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The Customer Exit Survey (Smart Ideas)
October 22, 2024
The Customer Exit Survey (Smart Ideas)

Discover how customer exit surveys provide critical insights into why customers leave and how to use this feedback to improve retention and growth.

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Customer Survey Examples: 15 Popular Use Cases
October 16, 2024
Customer Survey Examples: 15 Popular Use Cases

Discover some popular examples of customer surveys, their benefits, and how they can help improve products, services, and customer satisfaction.

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Customer Feedback Tools: A Quick Guide
October 10, 2024
Customer Feedback Tools: A Quick Guide

Learn the importance of customer feedback, explore various feedback tools, key features to look for, and how to choose the right one for your business.

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Customer Effort Score Explained
October 4, 2024
Customer Effort Score Explained

Learn what Customer Effort Score (CES) is, why it matters, how to measure it, and practical tips to improve customer satisfaction and retention.

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How To Get Customer Feedback
September 18, 2024
How To Get Customer Feedback

Learn how to effectively gather, analyse, and act on customer feedback to drive business growth, improve products, and enhance customer experience.

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What Is Customer Sentiment?
September 5, 2024
What Is Customer Sentiment?

Discover the importance of customer sentiment, how it differs from satisfaction, and key strategies for measuring it to boost loyalty and business success.

A hand holding a pen ticks an NPS survey in the positive box, leaving the negative and neutral boxes un-checked
The NPS Survey (Smart Ideas)
September 3, 2024
The NPS Survey (Smart Ideas)

In this guide to Net Promoter Score (NPS) surveys, learn how to design, distribute, and act on NPS to boost customer loyalty and business growth.

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What Is a Good Customer Effort Score?
August 23, 2024
What Is a Good Customer Effort Score?

Learn how to improve customer retention by reducing effort with Customer Effort Score (CES). Discover what makes a good CES and how to boost it.

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Why Customer Experience Matters
August 15, 2024
Why Customer Experience Matters

Discover why Customer Experience (CX) is crucial for brand loyalty, trust, and growth. Learn how to enhance CX and its impact on business success.

Using CX metrics to measure customer experience
Customer Experience Metrics That Matter
August 1, 2024
Customer Experience Metrics That Matter

It’s crucial to be able to measure your customer experience. This is because if you don’t know how easy, satisfying and enjoyable your customers find...

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The Importance of Customer Feedback
July 29, 2024
The Importance of Customer Feedback

Discover the importance, benefits and methods of obtaining customer feedback, to integrate it into business to grow satisfaction and drive improvement.

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What is Customer Effort Score?
July 26, 2024
What is Customer Effort Score?

Discover the importance of customer effort score (CES) in enhancing customer loyalty and satisfaction. Learn how to measure, interpret, and improve CES effectively.

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Measuring Customer Loyalty
July 22, 2024
Measuring Customer Loyalty

Returning business helps drive business success, so understanding how to measure customer loyalty and make essential improvements is vital.

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What Is Customer Engagement?
June 26, 2024
What Is Customer Engagement?

Humans are social creatures, our brains wired to connect with others. We can serve this desire to bond and belong by focusing on customer engagement.

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What is Customer Onboarding?
June 25, 2024
What is Customer Onboarding?

Think about all the people you've met and how quickly you decided whether you wanted to see them again. The same principle applies to customer relationships.

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Net Promoter Score: Five Steps To Help You Improve It
May 22, 2024
Net Promoter Score: Five Steps To Help You Improve It

When it comes to your business success, achieving and maintaining as high a net promoter score (NPS) as you can is crucial. We outline five ways to improve your NPS.

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Customer Adoption: Why It Matters To Your Business
May 15, 2024
Customer Adoption: Why It Matters To Your Business

Customers that fully adopt your products are more likely to become your long-term advocates. So, you’ll want to understand the benefits of customer adoption for your business. Our blog shows you.

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Customer Experience Dashboard Examples: 8 Features You Really Need
March 27, 2024
Customer Experience Dashboard Examples: 8 Features You Really Need

The features and functionality provided by your customer experience survey dashboards will have a major bearing on the success of your CX programme. We explore 8 features your CX dashboard needs.

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How To Identify Dissatisfied Customers
March 20, 2024
How To Identify Dissatisfied Customers

From increased customer churn to lost business revenue. There’s a lot that can happen if your customers are unhappy. We explore how to better identify them, so you can take steps to reduce this.

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Customer Satisfaction Metrics
March 6, 2024
Customer Satisfaction Metrics

With statistics demonstrating that for every customer complaint you receive, there are another 26 who are unhappy but choose to remain silent, the lik...

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Customer Experience Dashboards: 3 Types You Should Know
February 23, 2024
Customer Experience Dashboards: 3 Types You Should Know

To deliver the best CX, your teams need the right people, to receive the right information, at the right time. This is where CX dashboards can help. We show you 3 dashboard types you should know.

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How to Improve Customer Retention
February 12, 2024
How to Improve Customer Retention

Customer retention is vital, as happy and loyal customers contribute hugely towards an organisation’s long-term revenue and growth with positive referrals. We show how to improve their retention.

