Customer satisfaction and loyalty are key differentiators between the better and poorer performing businesses in most markets. Satisfaction drives loyalty and loyalty drives business performance. This new edition of How to Measure Customer Satisfaction takes readers step-by-step through designing and implementing a CSM survey, highlighting blunders that are commonly made and explaining how to make sure that the measures produced are accurate and credible. It also covers ways of gaining understanding and ownership of the CSM programme throughout the organization and clarifies the business case for customer satisfaction. If you are committed to the future of your company, the ability to measure what your customers think of you is essential - and so is this book!
The success of your business is underpinned by competitiveness and profitability, both of which are maximized in the long run by doing best what matters most to customers - this book will help you reach that goal. Written by three leading practitioners, this fully revised second edition of How to Measure Customer Satisfaction is a highly practical guide to developing and running an effective customer satisfaction measurement (CSM) programme. To be effective, a CSM programme must first of all produce accurate measures - this book takes readers step-by-step through designing and implementing a CSM survey, highlighting blunders that are commonly made and explaining how to make sure that the measures produced are accurate and credible. It also covers ways of gaining understanding and ownership of the CSM programme throughout the organization, the second key requirement for its long-term success. Importantly this new edition now includes a new section on electronic surveys, which are much more prominent now than when the book was first published in 1999. Finally, the relationship between customer satisfaction and concepts such as loyalty and delight are explored. If you are committed to the future of your company, the ability to measure what your customers think of you is essential - and so is this book!
