Everyone Everywhere: Maximising Your Net Promoter® Response +60%!
1. EVERYONE
EVERYWHERE
Maximising Your Net Promoter® Response
13 February 2013
Adam Dorrell
CEO Directness
Adam.dorrell@directness.net
*Net Promoter, NPS, and Net Promoter Score are trademarks of
Satmetrix Systems, Inc., Bain & Company, and Fred Reichheld.
2. Introduction
• Who this is relevant to:
– Net Promoter Professionals
– Marketing/customer experience
executives in companies selling into
medium/large organisations, with
several contacts in the major accounts
• What we will cover:
– 10 steps to maximise your survey
responses
• Who we are and our credibility:
– Adam Dorrell
• Former head of Marketing for b2b and
b2c companies including Sony, Dell,
FairMarket, FileNet, Interwoven (now
ATG)
• Using Net Promoter since 2003
• CEO of CustomerGauge
– Vivek Jaiswal
*Net Promoter, NPS, and Net Promoter Score are trademarks of
Satmetrix Systems, Inc., Bain & Company, and Fred Reichheld.
Thomas S Watson, IBM 1921
3. ADVERTISEMENT
A word about CustomerGauge…
• CustomerGauge is the leading real-time
Net Promoter® measurement platform.
– Complete workflow and service recovery
system
– B2b, b2c and b2e solutions
– Automated reporting and digital signage
– Automated, with integrations to CRM
systems including SalesForce.com
– 32 languages (reporting system in EN,
DE, ES, FR, NL, CN)
• Launched 2007
• HQ Amsterdam, global coverage with
partners
4. Let’s set the scene
• We invite most customers by
email
– Industry stats say email click
through = 3.4%*
60%
Response
• Yet we can achieve average
completed Survey Responses
of
from all
– B2c 25% customers is
– B2b 40%
possible.
• This is all customers, not a
subset chosen for “surveying”
• Our top clients achieve 60%
That’s a
response. lot of
• How?
*Mail Chimp Average
engagement.
5. The 10 Steps to Response Success
Travel Client:
1. Relevance
2. Set Expectations
3. Qualified Data
4. Timing - Interval
5. First Impressions
48%
Response
6. Mobile Optimised
7. Following Through - with HALF
8. Tell them again
9. Timing – Day/Time
commenting
10. Manners
Also, half also gave a
“10”. This is from ALL
customers!
6. What do we do?
• We use all the
rules for our clients
• Simple email
• Short surveys
8. 1. Relevance
Response%
• Is it a relationship or
transactional?
– B2B / B2C
• What is the impact on customer?
• For a customer to care, they need
to invest time and money
Value or investment
– Example of Free Products, low
response 10%
– High involvement: 50%+
• Set your expectation – maybe
only survey certain customers?
The higher the order
value the higher the
response rate
9. 2. Set Expectations “You may be
surveyed after
this transaction -
We would really
• It’s important to tell customers like your help to
ahead of time improve our
– This also helps get around privacy service”
issues
• Alert customers ahead –
especially in b2b
• You should expect some Example b2b Model “Contract” between you
and clients
rejections – 0.5% Unsubscribe • Your feedback is important to us
• We will solicit feedback on average two times a
(range 0.2 – 2%) year
• We will respect your time – very short survey of
2 questions max – will take less than 5 minutes
• Only a few people in your organisation
• We will read and act on all of the feedback,
board level if necessary
• We aim to improve service
• We will be transparent with feedback and share
your results with you at least once a year
10. 3. Qualified Data
• Quality of list is
essential – clean email
is essential
– B2b/b2c – make
concerted efforts to
collect email
– Ask customers to
confirm email at
different touchpoints
• You need a system that
will help you clean data
– Use bounces,
unsubscribes
• Data ages! From CustomerGauge Reporting
– (go-aways etc, about Responses 209
15% a year) Data in: 720
– Regular sending is Response = 28%
better – check 2x a
year With bounces etc taken out
Actual sent: 658
REAL RESPONSE
= 32%
11. 4. Time Interval
• What is the best time after a transaction to survey?
– Ecommerce: 7 days after order (chance to experience delivery,
product)
– On-site Service calls: 1 day (Major applicance vendor)
– Support on phone: 10mins (Company example gives 60%+
response)
– B2b: We recommend 2x a year
12. 5. First Impressions
• Time: You only get 3 seconds to
make an impression (and 11 seconds
to read)
• Consider:
– Subject line - Keep it short: 50
characters or less works best.
According to MailChimp, 28-39 had
the highest click rate in a study of 200
million emails.
– Body of email (creative)
– Pictures
– Signature
• Tip: Avoid Spam (see resources on
web – no free offer etc)
13. Email Design Frame your subject as a
question and keep it short!!
Clean design, concise email
content
Emphasize on less time
needed to complete the survey
Stand out survey link
18. 6. Mobile Friendly
• Why is mobile important?
– Up to 43% reading on mobile
• Average b2c up to 33%
• IOS now up to 25%
– B2b 12% and rising
• What is different?
– Size, functionality
– Attention span!
• SMS surveys
– 85% prefer to open link and
answer in browser!
Soon 50% of emails will be
read on mobile…..
19. 7. Following Through
• Survey qualities
– Short is good
– Especially on mobile
– Average survey time 1,27m
• Do you need to ask question?
– Each page drops 5 – 15%
• Expect 50% comments
• Use a social bar (Twitter etc)
20. 8 Tell them again
• Power of a reminder:
– Get 50% extra response from a
well timed reminder
• Example: 21% response 1st
email, 13% reminder after 7
days = total 34%
• But not too much
– Don’t overspam – regulate with 40
unsubscribe stats 35
30
25
20 Secondary
15 Primary
10
5
0
Email
21. 9 Timing in the week
The closer to the weekend the
• Experiment to higher response rate
find the best
day to send
• Thurs/Fri best
for b2c
– Send reminder
on another day
• Can make +3%
difference
22. 10. Manners
•
•
Remember to thank responders
Tell them what you learned and
what you will do with the
information.
Say
•
•
Why? Because customers repeat.
Top customers have double
“Thank
response rates:
You”
23. SUMMARY
The 10 Steps to Response Success
1. Relevance THANK YOU
2. Set Expectations info@customergauge.com
3. Qualified Data
4. Timing - Interval
5. First Impressions
6. Mobile Optimised
7. Following Through
8. Tell them again
9. Timing – Day/Time
10. Manners
24. Mobile Vs Desktop
Higher comments
rate for mobile
Response Rate 7.4% 13.8%
Comments Rate 78.4% 52.3%
Avg. Comments Length 61.8 char 73 char
Customer with L1L2 67.9% 75.9%
Average L1L2 selected 8 5
Customer more engaged
by giving more L1 L2