Tasty Satisfaction Treats: Feedback Tips for Restaurateurs

If there were one industry that could truly benefit from consumer insight research, it is the restaurant industry. Granted there are the giants of the industry, e.g. McDonalds or Chik-fil-A, that have teams dedicated to dissecting every aspect of the customer experience, but the biggest gains can...read more

National Customer Service Day: Experience Matters

Traditionally, Customer Service and been thought of as a Cost Center. And it's true! Thinking of customer service this way is going to make the lack of it cost you customers—and lots of them! And based on his tweet this morning, it seems that Don agrees. DonCooper The Sales Heretic™ Today is Nat'l...read more

5 Best Practices for Designing Mobile Surveys

When online surveys came on the scene for the first time in 1999, there was initial hesitation. Was online really going to replace phone and mail surveys? As online has become the norm over the last decade, we've learned there's still a place for multi-mode feedback collection. In fact, with social...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

Best Practices: 3 Steps to Become a Learning Organization

My name is Jason Davis and I am a Product Consultant supporting the Web Survey tool. This month, we released an eBook: Harness the Conversation—Business In Today's Social World. One section of the eBook focuses on becoming a learning organization. In order to create a lasting success, your...read more

Importance vs. Satisfaction

One of the key components in any customer satisfaction measurement program is the ability to assess a respondent’s satisfaction with a variable (e.g. quality of the food served) and that variable’s perceived importance. It would be an inefficient allocation of marketing resources to attempt to...read more

Unclog the Pipes: Increase Survey Relevance

Online survey tools have dramatically expanded the researcher’s ability to customize the survey a respondent sees. This is critical for enhancing engagement, and in theory, increasing the accuracy and validity of the data. The logic tools available with feedback management software platforms, such...read more

Good Online Survey Research: 5 Tips and Tricks

Having as many tools in your market and survey research toolbox is a great way to make a survey effort go smoothly. In addition to our past survey research tips, here are some more tricks to think about before planning your next questionnaire! Utilizing some or all of these ideas the next time you...read more

Effective Email Marketing: Keeping a Clean Contact List

Are you struggling with low email open rates when you send out your customer surveys? While my most recent post covered the importance of maintaining an appropriate frequency for sending messages to your audience, you must recognize an equally important piece of increasing open rates among...read more

Make Sure Your Survey Results Are Accurate

Social media is growing, and its having an impact on the way businesses attract new customers and listen to existing customer opinions. While browsing many of these social media platforms, I've noticed organizations conducting online polls. I think it's important to understand that while public...read more
The Rise of the Smart Phone: Are you Leverging Mobile? 10 Tips for Mobile-Friendly Survey Creation