Building the Customer Loyalty Robot
Who the hell are we?

 Serge Acker
                                         Adam Dorrell
 Sr Director & GM Philips Online St                               ctness
                                   ore   CEO CustomerGauge/Dire
 serge.acker@philips.com                 Adam.dorrell@directness.net




          A combined 25 years of eCommerce experience from
          leading companies such as Apple, Dell and Sony, facing
          similar issues and trying to find robust, scalable yet
          cost-effective solutions to improve Online Sales.
Demystifying Loyalty or... Loyalty for Dummies


• What is the Philips Online Shop
• Sense and Simplicity in Online Sales
• Automatic Customer Feedback to support NPS
  concept
• Now you can go and do it yourself
Sense & Simplicity through Online Sales
How did we get there?

   Extensive research...
How did we get there?

    ... and listening to the voice of the customer
Paving the path for our eCommerce vision
aka “What we want to be famous for”
Sense & Simplicity, an enabler of success

     ADVANCED            EASY TO EXPERIENCE   DESIGNED AROUND YOU
  Immersive Experience     Need-based tools        Personalization
Philips is now in 10 countries, operating 20 stores
How do we keep improving on the promise?




         How was it for YOU?
By investing in Loyalty!

 • You should care about Customer experience
    – It HAS an impact on the top & bottom line
 • It’s the Voice of the Customer!
    – Direct Feedback (no noise from channel)
 • Measurable, it becomes a KPI!
   – You can track improvements
   – Direct link to profits
   – Use if for Incentive
 • Net Promoter Score
    – An Industry standard KPI since 2003
Lesson in Inequalities…and where to focus




    Source: Malcolm McDonald, CIM
“De la passoire... a l’entonnoir”
                                        Customers

                   Pre-sale:
                   Acquisition

                    Traffic Costs $$$
               !     • 50 cts/KW
                     • 1% CR
                    ➡ Up to $50/Cust
                                                                           eCommerce

                                                                   $
                                                                             Engine
                   Transaction           Philips Online Shop Conversion
                                                        etc




                                          Fulfillment, Customer Services
                                                        etc




                   Post-Sale:
                   Retention




        The need to focus on retaining customers is clear!
              ... but how can you do it effectively?
Finding the Value of Repeating Customers
                                                                Customers v. Revenue
• Take a sales report (last 6m or 12m), open in   100%

  spreadsheet
• Group customers together by email address
  (or customer number)                            75%                                    50%
• Sum up the order values by customer
• Sort “total order value” from high to low
                                                                 93%
• Divide customers into sensible segments:        50%
  LOW/HIGH or 5/10/85%


                                                  25%                                    50%




                                                                  7%
                                                   0%
                                                          Number of customers          Revenue

                                                                          Repeating Customers
                                                                          New Customers


                                                         Data Fact: B
                                                                       es
                                                         of its custom t Buy found that 7%
                                                                       ers accounte
                                                         of its sales.              d for 43%
Segment your Customers by Value


                                      High spending customers
                                           •7% of total,
                                           •50% of revenue,
                      $$$                  •1,500 customers
                                           •Avg Value: €1150
   Value
(spend, profit)
                                      Low spending customers
                        $                  •93% of total,
                                           •50% of revenue,
                                           •20,300 customers
                                           •Avg Value: €163




                  Your mileage may vary!
Customer Feedback Management - 1st steps


                         Order Confirmation                          Invoice                         Delivery Information




        Invite by email                        Web Survey                             Plot the results                 Act on the comments
 All customers to rate you on       Ask Net Promoter question & Ask
          every order                         for Comment                        Lots of Spreadhseet work!            DISTRIBUTE COMMENTS
                                                                                    Graph, segment etc.                to those who can use
Usually NO permission needed, but     You can ask other questions about                                                        them.
    explain up Front AND add        specific issues and ask if further action   Goal is to improve over time
       “unsubscribe” option                needed, but keep it short.

