Tag
voice-of-customer
12 posts. All topics.
- Surveys & Research
Declining survey response rates: why surveys still matter
Declining survey response rates are real and decades old. Why fewer customers answer, why surveys still matter, and smarter, shorter ways to ask them.
- Customer Analytics
Customer data quality: don't let inaccurate data stop you from acting
Customer data quality is never perfect. How to judge whether data is good enough for the decision at hand, triage the flaws, and act without fooling yourself.
- Customer Experience
Customers are grown, not captured
Customer experience is grown, not captured. Why this blog is called what it is, what cultivation means on a Monday morning, and what you will find here.
- Voice of the Customer
Listening to your best customers: do you hear what I hear?
Listening to your best customers takes a separate path from the survey program. How to find them, what to ask in twenty minutes, and how to close the loop.
- Surveys & Research
Qualitative and quantitative feedback: a soft focus on hard data
Qualitative and quantitative customer feedback answer different questions: scores say where, comments say why. How to pair them and read 500 verbatims fast.
- Loyalty & Retention
Are your products right for relationship marketing? A three-part test
Relationship marketing pays off for some products and annoys the customers of others. A three-part test (frequency, involvement, switching cost) sorts yours.
- Customer Experience
Content that converts: answer the questions customers already ask
Content that converts answers the questions buyers already ask, in their words, before the sales call. Where those questions hide and how to publish answers.
- Customer Experience
Customer decision process: the new way buyers evaluate purchases
The customer decision process now runs before the first call, on reviews, peers and communities. How to map it, feed it, and start the sale in the middle.
- Customer Experience
Does sales care about your customer program? Sales and CX alignment
Sales and customer experience alignment fails when nothing in the program helps close an account this quarter. Five things to hand sales monthly, two to avoid.
- Customer Experience
Lessons from the Starbucks turnaround for customer experience
The Starbucks turnaround, and its 2024 echo, shows what happens when growth outruns the experience: lessons on the core, visible listening, and the frontline.
- Customer Experience
When is your customer not your own? Listening to indirect customers
Indirect customers buy through marketplaces, resellers and franchisees that hold the checkout and the complaint. Four ways to listen, and a partner checklist.
- Voice of the Customer
You're fired: silent churn and the customers who never say so
Silent churn is the customer who leaves without saying so. Four signals that precede it, a monthly who-went-quiet review, and outreach that is not surveillance.