Analysing Customers Emotions: the Or-ganisation Emotional Signature
The most advanced work on the behavioural outcomes of emotions froma marketing perspective has been done by Shaw (2007) which has identi-fied four different and statistically independent clusters of emotions that drive value. The clusters are the destroying cluster, the attention cluster the recommendation cluster and the advocacy cluster. The last three clustersof emotions enhance the organisation potential value which is measured in terms of future extrapolated value, the net present value of the expected http://www.ukassignment.org/scyxgl/ cashflows from usual business with the customer, the incremental value, the ad-ditional value generated from customer increased spend on the same product service, and the strategic value generated by being able to cater for customers related needs and social network value generated by positive word of mouth and customers’ active recommendations. The fourth cluster, the destroying cluster, is a cost that the organisation has to stand for recalling customers’ negative feelings which Shaw (2007) identifies as ‘Irritation, stress, sense of neglect, dissatisfaction, disappointment, sense of hurry and unhappiness.
The recommendation cluster is characterised by the feelings of safe, value,cared for, trusted and focused and is the base for the customer progressionto higher loyalty degrees. The customers falling in the recommendation clus-ter are reactive promoter of the company (only if asked directly an opinion)while advocates are proactive promoters of the company and will recommendeven when not asked to. Advocates are those customers experiencing in aconsistent way the feelings of happiness and pleased during their relationshipwith the company. These customers are much easier to serve and lower con-sistently the company’s costs since the promotional cost of their acquisitionis now a sunk cost. Shaw (2007) suggests that companies should embrace the opportunityoffered by the present state of our society, where the level of happiness has not increased particularly in the last 50 years and offer customers deeper andmore memorable emotions. The methodology that Shaw (2007) propose to measure emotions is theorganisation emotional signature. A detail analysis of customers experiencethrough questionnaires and one-to-one in depth interviews which will revealthe prevailing clusters of emotions and their intensity measured on a Likertscale. These data, together with customers rational physical evaluations ofthe experience will provide a clear view of the customer present experienceand how it can be improved acting upon the different emotional clusters. |