A German Family-owned Business Strengthens Ties Through Net Promoter®

corporate-governanceA successful German wholesaler drives business through Net Promoter implementation. With an already strong product line, the company implemented Net Promoter to improve customer service and strengthen ties with their customers.

W. & L. Jordan GMBH, with over 50 stores across Europe has been around since 1919 and promotes themselves as a customer centric organisation. The organisation sought the services of CustomerGauge in order to implement the Net Promoter to improve business through a customer feedback program which can be effectively measured.

Embedding the Net Promoter program can provide many advantages as Jordan discovered:

  1. Fast, responsive and simple to understand
  2. Scores allows for benchmarking and feedback
  3. Reports and analysis are automatically generated through Net Promoter software solutions company, CustomerGauge.

The Net Promoter provided the company with the necessary information to identify areas of concern and make the vital changes to its business and operations; strengthening their relationships with customers. Jordan was able to develop procedures to effectively manage and respond to any issues that may arise.

After a series of Net Promoter surveys, Jordan identified key issues which were concerning customers and effectively take the appropriate steps and actions to rectify these issues responsively. In doing so, Jordan was able to increase its Net Promoter Score from +29 to +38.

Jordan will be able to use the Net Promoter as a benchmark on performance; comparing against previous performances, performances of other companies and industries. Jordan, through the Net Promoter is able to strive for continual development and improvement.

How has the Net Promoter benefitted your business? Let us know your thoughts below.

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The 5 Phases of Customer Feedback Failure

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rhombus warning oopsEvery day in companies around the world people sit down in meetings and decide today’s the day that they’re going to get serious about collecting customer feedback. Lots of earnest discussion follows, agreements are reached, actions allocated and heads nod in full agreement. Everyone leaves full of enthusiasm.

Flash forward 18 months (sometimes less sometimes more) and many of the same people are sitting around the same table. This time they are lamenting that “this customer feedback stuff obviously doesn’t work in our industry / country / customer base / organisational structure / [insert suspected third party excuse here].  Zappos, Amazon, Apple and the rest must have some other secret sauce; lets dump this and try that new technology I read about last week. That will solve our customer problems.”

How did it come to this? Where did all of that excitement go?  [Read more...]

Don’t Let Market Research Interfere with your Customer Feedback

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The wrong plug for the jobFrom the outside looking in Australia and The United States look very similar. We speak, to all intents and purposes, the same language, we watch the same television shows, enjoy the same music, etc. But anyone who has ever swapped countries and lived on the other side knows that deep down the culture and outlook of both countries are deeply and substantially different.

So it is with Market Research and Customer Feedback.

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Customer Feedback is Worthless without the Right Analysis

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One stock market quote graph bull with chart type lineIn a home kitchen in the early 1830’s a, then unknown, inventor saw potential in the milky sap from the Indian rubber tree. Surely, he thought, there must be a way to make the sticky substance more useful.

Through many years of experiments he mixed the raw rubber with a variety of different substances and tested the outcome. Did this mixture improve the properties of the raw material? No; onto the next trial. None were successful until he hit upon the idea of also heating one of the mixtures. [Read more...]

How to Overcome Customer Feedback Defensiveness in the Executive Suite

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senior-management-defensivenssAlmost everyone who has presented negative customer feedback to a senior management audience has lived this scenario.

The presentation starts well, everyone’s happy while you go through the numbers, lots of nodding heads, serious looks and agreement. That is until the very specific section by section scores or negative verbatim customer comments are presented; then the wall comes up, and the excuses rain down: [Read more...]

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Root Cause Analysis and Action Training

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root cause analysis toolsTurning customer feedback into action is difficult. Sure some responses are easy to fix but once those ones are done, it gets hard. [Read more...]

How to Confidently and Transparently Share your Transactional Customer Feedback

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The idea of openly and transparently sharing live customer feedback always seems to create an aura of fear among senior management. However, implemented sensibly, complete transparency of customer feedback can be a key plank in the success of your transactional customer feedback process. For instance nib health funds, have always allowed all staff to view their personal feedback. [Read more...]

Practical advice for best practice Service Recovery

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service recoveryImplementing a distinct service recovery process (we call it the React process) is a very important part of successful transactional customer feedback implementation. [Read more...]

You tried Net Promoter® and it didn’t work: Here is where you went wrong

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On occasion I speak to people who have tried the Net Promoter approach but it failed and they canned the whole project. After discussing it with them I find a range of themes for the failure. So if your Net Promoter project failed, look down the list to find out what happened. [Read more...]

5 More Best Practices for Net Promoter® Implementation

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At the recent CustomerGauge User Group meeting I hosted a best practice session to identify and share the very best ideas from the participants. The group came up with literally pages of great tweaks that have been tested and are working in their organizations.

I published some of these ideas the other day (6 Net Promoter Best Practices You Can Use Today) but below are some more of the best ideas so that you can use them in your business. [Read more...]