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August 6, 2024
Choosing Survey Tools for Business

Discover how to choose the right survey tools for your business, with tips on features, customisation, integration, and security to boost customer insights.

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August 5, 2024
What Is An Exit Survey?

Discover the importance of exit surveys, how they help improve employee retention, and tips for conducting effective surveys in your organisation.

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August 2, 2024
What Makes A Good Questionnaire

Great planning, design and execution is crucial to successful research; find out make makes a good survey questionnaire in this comprehensive guide.

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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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July 30, 2024
What is Employee Experience?

What is the employee experience today, why does it matter, and how do you improve it for enhanced workplace satisfaction and productivity? Let's find out.

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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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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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July 23, 2024
Survey Email Subject Lines

Email remains a popular survey distribution method, and in this blog we discover how writing engaging subject lines for survey emails can get more people to open and take your survey.

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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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July 10, 2024
Screening Questions For Surveys

Screening questions (or screeners) can be placed at the start of your questionnaire to determine which respondents are a good fit to complete your survey.

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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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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.

Man using best practice advice to plan his next survey
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June 17, 2024
Survey Best Practices

Best practice advice from the initial design and question choice of your survey to distribution and reporting of results.

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May 29, 2024
The Employee Perception Survey (Smart Ideas)

Regularly engaging and collecting feedback from your staff, can make a big difference to their happiness and your business success. We look at how an employee perception survey can help you.

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May 24, 2024
B2B Market Segmentation: Better Understand, Engage And Convert Customers 

The days of a one-size-fits-all B2B marketing strategy are long gone. We show how market segmentation backed by feedback can help you to better understand, engage and convert your customers.

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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.

Good practice results when you implement more ethical processes into your survey building
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May 17, 2024
10 Ethical Considerations For Your Next Survey

Given that surveys are one of the most effective ways to get data and insights, you’ll want to maximise their quality and reliability, which ethical survey practices can help with. We show you how.

The customer lifecycle resulting from a successful customer adoption process
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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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May 10, 2024
Zero Party Data: What It Is and Why You Should Want To Collect It

From enabling more accurate and reliable data to helping to increase customer personalisation, trust, loyalty and more. There’s lots you can gain from zero-party data. We explore it in more detail.

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May 8, 2024
Feedback Culture: Exploring Its Purpose, Benefits And How To Build One

For any business, no matter how big or small, feedback is the lifeblood for growth and improvement. We explore feedback culture in more detail including its benefits and how to build one.

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May 3, 2024
Survey Dashboard Examples

It can be challenging to get to the crux of your survey data, unless you have the means to track and analyse all your key survey findings in one place. We show examples of how survey dashboards help.

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May 1, 2024
Tips For Creating More Inclusive Surveys

While inclusion is crucial for nurturing a more diverse workplace and addressing inequalities in many industries, it’s also vital to building stronger, more representative surveys. We show you how.

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April 24, 2024
The Employee Dashboard: Essential Insights For Business Success

Getting staff to perform to the best of their abilities is crucial. We show how tracking and measuring their performance with the right KPIs, metrics and employee survey dashboard is vital to this.

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April 23, 2024
Snowball Sampling: Exploring What It Is, Its Uses And Benefits

Sometimes you may need to research hard to reach groups, which is where snowball sampling can be really effective. We explore everything you need to know.

Woman exploring her user experience of a new tablet device
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April 15, 2024
The Best User Experience Metrics and KPIs To Measure It

From how easy it is to navigate, to how simple it is to use. There’s lots to think about when it comes to the user experience for a product or service. We explore key metrics and KPIs to measure UX.

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April 12, 2024
The Benefits Of A Branded Surveys Dashboard

From increased user confidence and trust to enhanced data reliability, decision-making and more. We investigate the many benefits of a branded surveys dashboard.

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April 10, 2024
Product Concept: What Is It? And How Can You Best Use It?

Given the many choices consumers face every day, have you ever wondered why we choose one product over another? Well, that all starts with a product concept, which we will go on to explore.

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March 28, 2024
Feedback Dashboard: Reasons Why You Should Be Using One

It can quickly become overwhelming trying to manage and make sense of large volumes of data, unless you can sift through, digest and interpret it effectively. We show how a feedback dashboard helps.

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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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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.

Pensive man wondering how best to answer a survey question
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March 8, 2024
Ambiguous Questions: What They Are And Why You Should Avoid Them

Designing your survey may seem simple enough, but without due care, pitfalls like ambiguous questions can harm your survey’s accuracy and reliability. We show what they are and how to avoid them.

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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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March 1, 2024
Turn Survey Data Into Actionable Insights With Dashboards And Sentiment Analysis

Bridge the gap between information and action with our new Dashboards and Sentiment Analysis, helping users extract trends and uncover hidden insights from their data, saving them valuable time.

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