5. Even in a negative economy, customer experience is a
60%
high priority for consumers, with often or
always paying more for a better experience
6. 70% of customer experience management best in
class adopters use customer feedback to
make strategic decision. Only 50% of industry-average
organizations and 29% of laggards do
7. 80% of the firms would like to
use customer experience as a
form of differentiation.
8. Customer churn is caused by
customer feelings of poor
treatment a huge 68% of
the time.
9. Attracting a new customer
costs 5 times as much
as keeping an existing one
10. Pay close attention to your best
customers.
Act quickly (within 24 hours) on
their requests and dissents
11. Attracting a new customer
costs 5 times as much
as keeping an existing one
12. Attracting a new customer
costs 5 times as much
as keeping an existing one
15. More than 40% of customers
who claimed to be satisfied
switched suppliers without
looking back
16. the most profitable firms enjoy customer
retention rates of around 95%
the average firm has a customer retention rate a
good deal less than that at around 80%
17. It has been estimated that most
companies spend about
98% of their time reacting to problems
and less than 2% preventing them
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Editor's Notes
#3: Bill Bleuel, Professor of Decision Sciences at Pepperdine University