Voice of the customer data is one of the easiest, most timely, cost-effective and well-rounded data you can get. Surveys are done mostly online and are simple to create, analyze and reference. Programs like SurveyMonkey are fast, intuitive and easy platforms to use. You may have seen ours. SBJ sends surveys a couple of times a year and we have utilized the voice of our reader to relaunch our print edition, improve our website experience and shape our events. Our customers’ feedback has been an invaluable resource. You will continue to see SBJ respond to your feedback with action toward improvement.
http://sbj.net/stories/opinion-how-to-put-data-into-your-playbook,59676/
For customers, conversations with brands are never more than a click away. Social media is opening up more direct channels for communication between brands and consumers than ever before. And savvy brands know to use platforms like Facebook and Instagram as stronger touchpoints to engage consumers. You might have seen this play out with airline brand representatives alleviating concerns with disgruntled flyers online in real-time, or famous fast food brands exchanging cheeky tweets with critics. While social media is a powerful communication tool, it doesn’t replace a Voice of the Customer (VoC) solution when it comes to gaining actionable customer feedback. Without a solid VoC strategy in place, social media can easily become a place where your brand’s dirty laundry is aired via public conversations, rather than a real driver of positive change.
Here’s how you can use a strong VoC strategy to work in tandem with social to better understand how customers feel about your brand:
https://www.targetmarketingmag.com/article/social-media-cant-be-only-voc-strategy/
Getting customer feedback is essential to contact center, customer service and voice of the customer (VOC) leaders and managers. Without it, the contact center operates in a vacuum, and customer service and satisfaction suffers as a result.
In this age of empowered consumers, traditional survey methods won’t get you the insights you need. In fact, response rates for paper-based surveys are just 10%.1 Today’s organizations need a new solution.
https://www.opentext.com/campaigns/experience-suite/wfo/
We’ve used the AI powers of Thematic to see whether we can find any juicy insights in customer feedback, and here’s what we found.
We’ve analyzed 16335 publicly available online reviews for 4 brands which often come to mind when thinking “luxury, global fashion brands”: Louis Vuitton (LV), Gucci, Prada, and Burberry.
They sit within a price range where you might think twice before purchasing them for all of your everyday needs (Louis Vuitton dish-wash cloths, anyone?), however with a bit of saving (or a few shameless credit card swipes later!), you might invest in some staples such as shoes, bags and scarves.
http://customerthink.com/deep-dive-into-customer-feedback-for-4-luxury-brands-what-can-they-improve/
Within the last few years, companies have placed greater emphasis in collecting voice of the customer (VOC) to accelerate their improvement and innovation efforts. Yet companies still create processes laden with waste and bring products and services to the marketplace that fail. Why is that?
https://www.leanmethods.com/resources/articles/fallacy-voice-customer/
The more granular the listening the more tactical the insights tend to be. This is likely true across all research methods but especially so when it comes to VOC data.
In general, there are 4 key levels to consider when thinking through levels of granularity for Voice of Customer data:
https://medium.com/@mshotts/getting-the-most-out-of-your-voice-of-customer-data-a14ad7791e17/
When you run a busy operation that serves thousands of customers, it can be easy to overlook the benefit of asking your guests what they think occasionally. After all, when sales are strong and business is running as usual it can seem like an unnecessary exercise. If there was really a problem, your customers would tell you, right? Not necessarily.
Regularly soliciting your customers for feedback isn’t just so you have reassurance that everyone is happy. Customer feedback can play a much more significant role in the overall experience one has with your brand, service, and its representatives.
http://www.touchwork.com/15-questions-need-ask-next-customer-feedback-survey/
You’ve heard it before but I’ll say it again…Listening to the Voice of the Customer (VoC) is crucial for businesses looking to compete based on customer experience. And while this couldn’t be more true, surprisingly, nearly 75% of companies still feel that their VoC programmes aren’t effective and that they’re failing to drive actions. That is to say that these companies are listening to their customers but lack the wherewithal to turn insights into something meaningful and profitable for their business. This is where VoC tools come into play. One that comes to mind is Usabilla.
So let’s take a look at some of the competitors and alternatives to using a tool like Usabilla.
https://mopinion.com/competitors-and-alternatives-to-usabilla/
Every organization has a unique way of interacting with customers based on its organizational culture, a system of shared assumptions, values, beliefs, and behaviors that govern people’s behavior within the organization. The way employees of an organization interact with customers creates the image or perception of the company to its customers. Even more, every customer’s perception is unique as it is not merely about the way the organization interacts with the customers, but also includes the way the customers perceive it.
Customer experience is the cumulative effect of customer’s perceptions and related feelings caused by each interaction with an organization’s employees, systems, channels or products. Therefore, it is not enough to merely group the customer perceptions into a set of bands by asking a series of rating questions (typically on a scale of 0 to 10). These questions barely break through the surface of customer’s feelings and do not come near understanding the true voice of the customer.
https://www.techsophy.com/blog-customer-feedback/
The retail landscape is undergoing rapid change. It has always been one of the first industries to be affected by economic fluctuations or political turbulence, but when you add to that the myriad of other factors impacting the sector today—chief among them being technology—traditional retailers and disruptors start speculating about and often fearing the future.
For starters, the retail industry is and will continue to be alive and well for the foreseeable future. A recent study by Deloitte predicted that “consumers will spend confidently throughout 2018.” In fact, the research highlights that the sector is expected to see a growth of 3.2% to 3.8% this year. This projected growth is for the global retail industry, which includes brick-and-mortar and online formats. The competition and the wide range of choices in channels and formats is also expected to continue, according to the study. The customer has always been king—and despite the changes the sector is undergoing, retail has remained and will likely always be the customer’s kingdom.
https://www.forbesmiddleeast.com/en/for-retail-to-thrive-online-and-offline-retailers-must-learn-from-one-another/