                                       Expect 20 – 30% response
Segment your Customers by Loyalty

                                20,000 surveyed
                                 25% response

    Detractors                                       Promoters
     • 20% TOTAL                                      • 45% of total,
     • 1012 customers,                                • 2250 customers
     • 19 gave “0” score                              • 1643 gave “10” score


                              ☹             ☺
    459 comments                                     833 comments




                           Detractors    Promoters



                                 LOYALTY
                             (Net promoter score)
Value & Loyalty Matrix

                              Customer Segmentation



                                                                                 Take actions to

                                                                                Rescue
                                                                      Key customers IN DANGER OF defecting
          Value                         RESCUE               REWARD
                                                                                        &
     (spend, profit)
                                                LOWER PRIORITY
                                                                               Reward
                                                                      Key customers who can help grow sale


                                   Detractors           Promoters



                                            LOYALTY
                                        (Net promoter score)


CustomerGauge Rescue-Reward
Retention model © 2010
Building your Loyalty processes...
                                                                         Set up processes to continually
                                                                         monitor customer scores and
                                                                         feedback

                                        Survey customers automatically


       Data in from
   e-commerce system


                                                                                                      “we’d like you to trial our new
                                                                              Prioritise customers              product”…
                Find urgent customers                                           to be rewarded
                    to be rescued



                                                                                                          You said you would recommend us
                                                                                                           – thanks! We’d like to offer your
                                                                            REWARD                          friends a £20 voucher to try us!




               Call center
                feedback

                                                                                            Measure
                                                                                         referred sales




      Regularly report NPS results,                                      Publish testimonials to
        returning customers etc           Learn from customer                   the web
                                               feedback
...and turn them into a Loyalty Robot
                                                                         Automate where possible your
                                                                         processes to continually monitor
                                                                         customer scores and feedback

                                        Survey customers automatically


       Data in from
   e-commerce system


                                                                                                      “we’d like you to trial our new
                                                                              Prioritise customers              product”…
                Find urgent customers                                           to be rewarded
                    to be rescued



                                                                                                          You said you would recommend us
                                                                                                           – thanks! We’d like to offer your
                                                                            REWARD                          friends a £20 voucher to try us!




               Call center
                feedback

                                                                                            Measure
                                                                                         referred sales




      Regularly report NPS results,                                      Publish testimonials to
        returning customers etc           Learn from customer                   the web
                                               feedback
A real Loyalty Robot: CustomerGauge

• CustomerGauge is a system that
   – Plugs into your ecommerce system to
     automatically survey customers about their
     experience, every day
   – Brings voice of customer feedback into your
     organisation
   – Measures customer loyalty with industry
     standard Net Promoter Score®
   – Realtime dashboard to help improve customer
     experience and retention sales
   – Simple to use, quick to implement
   – No hardware or software needed
• Optional extras:
   – Workflow module to guide feedback to
     appropriate department
   – “Marketing Robot” to help you segment and
     automatically target offers to most engaged
     customers
                                                   Survey every transaction, automatically
Acting on Comments

•   Best practices:
     •   Get regular feedback so you can manage it:
         Daily/weekly is best!
     •   Classify comments to help prioritise issues
     •   GET COMMENts to the right people
     •   Act on customer feedback – within 24
         hours




                                                        Problems!            Suggestions          Praise
                                                       Service issues   Service Improvements   Testimonials
                                                         Logistics
                        Logistics                       Returns etc



                         FINANCE


                                WEB
Automatically segmenting returning customers




                                                             Built in rules to
                                                             help rescue and
                                                             reward customers




                                                          Analyze the
                                                          response history
  CustomerGauge                                           from your most
  helps you measure                                       prolific customers
  and understand
  your VIP
  customers
                                                        - J. Smith@directness.net




                                   Look at individual
                                   customer spending
                                   patterns, and past
                                   comments/scores
Strategic change management using CustomerGauge
                                          SURVEY: Customer gives multi-choice
                                          feedback on likes/dislikes




