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How to Write a Really Bad Survey

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I have been writing and taking surveys for 30+ years. And when I first started writing surveys, I wrote my fair share of bad ones too. Today, there are more surveys sent out than ever before. And this means more bad surveys than ever are being sent out to customers, guests, patients, and employees. No bad surveys.

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Lesson #2: CX Measurement Is Hot, But It's Not What You Think It Is

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As noted previously, the term VoC is frequently used to describe the measurement of the customer experience; so is the term customer experience management (CEM). And in providing these answers, market researchers often wisely take a small sample of the overall population, which is less expensive and faster than surveying all customers.

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5 Strategies for CX Excellence

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And make the survey as short as possible - 3 minutes maximum! This one comes as a shock to many who are used to anonymous market research surveys, but customers in 2020 WANT you to know if they had a poor experience and EXPECT you to follow up to make it right. Customer feedback should NOT be anonymous. Treat your people right.

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Lesson #6: You Have To Use NPS, But You Should Also Include Other Measures of CX In A Transactional VoC Survey

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As we discussed in Lesson #5 , NPS is important to include in your VoC program, but if you’re running a transactional VoC survey, you need other ways to measure the most recent customer experience alongside NPS. You must combine NPS with an individual measure of the customer experience in a transactional VoC survey.

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Survey Health Is Everything. The Success of Your VoC Program (And Probably Your Job) Depends on It.

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Today, I am going to focus on a very important topic – survey health. Let’s start with the obvious… if survey health is poor, nothing else you do with your VoC program will matter. So what is a healthy survey? In other words, how many completed surveys are you obtaining compared to the number of survey invitations sent?

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A Bonus Recommendation for Reopening Your VoC Program

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In this blog post, I am offering a bonus recommendation for reopening your VoC program: Include video in your surveys. What is the best way to incorporate video into your surveys? Start slow by including a video option at the end of your survey about a recent experience. Add video to your surveys! The reason?

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5 Recommendations for Reopening your VoC Program

PeopleMetrics

These recommendations are assuming a post-transactional survey with people-based touchpoints (e.g., Add an “NPS Safety” question in the very beginning of the survey. Safety is everything these days, so get to it right away in your survey. Your FIRST survey question should be: “Overall, how safe did you feel when visiting [x]?”

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