Important - All feelings depend on importance as well as strength
Feeling
This when I just hate YOU
This is
Wrong Bad Unhappy Dissatisfied Displeased Disengaged Uninvolved Hard horrible terrible pathetic predictable sick perverted wrong perverted distasteful unacceptable
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This is a devil you have to deal with. This is the crap in the IVR messaging about me being important or that the answer I seek is on the website. Can I tell you please that the 20 minutes I have spent listening to the same message when I am phoning to say the website is broken is not making me FEEL SPECIAL!
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Got one in mind?
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This is about shouting at people, litigation the unfair treatment of people and the abuse of my trust and my data. It is common for a social media storm about failing to meet core values that creates more than states (Facebook, United, Starbuck and the rest European Tax etc. etc.)
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But the are moments!
Active Customers
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Theoretically your largest active group
Theoretically your largest group with highest probability of positive outcome from intervention – biggest bang per buck in short term activities and largest cost.
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Easier to interact with - 3s are active therefore more open to change
More interactive and likely to offer their opinion, both offline and online.
Will take action without prompting but will be stimulated by events or contact. The other 2 active states are more explosive
3 > 4
I know
I Care or both!
The largest actively communicating group of customers for most brands
Action
Active support for 3’s although initially they may not appear to need it.
Adjust you statistical model - – elicited views are not representative of whole base in any way. They are a good insight to process
Build ways to engage more
Identify risk areas in the customer journey, to avoid any decline. May need to move from passive to active during customer journeys Reduce unnecessary contact.
Profile
Might engage in ‘customer work or sabotage’ - good or bad.
Caution
They are firm in their opinion to the extent of it being reasonable because it is important
Engaged in a quieter way and less keen to make this visible
Normally a larger group than 4 and 5 .
+ Will do customer work* around much larger peaks of engagement and around organisations social engagement
- 3s will be strongly negative is they have made their decision about you. However if converted likely to become a +4
Risks
This state has higher risks of change and higher impacts when the change occurs.
The 3/4 state is likely to be both unstable and higher inherent risks of volatile active states
Financial. Higher Risks and rewards
Brand.
Operational
An organisations ability to organise the resource to meet this higher stakes situation is reputational risk
States present a level of ‘cognitive dissonance’.
Competitors targeting, to identify dissatisfaction and try to win over.
Can slip down scale or churn if an offer doesn’t meet their expectation.
Behaviours
+ spend money and create brand momentum They will tolerate occasional lapses of service or poor CX because of the higher stakes in relationship
- 3/4s will expect a consistently poor CX and create additional cost in all contact situations
Your first step with a -4 will be to manage the mood at the HAY* stage
Trust is a key element of these states.