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JUNE 2006 The Ultimate Question - #1 Business Best Seller
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"NPS—Why Some People Hate It" by Fred Reichheld
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Some people feel deeply threatened by the growing popularity and acceptance of Net Promoter Scores (NPS), and they have launched campaigns attempting to discredit the concept. Satisfaction survey firms regularly excoriate NPS supporters in conferences, on web pages, in book reviews, and in blogs. The phrases they use—“NPS is a danger to your company’s profits”; “NPS hinders the building of better customer relationships”; “any statistics student would laugh”; and “NPS is the ultimate bait- and-switch scam” reveal an emotional urgency that transcends the putative logic of their arguments.

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Road Runner Tops Telecom Industry Report
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Road Runner, a high speed broadband service provider owned by Time Warner Cable, topped the inaugural Net Promoter telecom report, with a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 56%. The research, conducted and validated by Satmetrix, reveals the NPS of 33 US telecom organizations. Read the press release.


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