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As a customer success professional, you work with scores daily. From NPS to customer satisfaction to customer health scores, you probably know how to calculate many, many complex data points into an easy-to-use score. Are you ready to add one more to your arsenal?
The Customer Effort Score is precisely what it sounds like: it calculates the amount of effort a customer has to put in to do business with your organization. What ‘doing business’ means, however, can be different from team to team. For some, the Customer Effort Score can calculate how much effort a customer has to put in to get questions answered, get issues resolved, work through any platform problems, etc. For some, customer effort refers to more business-focused processes like working through a renewal or expansion, submitting a product enhancement request, and more.
A Customer Effort Score, like most customer success metrics, involves multiple different data points. One of the easiest ways to measure customer effort is to simply ask. Asking your customers, “how hard was it to get {x project or goal} done?” can give you a good gauge of where they understand their effort to be. In addition to this primary metric, however, here are a few additional data points to take into account:
So how should you use a Customer Effort Score? Customer effort is a great way to gauge how happy or satisfied a customer may be with your team, but it doesn’t show the whole picture. Instead, you should use a Customer Effort Score to measure the success of your internal customer success efforts. What is standing in the way if it’s not easy for a customer to work through renewal conversations? If a customer cannot get in contact with a resource to resolve an issue, why is nobody available to help them? Using this score as an internal barometer for success can help ensure your team is operating at the highest level and that all internal stakeholders are held accountable for their responsibilities.
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You can learn more about optimizing your customer experience and leveraging a Customer Effort Score with these additional resources from ClietSuccess:
