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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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December 5, 2022
How To Measure Employee Motivation

From increased productivity, lower absenteeism and reduced staff turnover levels to improved staff/management relations, a more positive work ethic an...

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November 29, 2022
What Is Plain Language And Why Is It Used?

When it comes to using plain language, think about your own experiences, especially when you’re meeting someone for the first time and don’t know thei...

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November 25, 2022
How To Analyse Open Ended Questions

When it comes to your research and what you’re trying to find out, the research process behind it will generally fall into two camps quantitative or q...

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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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November 22, 2022
The Survey Thank You Message

Having meticulously planned your survey, taken time to choose the right question types and carefully crafted the wording of your questionnaire, you’ll...

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November 17, 2022
Inclusive Gender Options for Surveys

When it comes to survey questions, people often shy away from asking anything about gender or sexuality. This can be for a variety of reasons, whether...

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November 15, 2022
How To Measure Employee Loyalty

Compared with the concepts of employee engagement and job satisfaction, employee loyalty is often one of the least appreciated and explored areas of s...

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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)...

Desk research ready for longitudinal study
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November 4, 2022
What Is a Longitudinal Study?

When it comes to conducting surveys, generally you’ll be looking to get a snapshot view of the feelings of a group of people at single point in time.

Man in deep thought about choosing the right survey platform
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November 3, 2022
How To Choose an Online Survey Provider

Whether you’re a student or micro business, an SME or a much larger sized organisation. There’s lots of reasons why you might want to conduct a survey...

Customer service team working to deliver a great customer experience
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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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October 27, 2022
Qualifying Questions: Use Cases and Examples

If you’re to maximise the validity of your survey data and gain reliable feedback with which to take decisive actions, you need to ensure the right ca...

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October 25, 2022
How To Measure Employee Satisfaction

Every business strives to build a thriving workplace with contented teams and staff, yet many employees are unhappy. In fact, in one of the UK’s large...

Customer leaves feedback at kiosk survey stand
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October 21, 2022
Examining Kiosk Surveys and When to Use Them

Whether it’s customers leaving your store or restaurant, or those using public services such as hospitals, trains, buses, leisure services and more. W...

A survey invite arrives in a recipients mail inbox
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October 21, 2022
The Survey Invitation: How to Get It Right

Having the taken the time to carefully prepare your survey and craft some compelling questions, you’ll want to achieve the best possible response to i...

Female customer leaving feedback
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October 19, 2022
How To Ask for Feedback from Customers

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

A random population sample that you may decide to survey
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October 7, 2022
How to Reduce Bias in Surveys

When it comes to your survey, you’ll want to do everything you can to avoid bias, which can result in inaccurate or unrepresentative data.

Man losing focus working through a long survey
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October 6, 2022
Survey Fatigue and How to Avoid It

Alarmed about a recent drop in your survey’s response rates? Worried how this might affect the quality of your data and the insight you’re able to gle...

Feedback's the key to managing customer expectations
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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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September 28, 2022
Determining Sample Size

When it comes to your survey it’s nearly always impossible, or at least impractical, to collect data from all the people or items that you’re interest...

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September 23, 2022
When To Send NPS Surveys

If you’re to maximise your engagement with recipients and optimise your response rates, knowing when to send a survey can have major impact on how suc...

Lots of survey questions to answer
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September 15, 2022
Good Survey Questions: Tips and Examples

Whether you’re trying to better understand your customers, or better engage with your employees. Whatever you’re trying to achieve with your online qu...

Man writing out his survey questions
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September 9, 2022
Survey Errors: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

When it comes to writing your survey, at first thought it may seem a relatively simple task. However, without proper forethought and planning you coul...

People completing an online survey
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September 8, 2022
Improving Survey Response Rates

Whatever rationale you have for conducting your survey, you’ll want to achieve as healthy a response rate as you can. The reason for this is that if i...

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August 11, 2022
How Smiley Face Surveys Boost Response Rates

When you consider that a growing number of online surveys are already completed on mobile, and emojis and smileys are sent in their billions every day...

Healthcare professional asking patient survey questions
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August 8, 2022
How To Measure Patient Engagement 

From public to private healthcare organisations. When it comes to the nation’s health, healthcare organisations are working extremely hard to achieve...

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July 27, 2022
The Future Of Remote Working

Given the chaos caused by the Covid 19 pandemic over the last two and half years and ongoing uncertainty about future variants, it’s difficult to pred...

Staff member write their resignation letter
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July 25, 2022
How To Manage The Great Resignation

With almost a fifth of the UK workforce admitting they intend to leave their current job for a new one in the next 12 months, the Great Resignation sh...

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July 11, 2022
Why Employee Experience Matters

When it comes to experiences and how they help shape future behaviour, there are similarities between consumers and employees.

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June 28, 2022
Discretionary Effort In The Workplace

Whether a customer or colleague, or maybe a friend or family member. I’m sure you can all recall times when you went the extra mile for someone and yo...

Emojis depicting satisfied customers
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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.

Transactional experience in motion as man tries to pay with app on smartphone
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May 30, 2022
Transactional NPS vs Relationship NPS

When it comes to business success, one of the most important aspects is your relationship with your customers. If that relationship is good, they’re h...

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