Customer Retention of Microsoft Submitted by:- Ankush Garg c 20 Sushant Vashisht c 54 Ankit Bhagat c23 Divya Chauhan c10 Submitted to: Ms Garima Malik
Customer Retention of Microsoft
Submitted by:-
Ankush Garg c 20Sushant Vashisht c 54Ankit Bhagat c23Divya Chauhan c10
Submitted to:
Ms Garima Malik
The importance of customer satisfaction
to your business
Customer focused organisation
Goals of Customer Focus:
End goal of customer focused strategies is the same:
Boosting retention and repurchase = more sales!!!
Creating Better Products or Services
Offering compelling customer experience
Building deeper customer relationships
Customer Satisfaction = Profits
• Knowing what drives customer loyalty is important to your company’s financial health
• Repeat customers and new customers from referrals continuous revenue streams
• Disloyal customers are expensive to replace
• Attracting NEW customer is 4 x cost of retaining existing customer
• 5% increase in customer retention 75% in aggregate lifetime profits from that customer
A customer satisfaction
program
Customer-Focused Initiatives
Customer Value Attache
Nokia product engineer goes on-site with customer for up to 1 month to learn about challenges and show how Nokia can add value
Everyday Life Observation
To gain deeper understanding of customer, send video crews & TV cameras into 80 households around world to capture customer daily routines
Customer Partner Experience
Organisation-wide customer and partner satisfaction index to provide a holistic view of business health and trigger specific corrective actions where necessary.
Customer Feedback Program
• With a well constructed feedback program you can get key insights into customers to:– Identify key drivers of customer experience– Glean insights into health of your company– Detect early warnings of any erosion of your
relationship or value proposition
Customer Program Activities
1. Assess internal root cause for customer perceptions – satisfaction drivers
2. Derive action plans to resolve most critical issues – set your objectives
3. Implement these actions4. Track your progress with ongoing customer
research5. Link these customer metrics to your financial
results & staff incentives6. Tell your customers how you used their
feedback
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At Microsoft
• Worldwide Survey Apr & Oct• Customer Escalation Tool• RMTP – Response Management Through
Partner• Feedback forms at events (9 point scale)• Tactical Research – Qualitative &
Quantitative• Anecdotal feedback• Roundtable sessions
Understand Satisfaction Drivers
Customer Customer SatisfactionSatisfaction
Access to Access to products & products &
ServicesServices
Emotional Emotional FactorFactor
Service Service QualityQuality
PricePrice
Product Product QualityQuality
Avoiding the Pitfalls
• Listening to the wrong customers• Incorrectly identifying customer priorities• Failing to consider strategic objectives• Failing to align organisation around
execution• Failing to ‘get paid’ by customers for new
value• Losing momentum – “campaign mentality”
Ways to measure customer satisfaction
Annual Customer
Satisfaction Surveys
Focus Groups (Formal/ informal)
Online Questionnaires
Phone or Fax
Surveys
Feedback Forms
Online Polls
Customer Service
FeedbackCRM
SoftwareOther
Surveys (Benchmarking, Employee, Org
Alignment)
Different forms of measurement
Partner Program - CSAT Tool
http://www.microsoft.com/partner/media/csat/
Food for ThoughtThe name of the game should be
about "giving customers a memory and experience so great that they'll want to repeat it." The game is not all about getting that score—that darned customer score—any way
possible.