Net promoter score (NPS) is a highly used metrics that helps companies to measure customer satisfaction and loyalty to gauge overall experiences. It was introduced by Fred Reichheld, Bain & Company, and Satmetrix in 2003, since then it has become a structured tool assessing customer sentiment and the likelihood of the customers to recommend an organization’s products and services to others.
A net promoter score (NPS) is used to measure the customer overall experience and satisfaction towards the organization. It follows with the numeric values that quantifies customer’s sentiments and likelihood to recommend a company’s products or services to others and make new customers.
NPS basically involves in customer surveys on the scale of 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend or spread a word of mouth about the company, product or services.
After the responses the customers are divided into 3 categories:
Net promoter score is important because of several reasons:
A good Net promoter score can vary according to the industry and company size, and other relevant factors. NPS are interpreted as follows:
Calculating the net promoter score have various steps:
The formula:
Note: The result in the NPS score can range from -100 to +100.
For Instance:
Promoters: 60 respondents (60%) scored 9 to 10.
Passives: 20 respondents (20%) scored 7 to 8.
Detractors: 20 respondents (20%) scored 0 10 6.
To calculate NPS: 60%(Promoters) - 20%(Detractors) = 30.
To create a net promoter score survey:
To improve net promoter score (NVP):
These are short surveys that can be sent frequently to check what your employees think about an issue quickly. The survey comprises fewer questions (not more than 10) to get the information quickly. These can be administered at regular intervals (monthly/weekly/quarterly).
Having periodic, hour-long meetings for an informal chat with every team member is an excellent way to get a true sense of what’s happening with them. Since it is a safe and private conversation, it helps you get better details about an issue.
eNPS (employee Net Promoter score) is one of the simplest yet effective ways to assess your employee's opinion of your company. It includes one intriguing question that gauges loyalty. An example of eNPS questions include: How likely are you to recommend our company to others? Employees respond to the eNPS survey on a scale of 1-10, where 10 denotes they are ‘highly likely’ to recommend the company and 1 signifies they are ‘highly unlikely’ to recommend it.