This is Part 3 of a series on the Development of the Customer Sentiment Index (see introduction, Part 1 and Part 2). The CSI measures the degree to which customers hold positive/negative attitude about your company/brand. The CSI is based on a single survey question that asks customers to use the best word to describe the company/brand. This […]
This is Part 1 of a series on the Development of the Customer Sentiment Index (see introduction here). The CSI assesses the degree to which customers possess a positive or negative attitude about you. This post covers the measurement of customers’ attitudes and the development of empirically-derived sentiment lexicons. I was invited to give a talk at the Sentiment […]
![target[1]](https://businessoverbroadway.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/target1-100x100.jpg "The Hidden Bias in Customer Metrics")
Business leaders understand how their business is performing by monitoring different metrics. Metrics are essentially a summary all the data (yes, even Big Data) into a score. Metrics include new customer growth rate, number of sales and employee satisfaction, to name a few. Your hope is that these scores tell you something useful. There are a few ways to […]
In the realm of customer experience management, businesses can employ different summary metrics of customer feedback ratings. That is, the same set of data can be summarized in different ways. Popular summary metrics include mean scores, net scores and customer segment percentages. Prior analysis of different likelihood to recommend metrics reveal, however, that they are highly […]
I gave a talk at VoCFusion last month on the value of Big Data in customer experience management (CEM). After the talk, I was interviewed by the multi-talented Jeff Olsen of Allegiance (the conference organizer). Listen to the interview >> Jeff’s questions and my abridged answers (along with some links to supporting content) appear below. We cover […]
I have been doing some work on how investment professionals can use customer feedback as part of their valuation process. I include a case study of an investment firm that used customer feedback to help confirm the valuation of the target company (it did), and also where to start in terms of managing the business to […]
Last week, I reviewed several definitions of customer loyalty (see What is Customer Loyalty? Part 1) that are being used in business today. It appears that definitions fall into two broad categories of loyalty: emotional and behavioral. Emotional loyalty is about how customers generally feel about a company/brand (e.g., when somebody loves, trusts, willing to forgive […]
There seems to be a consensus among customer feedback professionals that business growth depends on improving customer loyalty. It appears, however, that there is little agreement in how they define and measure customer loyalty. In this and subsequent blog posts, I examine the concept of customer loyalty, presenting different definitions of this construct. I attempt […]
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