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Does NPS become a sole devise to know how a store is performing? If not, what else?

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Does NPS become a sole devise to know how a store is performing?  If not, what else? Customer service is the soul of a business ! ‘Customer’ is that one word that’s rooted in the mind of each and every person in an organization, right from the top to the bottom strata. And, when it comes to customer satisfaction, you need to go extra miles to understand the needs of your customers and serve them in the best possible way. Don’t forget, word-of-mouth, is still the most influential tool. If your customers like your product and services, they will definitely spread the word. If not, then it can be dangerous for your brand. Fathoming customer experience As far as measuring customer experience is concerned, the role of NPS or Net Promoter Score cannot be denied. It is, in fact, one of the most important customer experience tools, which is being used by a majority of brands or companies all over the world to understand and improve the level of customer experience being that’s...

Five reasons why Mystery shopping is enough to measure customer experience

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Mystery Shopping in Retail apparel showroom According to Forbes 2015, it has been found that by the year 2020, which is not so far, it’s customer experience that will stand out as a  major brand differentiators from the conventional ones like products and price. It is therefore pretty much important for every brand or company to focus on the level of customer experience they’re providing .Moreover, they need a means through which they can ink an exact picture of the experiences of their customers. Better customer experience ? You should actually start thinking about it! Furthermore, another reliable survey noted that near about 86 percent of the buyers are likely to shell out more for receiving better customer experience. However, just 1 percent of the customers think that the service providers or vendors will be able to live up to their expectations. In this context, mystery shopping services offered by HS Brands are impressively effective when it comes to f...

Is Mystery Shopping an Investment or liability?

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As Mystery Shopping is also a way to measure employee integrity, the influence on employee’s behavior changes drastically.  A survey conducted by few firms found a clear correlation between a company's attention to customer service and customers' willingness to pay more for good service. It costs approximately 6 times more money to attract new customers than it does to retain an existing one. Mystery Shopping is an investment, not a liability and this could be understood, if we look at it closely Let us consider an example where a company has hired mystery shoppers to check the selling skill of their sales team. In such a case, when the employees come to know that Mystery Shopping program is deployed focusing on suggestive selling, their attitude towards customer changes. Every time a customer visits the store or at cash counter to complete billing, the front end team is aware that their service standards are being checked and in turn they end up doing mor...