CX Accelerator

JUNE 8, 2020

Surveys are a great way to listen to the voice of the customer, so don’t misconstrue the title of this article as being “anti-survey.” Problems occur, however, when surveys become the only way we listen to customers — especially when you consider that a good survey response rate is in the realm of 20-30%.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

How can companies get better customer feedback? Your employees are just as valuable sources of feedback as your customers. While customer surveys and digital feedback are helpful, the most valuable insights often come from direct observation and conversations. How can businesses move beyond customer satisfaction metrics?

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

He writes about visualizing customer feedback in order to motivate your business to succeed. You can read just as many articles about the importance of customer feedback in operating your business successfully. You don’t want to inundate team members with survey data. And much of the time, that’s for good reason.

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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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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Conversational Surveys: A Game-Changer in Feedback Collection by Barbara Wharton (InMoment) Conversational surveys are surveys designed to feel like a natural conversation rather than traditional survey questionnaires. My Comment: I have a strong opinion about surveys, especially bad ones.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 6, 2023

Top Takeaways: Human-centric CX design is all about communicating with customers, and this goes beyond a one-off survey. Why is customer feedback important? How can customer feedback be used to improve service? It is about regularly speaking with customers directly to deeply understand the customer. What is customer-led growth?

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

How can companies use digital and conversational signals to understand customer feedback better? By collecting feedback from various sources like surveys, chat, online reviews, social media, and customer interactions, companies can identify what makes customers happy and what they can improve.

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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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ShepHyken

MARCH 30, 2025

Survey Shuffle to AI Shuffle: Medallia Wants to Reshape the CX Deck by Dom Nicastro (CMSWire) It starts with hiring right to begin with, Hyken said. This is where consumer feedback proves invaluable. My Comment: And speaking of CX metrics and feedback, heres an excellent article about consumer feedback.

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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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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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CCNG

JUNE 5, 2024

I am thrilled that the vast majority of organizations have started to realize that it is important to get feedback from their customers. In this article, I would like to discuss some of the common mistakes made in conducting customer surveys and then lay out how a complete customer feedback program should be organized.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Engaging customers through surveys and advisory boards (made up of customers) allows companies to understand their customers needs and generate new ideas. Customer surveys should be a two-way communication. Customers spend time answering customer feedback. Customers want to trust you to deliver a great experience.”

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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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Nicereply

OCTOBER 22, 2024

What is a feedback survey? A feedback survey is a great way to get valuable information about your customers’ preferences while keeping them engaged with your brand. If you’re curious about what is feedback example or how to design an effective survey for your business, read on.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 10, 2025

How does AI compare to traditional surveys in measuring customer satisfaction? How can customer feedback effectively enhance products and services? AI not only help with front-facing customer support but it can help identify reasons behind customer churn and dissatisfaction that might not appear in customer feedback.

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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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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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CCNG

AUGUST 16, 2023

In today’s environment, surveys seem to be everywhere. We are sent a survey after nearly every transaction. The mix of transaction and relationship surveys has at times become indistinguishable to customers. Having tools to monitor the number of surveys sent to customers is important. Biased surveys are indeed useless.

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Callminer

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It’s time organizations view surveys as only one customer feedback channel – not the only channel. Read on for three conversation intelligence use cases to upgrade your feedback mechanism.

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PeopleMetrics

APRIL 10, 2025

Static surveys have long been the industry standard in VoC. Enter conversational surveysan innovative approach that uses AI to turn a static survey into a dynamic, evolving conversation with your customer. And heres the key: the best application of AI in surveys right now isnt about replacing structured surveys.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 31, 2021

Focus on Feedback. Create a survey to learn what your customers want and expect from you. The shorter the survey , the higher the percentage of response you’ll get.? . Keep it short and simple – even just two or three questions. Conduct a Focus Group.

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PeopleMetrics

MARCH 18, 2025

In fact, they might be even more crucial today because they're public surveys available to everyone online. Customer reviews still rely heavily on real human interactions and genuine feedback from real experiences. Additionally, proactively using VoC surveys to prevent negative social reviews before they happen is still best practice.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Get Thematic with Customer Feedback . How to Get the Most Out of Your Customer Feedback . Surveys, in general, should be kept on the short side. If you are running a business, think about how you get feedback from customers. How can I make better use of customer feedback? . Sound a little technical?

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PeopleMetrics

APRIL 11, 2025

If you want to truly transform your VoC program collect feedback while the customer is still in the experience. In-moment feedback changes everything! Because waiting even a few hours (let alone days) after an experience to ask for feedback adds friction, memory loss, and apathy. Your Turn Are you collecting in-moment feedback?

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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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PeopleMetrics

MARCH 4, 2025

If you are a CX or market research professional, your VoC programs successand likely your jobdepends on the health of your transactional surveys. So, you have mapped your touchpoints, conducted a relationship survey, piloted your transactional survey, and trained your key users. This is where AI is starting to make a difference.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 8, 2020

There are plenty of ways to get feedback. You can survey customers over the phone, via email, in focus groups and more. You can get objective and subjective feedback. I could go on and on about the different ways to measure your customer’s feedback. What a great way to do research and get feedback!

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

A lack of regular feedback between employees and managers leads to a lack of motivation and subsequent deterioration of service quality. Consider these meetings to keep the feedback flowing: Weekly group meetings. These meetings can help to collect feedback from individual employees. Talk to Your Employees.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 21, 2020

The challenge with feedback and reviews is they are frequently solicited but infrequently completed. It also means that you don’t get a representative sample of surveys. Moreover, the team found this across a wide range of domains, including the participant’s willingness to respond to sensitive questions in a survey.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 3, 2019

7 Must-Know Types of Customer Survey Questions with Tips and Examples by Delighted. Delighted) In this post, we’ll break down the 7 types of survey questions and answer scales, and the pros and cons of each. My Comment: This list focuses on different types of survey questions. Customers are getting survey fatigue.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 20, 2024

According to a Deloitte survey, brands that have achieved customer centricity are 60% more profitable than those that haven’t. Indeed, even those considered the flag-bearers for customer centricity – like Amazon – receive bad press. My Comment: We continue to learn from some of the best and most recognized brands.

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The Petrova Experience

JANUARY 28, 2025

Businesses need customer feedback collection to thrive in a competitive market. Everyone thinks they are collecting and acting on customer feedback, yet 80% of US companies failed to increase customer satisfaction since 2010. So, despite what many companies think, they are not actually collecting meaningful feedback.

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