ShepHyken

JANUARY 26, 2022

I’m getting survey fatigue. In the past, companies have sent me surveys that were so long I became tired – or fatigued – at some point during the survey, and as a result, I wouldn’t complete it and therefore the company never received my feedback. We’ve covered survey length before, and that’s not what this is about.

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Surveys Airlines Feedback Customer Service 314

PeopleMetrics

MARCH 11, 2025

A company investing in VoC clearly cares about the customer experiencebut if your survey looks like an afterthought, what message are you really sending? Remember, the survey experience IS part of the customer experience! Customers notice when a survey is slapped together with a generic, low-budget tool. The result?

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PeopleMetrics

MARCH 6, 2025

The shorter your survey, the better your response rates will typically be. For that reason, super-short surveys are increasingly popular, often consisting of just one or two questions: the likelihood that the customer will recommend your company (NPS) and an open-ended "why?" But there's no free lunchand heres the catch.

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Surveys B2C B2B Banking 117

ShepHyken

MARCH 6, 2023

Top Takeaways: Human-centric CX design is all about communicating with customers, and this goes beyond a one-off survey. She leads the company’s customer experience strategy transformation and customer success evolution. Why is customer feedback important? How can customer feedback be used to improve service?

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

This week we feature an article by Christa Heibel who writes about how important employee feedback is to a successful customer service experience and high CSAT ratings. – Shep Hyken. In my past experience as both a consultant and owner/operator of a BPO, I understand that CSAT surveys tend to get all the attention. It’s an Inside Job.

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Feedback Customer Experience Abandon rate Surveys 250

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

To what extent will a company go to try to get customer feedback ? Is it an incentive to fill out a survey? At the end of a project with a customer, she sends an email requesting the customer take a short survey. So, what constitutes a bribe to get feedback? You want feedback. Is it a simple email request?

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Feedback Surveys Customer Service Customer Experience 219

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

It requires more than surveys or changing how you answer the phone. For example, the companies with the best ROI and results to show in Thompson’s survey took a more comprehensive and thorough approach to journey mapping. Recommendation #4: Get feedback from sources other than surveys.

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Customer Experience Journey mapping Customer centricity Surveys 385

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

He writes about what specifically makes feedback effective in helping you improve your customer service. Feedback, the one thing that businesses know that they need but dread to receive it at the same time. But at the end of the day, it’s the feedback that makes or breaks a company. Should You Ditch NPS for “Real Feedback”? .

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Feedback Customer Experience Surveys Construction 253

ShepHyken

MAY 24, 2019

This week we feature an article by Gaetano DiNardi who discusses how many customer service surveys are not giving you proper data and suggests how to improve them. And when you are asked to stay on the phone to provide answers to a brief survey after a customer interaction, do you ever do it? Tips for building the best survey.

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Surveys Customer Service B2B SaaS 275

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 16, 2019

I’m all for getting customer feedback. Ask customers on the way out of a store, call them on a phone or send follow-up surveys via email. I wrote about surveys a few years ago. The gist of that article was about getting more customers to fill out those surveys. Don’t wait two weeks to send the survey.

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ShepHyken

JULY 26, 2019

This week we feature an article by Charles Richard who shares an article about how important it is for software development companies to have a successful customer experience strategy. The following post sums up a little bit in the details of what and how when it comes to customer experience strategies. Unveil their personas.

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PeopleMetrics

JANUARY 29, 2025

While VoC focuses on real-time, operational feedback from all customers, market research traditionally delivers strategic insights based on a sample of customers. Surveys are anonymous, sample-based, often lengthy, and delivered via a report in weeks/months. Surveys are short, continuous, and usually operationally focused.

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Marketing Airlines Surveys Feedback 116

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 20, 2024

How To Make Your Customer Strategy Fun by Chip Bell (Forbes) Is your organization about fun? How much of your business strategy is about funniness—not just entertainment, but customer experiences made joyful by design? My Comment: We open this week’s Top Five Roundup with a fun article about using fun as a customer strategy.

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Customer Service Customer centricity Entertainment Airlines 191

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Why does a company send out a customer satisfaction survey? In the weekly Super Amazing Show I do with Brittany Hodak, we talked about surveys. Here is a shortened version of his comment: “Saying, ‘Short surveys are better,’ is a bit like saying tall people are better at basketball.

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Surveys Feedback Customer Service Customer Experience 236

Interaction Metrics

JANUARY 31, 2025

Finding the right customer satisfaction survey company can make or break your ability to measure customer satisfaction and gain actionable insights. This guide covers the top customer satisfaction survey companies of 2025. The top picks and honorable mentions explicitly offer customer satisfaction surveys and operate within the U.S.,

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Surveys Metrics Benchmark Consulting 62

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Optimize Your Feedback Loop. Collecting, Responding and Reacting to Customer Feedback. They discuss strategies for collecting customer reviews and feedback and what to do with it after you collect it. Top Takeaways: First you have to get customer feedback. After you get the feedback, you must respond to it.

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Feedback Surveys Technology Customer Experience 345

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

He shares six tips and strategies to share with your team for improving the eCommerce customer experience. Strategies. These are strategies like “Hire empathetic people for customer support team” that maximize customer satisfaction. If some strategies need an explanation, illustrate them in a process infographic like the one.

