Digital and Innovation Agency Drives Business with Net Promoter®

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Service chart with red markerUK based digital and innovation agency Volume proves there are no right or wrong industries for using the Net Promoter approach. In fact with a score of +60 the organisation is out in front of many of its’ peers:  Amazon’s score is 76 and Apple’s is 71.

Here is a company doing things  differently. Being a small agency with big success in a tough industry wasn’t enough for them. They decided to implement Net Promoter to actively seek out flaws and correct them.

More than most other industries  in the agency industry, a strong trusting relationship between the agency and client is vital for success. Companies  need to ensure their personnel are continually striving to meet the needs of their clients. The more satisfied the clients are, the stronger the relationship that exists, increasing customer loyalty and business revenue.

Knowing this, Volume decided to use Net Promoter, a proven metric to benchmark performance, increase customer loyalty and drive up business revenue.  According to CustomerGauge, Volume is one of the few agencies implementing Net Promoter within their business; gathering data and feedback to improve their business and strengthen relationships.

Using Net Promoter  Volume is increasing value to their business by scrutinising all areas of the business. With the right NPS tools, Volume receive a range of services including real-time feedback to identify which areas to focus on and see areas of the business which need improvements and become more accountable.

While the process of implementing Net Promoter may be tough, the benefits of implementing such a program reap many benefits.

Volume received a Net Promoter Score of +60, which in the creative agency industry is a very high score.  This is a great example of a business which although small and may not initially have seemed to fit in the “ideal Net Promoter candidate” have been  to effectively leverage all benefits from implementing the Net Promoter.

Have you heard of any other Net Promoter success stories? 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...]

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...]

5 Ways to Drive Employee Engagement with Net Promoter®

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Another of the great conversations at the recent CustomerGauge User Group meeting was around driving employee engagement. There were some very good ideas and best practices mentioned on the day and here are some of the best that we heard. [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...]

6 Net Promoter® Best Practices You Can Use Today

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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.

Below is a summary of the best ideas so that you can use them in your business. [Read more...]

2nd Australian CustomerGauge User Group A Great Session

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This comment from Kim Apps at IMR seems to sum up the feelings of all those that attended the September 2012 Australian CustomerGauge User Group.

“…it was a great session on Wednesday. Dawn and I both felt like we got a lot out of it and were amazed at how generous everyone was with sharing their experiences.  Hopefully we will be able to return the favour next time.” Kim Apps, Business Manager IMR

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What is your Return on Customer Investment?

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CEOs and CFOs take a liking to seeing numbers; especially profitability numbers. So if you can’t speak their language and convert your project or proposal into numbers that talk to them; you can pretty much bet your chances of having it approved are slim to none.

Fortunately, there’s a great approach that allows you to provide the facts you can take to your CEO or CFO; the Return on Customer Investment. It’s a business approach that looks at all of your customer focused investments and puts hard return on investment facts behind them. [Read more...]