Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Does Tracking Customer Satisfaction have to be Costly

By Dennis Lewis

Why is measuring customer satisfaction so expensive?

Anyone who has tried to implement an effective satisfaction measurement system knows that although simple in theory, in practice the task can be daunting and expensive. Not only is the process complicated, but if you don't follow a correct methodology, the results may be worse than doing nothing.

To be brief, you must "ask a large number of customers the right questions and then pay careful attention to their responses." It's surprising how one short sentence can be so tough to put into practice in the real world. To be honest, not many companies have been able to put into place a truly effective system.

The two principal reasons that make measuring customer and employee satisfaction difficult are:

1. It requires a lot of dedication and hard work to implement the process.

2. The whole system is basically worthless If you don't get enough real opinions.

In the first place every measurement system must include the following seven steps:

1. Design the survey questionnaire.

2. Implement the actual survey instrument (a printed survey, a webpage)

3. Distribute the survey.

4. Get clients to fill out the survey (perhaps the hardest part).

5. Gather the filled out surveys.

6. Tabulate the responses.

7. Analyze the results.

Until now, the mechanics of completing these seven steps all but forced serious satisfaction measurement systems into the exclusive terrain of consultants and big corporations. Small and middle size enterprises seldom can justify incurring these expenses more than once or twice a year. And the truth is, if you're only going to measure once or twice a year, it's probably not worth the bother.

Luckily a new tool is now on the market which promises to completely change the landscape of customer and employee satisfaction measurement. This patented new system is called Gustometria, and it allows any size company to constantly and affordably measure the evolution of their satisfaction scores. The system provides realtime metrics thanks to being completely integrated into the daily business processes.

Gustometria eliminates the need for the expensive mechanical parts of the process (steps 2 to 6) allowing business leaders to concentrate on the nitty gritty details of what's happening in their companies. At a fraction of the cost of the old way of measuring, Gustometria delivers enormous streams of detailed information day in day out.

If you believe that listening to your customers is a genuine survival tactic in today's market, you need to implement the Gustometria system this very week.

Pick up the phone and call Gustometria toll free at 1-877-448-7865.

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