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Avoid the 3 Common Customer Loyalty Mistakes

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Customer Loyalty Survey Mistakes

As we previously discussed in our blog post, customer-loyaltyDo You Know the Difference Between Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty?, customer loyalty consists of two main factors, including: loyalty behavior and loyalty attitudes. Loyalty behavior is when customers make repeat purchases of current brands, rather than buy from competitor brands (customer retention). And, loyalty attitudes are opinions and feelings about products, services, brands, or businesses that are associated with repeat purchases.

Customer loyalty is a critical component of maintaining a successful, long-term business. Customers that are frequent users of your products or services are more likely to be repeat customers and recommend your business to others – keeping the business relationship alive and away from your competition.

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Satisfied Employees Leads to Satisfied Customers

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Employee Satisfaction Produces Customer Loyalty

satisfied-customersSatisfied employees help produce satisfied customers. Satisfied employees are likely to assist customers with a more pleasant demeanor and a higher level of customer service. This creates a more satisfying customer experience, increases customer loyalty, and ultimately drives increased profitability.  Conversely, low employee satisfaction and overall low employee morale can negatively effect company operations greatly, causing dissatisfied customers and hurt profitability.

Any business, including your business, needs to focus efforts on front-line service staff – those employees that have direct, daily contact with customers. The connection between front-line employees and customers should be at the center of management attention. Managers need to take into consideration the additional factors that yield profitability at every level in the organization, including: investment in good, quality workers; technology that supports front-line employees; concrete recruiting and training practices; and compensation linked to employee performance.

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Customer Satisfaction Surveys – Advantages and Disadvantages

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Take customer satisfaction into consideration when developing strategic business decisions. 

customer-satisfactionThe most efficient way to measure customer satisfaction is to develop customer satisfaction surveys with the help of a good survey software solution. An advanced survey software solution can manage multi-mode survey research methods – produce the same survey in different formats; including online surveys, mobile surveys,  paper surveys, and more – depending on the best method to reach your target customer base. Customer satisfaction surveys are designed to give you anonymous and unambiguous insight into your customers’ thoughts and perceptions pertaining to your products, services, programs, and your organization as a whole. They can also provide valuable information leading to what needs to be changed in order to retain lasting customer relationships.

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Conditional Reporting in Snap 11 Survey Software

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Use Conditional Reporting, a new Smart Reporting features of Snap 11 Survey Software, to include or exclude report content

Using Conditional Reporting, a Smart Reporting feature of Snap 11 Survey Software, you can include or exclude report content driven either directly by the context, or by cell values of background analyses. For example if “friendliness of staff” scored badly in a customer satisfaction survey, a more detailed breakdown of the results can be included. This wouldn’t appear in the report if the score was positive.

Action plans can also be included based on scores. For example if “friendliness of staff” was scored poorly, suggested actions can be included. This wouldn’t be included if “friendliness of staff” wasn’t identified as an issue in the customer satisfaction survey.

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View Smart Reporting options in action in the Snap 11 Survey Software preview webinar, now available to watch at your convenience.  To skip to view available Smart Reporting features in Snap 11 Survey Software, including Conditional Reporting, click on “Smart Reporting” in the upper left-hand menu. Continue reading →

Avoid Over-Surveying Your Customers

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Avoid over-surveying your customers with these strategies

Surveying your customers is a great way to learn more about customer satisfaction, areas where your products, services, or overall organization needs improvement, perceptions about your brand, and many more. However, over-surveying your customer base can cause a decline in response rates and may also weaken the value of your surveys.

over-surveyingYour customers are flooded with requests for feedback through online and email surveys, mobile devices, and through many social media outlets. Don’t be that organization that inundates their customers with incessant requests for feedback.

Here are six strategies to tactfully gather feedback from customers while at the same time ensuring that you are not overwhelming your customers, or worse, damaging the customer relationship. Continue reading →

Webinar Recap: Snap Survey Software Hints & Tips

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Learn some great hints & tips for using Snap 11 Survey Software

survey-software-webinarIn December, we ran a Hints and Tips webinar based on feedback from surveys submitted using the AttachIt feature during our Customer Satisfaction Survey. The webinar is now available for you to watch and share with fellow researchers and colleagues.

