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3 Ways to Get More from Your Mystery Shops

InteractionMetrics

At conferences, I’m often asked about mystery shopping, and it got me thinking: there are a lot of misunderstandings about what mystery shopping can and can’t do. Some see mystery shopping as a simple check-in; others see it as too artificial for an accurate customer service evaluation.

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Customer Experience Research Firms: How to Get Inside Your Customer’s Head

InteractionMetrics

Interaction Metrics is a customer experience research firm. Our methods include workshops, customer service evaluations, and a wide range of surveys. A Phased Approach Every customer experience research company will have its own process; ours comprises three phases.

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Here Are the 5 Standards of Excellent Customer Listening

InteractionMetrics

How can we increase customer loyalty? How can we make sure that our customer service reinforces our brand? Whether tactical or strategic, when done correctly, Customer Listening gives you greater accountability, more insight, and a lens into the details that will boost employee and customer happiness.

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Want to Improve the Patient Experience? Stop Sending Bad Surveys

InteractionMetrics

A recent study of patient complaints, 96% are related to customer service, while only 4% are about the quality of clinical care or misdiagnoses. The thing about these everything else touchpoints is that they’re not ‘surveyable’. Kellie Gordon of KinecticHealth shared this fascinating research with me.

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Want to Improve the Patient Experience? Stop Sending Bad Surveys

InteractionMetrics

A recent study of patient complaints, 96% are related to customer service, while only 4% are about the quality of clinical care or misdiagnoses. The thing about these everything else touchpoints is that they’re not ‘surveyable’. Kellie Gordon of KinecticHealth shared this fascinating research with me.

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What is Voice of the Customer? 25 Experts Give Best Practices

Callminer

We gathered best practices from 25 industry experts on voice of the customer programs and here is their advice: 1. Implement the technology possible to listen to your customers in real-time. Customer perceived quality and above-average customer service have been proven time and again to be leading drivers of business success.

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Customer Experience Strategy: Paradigm Shift!

InteractionMetrics

Companies seem inordinately invested in their customer experience (CX) strategy. They send surveys, analyze touchpoints, and build out customer personas. But an alarming paradox has emerged: Customers are more dissatisfied than ever. The Usual Definition of Customer Experience Many companies, such as Zendesk, Oracle, etc.,