Complaints Multiplier

Billy

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Sentech management are consoling themselves that only 2% to 6% of their customer base of 2400 are disatisfied with the service from MyWireless.

I would suggest that they go back to marketing school to understand that those who complain are only the tip of the iceberg.

This is from http://www.beysterinstitute.org/onlinemag/jan02/viewpoint.htm

"Believe the Numbers

Research shows that it pays to heed the protests, dissatisfactions, and irritations of customers.

26 of 27 customers who have a bad experience with a company fail to report it. So for every one complaint that an entrepreneur hears about, there are a lot more that never reach him.

About 91% of those who complain will not come back without some type of positive response from the company.

The good news is that 82-95% of customers return if the company solves the complaint in a timely way, and they come back with more loyalty. This is important because it costs 5 times more to secure a new customer than retain current ones.

Unresolved complaints can have a drastic multiplier effect on the reputation of a company. The average person with a complaint tells 9 to 10 other people about it. Thirteen percent of those with complaints tell 20 or more people."

If we apply the x25 figure to the 2 to 6% we get 50% to ALL could be disattisfied Sentech customers.

The fact that Sentech has only 2400 customers 6 months after launch, when they have been quoted as signing up 30 customers a day indicates that the bad publicity is having an effect.

If I was in charge of MyWireless, with a R300M investment and a customer base that is not even covering the interest and bad press every day, I would be permanently in the toilet.

Sentech, talk to your complainents, listen and learn. The people on this site WANT MyWireless to succeed. Use the multiplier to increase the customer base by satisfying the wholly justifiable complaints on this forum.
 
This is brilliant. I knew much of this but didn't know the figures, so it's nice to see in black and white.

Thanks Billy.


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<br />This is brilliant. I knew much of this but didn't know the figures, so it's nice to see in black and white.
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Hmmm... dark blue on light grey on my screen

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Excellent post Billy.

In my experience in SA, most consumers let their feet do the talking. They never phone to complain, but you never hear from them again. But just let someone ask them about the subject topic they will reveal all to that person, thus although silent, does the worst damage to any Company as they will never know what they do or did wrong. The restaurant trade is the best example.

If Telkom could get their team of Marketeers to understand just half of what is written in this post, they might move on to a better Company, but this I doubt as Corporate Bull**** will rule the day as usaul.

<b><hr noshade size="1"></b><font size="2"><font color="red"><b>You can take Telkom out of the Post Office but you can't take the Post Office out of Telkom.</b></font id="red"></font id="size2">
 
LOL @ noswal

BTTB, maybe we should send this link to Mr White.


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