                                                          Understand root causes




                                          SURVEY: Comments (Voice Of Customer)




                                                                                                Assign to project
                                                                                                managers
•   To help make strategic change:
     –   Identify root causes of issues
     –   Put a value on impact of each        Track NPS improvements
         issue
     –   Set up projects to “Close the
         loop”
     –   Track NPS improvement as a
         result
                                                                                   Understand value / NPS impact
Root Cause Analysis
                                 Waterfall chart: Company A: NPS 41




• What is going wrong (and
  right?)
  – Understand drivers of
    promoters and detractors
     • “Drill-down”
     • Multiple filter options



                                   Waterfall chart: Company B: NPS -3
Examples... real ones!

                         Senseo Chocopad


                           NPS input:
                           • price issue
                           • availability issue (online only)
                           • shipping costs
                           Close the loop outcome:
                           • bundle product
                           Result:
                           • NPS increase
                           • Sales volume decreased
The solution: a new landing page + bundle offer
Accessory compatibility
                                   Your product identification for
  The compatibility section is     matching suitable replacement
 hard to follow. "all above 6900   tooth brush heads is confusing.
  except 6900", but there are        The time that the compact
 models with numerically larger     head has been out of stock is     The shop is way better than
     numbers which have a                  unacceptable.              before :) The only problem
     separate compatibility.                                             was finding the correct
                                   If you are discontinuing a line,    heads for my shaver. I had
  Explicitly listing unsupported        please simply say so           to find the normal on-line
    models would help too.                                                shop to look up the
                                                                           compatibility chart.
                                                                      Could you put the link in to
                                                                          the staff shop for it?
Consumer reviews (BazaarVoice)

          Hosted: CustomerGauge                Hosted: BazaarVoice
          (last page of survey)




• Using CustomerGauge drove up BazaarVoice reviews 500%
  – Info and image from DR feed into CG
  – CG forms correct URL and security sign-in to BV
Marketing Output
• Testimonials
Marketing Robot: Rewarding loyal customers




                       • Promoters scoring 9 or 10 said they
                         would “recommend” the store
                       • Encourage them to bring other
                         friends in
                       • Use an introductory coupon to
                         offer to sweeten the deal
Loyalty Marketing
  In a nutshell                                              Testimonials, referrals,
                                                             Reward customers

                                       “Fire-Prevention”
                                           Strategic
                                           Improvements
                        “Firefighting”
 Continuous
  Surveying             Rescue customers       Top tips!
                        one by one              •   Identify your most valuable returning customers
Net Promoter Score
and                                             •   Continually ask for feedback using Net Promoter
Voice of Customer                                   Score methodology
                                                •   Rescue & Reward the most important customers

                                                •   Automate the process wherever possible: build a
                                                    Loyalty Robot
                                                •   Make it part of your company’s DNA – use the best
                                                    tools out there!


                                                                                Thank
                                                                                 you
   How did we do?
         recy.me/bt6f
   http://

Philips: Automatic Loyalty Measurement and Retention Marketing

  • 1.
    Building the CustomerLoyalty Robot
  • 2.
    Who the hellare we? Serge Acker Adam Dorrell Sr Director & GM Philips Online St ctness ore CEO CustomerGauge/Dire serge.acker@philips.com Adam.dorrell@directness.net A combined 25 years of eCommerce experience from leading companies such as Apple, Dell and Sony, facing similar issues and trying to find robust, scalable yet cost-effective solutions to improve Online Sales.
  • 3.
    Demystifying Loyalty or...Loyalty for Dummies • What is the Philips Online Shop • Sense and Simplicity in Online Sales • Automatic Customer Feedback to support NPS concept • Now you can go and do it yourself
  • 4.
    Sense & Simplicitythrough Online Sales
  • 5.
    How did weget there? Extensive research...
  • 6.
    How did weget there? ... and listening to the voice of the customer
  • 7.
    Paving the pathfor our eCommerce vision aka “What we want to be famous for”
  • 8.
    Sense & Simplicity,an enabler of success ADVANCED EASY TO EXPERIENCE DESIGNED AROUND YOU Immersive Experience Need-based tools Personalization
  • 9.
    Philips is nowin 10 countries, operating 20 stores
  • 10.
    How do wekeep improving on the promise? How was it for YOU?
  • 11.
    By investing inLoyalty! • You should care about Customer experience – It HAS an impact on the top & bottom line • It’s the Voice of the Customer! – Direct Feedback (no noise from channel) • Measurable, it becomes a KPI! – You can track improvements – Direct link to profits – Use if for Incentive • Net Promoter Score – An Industry standard KPI since 2003
  • 12.
    Lesson in Inequalities…andwhere to focus Source: Malcolm McDonald, CIM
  • 13.
    “De la passoire...a l’entonnoir” Customers Pre-sale: Acquisition Traffic Costs $$$ ! • 50 cts/KW • 1% CR ➡ Up to $50/Cust eCommerce $ Engine Transaction Philips Online Shop Conversion etc Fulfillment, Customer Services etc Post-Sale: Retention The need to focus on retaining customers is clear! ... but how can you do it effectively?
  • 14.
    Finding the Valueof Repeating Customers Customers v. Revenue • Take a sales report (last 6m or 12m), open in 100% spreadsheet • Group customers together by email address (or customer number) 75% 50% • Sum up the order values by customer • Sort “total order value” from high to low 93% • Divide customers into sensible segments: 50% LOW/HIGH or 5/10/85% 25% 50% 7% 0% Number of customers Revenue Repeating Customers New Customers Data Fact: B es of its custom t Buy found that 7% ers accounte of its sales. d for 43%
  • 15.
    Segment your Customersby Value High spending customers •7% of total, •50% of revenue, $$$ •1,500 customers •Avg Value: €1150 Value (spend, profit) Low spending customers $ •93% of total, •50% of revenue, •20,300 customers •Avg Value: €163 Your mileage may vary!
  • 16.
    Customer Feedback Management- 1st steps Order Confirmation Invoice Delivery Information Invite by email Web Survey Plot the results Act on the comments All customers to rate you on Ask Net Promoter question & Ask every order for Comment Lots of Spreadhseet work! DISTRIBUTE COMMENTS Graph, segment etc. to those who can use Usually NO permission needed, but You can ask other questions about them. explain up Front AND add specific issues and ask if further action Goal is to improve over time “unsubscribe” option needed, but keep it short. Expect 20 – 30% response
  • 17.
    Segment your Customersby Loyalty 20,000 surveyed 25% response Detractors Promoters • 20% TOTAL • 45% of total, • 1012 customers, • 2250 customers • 19 gave “0” score • 1643 gave “10” score ☹ ☺ 459 comments 833 comments Detractors Promoters LOYALTY (Net promoter score)
  • 18.
    Value & LoyaltyMatrix Customer Segmentation Take actions to Rescue Key customers IN DANGER OF defecting Value RESCUE REWARD & (spend, profit) LOWER PRIORITY Reward Key customers who can help grow sale Detractors Promoters LOYALTY (Net promoter score) CustomerGauge Rescue-Reward Retention model © 2010
  • 19.
    Building your Loyaltyprocesses... Set up processes to continually monitor customer scores and feedback Survey customers automatically Data in from e-commerce system “we’d like you to trial our new Prioritise customers product”… Find urgent customers to be rewarded to be rescued You said you would recommend us – thanks! We’d like to offer your REWARD friends a £20 voucher to try us! Call center feedback Measure referred sales Regularly report NPS results, Publish testimonials to returning customers etc Learn from customer the web feedback
  • 20.