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Frictionless Customer Experience: How To Deliver Even Greater Value For Your Customers
January 18, 2024
Frictionless Customer Experience: How To Deliver Even Greater Value For Your Customers

What makes some organisations effortlessly stand out, engaging and delighting their customers at every touchpoint? We explore frictionless customer experience, which provides the answer to this.

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How To Calculate CSAT
December 14, 2023
How To Calculate CSAT

For any organisation to be successful and maintain it, good customer experience should be at the heart of everything they do. We show how measuring, analysing and improving customer satisfaction helps

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Customer Experience: Exploring The 5 C’s Driving This Successful Strategy
November 14, 2023
Customer Experience: Exploring The 5 C’s Driving This Successful Strategy

The ability to deliver a great customer experience is crucial for success, as it’s not only what you sell, but how you treat customers and make them feel. We show how the 5 C’s are vital to this.

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Marketing Surveys That Maximise Your Decision Making
November 1, 2023
Marketing Surveys That Maximise Your Decision Making

For marketers, knowing exactly how your customers view your brand and what improvements you need to keep them happy and buying more is vital. We show how different surveys can help your marketing.

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What Is Customer Success?
October 24, 2023
What Is Customer Success?

With more options available to customers than ever before, the need to stand out from competitors has become vital. We show how to gain a competitive edge with a customer success program.

Customer centricity is at the heart of the unified customer experience approach
Unified Customer Experience: What Is It? And What Are Its Business Benefits?
October 5, 2023
Unified Customer Experience: What Is It? And What Are Its Business Benefits?

Customers no longer solely judge products and services on their price and performance but every experience they’ve had with that product or service. That’s why unified customer experience is crucial.

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Customer Surveys: How They Can Help Boost Sales
September 28, 2023
Customer Surveys: How They Can Help Boost Sales

When it comes to sales and business success, building, maintaining and growing a customer base is crucial. Yet it’s difficult without ongoing feedback. We show how customer surveys can boost sales.

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National Customer Service Week: Ways To Show Your Appreciation To Staff
September 26, 2023
National Customer Service Week: Ways To Show Your Appreciation To Staff

Despite the growth of technology and automation, the need for human empathy and communication remains crucial. We show how to maintain it by supporting your staff with surveys and other initiatives.

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Closed Loop Feedback: Why It Matters To Your Business
September 8, 2023
Closed Loop Feedback: Why It Matters To Your Business

Your customer experience is one of the most important areas for your business, including how you close the loop on feedback. Read on to discover more about why this matters to your business.

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Customer Experience Vs User Experience: Why The Difference Matters
August 8, 2023
Customer Experience Vs User Experience: Why The Difference Matters

Customer experience and user experience are among today’s most popular business concepts. We reveal how understanding the differences between them is vital to make the improvements you need.

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Ticket Management Systems: Maximising Their Effectiveness Through Surveys And Metrics
July 26, 2023
Ticket Management Systems: Maximising Their Effectiveness Through Surveys And Metrics

When it comes to improving your service delivery, your ticket management system is crucial. So, you need it to be performing as well as it can be. We show how ongoing survey feedback can help this.

Man reporting his customer satisfaction in an SMS survey
Customer Satisfaction Vs Customer Loyalty
July 21, 2023
Customer Satisfaction Vs Customer Loyalty

While customer satisfaction measures a customer's attitude towards a product, service, or brand, customer loyalty focuses on the behaviours and attitudes that demonstrate loyalty. We explore both.

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Customer Pain Points: Identifying And Resolving Them
June 23, 2023
Customer Pain Points: Identifying And Resolving Them

If you’re to retain and attract new customers, you need to be able to identify and resolve customer pain points. We show you how.

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Maximising The Value Of Your Customer Satisfaction Survey
June 6, 2023
Maximising The Value Of Your Customer Satisfaction Survey

For many CX-focused organisations, the customer satisfaction survey is the go to tool for gauging customer sentiment. We explore how to maximise value from this survey type.

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Customer Centricity: Why It Matters To Your Business
May 19, 2023
Customer Centricity: Why It Matters To Your Business

Customer-centricity is all about putting your customers first. We investigate why it’s so important for your business and how to develop a customer-centric strategy.

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The Customer Lifecycle: Stages, Metrics and Measurement
May 4, 2023
The Customer Lifecycle: Stages, Metrics and Measurement

Successful organisations focus on building long-term and mutually beneficial customer relationships. But this can only be achieved when you understand the customer lifecycle.

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How To Improve Customer Service
March 30, 2023
How To Improve Customer Service

Whether you're a manager of a call centre or the head of a support desk team, it’s important you’re doing everything you can to make your service as good as it can be.

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Why Having A Customer Experience Management Strategy Matters
March 8, 2023
Why Having A Customer Experience Management Strategy Matters

In today’s marketplace your business success is about so much more than purely the quality of your product or your pricing.

