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4. We've been using customer satisfaction as a basis for measuring effectiveness. Is the Religence Framework compatible with that approach?

Certainly. Looking at the most satisfied customers or those who advocate for your company are commonly used ways of segmenting for profitability.

We have decades of experience in doing highly personal in-depth interviews for Voice of the Customer (VoC) insight paired with quantitative studies. With this experience, we know the challenges of really understanding what is going on with customers when attitudes and perceptions tracking research is used by itself without the benefit of accompanying one-on-one interviews to direct and calibrate it. What people SAY in quantitative studies isn't always what people DO. We believe in the VoC approach so much that we've built it into the Religence Framework to tap customer attitudes at critical events for better customer retention—with the person interacting with the customer collecting the data.

So it's good that you have satisfaction research to draw upon. We build on attitudes and perceptions tracking research like this.

  • We use what you have with supplemental interviews as necessary, to estimate where your customers are in the customer lifecycle, until you can actually track them individually in the Religence Framework, based on what they DO.

  • The Relationship Value built as the relationship develops can be a leading indicator for profit. Profit follows after relationships are built, so there is a lag time before the value created is seen as profit. Still later, that is reflected in customer satisfaction, as customer evaluate their relationship to the company. Calibrating Relationship Value, which is a leading indicator, with customer satisfaction, which is a lagging indicator, enables a more robust outlook. Additionally, Relationship Value has the advantage of not just looking at Retention, but at Acquisition and Closing stages in the customer relationship as well. The relationship with customers begins from the very first interaction.

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