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Customer Are Important? And what can you do about it? 1 Thursday, February 25, 2010

Customers Are Important

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Everyone accepts that customers are important. But why are they important and how do you make this meaningful, how do you use this idea to drive strategy? This brief presentation provides two ideas to consider that will help you understand this important issue.

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Customer Are Important?And what can you do about it?

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Why are Customers Important?

• Current customers are your most reliable and cost-effective, source of future revenue

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Net Promoter Score*• The concept of Net Promoter Score, first described in

The Ultimate Question - Driving Good Profits and True Growth by Fred Reichheld, which suggests that one question, “How likely is it that you would recommend this company to a friend or colleague?,” produces a clear measure of an organization's performance

• Bain & Company analysis shows that value-creating companies, companies that achieve long-term profitable growth, have Net Promoter Scores two times higher than the average company. And NPSSM leaders outgrow their competitors in most industries-by an average of 2.5 times.

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*Source: The Ultimate Question

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“How likely is it that you would recommend this company to a

friend or colleague?”

Promoters - Detractors = NPS

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Detractors Passives Promoters

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What can you do about it?• Develop customer marketing strategies for

each sector

- Maximize Promoter quantity and profitability

- Minimize Detractors quantity and investment

- Find more Promoters

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Optimize customers by profitability and NPS

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Implementation• Ask every customer the question - you need

more than a sample

• Base compensation/bonuses on NPS performance

• Use position on the grid to drive messaging

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