“Our company,” the CEO’s voiced boomed cheerfully at the company's annual leadership conference, “is an industry leader in customer experience. I’m immensely proud of your efforts in establishing our global reputation for innovation and customer-centricity.” As the applause of the 300 or so company managers began to die down, I glanced at the executive vp sitting next to me. She appeared to be choking on some arugula.
“Yikes,” she muttered under under her breath.
I understood where she was coming from. The problem was it was highly unlikely that most of our company’s customers would have agreed with our CEO's assessment.
In fairness to him, his comments weren’t entirely unfounded; the company’s monthly metrics on customer experience did tell an exciting story. And, as for the marketing department collecting the data, its staff had used common and well-established methodologies.
But what our leader didn’t realize, was how much of the overall story was data-driven fiction. Specifically, the company's net promotor score -- a single-question metric that predicts customers' loyalty by assessing their likelihood to recommend a company or brand -- was being manipulated by the front-line employees and managers.
Read the full article here.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/329401/
Something for the Weekend, Sir? I am undergoing the lie detector test and it is not going well. I should have guessed something was up when they affixed the wires: temples and wrists are OK but it seems a little unnecessary to route what suspiciously looks like an AC mains cable to my groin.
Blinking away the sweat under the hot studio lights before a braying audience, I wonder how it all came to this. I mean, the day began normally enough – just another day in the paradise of Customer Delight.
The IT support department where I am occasionally contracted for floor-walking has been renamed – sorry, "rebranded" – several times already this year. It was called the aforementioned "Customer Delight" throughout 2018 but a new CIO in January changed it to "Enablement Masters". This confused everyone, especially the golfers, until his replacement in March came up with "Delivery Disruptives", which made us sound like rampaging postmen.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/17/something_for_the_weekend/
All feedback from your customers is valuable, but there are certain types of qualitative data that can give you more insight than others.
Truly insightful feedback can help you identify when people think something is confusing, why they made a certain choice, what they value most about your product, or how they view your product against the competition.
In turn, you can use this feedback to write more persuasive copy in your marketing, optimize your user experience, or prioritize new features to build. Ultimately, more useful feedback helps you make more informed business decisions.
So how do you gather this type of feedback? It’s all about the questions you ask.
Read more at
https://www.business2community.com/customer-experience/how-to-get-more-insightful-user-feedback-02197934https://www.business2community.com/customer-experience/how-to-get-more-insightful-user-feedback-02197934/
A recent survey by Stanford Social Innovation Review confirmed a surprising fact: in an era where customer feedback is ubiquitous in the for-profit world, both doers and donors in the social innovation sphere struggle to systematically understand the preferences and experiences of the people they are seeking to help: the nonprofit customer.
To be sure, social innovators want to understand their client’s needs. The survey found that 88% of 1,986 respondents reported that “gathering feedback” was one of their priorities in measuring impact. But only 13% were using it as a top source of insight for improving services; and two-thirds said that lack of staff capacity and resources were the major barrier to implementing feedback systems.
https://hbr.org/2019/02/why-customer-feedback-tools-are-vital-for-nonprofits/
If you’ve ever worked in the service industry I’m sure the chant “the customer is always right” still rings in your head. Customer service and the customer journey are not new concepts. However, the medium that customer service is carried out through today is new. With the eruption and growth of the internet over the past 20 years – the entire customer journey has been rewritten – no matter how long you’ve been in business or what industry you’re in. As the way we do business evolved, the customer experience evolved with it. But why has it been so difficult for businesses to transition?
https://mopinion.com/why-the-customer-experience-should-be-your-main-focus-this-year/
Mopinion has added a new feature to couple metadata, such as user info, app version (and more) with user feedback within your Mobile SDK! This new feature equips Mopinion users with deeper insights into how certain app users or customers (based on demographics, interests, location, etc.) experience their mobile app. With these insights, users can personalise and optimise the online customer journey for their customers, while simultaneously increasing customer satisfaction and loyalty.
https://mopinion.com/add-metadata-to-your-feedback-within-the-mobile-sdk/
For those of you who missed our latest webinar with special guest from major travel organisation TUI, we’ve got you covered. In this webinar, Mopinion is joined by special guest Marieke Verbossen from major travel organisation and winner of the Shopping Award’s Publieksprijs XL (for Vacations & Travel Tickets), TUI. She shares some interesting details of how TUI gathers and gets the most out of their online customer feedback data.
https://mopinion.com/missed-our-webinar-tui/
It’s finally here! The feature you’ve all been waiting for… Mopinion’s new feedback form translation feature! In response to the high demand among our customers, we’ve just launched a new feature in our form configuration section, which allows users to add multiple translations to the same feedback form.
https://mopinion.com/new-feedback-form-translation-feature/
Up to speed on the new SCA regulation coming this fall? If not, you may want to pay close attention. Following the introduction of the GDPR, which had a huge impact on the handling of personal data last year, Europe is gearing up for another major shake up – this time in the payment sectors.
The Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) regulation will be introduced in Europe this fall, effective September 14th 2019.
https://mopinion.com/strong-customer-authentication-sca-regulation/
Are you a visual person? Looking for some deeper insights into what your visitors are doing on your website? Want to boost your conversions, but not sure where to start? A heatmapping tool might just be your answer! Heatmapping tools are great for tracking user behaviour patterns on specific pages of your website and are actually quite easy to use.
https://mopinion.com/heatmapping-tools-you-might-want-to-try/
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