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

New Release Feature: Quotas

Have you had a chance to check out the new features that debuted with the web survey new release last month? If not, make sure you do the next time you log in. Or, if you’re new to Cvent, visit our calendar to see a demo that will walk you through the inner-workings of the tool.  In the meantime, we...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

Trends Affecting Marketing Research: Are You Feeling like the Roman God of Beginnings & Transitions Yet?

Tis the season for looking back and looking forward, makes you feel a bit like Janus, the Roman deity of beginnings and transitions. Thinking back over the course of the year one phrase seemed to capture lion’s share of the headlines…“Big Data.” All things mobile were in the public eye as well. What...read more

Best Practices: Testing Your Survey Before Launch

My name is Emily Ebersole, and I am the Client Services Team Lead supporting the Cvent Web Surveys tool. A successful survey requires testing and forethought to ensure that the survey is configured properly. Cvent's Test Mode feature is like having a crystal ball that allows you to anticipate how...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

The Little Things Matter

It's often said it's the little things that matter. Well after launching my first large-scale survey via the Cvent Web Survey tool, I would wholeheartedly agree! By no way am I new to the survey process, either online or old-school, but there are always a few things that only pop-up after you have...read more
The Rise of the Smart Phone: Are you Leverging Mobile? 10 Tips for Mobile-Friendly Survey Creation