This webinar is based on an online survey submitted by Snap Surveys customer Hertford Regional College. Snap Surveys Training Consultant Marc Ellison shares some simple tips to enhance the usability and branding of your online surveys.

 » View hints and tips for creating better surveys now!

» View other helpful Snap Survey Software webinars and videos

Blog Series: 10 Issues to Consider when Designing Online Surveys, Issue #6

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10 Issues to Consider when Designing Online Surveys, Issue #6

We are into week two in the Snap Survey Software blog series concerning the 10 issues that can occur in online survey design. We move on to issue #6.

Issue #6: Information accuracy 

As mentioned previously, some survey questions yield more accurate results than others. information accuracySurvey respondents can easily and accurately answer straightforward demographic questions about their gender and age, however, when it comes to attitudes and opinions on a particular subject, some respondents may not have a clear answer.

Attitudes and opinion questions should be phrased in a way that best represents how survey respondents think and speak about a particular subject. In some cases, certain online survey questions need to be skipped when they do not apply to the respondents’ experiences or they are irrelevant to the respondent. Continue reading →

How Are You Celebrating National Customer Service Week?

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National Customer Service Week, October 1 – 5, 2012

The first week of October marks National Customer Service Week. National Customer Service Week was established by the International Customer Service Association (ICSA) in 1984 and proclaimed a national event by the U.S. Congress in 1992.

“A business built on customer service understands and anticipates the customer’s needs. It designs goods and services to meet those needs and builds products that perform to customer expectations.” – George H. Bush

customer-serviceNational Customer Service Week is a time for everyone to increase awareness of the importance of treating your customers well in order to maintain business relationships and increase business interactions. It is also a way to recognize the people who work in customer service to let them know their efforts are valuable and well respected.

Recently, we ran a free webinar titled, How Customer Experience Can Drive Your Organization. On this week of recognition, we invite you watch this fantastic free webinar. Continue reading →

3 Customer Loyalty Survey Mistakes

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As we defined in yesterday’s blog post, Customer Satisfaction vs. Customer Loyalty, customer loyalty consists of two factors – loyalty behavior and loyalty attitudes. Loyalty behavior (or customer retention) is when customers make repeat purchases of current brands, rather than buy from competitor brands. And, loyalty attitudes are opinions and feelings about products, services, brands, or businesses that are associated with repeat purchases.

customer-loyalty-surveysCustomer loyalty is a critical component of maintaining a successful, long-term business. Customers that are vigilant users of your products or services are more likely to be repeat customers and recommend your business to others – keeping the business relationship alive and away from your competition.

Customer loyalty programs can be implemented into your overall business plan and be used to expand your business. Consider using online survey software to create customer loyalty surveys. Many experts believe that online customer loyalty surveys are a strong research method. By allowing customers to provide feedback and be more involved in the company experience, your business is building a stronger loyalty base and bond with your customers. Implementing a regular customer loyalty survey may cause a noticeable positive shift in your company’s overall loyalty. Continue reading →

Customer Satisfaction vs. Customer Loyalty

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What is the difference between Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty?

First, we will define each term. Customer Satisfactioncustomer-loyalty-with-customer-surveys is a measurement of customer attitudes regarding products, services, and brands. Customer Loyalty on the other hand has two definitions. Customer Loyalty consists of loyalty behavior (also referred to as customer retention) which is the act of customers making repeat purchases of current brands, rather than choosing competitor brands. Secondly, Customer Loyalty encompasses loyalty attitudes which are opinions and feelings about products, services, brands, or businesses that are associated with repeat purchases. At times, customers display loyalty behavior without having loyalty attitudes.  Vice versa, occasionally customers show loyalty attitudes without exhibiting any loyalty behavior. Continue reading →