Voice of the Customer Technology Offers Powerful ROI through Customer Retention
How would you like to lower your customer churn rate (the percentage of customers who’ve ceased to be customers following their interactions with your Customer Care department)?
Wanna increase customer retention?
Or maybe increase your revenues?
To which I say: Why choose? These go hand in hand, as keeping customers from walking out that door can go a long way towards strengthening that bottom line.
It is with this simple truth in mind that forward-thinking customer experience (CX) programs include each of these key components:
- Leveraging CX insights to identify what’s making customers happy or unhappy
- Understanding best practices to establish long-term CX strategy
- Building the program around a nucleus of comprehensive Voice of the Customer (VOC) technology
- Determining the many ways said technology delivers return on investment (ROI)
With regard to ROI, common sense tells you a happy customer is less likely to leave for a competitor—but how to quantify that relationship? For one NICE client, we correlated a Customer Satisfaction score to customer churn; unsurprisingly, unhappy customers were considerably more likely to leave than happy folks were:
tend to churn 3.2 times less than “Very dissatisfied” customers.
Comprehensive VOC technology offers CX programs a mechanism for pinpointing, in real time, customers who are at risk of leaving, enabling the department to focus on customer recovery activity, thus preventing such churn. And the ROI of that? Well:
enables building a model to calculate the impact of moving the satisfaction
needle on churn, and therefore on retained revenue.
In this particular example, the potential saved revenue ran into the millions of dollars annually. On average, organizations that implement VOC technology and adopt corresponding best practices observe an ROI of six or seven times their VOC investment within one year.
If these kinds of results speak to you and your CX goals, NICE’s Customer Success Team is waiting to learn more about you and your business, and provide the roadmap to keeping your customers happy and loyal for years to come. Get in touch with us today, and build a CX strategy that’ll make your revenues blast off.
