response options based on a zero to ten scale. In the years since its introduction, NPS has [...]
If you have read my articles in the past, you will know that I am an ardent fan of investigating the definitions of certain words and phrases. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating as a judge at the International Business Excellence Awards in Dubai. One of the awards entrants used the word 'benchmarking', multiple [...]
Although I have spent a long time working with clients in the customer experience sector, I think it's vital that we continually challenge the way we listen to and understand our customers. Over the last few decades, as the power of the computer has increased and we can gather more and more data about customers, [...]
More and more organisations are starting to consider how best to measure VOE - Voice of the Employee. Capturing 'employee perception' and aligning it to 'customer perception' is critical in building a robust customer centric measurement system. Increasingly, businesses are looking to deploy eNPS - the Employee Net Promoter Score - but is it the best [...]
It fills me with no joy to have to write a post about companies that have delivered unacceptable Customer Experiences. It fills me with even less joy to have to do so about an organisation that I have previously admired. Regular readers of my blog know by now that I write about the good, the [...]
Last week I made a telephone call to my bank. A routine query, I chose to pick up the phone and call with my question, rather than use any other channel open to me. Having gone through the usual number selection process (or IVR as it is known technically), I was connected to a human. [...]
Net Promoter Score (or NPS as it is also known) has been written and spoken about thousands of times over the last few years. Whilst some see it as the simplest (and cheapest) way to capture customer feedback, others dismiss it as far too simplistic with an inability to allow the organisation using it to understand what issues [...]
Virgin Trains - why would you recommend them to anyone when there is no other option? I am very fortunate to work with and alongside some exceptional Customer Experience Professionals. As a specialist in the profession myself, the ability to continually learn from my peers enables my own development. Whilst I love writing [...]
Have you ever been asked the Net Promoter Score (NPS) question? Do you even know what Net Promoter Score is? Despite the fact that the NPS method has been around for ten years, there are many who have no idea what it is. This is an extract from the 'font of all knowledge' - Wikipedia explaining [...]
