The (Large) Connection Between Emotion And Loyalty

August 22, 2016 2 Comments

In case you missed it, we labeled 2016 as The Year of Emotion in our annual listing of CX trends. To help organizations better understand customer emotions, we created the Intensify Emotion Movement. Why did we put so much of a focus on emotion? Because it drives loyalty.

We tapped into our recent consumer benchmark study to examine the connection between how consumers rate the emotional component of their interactions and their loyalty across 20 industries. [Note: The emotional data is from the emotion component of the Temkin Experience Ratings]

In the graphic below, we examined the average across all 20 industries. Compared with consumers who had negative emotional experience, consumers who had positive emotional experiences are:

  • 15.1 times more likely to recommend the company
  • 8.4 times more likely to trust the company
  • 7.8 times more likely to try new products and services
  • 7.1 times more likely to purchase more from company
  • 6.6 times more likely to forgive company after a mistake

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If you’d like to see this data for each of the 20 industries, you can purchase and download the dataset for $195. To see what you’ll be purchasing, download this sample spreadsheet.

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The bottom line: Want loyal customers? Provide positive emotional experiences.

Filed under Customer experience, Emotion, ROI of Customer Experience

About Bruce Temkin, CCXP
I'm an experience (XM) management catalyst; helping organizations improve results by engaging the hearts and minds of their employees, customers, and partners. I enjoy researching and speaking about these topics. I lead the Qualtrics XM Institute, which is the world's best job. We're igniting a global community of XM Professionals who are inspired and empowered to radically improve the human experience. To achieve this goal, my team focuses on thought leadership, training, and community building. My work is driven by a set of fundamental beliefs: 1) Everything starts and ends with human beings, so you need to understand how people think, feel, and behave; 2) XM is a discipline that needs to be woven throughout an organization's entire operating fabric; and 3) Building the XM discipline requires a combination of culture, competency, and technology.

2 Responses to The (Large) Connection Between Emotion And Loyalty

  1. Elena Garvey says:
    October 3, 2016 at 3:51 pm

    Found your study very interesting but the #s used in the bulletpoints dont seem to align with the figures in the table. Please explain the discrepancies.

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    • Bruce Temkin, CCXP says:
      October 3, 2016 at 4:03 pm

      Hi Elena: Thanks for sharing your (very good) question. The graphic uses rounded numbers, while the bullets are calculated based on the actual numbers, so the calculations won’t quite match.

      Reply

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