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Hale: Choosing between relational and transactional NPS is a false dichotomy
“Some say relational NPS is better for B to B SaaS. Some people say transactional NPS is better for e-commerce sites. I say phooey. Both are good. So, I think it's a false dichotomy. I think you should ask both.”
Hale: Only one in three businesses truly prioritize customer centricity
“We recently conducted a survey, this is like within the last four or five months, asking how many businesses really, really believe that customer centricity was really important, and it was about one in three.”
Hale: NPS leaders outgrow industry competitors by a factor of two
“In fact, in every industry, the NPS leader tends to outgrow the competitors by a factor of two.”
Hale: NPS promoters deliver three to eight times the LTV of detractors
“Promoters provide three to eight times the lifetime value of detractors, because why? Well, they cost less, they stay longer, they retain, and they refer friends.”
Hale: NPS promoters demand half the discount in sales negotiations
“Promoters demanded half the discount. When they talk to our sales accounts.”
Hale: NPS functions as a risk management metric during business transitions
“This is an example of using NPS, not just to drive growth, but to map, to minimize risk. And so what we did is we looked at the NPS of our customers and measured it as we were making this four-quarter transition between, you know, subscription and transaction,…”
Hale: Detractors predict churn, advocacy predicts growth, and purchasing questions predict ARPU
“NPS is really great because it helps you predict where churn is. It's, it, you know, if you have, ah, detractors, it's really, it helps you identify who's gonna churn. Advocacy really helps drive, you know, this is, would you recommend this product or service.…”
Hale: Brazilian NPS averages 25% higher and UK scores 10% lower
“Brazil. Uniformly, across hundreds of thousands of NPS questions that we have asked, Brazil is about 25% higher, and I hate to say it, if anybody's from the UK, apologies, about 10% lower.”
Hale: Calibrate survey length to the customer's financial and time investment
“It's pretty important to recognize what level of investment your customer's willing to give you, right? And to calibrate that. If you're Uber, it's about 30 seconds, and maybe 10% of the time. If you just spent a million dollars on our enterprise software prod…”
Hale: Retaining a customer is worth about $420 to SurveyMonkey
“In our business, the value of a retained customer is about 420 bucks.”
Hale: 80% of SurveyMonkey's customers arrive via unpaid organic channels
“About 20% of our customers come to us through paid channels. 80% through unpaid channels. Free channels. Organic channels. That is a result of us having, among other things, an NPS in the fifties.”
Hale: Over-delivering without heavy monetization naturally drives high NPS
“Turns out, if you want to have a high NPS, over deliver for your customers, and then don't monetize heavily.”
Hale: Two-thirds of Fortune 1000 companies use NPS to measure happiness
“About two thirds of the Fortune 1000 using NPS methodology as a way to measure customer happiness”
Hale: NPS promoters renew at twice the rate of detractors
“One, promoters renewed at twice the rate of detractors. We had this. We had the correlation. We had all the renewal data, and we had all the NPS data, and we bound them together, and we said, look at this. This cohort of people, otherwise known as promoters, r…”
Hale: Quantifying happiness financially drives executive buy-in and organizational growth
“If you can figure out how to get the quantification, the financial quantification of customer happiness, one, you have a better chance of getting that stuff done, and two, you have a really good chance of driving growth, because those two things tend to align.”
Hale: Apple maintains an NPS in the 70s despite premium pricing
“NPS leader. Apple. Oh my god. NPS in the seventies. Crushing it. Premium price point, too. Really interesting. High price, high NPS.”
Hale: 38% of US survey responses come from mobile devices
“It's about 38%, so man in the front row, give him a cigar. 38%, but the thing that's important about that is, over the past 12 months, that's gone up by about seven points, ok?”
Hale: 75% of international survey responses occur on mobile devices
“It's about 75%, and in Japan it's close to 88%, for us anyway. That's our data.”
Hale: I called 10 dissatisfied customers every Thursday morning at 7 AM
“The way I did it is I just did, like, 10 calls on Thursday. It's between seven a.m. And 10 a.m., and I just pounded through the most important 10 that I could get through.”
Hale: Automated issue resolution emails lifted NPS by three points in a month
“We saw that, ah, previous company. When we implemented that, we got a, like, three-point lift in NPS in the space of about a month.”
Hale: SurveyMonkey surveys relational NPS quarterly and transactional NPS post-event
“At Survey Monkey, we do both, and we ask it in various spots along the customer life cycle. We ask it in a relational way, probably once every six months, increasingly now one a quarter. We ask it in a transactional way, after purchase, after a service experie…”