CustomerGauge Keynote at eCommerce Expo, London Oct 20
CustomerGauge will be showcased in a collaboration with Philips at the Keynote Theatre at eCommerce Expo, 20 Oct 2010, London.
In the presentation “How to Build a Customer Retention Robot”, Serge Acker (General Manager Global Direct Online Sales, Philips) and Adam Dorrell (CEO CustomerGauge) will describe how Philips Global Flagship Online Store measures its customer experience on a daily basis. The presentation explains:
- how to survey customers after every transaction using the Net Promoter Score® methodology
- segment customers into high/low value and promoters/detractors
- use workflow for fire-fighting on a one-by-one basis as needed
- use feedback analysis to make close-loop reporting, and do fire-prevention“ strategically improving processes
- encourage customers to get engaged with product reviews
- help customers recommend the store to friends
- rescue and reward high value customers
The keynote is Wednesday 20 October, 10:15-10:45. Venue: Olympia. Full details of the event are on the eCommerce Expo UK site. Looking forward to seeing you there!
CustomerGauge introduces new b2b survey tool for Net Promoter Score with publishable Document of Record
CustomerGauge announce new Net Promoter® Score tool for small and medium enterprises. The online system makes b2b surveys quick and inexpensive, includes many high-end features, and features Net Promoter Document of Record for publishing online.
Net Promoter Score with qualifications on Document of Record from CustomerGauge
Amsterdam, 1 Feb 2010 – Press Release:
CustomerGauge, provider of a hosted software solution for automatically surveying customers and calculating Net Promoter® Score, announces a new tool designed for small and medium enterprises. The new tool, “CustomerGauge b2b Edition”, allows companies to survey their customers or channel partners using the enterprise-standard Net Promoter Score, quickly, easily and at a breakthrough cost.
In response to the recent trend of companies announcing a Net Promoter Score without qualifications, the new CustomerGauge tool features a Net Promoter Score “Document of Record” listing the relevant information. This document acts as a certificate, and can be published internally within the organisation, or displayed online publicly to support press releases and act as a benchmark.
“We have been collecting company scores on press releases for our Net Promoter News site for over a year,” says Adam Dorrell, Managing Director, CustomerGauge “and we have seen a wide variety of reporting methodology, using different scales or with no sample size detail. To help the growing Net Promoter community, we have developed a Document of Record, which lists the relevant information in a certificate format. Using this certificate will allow companies to establish a new credibility with their Net Promoter Score reporting”.
Full size document of record (click to view online)
View our AcmeB2B demo site certificate online here
CustomerGauge b2b Edition also features HTML branded emailing with reminders, surveying in multiple languages, a real-time dashboard, advanced reporting showing scores for customer companies and individuals, segmented scoring and classification of “voice of the customer” comments. It also includes many features found on high-end systems – for example, results for separate divisions can be rolled up on to a single dashboard for internal comparison.
CustomerGauge b2b Edition is available immediately. Clients can be surveying within a few days, with results usually with 24 hours. System pricing starts at €3900 (approx US $5490), including three month subscription.
For product details and online demo, please contact info@customergauge.com.
About CustomerGauge
CustomerGauge measures loyalty and collects feedback to help companies to understand customer sentiment, centered around the Net Promoter Score standard. It is optimized for e-commerce and can be rapidly deployed anywhere in an organization, without investment in capital equipment or IT assistance. Customers include Philips, Canon and CMC Markets. The company is based in Amsterdam, NL.
About the Net Promoter Score:
Net Promoter® is both a loyalty metric and a discipline for using customer feedback to fuel profitable growth in businesses. Developed by Satmetrix, Bain & Company, and Fred Reichheld, the concept was first popularized through Reichheld’s book The Ultimate Question, and has since been embraced by leading companies worldwide as the standard for measuring and improving customer loyalty. Details: www.netpromoter.com *Net Promoter, NPS, and Net Promoter Score are trademarks of Satmetrix Systems, Inc., Bain & Company, and Fred Reichheld.
Make Customer Feedback One of Your 5-A-Day
Delighting your customers starts with quick response to their comments, delivered in daily reports like this one from CustomerGauge
Every e-commerce professional tracks traffic and counts orders once a day, but rarely (if ever) checks customer feedback daily, weekly, or even monthly. Let’s look at some reasons for this, and why regular customer feedback will benefit your business.
Reasons we have heard for not taking regular customer feedback included: “not standard business practice”, “it’s extra workload”, “how will it benefit?” and “just too difficult”.
Here is what every e-commerce manager needs to know about daily feedback:
- It’s becoming the norm. World-class companies DO survey EVERY transaction for customer feedback. To mention a few: Sony, Philips, Canon, Avis, Hertz, eBay and many more. Feedback is an essential part of their daily business routine with comments distributed around the organisation. Also there IS an Industry Standard Methodology for measuring loyalty: the Net Promoter Score® - a simple, one-number approach, as understandable as page-views or profit.
- It’s not extra workload. If a customer complains in a survey, you would likely have to deal with that customer issue anyway (so it’s not additional workload, just time-shifted forward). More usually an unhappy customer will silently defect and never return. Unless you ask customers, you may never know how much business you are losing.
- It’s free consulting. Customer suggestions can help shape your business. We have seen examples where customer feedback helped merchandising give instant additional sales, and comments on manuals and packaging delivered cost-savings. In addition, positive comments can be used as testimonials on your site, which helps reassure future customers.
- It’s simple to implement. You can start a feedback project with a simple online survey tool and do it manually (actually, we started that way by doing monthly reports), but due to time lag we highly recommend that you automate it. Products like CustomerGauge have plug-ins for major e-commerce systems that automatically survey customers.
If you are still hesitant, here are some other points to consider:
Responding fast is impressive: When was the last time you had a response to a comment you made? You can transform customer experiences by responding quickly to feedback. Some large companies we deal with read and react to customer comments within 24 hours. That can turn the most hardened complainer into a delighted evangelist for a business.
Customer Focus: As a result of measuring, these same companies have become more customer oriented. Staff are bonused on Net Promoter Score, and welcome the feedback that customers give in order to improve service.
Give Us This Day Our Daily Feedback
Our customer feedback solution is CustomerGauge: a simple plug-in to your e-commerce site, paid monthly on subscription. All the hard work of integration and setting it up is handled by us. We arrange the emails, surveys (in different languages), automatic sending and reporting in real time. We deliver daily and weekly feedback to your staff by email. You can use positive comments and publish them on site as testimonials, which increase conversions significantly. CustomerGauge also helps keep your promises to customers: track open and closed customer issues with built-in workflow. And identify your most valuable returning customers with our real-time reporting.
In summary, Customer Feedback can become one of your essential Daily Metrics, tracked like your other Key Performance Indicators. You can receive it on a daily basis in your mailbox, and use metrics to check improvement. It is the business transformation you are looking for this year.
Join us today on our Campaign for Daily Customer Feedback and benefit from a January 2010 CustomerGauge offer: Free 30-day trial on your e-commerce website*
