What to do with negative feedback
A customer sends an angry email. Support replies three days later because the queue was full. Management never hears about it at all, because things like this don't [...]
The most honest feedback never comes when you ask for it
A few years ago, I sat in a meeting where marketing presented the NPS (Net Promoter Score, a customer loyalty metric on a scale of -100 to +100) [...]
Open-ended questions aren’t an add-on, but a skill.
Try picturing two versions of the same customer. In the first scenario, they give you 6 out of 10 on a satisfaction survey. In the second, they give [...]
Customers won’t fill in your survey. They’ll fill in this one.
You know the feeling. You're staring at survey results forty responses from a database of four thousand contacts and you're thinking: now what? One per cent. And even [...]
The best CX analysts are sitting in the call centre, but nobody’s asking them
A few years ago I went out to a company where the leadership was scratching their heads over a nine-point drop in NPS (Net Promoter Score, a measure [...]
Saying Goodbye to a Departing Customer as a Strategic Opportunity?
I recently cancelled a subscription to a streaming service. The usual drill clicking through five screens where they tried to talk me into staying. A discount. A free [...]
Why Customers Lie in Surveys and What to Do About It
Let me admit something that puzzled me for a long time. I was working on a project where the company was collecting customer feedback systematically. The sample sizes [...]
