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September 2, 2024
The Employee Retention Survey (Smart Ideas)

Discover how employee retention surveys can uncover turnover risks, boost engagement, and help build a loyal, high-performing workforce.

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August 27, 2024
How To Get Anonymous Feedback From Employees

Learn how to gather anonymous employee feedback effectively, ensuring confidentiality, improving workplace culture, and driving continuous improvement.

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August 21, 2024
Employee Engagement Metrics: Measure And Improve Staff Engagement

Measure and improve employee engagement with key metrics, effective strategies, and tools to boost workforce satisfaction and productivity.

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August 19, 2024
Why Are Surveys Good For Research?

Discover why surveys are essential for research, such as broad reach, effective data collection, and ability to gather quantitative and qualitative insights.

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August 13, 2024
Mandatory Questions In Surveys

Learn the pros and cons of mandatory survey questions, how to use them effectively, and alternative strategies to boost response rates and data quality.

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August 12, 2024
How To Conduct a Return-to-Work Interview

Learn how to conduct effective return-to-work interviews, ensuring smooth employee reintegration, addressing concerns, and supporting well-being.

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August 9, 2024
B2B Surveys: Getting Feedback from Businesses

Discover how to effectively use B2B surveys to gather insights, improve customer retention, and drive business growth with practical tips and strategies.

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August 8, 2024
How to Get Feedback From Employees

Learn how to effectively gather and act on employee feedback to boost engagement, improve workplace culture, and enhance overall organisational success.

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August 7, 2024
What is Citizen Engagement?

Discover the importance of citizen engagement, its benefits, key principles, challenges, and how the public can actively participate in shaping their communities.

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August 6, 2024
Choosing Survey Tools for Business

Discover how to choose the right survey tools for your business, with tips on features, customisation, integration, and security to boost customer insights.

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August 5, 2024
What Is An Exit Survey?

Discover the importance of exit surveys, how they help improve employee retention, and tips for conducting effective surveys in your organisation.

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August 2, 2024
What Makes A Good Questionnaire

Great planning, design and execution is crucial to successful research; find out make makes a good survey questionnaire in this comprehensive guide.

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August 1, 2024
Customer Experience Metrics That Matter

It’s crucial to be able to measure your customer experience. This is because if you don’t know how easy, satisfying and enjoyable your customers find...

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July 30, 2024
What is Employee Experience?

What is the employee experience today, why does it matter, and how do you improve it for enhanced workplace satisfaction and productivity? Let's find out.

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July 23, 2024
Survey Email Subject Lines

Email remains a popular survey distribution method, and in this blog we discover how writing engaging subject lines for survey emails can get more people to open and take your survey.

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July 22, 2024
Measuring Customer Loyalty

Returning business helps drive business success, so understanding how to measure customer loyalty and make essential improvements is vital.

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July 10, 2024
Screening Questions For Surveys

Screening questions (or screeners) can be placed at the start of your questionnaire to determine which respondents are a good fit to complete your survey.

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June 26, 2024
What Is Customer Engagement?

Humans are social creatures, our brains wired to connect with others. We can serve this desire to bond and belong by focusing on customer engagement.

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June 25, 2024
What is Customer Onboarding?

Think about all the people you've met and how quickly you decided whether you wanted to see them again. The same principle applies to customer relationships.

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June 17, 2024
Survey Best Practices

Best practice advice from the initial design and question choice of your survey to distribution and reporting of results.

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May 29, 2024
The Employee Perception Survey (Smart Ideas)

Regularly engaging and collecting feedback from your staff, can make a big difference to their happiness and your business success. We look at how an employee perception survey can help you.

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May 24, 2024
B2B Market Segmentation: Better Understand, Engage And Convert Customers

The days of a one-size-fits-all B2B marketing strategy are long gone. We show how market segmentation backed by feedback can help you to better understand, engage and convert your customers.

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May 22, 2024
Net Promoter Score: Five Steps To Help You Improve It

When it comes to your business success, achieving and maintaining as high a net promoter score (NPS) as you can is crucial. We outline five ways to improve your NPS.

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May 17, 2024
10 Ethical Considerations For Your Next Survey

Given that surveys are one of the most effective ways to get data and insights, you’ll want to maximise their quality and reliability, which ethical survey practices can help with. We show you how.

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May 15, 2024
Customer Adoption: Why It Matters To Your Business

Customers that fully adopt your products are more likely to become your long-term advocates. So, you’ll want to understand the benefits of customer adoption for your business. Our blog shows you.

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May 10, 2024
Zero Party Data: What It Is and Why You Should Want To Collect It

From enabling more accurate and reliable data to helping to increase customer personalisation, trust, loyalty and more. There’s lots you can gain from zero-party data. We explore it in more detail.

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May 8, 2024
Feedback Culture: Exploring Its Purpose, Benefits And How To Build One

For any business, no matter how big or small, feedback is the lifeblood for growth and improvement. We explore feedback culture in more detail including its benefits and how to build one.

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May 3, 2024
Survey Dashboard Examples

It can be challenging to get to the crux of your survey data, unless you have the means to track and analyse all your key survey findings in one place. We show examples of how survey dashboards help.

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May 1, 2024
Tips For Creating More Inclusive Surveys

While inclusion is crucial for nurturing a more diverse workplace and addressing inequalities in many industries, it’s also vital to building stronger, more representative surveys. We show you how.

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April 24, 2024
The Employee Dashboard: Essential Insights For Business Success

Getting staff to perform to the best of their abilities is crucial. We show how tracking and measuring their performance with the right KPIs, metrics and employee survey dashboard is vital to this.

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April 23, 2024
Snowball Sampling: Exploring What It Is, Its Uses And Benefits

Sometimes you may need to research hard to reach groups, which is where snowball sampling can be really effective. We explore everything you need to know.

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April 15, 2024
The Best User Experience Metrics and KPIs To Measure It

From how easy it is to navigate, to how simple it is to use. There’s lots to think about when it comes to the user experience for a product or service. We explore key metrics and KPIs to measure UX.

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April 12, 2024
The Benefits Of A Branded Surveys Dashboard

From increased user confidence and trust to enhanced data reliability, decision-making and more. We investigate the many benefits of a branded surveys dashboard.

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