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March 6, 2024
Customer Satisfaction Metrics

With statistics demonstrating that for every customer complaint you receive, there are another 26 who are unhappy but choose to remain silent, the lik...

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March 1, 2024
Turn Survey Data Into Actionable Insights With Dashboards And Sentiment Analysis

Bridge the gap between information and action with our new Dashboards and Sentiment Analysis, helping users extract trends and uncover hidden insights from their data, saving them valuable time.

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February 23, 2024
Customer Experience Dashboards: 3 Types You Should Know

To deliver the best CX, your teams need the right people, to receive the right information, at the right time. This is where CX dashboards can help. We show you 3 dashboard types you should know.

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February 22, 2024
How To Improve Employee Loyalty: 6 Great Ways

While most people recognise how important employees are to their organisation, less consideration is often given to staff loyalty. We show why employee loyalty is vital and ways to improve it.

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February 15, 2024
6 Best Practices For Creating Effective Survey Dashboards

From your subject matter and audience to considerations around form and functionality. There is lots to think about when you’re building a survey dashboard. Get on track with our best practice tips.

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February 15, 2024
Why Use Dashboards: 6 Reasons To Unify Survey Management And Analysis

Surveys are great to gather data, but gaining insights can be time-consuming, if scattered across different tools. We explore the benefits of managing data collection and visualisation in one place.

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February 15, 2024
How To Analyse Survey Data 

A healthy response rate is only half the battle to uncover valuable survey insights. To get to data that really matters, you need to sort and analyse that data effectively too. Our blog shows you how.

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February 12, 2024
How to Improve Customer Retention

Customer retention is vital, as happy and loyal customers contribute hugely towards an organisation’s long-term revenue and growth with positive referrals. We show how to improve their retention.

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February 8, 2024
Company Culture Surveys: Improving Through Feedback

In today’s competitive world the value of a strong company culture cannot be overstated with the benefits of a happier, more engaged workforce typical...

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January 29, 2024
Decision Making Surveys: Exploring Their Characteristics And Uses

Given the increasingly complex challenges that organisations face, accurate and reliable data is vital to enabling them to make more informed choices. We explore how decision-making surveys can help.

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January 24, 2024
Hard Data Vs Soft Data: Exploring Their Characteristics And Differences

In todays, data driven world, organisations rely on information more than ever before to make decisions. Yet not all data created is equal. We show how understanding hard and soft data is vital.

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January 18, 2024
Frictionless Customer Experience: How To Deliver Even Greater Value For Your Customers

What makes some organisations effortlessly stand out, engaging and delighting their customers at every touchpoint? We explore frictionless customer experience, which provides the answer to this.

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January 11, 2024
Anonymous Vs Confidential Surveys: What’s The Difference?

While you may be forgiven for thinking that anonymous and confidential surveys are the same, the fact is they’re not. We examine these different approaches and when it’s best to use each survey type.

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January 9, 2024
Lead Generation Surveys: Their Value To Your Business

Lead generation surveys are a fantastic tool to gain a greater insight into what your prospective customers need and increase future sales. We explore these surveys and their value to your business.

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January 4, 2024
Giving Employee Feedback

Staff feedback is amazingly powerful. When performed effectively it can grow and develop your employees and boost communications and trust throughout your organisation. We show how to develop it.

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December 18, 2023
Observational Data: Exploring What It Is And Where It Can Be Useful

From business analytics to scientific research, the collection and analysis of data is at the heart of today’s critical decision-making. We explore how observational data fits in with this.

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December 14, 2023
How To Calculate CSAT

For any organisation to be successful and maintain it, good customer experience should be at the heart of everything they do. We show how measuring, analysing and improving customer satisfaction helps

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December 11, 2023
How To Title a Survey

Given that your survey title is the first thing potential respondents see, it needs to be as compelling as possible for them to participate. We show how to devise a good survey title name.

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December 8, 2023
Secondary Research: How It Can Supplement Primary Research And Surveys

By focusing on the analysis and interpretation of existing data and information collected by others secondary research offers a quick and invaluable source of insights. We explore it in more detail.

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December 4, 2023
Patient Feedback: How It Can Improve Healthcare Experiences

Healthcare is vital for everyone, and the quality of our healthcare experiences can significantly impact our well-being and life-chances. We show how patient feedback can improve these experiences.

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December 1, 2023
Employee Performance: Exploring Ways To Measure, Evaluate And Improve It

Given how much staff bring to a business, it shouldn’t be hard to appreciate how much their performance can impact its success or failure. Learn how to measure, evaluate and improve staff performance.

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November 28, 2023
Probability Sampling: Exploring The Options Available

Probability sampling runs on the principle of randomness, where every individual within a population has an equal, but low chance of selection, for unbiased and more accurate results. We reveal more.

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November 17, 2023
Student Surveys: Tips To Boost Student Engagement And Interest In Responding

Students have a lot of great ideas to help you make the right improvements. But you can only achieve that with a healthy survey response rate. We reveal tips to boost student engagement and interest.

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November 14, 2023
Customer Experience: Exploring The 5 C’s Driving This Successful Strategy

The ability to deliver a great customer experience is crucial for success, as it’s not only what you sell, but how you treat customers and make them feel. We show how the 5 C’s are vital to this.

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November 9, 2023
Usability Testing: How Surveys Can Improve It

If you’re to build a successful product or service, you either need to be solving some sort of problem or meeting a specific user need. We explore how surveys can improve usability testing.

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November 3, 2023
Feedback Loops: How They Can Benefit Your Business

In an increasingly competitive marketplace, organisations of all shapes and sizes must continually adapt and improve if they’re to stay ahead. We show how feedback loops can help your business.

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November 1, 2023
Marketing Surveys That Maximise Your Decision Making

For marketers, knowing exactly how your customers view your brand and what improvements you need to keep them happy and buying more is vital. We show how different surveys can help your marketing.

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October 30, 2023
Representative Sample: Exploring Why It’s Essential To Surveys

Surveying everyone in large populations is impractical. Survey sampling can help, acting as a magnifier for studying large populations in more manageable slices. We explore the representative sample.

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October 26, 2023
Employee Lifecycle: How Surveys Can Benefit Key Stages Of Your Employees’ Journey

While your customers are vital to driving your revenue, your employees are equally crucial to keeping those customers happy and attracting new ones. We explore how employee lifecycle surveys help.

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October 24, 2023
What Is Customer Success?

With more options available to customers than ever before, the need to stand out from competitors has become vital. We show how to gain a competitive edge with a customer success program.

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October 13, 2023
Training Surveys: How To Run Them

Whatever your type of training and its aims, it’s likely to be a significant investment, so you’ll want to get it right. We show how running training surveys can help you with this.

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October 6, 2023
NPS Surveys: How To Use Negative Feedback More Positively

The Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a popular metric that people are always looking to get more value from. Yet many people don’t appreciate the benefits of negative NPS feedback in helping them improve.

Customer centricity is at the heart of the unified customer experience approach
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October 5, 2023
Unified Customer Experience: What Is It? And What Are Its Business Benefits?

Customers no longer solely judge products and services on their price and performance but every experience they’ve had with that product or service. That’s why unified customer experience is crucial.

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