Customer service strategy with ces

Customer service strategy & CES as a metric to measure

loyalty

How often does companies patronize a company specifically because of its over-the-top service?

How often do consumers cut companies loose because of terrible service?

Companies punish bad service more than they reward delightful

service.

3 year period

75,000 B2C and B2B customers

Dozens of industries

North America Europe South Africa AustraliaNew Zealand

According to conventional wisdom, customers are more loyal to firms that go above and beyond.

Exceeding customers’ expectations during service interactions makes customers only marginally more loyal than simply meeting their needs.

89% of Customer service managers say that their main strategy is to exceed expectations.

84% of customers say their expectations had

not been exceeded during their most recent

interaction.

“There is only little relationship between satisfaction and loyalty.”

Fred Reichheld

20% of the satisfied customers say they intent to leave the

company.

28% of the dissatisfied customers intent to

stay.

Loyalty Disloyalty

Product quality

Brand

Service

Service

We buy from a company because it delivers quality products, great value, or a compelling brand.

We leave one, because it fails to deliver on customer service.

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CES

Customers’ intention to:

- Keep doing business with the company - Increase the amount they spend

Customer loyalty

94% of the customers who report low effort have an intention to

repurchase

88% would increase their spending

1% would speak negatively about the company

81% would spread negative word-of-mouth

Low Effort High Effort

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Net Promotor Score

London School of Economics 2005

Captures customer expressions at the transaction level

Captures more-holistic impressions of a

company

NPSCES

Implications

• Customer Effort Score question can be asked only if a customer has actually contacted the company after a purchase for some reason.

9.732 customer responses102 service companies19 industries

Implications

• Customer Effort Score question can be asked only if a customer has actually contacted the company after a purchase for some reason.

• Asking the CES question is a good predictor of the impact of the service experience on customer loyalty, but it won't tell you what to do about it.

- What are the various customer service touchpoints? 

- What effort does the customer encounter as part of the touchpoint? 

- What are your customer interaction systems and processes like?

?

1. Don’t just resolve the current issue - head off the next one

2. Arm reps to address the emotional side of customer interactions

3. Minimize channel switching by increasing self-service channel “stickiness”

4. Use feedback from disgruntled or struggling customers to reduce customer effort

5. Empower the front line to deliver a low-effort experience

- If you combine the metrics in order to predict loyalty, the predictive power is higher than only using NPS and CSAT alone.

- Simplicity is nice, but too simple is dangerous.

Is CES the right metric?

- The number of CES best practices is growing.

- Only for measuring transactional / situational loyalty. It’s not a absolute loyalty metric.

- Relative performance over time, unique to a single firm.

“78% of all our perceptions are wrong”Albert Einstein

http://www.businessmonitor.nl/businessmetrics

Thank You!

drs. KATHERINE KUCHERENKOOnline Business Strategistkatherine@icons.nl@katherinekucher06 423 923 66