Measuring Work Personalities

Survey research can be used to assess the attitudes and opinions of virtually any group or sub-group. Most of my work has been in the areas of consumer and B2B market research, but from time to time my focus has shifted toward surveying employees. This makes perfect sense as our employees are the...read more

Customer Satisfaction + Importance

Customer satisfaction measurement can be best described as part art, part science, and part intuition. Regardless of how you view it there are several moving parts to this equation. Satisfaction, as a measure itself, is part of a larger equation centered on profitability. When designing a...read more

Customer Experience ≠ Customer Satisfaction

There comes a time when those of us in consumer and B2B market research realize that we are not just the messengers, the conduit for the voice of the customer, but we also are the change agents. This realization came to me some time ago, but was reaffirmed while reading the book Outside In by Harley...read more

20 Most Popular Posts of 2012

While we highlight the most popular posts from a given month in our newsletter, one of my favorite activities is to look back and see what posts were the most popular overall each year. Keeping with tradition, here's a look back across the 20 most popular posts of 2012!   Customer Loyalty Month: 25...read more

What’s #1 on Your Christmas List?

What are you wishing for this holiday season? Clothes? World peace? A stronger connection to your customers? Fantastic. Us? We’re hoping more companies see the value of customer feedback! So inspired, we wrote a song (sing it to NSYNC’s “Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays”): Merry Christmas and Happy...read more

The Future of Reviews

What are your annual, quarterly or monthly reviews based on? Sales numbers? Goals? Campaigns executed? Leads generated? Probably something along those lines, right? Well, things might be different in the near future: employee reviews could be based on organizational influence. Last spring,...read more

Top 25 CEOs

The Huffington Post recently featured a list of the top nine tech CEOs as ranked by employees. With ratings ranging between 80% and an impressive 97%, over 280,000 employees told how they felt about the way their CEO was leading the organization to come up with this top nine. Here are some...read more

25 Most Popular Survey Posts of 2011

Last week I shared my favorite feedback management blog posts that fell outside the Top 25 Most Popular Posts of 2011. After crunching the analysis for most read articles, most shared and clicked posts, I've narrowed down our 476+ posts to just the Top 25.Please share your thoughts below on any...read more

My Top 15 Favorite Web Survey Blog Posts of 2011

Today, I started going through the Web Survey blog analytics to see which of our articles were the most popular. We wrote and published a staggering 476 posts so far in 2011! Next week I'll be sharing the Top 25 Most Popular Posts of 2011. However, some of my favorites just didn't make the cut this...read more

How to Prevent the Grinch from Stealing Customers

If the lines from the Christmas classic, You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch, describes any of your employees, you may be in danger of losing customers. Unfortunately, unlike the Grinch who has a change of heart at the end and is also overcome with spirit of Christmas, your employee can continue to...read more
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