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This Valentine’s Get To The Heart Of What Your Audience Loves
February 10, 2023
This Valentine’s Get To The Heart Of What Your Audience Loves

While many couples will be using the opportunity of Valentine’s Day, to reacquaint themselves with what they most love about one another, it can also...

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Customer Happiness: Why It Matters And How To Measure It
February 1, 2023
Customer Happiness: Why It Matters And How To Measure It

How happy are your customers? Do you know how contented they are with your products, services and support?

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6 Ways To Measure Customer Satisfaction
January 25, 2023
6 Ways To Measure Customer Satisfaction

Savvy business leaders enhance customer satisfaction by tracking several mission-critical key performance indicators (KPIs).

A thank you message is another way to get to know your customers
Get To Know Your Customers Day
January 18, 2023
Get To Know Your Customers Day

There has never been a better time to get to know your customers. And the statistics back this up:

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How To Measure Trust
January 3, 2023
How To Measure Trust

As humans we’re hardwired to connect with and trust others. In fact, without this we would struggle to survive as a species, as we rely on trust in or...

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Measuring Customer Engagement
December 7, 2022
Measuring Customer Engagement

No matter what type of business you run, a major determinant of your success will depend on the strength of your customers’ relationship and emotional...

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Why It's Important To Understand Customer Needs
November 23, 2022
Why It's Important To Understand Customer Needs

One of the most important factors for business success, is the ability to address customer needs. Yet, you’ll only be able to do that effectively if y...

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Types Of Customer Feedback
November 9, 2022
Types Of Customer Feedback

With today’s highly competitive landscape and better-informed consumers, customers expect to receive a seamless, high quality customer experience (CX)...

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How To Measure Customer Service
October 28, 2022
How To Measure Customer Service

Nearly every business wants to be known for providing a great customer service. Not only does this make you feel good, but it can be a great different...

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How To Ask for Feedback from Customers
October 19, 2022
How To Ask for Feedback from Customers

Customers are the lifeblood of your business. So, it pays to keep them happy.

Feedback's the key to managing customer expectations
How To Manage Customer Expectations
September 30, 2022
How To Manage Customer Expectations

Given how important customers are to your business success, being able to understand and manage their expectations is crucial.

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How Do We Measure Customer Experience? 
June 20, 2022
How Do We Measure Customer Experience? 

Given the state of today’s marketplace where customers and not sellers have all the power, keeping your customers loyal and content is crucial.

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How To Develop A Customer Experience Strategy
May 17, 2022
How To Develop A Customer Experience Strategy

Having got to grips with what a CX strategy is in the first part of our CX exploration, including how to measure customer experience, why it matters a...

Staff working together on a CX strategy
What Is A Customer Experience Strategy?
May 5, 2022
What Is A Customer Experience Strategy?

From product differentiation and pricing strategies to cross selling, improving customer service and more. There are many strategies businesses can em...

Another satisfied customer
Why Measure Customer Satisfaction? 
April 29, 2022
Why Measure Customer Satisfaction? 

To answer this question, you need to get back to basics and think about what’s most important to your business. And this begins with your customers.

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What Is Net Promoter Score?
March 15, 2022
What Is Net Promoter Score?

Keeping customers satisfied and loyal is a key aim for businesses everywhere. The belief being the more satisfied and loyal they are, the greater your...

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What Are Customer Touchpoints?
March 8, 2022
What Are Customer Touchpoints?

No matter what type of business, or industry you operate in, your customers will typically go through a series of steps and interactions during their...

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Single Customer View
December 7, 2021
Single Customer View

In today’s digital age organisations have more information about us than ever before. They are also continually looking for new ways of gathering more...

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Omnichannel vs Multichannel: Why It Matters for CX Surveys
November 4, 2021
Omnichannel vs Multichannel: Why It Matters for CX Surveys

While many of us will be familiar with the term customer experience (CX) and its importance to driving brand loyalty and revenue, our understanding of...

Developing a More Human Approach to Customer Support
July 20, 2021
Developing a More Human Approach to Customer Support

With today’s ever more competitive marketplace, it’s no longer enough for businesses to rely solely on product quality and the right price to stay com...

What Is Customer Experience?
November 11, 2020
What Is Customer Experience?

Modern customers no longer base their loyalty solely on price or product, but rather the experience they receive from a company, the ability for organ...

5 Customer Questions That Can Deliver Real Value For Your Business
June 30, 2020
5 Customer Questions That Can Deliver Real Value For Your Business

Over the last few years the importance of customer experience and satisfaction has grown significantly. Many organisations even consider it to be more...

Improving Customer Experience With Surveys And Customer Feedback Loops
January 31, 2020
Improving Customer Experience With Surveys And Customer Feedback Loops

Considering that 79% of customers are more likely to make another purchase from a company that provides them with a good experience, it makes sound bu...

Top Tips to Better Measure Customer Satisfaction
October 1, 2019
Top Tips to Better Measure Customer Satisfaction

Unsatisfied customers can be extremely costly to your business. According to a recent study up to 80% of customers would be prepared to switch compani...

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