One of the questions we get asked a lot is: “What sort of completion rates do you guys normally get on an assessment?” Well, the answer is that it depends on what sort of assessment you’re talking about – we provide feedback on relationships with customers, channel partners and suppliers, and the completion rates differ from […]
SO WHAT’S A GOOD NET PROMOTER SCORE* FOR A B2B COMPANY? It’s a question we get asked a lot. Sometimes the question comes in a slightly different form: “What NPS target should we set for the company? 25% seems low, so maybe 50%? Or should we push the boat out and aim for 70%?” Well, it […]
The last time we met Susan and Bill, they were discussing survival tactics. Thankfully, they have managed to get the company back on an even keel – excuse the boating pun – over the past few months and now have a new challenge to face. At the last board meeting, the CEO asked them to prepare […]
Following on from last week’s post on Bill and Susan, we explore what happens next in their story. EPISODE 2: “Performing Zone” versus “Danger Zone” Susan, Sales Director: “Those Deep-Relationship-NPS results were incredibly revealing and more than a little scary. Very few of our large accounts are Ambassadors and our biggest account is an Opponent. If we […]
The Susan & Bill Trilogy When we launched NPS in early-2014, we created a storyline around two fictitious characters called Bill (a thoughtful but somewhat introverted Marketing Director) and Susan (a more aggressive low-attention-span Sales Director). They may be fictitious but they bear more than a passing resemblance to some sales and marketing directors we have met […]