Better experiences – every customer and employee wants them, businesses want to provide them, and solutions providers promise them. But how does one actually track something as elusive as an “experience”? The following is an introduction to how we help companies measure their delivered experiences.
Posts Tagged ‘customer engagement’
The People Metric: Measuring Experiences
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012Improving the Client Experience: Accounting Industry
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
At PeopleMetrics, we include one question that often strikes new clients as being rather odd, especially clients in the B2B space: “I love working with [company].” Respondents are asked to rate their level of agreement with this statement. Why do we include it? Because it adds a depth to the client/provider relationship that cannot be attained through a simple NPS score. This question cuts through all the usual business jargon, formalities, and contracts and asks a completely emotional human question – how does the company make you feel?
How Customer Feedback Can Help Create Meaningful Differentiation
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
“The truth of the matter is, true differentiation – sustainable differentiation – is rarely a function of well-roundedness;” writes Harvard professor Youngme Moon, “it is typically a function of lopsidedness.” (Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd). Youngme Moon illustrates this with stories about IKEA – a throwaway brand in a traditionally permanent industry, Dove – using pictures of average women in a traditionally photoshopped, airbrushed industry, and Google – creating a stripped down search interface in an industry cramming search pages with every button and pop-up imaginable. And while we all understand intuitively the answer to the question “Why do these brands work?,” it becomes much more difficult to answer this question about ourselves.
Three Customer Experience Truths from the Restaurant Industry
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
There are some elements of the customer experience that are unique to a given industry – things like baggage fees, claims departments, and billing practices. But there are some universal customer experience truths that apply regardless of the industry you happen to work in. This post examines three of these truths as uncovered through our partnership with one of our clients, Service Inspired Restaurants®.
What Social Media Means for your Voice of the Customer Strategy
Monday, September 26th, 2011
Within the customer engagement field, “social media” has become a sort of catchphrase for the latest, shiniest voice of customer program technology. Every day seems to bring the publication of a slew of press releases announcing the latest social media customer engagement gadget. These tools promise to integrate tweets, Facebook posts, comments, and every other bit of social media data with a company’s customer feedback program.