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  • Declining survey response rates: why surveys still matter

    Declining survey response rates are real and decades old. Why fewer customers answer, why surveys still matter, and smarter, shorter ways to ask them.

    Surveys & Research · 13 min read

  • Customer data quality: don't let inaccurate data stop you from acting

    Customer data quality is never perfect. How to judge whether data is good enough for the decision at hand, triage the flaws, and act without fooling yourself.

    Customer Analytics · 13 min read

  • Listening to your best customers: do you hear what I hear?

    Listening to your best customers takes a separate path from the survey program. How to find them, what to ask in twenty minutes, and how to close the loop.

    Voice of the Customer · 12 min read

  • Collecting customer email addresses: why can't we, and what works

    Collecting customer email addresses fails for human reasons, not technical ones. What the frontline needs, what the customer gets, and how to measure capture.

    Voice of the Customer · 12 min read

  • Does sales care about your customer program? Sales and CX alignment

    Sales and customer experience alignment fails when nothing in the program helps close an account this quarter. Five things to hand sales monthly, two to avoid.

    Customer Experience · 12 min read

  • You're fired: silent churn and the customers who never say so

    Silent churn is the customer who leaves without saying so. Four signals that precede it, a monthly who-went-quiet review, and outreach that is not surveillance.

    Voice of the Customer · 12 min read

Customers are grown, not captured. Practical writing on customer experience and the voice of the customer.

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