    ...and turn theminto a Loyalty Robot Automate where possible your processes to continually monitor customer scores and feedback Survey customers automatically Data in from e-commerce system “we’d like you to trial our new Prioritise customers product”… Find urgent customers to be rewarded to be rescued You said you would recommend us – thanks! We’d like to offer your REWARD friends a £20 voucher to try us! Call center feedback Measure referred sales Regularly report NPS results, Publish testimonials to returning customers etc Learn from customer the web feedback
  • 21.
    A real LoyaltyRobot: CustomerGauge • CustomerGauge is a system that – Plugs into your ecommerce system to automatically survey customers about their experience, every day – Brings voice of customer feedback into your organisation – Measures customer loyalty with industry standard Net Promoter Score® – Realtime dashboard to help improve customer experience and retention sales – Simple to use, quick to implement – No hardware or software needed • Optional extras: – Workflow module to guide feedback to appropriate department – “Marketing Robot” to help you segment and automatically target offers to most engaged customers Survey every transaction, automatically
  • 22.
    Acting on Comments • Best practices: • Get regular feedback so you can manage it: Daily/weekly is best! • Classify comments to help prioritise issues • GET COMMENts to the right people • Act on customer feedback – within 24 hours Problems! Suggestions Praise Service issues Service Improvements Testimonials Logistics Logistics Returns etc FINANCE WEB
  • 23.
    Automatically segmenting returningcustomers Built in rules to help rescue and reward customers Analyze the response history CustomerGauge from your most helps you measure prolific customers and understand your VIP customers - J. Smith@directness.net Look at individual customer spending patterns, and past comments/scores
  • 24.
    Strategic change managementusing CustomerGauge SURVEY: Customer gives multi-choice feedback on likes/dislikes Understand root causes SURVEY: Comments (Voice Of Customer) Assign to project managers • To help make strategic change: – Identify root causes of issues – Put a value on impact of each Track NPS improvements issue – Set up projects to “Close the loop” – Track NPS improvement as a result Understand value / NPS impact
  • 25.
    Root Cause Analysis Waterfall chart: Company A: NPS 41 • What is going wrong (and right?) – Understand drivers of promoters and detractors • “Drill-down” • Multiple filter options Waterfall chart: Company B: NPS -3
  • 26.
    Examples... real ones! Senseo Chocopad NPS input: • price issue • availability issue (online only) • shipping costs Close the loop outcome: • bundle product Result: • NPS increase • Sales volume decreased
  • 27.
    The solution: anew landing page + bundle offer
  • 28.
    Accessory compatibility Your product identification for The compatibility section is matching suitable replacement hard to follow. "all above 6900 tooth brush heads is confusing. except 6900", but there are The time that the compact models with numerically larger head has been out of stock is The shop is way better than numbers which have a unacceptable. before :) The only problem separate compatibility. was finding the correct If you are discontinuing a line, heads for my shaver. I had Explicitly listing unsupported please simply say so to find the normal on-line models would help too. shop to look up the compatibility chart. Could you put the link in to the staff shop for it?
  • 29.
    Consumer reviews (BazaarVoice) Hosted: CustomerGauge Hosted: BazaarVoice (last page of survey) • Using CustomerGauge drove up BazaarVoice reviews 500% – Info and image from DR feed into CG – CG forms correct URL and security sign-in to BV
  • 30.
  • 31.
    Marketing Robot: Rewardingloyal customers • Promoters scoring 9 or 10 said they would “recommend” the store • Encourage them to bring other friends in • Use an introductory coupon to offer to sweeten the deal
  • 32.
    Loyalty Marketing In a nutshell Testimonials, referrals, Reward customers “Fire-Prevention” Strategic Improvements “Firefighting” Continuous Surveying Rescue customers Top tips! one by one • Identify your most valuable returning customers Net Promoter Score and • Continually ask for feedback using Net Promoter Voice of Customer Score methodology • Rescue & Reward the most important customers • Automate the process wherever possible: build a Loyalty Robot • Make it part of your company’s DNA – use the best tools out there! Thank you How did we do? recy.me/bt6f http://