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Guest Post: Are Customer Surveys the Best Way to Receive Feedback About Your Brand?

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Jacob Borgeson is the Product Marketing Director at Khoros where he helps brands understand how communities can help their businesses. He shares the challenges and limitations of using surveys to gather feedback about customer experience. Surveys will always be a critical component of a brand’s customer engagement strategy.

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10 Ways to Listen to Customers Without Surveys

CX Accelerator

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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Guest Blog: A Radical Idea in Customer Service Surveys – The Solo Question

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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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Is Customer Experience Really The New Marketing? Join The debate!

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The topic: Is Customer Experience the new marketing, or is it an entity on its own? Sherman, a director of Customer Experience and employee engagement at a global organization by day and the founder of DoingCXRight.com by night, says that Customer Experience is the new marketing, replacing and usurping it. Complete this short survey.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement. Marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. New tactics to acquire data to reach marketing goals.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of October 21, 2024

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How 5 Brands Use Relationship Marketing to Create Loyal Customers by Industry Dive (Industry Dive) Nearly 70% of consumers will pay more for brands that they love. That is the epitome of successful relationship marketing. My Comment: Let’s learn from some recognizable brands about how their relationship marketing.

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Top Customer Satisfaction Survey Companies of 2025

Interaction Metrics

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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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities. But is it delivering real results?

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The Health of the Contact Center: Are You Ready for 2019?

A survey of 1,000 contact center professionals reveals what it takes to improve agent well-being in a customer-centric era. This report is a must-read for contact center leaders preparing to engage agents and improve customer experience in 2019.

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Executive Report: The Customer Data Too Often Overlooked by the C-Suite

A recent Calabrio research study of more than 1,000 C-Suite executives has revealed leaders are missing a key data stream – voice of the customer data. Download the report to learn how executives can find and use VoC data to make more informed business decisions.

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The ABM Benchmark Survey

ABM gets better with age — but unfortunately, marketers don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. It’s clear there’s a maturity gap in ABM strategies, so how can marketers start closing it?

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The Challenges of Omnichannel: Why so Many Contact Centers Struggle with Digital Self-Service

To find how contact centers are navigating the transition to omnichannel customer service, Calabrio surveyed more than 1,000 marketing and customer experience leaders in the U.S. about their digital customer communication strategies. Read the report to find out what was uncovered.

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Customer Perceptions of the Community Experience

We surveyed more than 600 consumers from three major English-speaking markets the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, to gain an understanding of their perceptions of the community experience. What is most important when interacting with a brand, and what is the ideal experience they’re looking for?

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6 Killer Applications for Artificial Intelligence in the Customer Engagement Contact Center

If Artificial Intelligence for businesses is a red-hot topic in C-suites, AI for customer engagement and contact center customer service is white hot. This white paper covers specific areas in this domain that offer potential for transformational ROI, and a fast, zero-risk way to innovate with AI.