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96% of high-effort customers become more disloyal

Stat card: 96% of customers who had a high-effort experience became more disloyal, compared with 9% after a low-effort one.
Customers rarely reward you for going above and beyond. They do punish you for making things hard. Source: Dixon, Freeman and Toman (CEB), Stop Trying to Delight Your Customers, Harvard Business Review, 2010

A key figure from the research behind customer effort metrics. In a survey of more than 75,000 customers, Matthew Dixon, Karen Freeman and Nick Toman of CEB found that 96% of people with a high-effort experience became more disloyal, against 9% with a low-effort one. It is the main reason teams track Net Easy Score and Customer Effort Score.

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96% of customers with a high-effort experience became more disloyalCompared with 9% of customers whose experience was low effort. From a survey of more than 75,000 customers.

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