Net Promoter and Re-adapting the Wheel

Like a lot of apparently good ideas, the 'devil is in the detail' with Net Promoter Programs...

The good news, however, is that there is a developing body of public NPS knowledge and to some degree an "open source" approach fostered by the originators of the Net Promoter concept - Frederich Reichheld, Bain & Company and Satmetrix Inc. The Satmetrix NPS certification course attended recently by this student is one example of this.

Grounding your brand conversation: online community hubs

With the explosion in and variations of social media participation (eg Twitter, Facebook, YouTube) you can forgive marketers for occasionally feeling just a little bewildered. It can seem like drinking from a firehose! Yet getting involved yourself (open a Twitter account, start a blog, start a group on Facebook or LinkedIn) is critical for any marketer just to understand this new medium...  And that is only half the challenge, what about your day-gig?  What is the brand going to get out of this?

Amplifying the "Voice of the Customer"

The term "Voice of the Customer" (VoC) is a very useful term for initiatives designed to improve customer experience but it is also a term that has been bandied about in a very loose manner. So it is good to see from Bruce Temkin (Forrester) some definition of terms and analysis of how the concept can be translated into practical action!

"First we create our structures and then they create us"

Happy employees make for happy customers, right?

Quite apart from the research, it just seems to make sense. 
 
And of course, it runs a little deeper than that. If we hold a mirror up to our organisations - most managers are what you would call "transactional leaders" - as noted by Shaun Smith:

“Doh”: the product matters!

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