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Customer Service Chatbots Education Feedback 371

CCNG

AUGUST 16, 2023

The voice of the customer is frequently identified as a requirement in establishing your customer experience strategy, improving processes, introducing new products, identifying the need for new services, and staying in tune with the ongoing changes in your marketplace. In today’s environment, surveys seem to be everywhere.

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Surveys CCNG Airlines Consulting 195

Nicereply

OCTOBER 22, 2024

What is a feedback survey? Is it simply a strategy used to gauge customer satisfaction, or is it a means of actively involving and engaging your customers? A feedback survey is a great way to get valuable information about your customers’ preferences while keeping them engaged with your brand.

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Surveys Feedback Customer retention Construction 52

Interaction Metrics

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Whether you’re tackling customer service challenges or fine-tuning your approach, these strategies will help you provide great customer service and quickly increase customer satisfaction. Share it across departments for feedback, then apply those insights to 15 more emails. Are customers noticing the changes?

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Customer Service Metrics Journey mapping CRM 62

PeopleMetrics

JANUARY 31, 2025

Who you servebusinesses or consumersshapes everything about how you collect, analyze, and act on customer feedback. But what has changed is how AI is transforming both B2B and B2C VoC, helping companies capture insights more efficiently, analyze feedback at scale, and prioritize the right actions faster than ever before.

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B2C B2B Airlines Surveys 98

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

She provides multiple strategies to improve the customer experience in order to gain and retain repeat customers. You’ve listened to your employees, and you’ve created better processes because of their feedback. As Customer Thermometer explains, customer surveys are a great way to gain insight that you can turn into an action plan.

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Customer Experience Wait times Surveys Feedback 398

VirtualPBX

OCTOBER 17, 2024

What Are Automated Phone Surveys? Automated phone surveys are a common tool businesses use to collect feedback from customers. These surveys give businesses real-time insights into the quality of their service and customer experience. How Do Call Surveys Work?

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Surveys Interactive Voice Response Healthcare Feedback 59

PeopleMetrics

JANUARY 16, 2025

In Lesson #3 of Listen or Die , I wrote about the power of Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs to act as a single source of truth for all customer feedback. How AI is Beginning to Transform VoC AI is starting to reshape how VoC platforms collect, process, and analyze feedback. Heres a few trends that are happening now: 1.

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Feedback Customer centricity Surveys Customer emotions 71

Callminer

AUGUST 14, 2023

Voice of the customer analytics is crucial for businesses to gather insightful customer feedback, utilizing strategies such as surveys, social media listening, in-app reviews, live chat, and more.

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Analytics Surveys Feedback 324

PeopleMetrics

JANUARY 30, 2025

When I wrote Listen or Die in 2017, we were witnessing a major shift in how businesses captured customer feedback. The VoC Revolution: A Quick Refresher Remember those clunky CSAT telephone surveys? Turns out, customers were more honest on social media than they were in survey feedback channels. But AI alone isnt enough.

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Telecommunications Surveys Feedback Call Center 110

Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Now, think about how many ripe opportunities you have to ask for customer feedback. Through after-call surveys. You might confuse them with net promoter score or cSAT, but post-call surveys are a much more specific way to gather real-time feedback. What is an After-Call Survey? 5 Reasons to Use After-Call Surveys.

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Surveys Interactive Voice Response First call resolution Feedback 150

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 27, 2022

She shares findings from Authenticx’s Customer Voices Report and how organizations can use data to drive customer experience strategies. Typically, the customers who answer surveys are either very angry or very happy with your organization. Are customer surveys worth it? Why is voice of customer so important?

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Nicereply

OCTOBER 16, 2024

However, only 2 in 5 brand executives believe their customer loyalty strategies are successful. 7 Customer Loyalty Strategies to Drive Long-Term Relationships Below, we’ve listed some helpful tips to drive repeat purchases and keep your customers coming back for more. Gather their feedback. Actually, you can. An example?

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Interaction Metrics

JANUARY 7, 2025

The discussion highlighted the synergy between scientific customer feedback and customer journey mapping, likening these two tools to the left foot and right foot of an effective CX strategy. In many ways, the success of your CX strategy hinges on the quality of your dataas the classic line goes, garbage in, garbage out.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

They discuss Simplr’s latest CX research report and strategies for collecting and utilizing customer feedback to eliminate mediocre customer service. Not enough customers fill out surveys (even one-question surveys) or provide enough details to allow for global projections of customer satisfaction.

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Customer centricity Surveys Technology Feedback 350

TechSee

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Contact center leadership must think strategically and find sustainable call center cost reduction strategies that do not compromise the quality and efficiency of the brand’s service. The Best Call Center Cost Reduction Strategies. The post Call center cost reduction strategies appeared first on TechSee.

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360Connext

JANUARY 5, 2022

It started with a plan – including immediate foundational steps to take, secondary growth, and longer-term strategies for continued success. This meant starting or reinforcing a strong Voice of the Customer (VoC) program , including specific ways to gather customer feedback, like regular surveys, in-app feedback mechanisms, and ongoing input.

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Journey mapping Customer Experience Education Feedback 188

ProProfs Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

What if I tell you that you could achieve the same by sending out business surveys questions while spending negligible time and money. . And this could be simply done by conducting business surveys. Collecting feedback via business surveys not only helps you advance your business, but also helps save a lot of time, money, and effort.

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