“If you can’t measure it, You can’t improve it” – Peter Drucker
Taking the time to build and implement a customer experience strategy takes time and hard work. You need to make sure your hard work is paid off and your customers are engaged, happy and satisfied with your service.
So how do you do that? By using customer experience metrics to measure and consistently improve on the service you’re providing.
The first step to choosing your metric or combination of metrics is to determine exactly what you want to measure.
Is it a specific product or service?
Is it the overall satisfaction of a ticket desk service?
Will the customer be likely to purchase again?
Is it related to the speed of service?
The performance of your live chat function?
Once you determine what you want to measure, you can then choose the best method to use or the best combination of methods.
There’s no single metric that will work for every company in every industry – here are some of the most popular metrics used to measure Customer Experience.
1. Net Promoter Score (NPS)
Let’s start with the Net Promoter Score. The NPS score focuses on customer Loyalty – specifically it asks ‘how likely are you to recommend the product or service to a friend or colleague?’.
Respondents give a rating between 0 (not at all likely) and 10 (extremely likely) and depending on their response, customers fall into one of 3 categories to establish an NPS score: Promoters, Passives and Detractors.
Promoters respond with a score of 9 or 10 and are typically loyal and enthusiastic customers.
Passives respond with a score of 7 or 8. They are satisfied with your service but not happy enough to be considered promoters.
Detractors respond with a score of 0 to 6. These are unhappy customers who are unlikely to buy from you again, and may even discourage others from buying from you
The score is then calculated by subtracting the percentage of detractors from the percentage of promoters.
NPS focuses on the loyalty to a brand or a product and allows you to measure the overall customer experience across the board rather than just one incident or transaction.
The NPS Score is a customer experience metric that measures customer loyalty
2. Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT)
The next survey we’re going to look at is the Customer Satisfaction Survey. CSAT is the average satisfaction score that customers rate a specific experience they had with your company. This type of survey is traditionally the most common method for customers to give feedback. It’s usually based on a scale of 1-5, 1-10, a happy to sad face emoji or satisfied to unsatisfied.
This survey can be short with just a few questions and can be done in various ways (over the phone, online, in an email) which makes it easy to implement and measure.
This survey is often used at the end of a service to see how satisfied the customer is. A great example of this is at the end of a live chat session there is often a quick survey to say how the agent responded to your query.
Customer Satisfaction Score is a customer experience metric to measure satisfaction
3. Customer Churn Rate
The next measurement is Customer Churn Rate. This is the percentage of customers who stop purchasing over a certain time period. For example, take the total number of lost customers over a 12 month period and divide this by the total number of customers. This will give you your churn rate.
This measurement helps you to look at the health of your company. In order for your company to grow your new customer acquisition numbers must exceed the number of customers who churn.
You can measure this metric by dividing the total number of lost customers by the total number of active customers for any given period.
Customer Churn Rate will help you to measure the health of your company
4. Customer Feedback
Lastly and importantly, Customer Feedback. There are many ways to capture customer feedback for example, product reviews, external review websites, customer forums. With many of these using some form of scale like 1 – 5 which gives you a star rating.
If your customers are reviewing your company online then it’s important to listen to what they’re saying. You can monitor how happy your customers are, the quality of a particular product and you can quickly solve problems by reviewing a problem a customer might have had.
Measuring customer feedback might take more time but will offer some very detailed insights.
Listening to customer feedback will give you actionable insights
It’s vital you take the time to track and measure your customer experience metrics in order to continually improve your customer experience.
Whatever you decide on, make sure that you measure the things that are most important to your customers, and that you can draw actionable insights from. Relying on customer metrics, paired with human insights, will give you an overall view of the customer journey, helping you to continually improve your customer experience.
And finally, if you’re looking for more in-depth analysis of your customer journey’s or help with your measuring your customer experience, get in touch and I’ll be happy to help.
I offer various packages depending on your needs, so it doesn’t matter if you’re just starting out or you’ve been reviewing your customer data for years and need a fresh pair of eyes.
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