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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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#CXSecrets: Don't Limit Feedback Opportunities

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But that doesn't mean we aren't willing to provide feedback. In fact, we as consumers are more eager to openly provide feedback to companies than ever before. When I first started, we would call customers on the phone - on our time - to ask them for feedback. People today are in the habit of sharing feedback.

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#CXSecrets: Collecting Feedback IS a Touchpoint

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Numbers aside, though, companies often tend to overlook one vital touchpoint when conducting these mapping exercises: the touchpoint of asking their customers for feedback. Optimizing the feedback collection experience. Think really hard about how you're interacting with your customer when you're asking them for feedback.

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If you want a consistent experience across all touchpoints, you must ask for customer feedback at each one

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Native Mobile App: refers to customers who download a company’s iOS or Andriod app, and feedback is gathered about their experience with it. Gathering omnichannel feedback. You can gather feedback from these five channels in various ways. Or you can gather feedback via methods that are channel specific. Conclusion.

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

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A consulting firm mentioned in the introduction, Forrester , coined a third term: customer feedback management (CFM). 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. So, what is CX measurement or VoC?

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5 Strategies for CX Excellence

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After writing my book, Listen or Die , which outlined 40 lessons that turns customer feedback into gold, I often got the question: "what are the small handful of strategies that provide the biggest impact or provide the most insight on driving CX excellence?". And their feedback should always be available in real-time. Here they are!

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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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