It’s Good to Talk. If you’re as old as I am, you’ll remember the British Telecom (as BT was then known) TV adverts with this tagline. It was an incredibly effective advertising campaign which helped change consumers’ perceptions of the organisation. As it so happens, the same tagline is relevant
Am I better than the competition? If I got a penny for every time a client has asked “How do we compare against our competitors?” or “How are we doing against the benchmark for our industry?” I’d be a rich man. But the thing is that B2B benchmarking is not a good idea. Seriously.
Most of Deep-Insight’s work is based on helping large international B2B organisations run effective Customer Experience (CX) programmes. The key to running a good CX programme is understanding how to change the culture of an organisation to make it truly customer-centric, and that has to be based on regular high-quality conversations
Rose Murphy Product Manager, Deep-Insight I’m delighted to start my new role as Product Manager. It’s an exciting challenge for me and for Deep-Insight. But where do I start? What do I do first? Having spent ten years working my way up to Operations Director in Deep-Insight, I know our
We’re coming to the end of another year and all in all, it’s been a good one for us here at Deep-Insight. We are an Irish company – and proud of it – but our client base is international. Over the past 12 months, we have carried out customer and
What is a ‘Good’ Employee Net Promoter Score? Last year, I wrote a blog post entitled What is a ‘Good’ B2B Net Promoter Score?. For some reason it turned out to be surprisingly popular. The blog still gets dozens of hits every week. I’m guessing that was because there’s a lot
What is a ‘Good’ Employee Net Promoter Score? Last year, I wrote a blog post entitled What is a ‘Good’ B2B Net Promoter Score?. For some reason it turned out to be surprisingly popular. The blog still gets dozens of hits every week. I’m guessing that was because there’s a lot
Many of our B2B customers struggle with the challenge of turning their sales people from mere order takers into true relationship managers. Or better still: into a ‘Trusted Advisor’. This is particularly true of companies who sell to large and complex clients. I’m talking here about situations where a large
We run B2B customer assessments for large corporate clients in the Netherlands and elsewhere. Very often I get asked questions like this after we deliver the customer feedback to senior management: “OK, you’ve told us what our customers think of us, but what do we do about it now?” “Tell
This is the topic of a talk I’m giving this week at a customer loyalty conference in Melbourne. It is in response to another talk entitled “Are you going to NPS me? No I’m not” in which Dr Dave Stewart of Marketing Decision Analysis will be presenting the case that Net Promoter is a deeply flawed concept.
If you’re a typical B2B company, the chances are that you have good or excellent relationships with the majority of your clients. But you will also have clients where your relationship is not as strong. At Deep-Insight we help you understand these client relationships by segmenting them based on the
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
