NPS® (Net Promoter Score) is a metric used to measure customers' happiness and loyalty to a brand, service, or product. It is a surveying method where the first question is usually measuring the probability of your customers recommending your service to other people.
Depending on the score, responses are divided into three groups:
Promoters: Scores of 9 and 10 are the happiest customers who are likely to tell more people about your brand and products!
Passive: Scores of 7 or 8 are compliant customers who don't have strong negative or positive opinions of your product.
Detractors: Customers giving a score between 0 and 6 are dissatisfied with your brand. Unhappy customers who are not likely to promote your product to others.
Most commonly, NPS data is captured from a website or web application or via email. With Survicate, you can use a mobile application or Intercom messenger.
If you would like to learn more about NPS surveys analysis and how to create an NPS survey in Survicate - check out the video below:
Benefits of NPS surveys
💌 Simple, user-friendly & quick
NPS is relevant to everyone, and you don't need to spend a lot of time and effort conducting such a survey. The steps are easily done using Survicate in less than 5 minutes. In an analysis, you don't need to carry out three-story calculations to calculate the NPS. Interpreting the result is effortless - expressed as a percentage, the picture will immediately become apparent.
💎 Helps you work on customer retention
Retaining current customers is more profitable than attracting new ones. Everything is simple - the more loyal your customers are, the more likely they will stay with you and not go looking for someone better. And if they are not happy with your brand, you can easily get in touch, appreciate their feedback, and turn them into promoters.
🚀 Evaluate your business and give direction for change and improvement
Running an NPS survey frequently helps you to stimulate business growth as the company becomes more interested in improving this indicator. Moreover, frequent customer feedback will certainly show which areas are your strengths and which are open for improvement. You can use this feedback to make better business decisions and scale your product.
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How do you calculate the NPS?
To calculate the Net Promoter Score, simply subtract the percentage of Promoters from the percentage of Detractors.
For instance, if 70% of respondents gave a score of 9 or 10, and 10% gave a score between 1 to 6, the result would be (70% - 10%) x 100 = 60. Getting 60 NPS is a perfect indicator since most customers are Promoters.
❗️ It's a common misperception that passives don't affect the NPS results. However, since the overall score is calculated using the percentage, passives do influence the total number of results, hence the percentage of the calculation.
Survicate automatically calculates your NPS in the Analyze Results section of your survey. You can find the percentage and number of responses for all three groups and your overall score.
What is a good NPS?
A good and bad NPS - is a very relative concept, and it could depend on the area of the business you provide. However, it is generally accepted that:
-100 - 0 score means that your product, brand, or business needs improvement!
0-30 score seems to be good, but you can do better!
30-70 score purport that it is great and you have more happy customers than unhappy ones!
70-100 it's a wonderful score. Your customers love you!
What are the next steps to an NPS result?
Since NPS segments your customers into three different areas, we advise you to act on the feedback using these segments.
Promoters
Positive feedback will help you to promote your company or brand. The promoter group is your competitive advantage, which should be untwisted and used to the maximum.
Compare them with detractors and learn how they differ. Based on this, you can conclude what the detractors lack and what you can improve.
Be sure to thank them for the feedback and write something nice - tell them you value them. You can use Zapier, which allows you to set up automated emails.
You can also ask them to leave feedback about your company or brand on Capterra or G2 Crowd. Using the page redirects to these sites and collect admiring opinion on you.
You can contact the Promoters directly by email, messenger, or on a call and ask them to share their opinion, ask for a testimonial, or even a case study.
Use this group for marketing purposes - share their opinion with the world as social proof!
Passives
It is a significant group that can develop into a Promoter or Detractor in the future. Therefore, you should pay attention to them.
Find out what you can improve so the score will increase next time.
Ask what the Passive group is missing and what they would like to achieve.
Try to clarify what products and services they use most often. Their average rating may be caused by low quality or some shortcomings. The best way to do it is using text answer question type to allow them to share with you all the information they like or dislike and things they want to improve.
Detractors
It is the most dangerous and vital group that needs to be given attention and a quick response!
Try to answer personally to negative feedback, show your interest, and be helpful.
You can also send these people to your customer support team to give them better help and attention. Let them know you are ready to improve the quality to regain their trust and respect.
To ensure you have not missed this feedback, we suggest you configure email notifications for your survey. You can also use Zapier notifications; for example, you might want to get notified only when someone submits an NPS response or when a specific question is answered in your survey.
Additionally, Slack integration allows you to collect responses and notifications on selected channels. This way, you can ensure all your teams are in the loop with your customer reviews.
Tips for the most efficient NPS survey
Send your survey to the right clients at the right time.
Segment your customers better if you decide to conduct a full survey, and carefully approach the compilation of the sample. First of all, customers who are of the highest value to you should participate in your survey. For example, if you are planning to run an NPS survey on your website or web application, you can segment customers based on their previous number of visits. Thus, you can automatically send a survey to your customers who have visited your site several times and only survey your frequent visitors.
Run NPS surveys periodically.
It is difficult to say how often you need to conduct a survey: the optimal time interval for each business is different. In Survicate, for example, we make sure to conduct an NPS survey every quarter. This helps us to evaluate our business decisions and successfully plan our pipeline.
Identify NPS respondents to keep a record of how individual customers relate to your brand. There are various ways you can do this in your surveys. If you are running an email NPS for instance, you can automatically capture respondents' email addresses using software-aware links.
Ask additional questions. It doesn't make sense only to measure the NPS unless there is further feedback. For instance, if you have a Detractor, ask why they are unhappy and what you could do better to let them buy your product and receive positive feedback. It will give you the right direction for change and improvement with your product, company, or business. Don't be limited to an NPS question. Give space for your respondents to voice their ideas and opinions. All the more, it is convenient to do it in one survey. Choose significant directions and ask each one the main and a series of clarifying questions. We recommend you use survey logic to add follow-up questions to your customers.
Link your NPS results with your everyday tools to make the most of CRM. Survicate offers a vast majority of integrations, such as HubSpot, Salesforce, Intercom, etc. Thanks to this, you can keep an inventory of how individual customers relate to your brand.
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Conclusion
The business's main mistake is not to measure loyalty and customer satisfaction in general - even if there seem to be few customers. But even a more significant mistake - it is hung up on the numbers and overrides crucial factors: the quality of the product/service, customer's desires, and suggestions. All this additional information needs to be collected and is essential - not only the NPS.
❗Remember, a bad NPS is not doom for your business. You always have the opportunity to correct mistakes, establish proper contact with Detractors and turn them into Promoters. Also, don't forget to pay attention and care to the Passive group so that later they will turn out promoters, but not detractors.
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Net Promoter, NPS, and the NPS - related emoticons are registered U.S. trademarks, and Net Promoter Score and Net Promoter System are service marks, of Bain & Company, Inc., Satmetrix Systems, Inc. and Fred Reichheld.