BizRate® Research Recognizes the Very Best Online Retailers
LOS ANGELES-(Business Wire)-September 22, 2009 - BizRate® Research, a leading consumer feedback network, announced today the winners of its tenth annual BizRate® Circle of Excellence. The award recognizes the top performing online retailers that provided outstanding customer experiences throughout the year, as rated by their customers.
The strict criteria set by BizRate® Research evaluates customer satisfaction at each of the over 5,000 retailers within the BizRate Network. Online stores earning the prestigious Circle of Excellence award were rated by their buyers at a significantly higher level* than the Network average across seven key satisfaction metrics:
| Circle of Excellence Satisfaction Metrics | |||||||||||||
| Overall Satisfaction at the Point of Sale | |||||||||||||
| Product Selection | |||||||||||||
| Ease of Finding what the customer is looking for | |||||||||||||
| Repurchase Intent after order receipt | |||||||||||||
| Product Met Expectations after order receipt | |||||||||||||
| On-time Delivery | |||||||||||||
| Customer Support | |||||||||||||
| * based on statistical significance |
This year, 167 online retailers earned the coveted Circle of Excellence Award in recognition for their stellar customer experiences, as rated by their own customers between August 2008 and July 2009. Of this group of winners, 40 received the highest honor: the Platinum Award. The Platinum Circle of Excellence is awarded to retailers that achieved a score of at least 9.0 in all seven key satisfaction metrics named above.
For many online retailers, the BizRate® Research platform and tools have become critical to their success in engendering customer loyalty. Powerhouses such as Crutchfield and Tower Hobbies, who have held the Circle of Excellence title for ten consecutive years, find the feedback platform essential in maintaining superior customer service and gaining consumer insights.
“We are very proud to be recognized by BizRate for our tenth consecutive year of service excellence,” says Bill Crutchfield, CEO of Crutchfield. “As they recognize us, we must recognize them. BizRate Research has been an invaluable partner of ours. Their sophisticated tools allow Crutchfield to deliver unsurpassed customer satisfaction to all who shop our website.”
The BizRate® Circle of Excellence celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, making this year’s announcement an especially memorable one. “Back in 1999, we launched the Circle of Excellence to allow the very best retailers to earn special recognition for their exceptional performance in the area of customer service. At that same time, we also believed that the Circle of Excellence denomination would empower online consumers by highlighting retailers with whom they should feel extremely confident about shopping.” said Bill Glass, President of Shopzilla, Inc., the parent company for BizRate.com. “Since its inception, the importance of the Circle of Excellence has continued to grow, and today it is truly the hallmark of customer satisfaction success in online retail. After ten years, we are more committed than ever to providing retailers with the invaluable ability to listen to and understand their customers’ needs via our point-of-sale feedback platform. Furthermore, we are thrilled to offer them the opportunity to be recognized for their superior performance in delivering on those customer needs as Circle of Excellence winners.”
Congratulations to the Circle of Excellence Platinum award recipients for 2009:
Congratulations to all Circle of Excellence award recipients for 2009:
About BizRate® Research:
BizRate Research assists retailers in listening to their customers and starts a dialogue between retailers and customers with the end goal of growing consumer loyalty to the retailer. BizRate Research provides tools and reports to over 5,000 retailers to enlighten them about the customer experience and make them aware of the “why” in what consumers think and do. For over 10 years, BizRate’s consumer feedback and ratings platform amplifies the consumers’ voice in a way that is fast and measurable, resulting in insights, action, and consumer loyalty. For more information on our buyer and non-buyer survey and reporting products, please contact us at researchsales@bizrate.com. BizRate Research is a division of Shopzilla, Inc.
About Shopzilla, Inc.:
Shopzilla, Inc. is one of the largest and most comprehensive online shopping networks on the web. Through its leading comparison shopping sites, BizRate.com® and Shopzilla.com®, Shopzilla helps shoppers find the best value for virtually anything they want to buy from thousands of online retailers. Based in Los Angeles, Shopzilla operates sites in the U.S., U.K., France and Germany. The company is owned by Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. (NYSE:SNI), which include national lifestyle TV networks such as HGTV, The Food Network, Fine Living and more.
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