Net Promoter Score Explained

Marketing Isn't Always About Finding New Customers; If You're Not Allocating Part of Your Budget to Creating Raving Fans, You're Leaving Something on the Table

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What is Net Promoter Score?

Net Promoter Score is a fast-growing method of tracking customer satisfaction. It lets customers rate their experience from different perspectives and end up with a single “score” that helps you know, in simple terms, if they’re GOOD word of mouth advertising for you, or BAD.

One of our clients, A Moment’s Peace Salon & Day Spa, is a fantastic outlier within the salon and spa industry in several great ways. Regular readers know they sell more gift cards annually than just about any salon and day spa in the world. What you may not know is that they’re also an industry leader in customer satisfaction tracking.

Case Study: How Net Promoter Score Works

Salon Today recently featured them in an article about how Net Promoter Score can boil the entire customer experience down to a single satisfaction metric. You can read the full article here.

By capturing an email or textable number from customers, you can immediately follow up any customer experience with a brief survey. About 10% of customers complete the survey, although this response rate varies dramatically by industry.

Based on their responses, you can report back to your team how they’re being perceived by customers, and you can identify areas that need further training. You can also intercept bad experiences BEFORE they become a negative review!

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How To Get Started with Net Promoter Score

Kip Dodson, the owner of A Moment’s Peace Salon & Day Spa, has become such a “promoter” of Net Promoter Score, he’s willing to talk to any small business owner about how to get started.

Just schedule time with our team and let us know you’d like to talk about Net Promoter Score. We’ll coordinate Kip’s participation on the call and help answer your questions.

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After 3 decades as a professional marketer, serial entrepreneur and business consultant Steven Ludwig shares his best practices for small business marketing for owners, managers, and marketers with limited time, money, and expertise. Steven started his professional marketing career in broadcasting in the early ‘90s in Chicago after attending Valparaiso University. After a brief stint at an advertising agency specializing in entertainment and sports marketing where he worked with radio and television stations, movie theatre companies, record labels, musicians, and professional sports teams, he moved to Nashville to form The Marketing Group with his long-time business partner, Jim Wood. Having worked with some of the largest brands in the world, in 2010 he returned to local marketing primarily out of an interest and excitement for working with small business owners to build stronger companies. That desire comes out of early days in radio, where he worked closely with everything from car dealerships to restaurants, insurance and real estate agents, banks, home services companies, and specialty retailers of all kinds. Over the past decade, he has been on the bleeding edge of digital marketing technology, constantly seeking to understand complex strategies employed by giant corporations and then translate those capabilities into tactics small businesses can execute at a local level. Today, in addition to other business ventures with his wife and other long-time business partners, he still lives outside Nashville in Franklin, Tennessee and currently serves as Executive Chairman of EmpowerLocal, a digital marketing company building a nationwide network of digital, hyperlocal news and lifestyle publishers to provide efficient advertising opportunities for local, regional, and national brands.