Execs In The Know

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Operational measures of brand promise execution, like mystery shopping, provide a vital link between what you expect and the customer’s reality. Combined with Employee Experience (EX) data, Mystery Shopping allows you to measure their real-world impact on the customer experience.

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Execs In The Know

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Operational measures of brand promise execution, like mystery shopping, provide a vital link between what you expect and the customer’s reality. Combined with Employee Experience (EX) data, Mystery Shopping allows you to measure their real-world impact on the customer experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

We also discuss how training, AI technology, and tried and true low-tech mystery shopping can help, too. In this episode, we dive deeper into the step-by-step process of evoking specific customer emotions. 13:23 We share one of the biggest obstacles to success in evoking customer emotions—and it probably isn’t what you think.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Mystery shopping provides third-party, unbiased feedback about how your teams are meeting the standards you currently have in place while customer surveys tell you where brand loyalty is gained or lost and how that relates to your standards.

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Callminer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Angela Megasko is CEO and President of Market Viewpoint, LLC , a market research firm specializing in mystery shopping. As the “Jane Bond” of the mystery shopping world, Angela helps clients ‘see their business through their customers’ eyes.’. These can run the business easily upwards of $30 an hour. Angela Megasko.

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Callminer

JANUARY 18, 2021

One very easy but critical way of looking at the customer journey is to mystery shop the centre and to see what it really feels like to be the customer. Is there the need to contact the organisation again because what was promised hasn’t happened on time?

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CX Journey

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Mystery shop yourself There are many different ways to do this work yourself. We suggest conducting this mystery shopping during your busiest period. Don’t let that be the thing that keeps you from listening to and understanding your customers and the experience they expect. If you have a waiting area, spend time there.

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MattsenKumar

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Mystery Shopping Mystery shopping allows contact centers to get an unbiased, third-party perspective on how their customers experience their services. Surveys, data analysis, and customer feedback can be used to measure performance, understand customer expectations, and drive improvement.

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Service Quality Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Zhanna Baigunakova, Head of Quality who spent 2 days mystery shopping with me. Dalida Davlyatshine, Managing Director. Darkhan Maratuluy who organized and managed the event. Kamila Besaeva who managed logistics to get me to Almaty.

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Confirmit

JUNE 25, 2018

Mobile surveys triggered based on a respondent’s location improve the speed and accuracy of your research while opening the door to new opportunities such as developing a deeper understanding of a consumer’s path to purchase, competitive intelligence, and mystery shopping. Download the infographic to learn more.

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Myra Golden Media

JANUARY 1, 2019

I’ve held discovery discussions, mystery shopped or listened to a random sample of calls between employees and customers, and I’ve prayed over the event. Prepare for Coaching Conversations. When I facilitate customer service training, I’ve been working on content and exercises for a least 60 days.

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InteractionMetrics

MAY 15, 2019

So, whether you use customer surveys, mystery shopping, or customer service evaluations to measure the customer experience, interactive data are what you need. Here's why: dynamic data motivates teams to take action and facilitates collaboration across departments.

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InteractionMetrics

MAY 15, 2019

So, whether you use customer surveys, mystery shopping, or customer service evaluations to measure the customer experience, interactive data are what you need. Here's why: dynamic data motivates teams to take action and facilitates collaboration across departments. Flat charts and static reporting leave you stuck in the 1990’s.

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InteractionMetrics

JANUARY 31, 2025

Confero Confero has been around for nearly 40 years and specializes in mystery shopping and customer surveys. Their in-depth analysis of unstructured data and verbatim feedback provides valuable insights. Like Interaction Metrics, they also use practices proven to improve survey response rates.

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Service Quality Institute

JUNE 15, 2022

This is the earliest I have ever done a mystery shop. On June 2 at about 1 AM I arrived in Baku and with my partner Ulvi Agayev, Founder at Allianz Consult we visited a Bravo supermarket store at 2 AM to check out the customer service. This is the largest and most successful supermarket chain in Azerbaijan with 5,000 employees.

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InteractionMetrics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Mystery shopping your company to document what happens when critical issues occur. Mystery shopping your competitors and comparable companies. Determine the Baseline: Document the status quo by: Examining a statistically significant corpus of your emails, chats, and call recordings.

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CX Journey

MARCH 31, 2016

Reduce the Waste In sharp contrast, video mystery shopping is impervious to such characteristic flaws, making the information obtained far superior in terms of reliability and usability for improvement. Capturing employee performance on film documents all aspects and nuances of a customer’s experience without subjectivity or bias.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

They offer event marketing, mystery shopping, contact center, fulfillment, affinity partnerships, lists, loyalty programs, and similar services. So Ion is really just ranking alternatives within the service domain. Why would Ion Group limit its survey in this fashion? A look at their Web site gives a hint.

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Comm100

AUGUST 21, 2018

Test Customer Service with Mystery Shopping. Another way to address and prevent customer service metric gaps is through mystery shopping. Mystery shopping is a tool used by organizations or third-party groups to test the quality of a company’s service.

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CX Journey

MARCH 1, 2017

To assess employee behaviors, Forrester recommends using some observational techniques like mystery shopping, surveying employees about their customer-centric behaviors, including those behaviors in their performance reviews, and analyzing customer feedback to learn if they've noticed any improvements.

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SugarCRM

AUGUST 19, 2020

You go above and beyond to help a company, including going in hands-on as an undercover mystery shopper. . The best part of my job, arguably, as a customer service consultant and customer experience turnaround expert, is the mystery shopping part at the beginning of the project. . Solomo n: Yes!

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InteractionMetrics

JULY 22, 2019

Mystery shopping, surveys, service evaluations, wait-room observations, and “ear-to-the-ground” feedback from staff all provide medical practices with a range of perspectives and data-driven insights. Most importantly, mystery shopping enables you to compare how competitors handle similar scenarios.

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InteractionMetrics

JULY 22, 2019

Mystery shopping, surveys, service evaluations, wait-room observations, and “ear-to-the-ground” feedback from staff all provide medical practices with a range of perspectives and data-driven insights. Most importantly, mystery shopping enables you to compare how competitors handle similar scenarios.

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The Customer Service Blog

MARCH 25, 2022

Using a mystery shopping exercise, it also said that in postcodes where more than 50% of the population were from ethnic minority backgrounds, there was a penalty of at least £280 a year. The charity analysed 18,000 car insurance costs of people across England and Wales who came to Citizens Advice for debt help last year.

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Comm100

AUGUST 21, 2018

Test Customer Service with Mystery Shopping. Another way to address and prevent customer service metric gaps is through mystery shopping. Mystery shopping is a tool used by organizations or third-party groups to test the quality of a company’s service.

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CX Journey

APRIL 25, 2018

Have them “mystery shop” the journey themselves, if they don’t yet have a full picture of it. And, most importantly, what they’ll be doing with the output. Give attendees homework. Have them start thinking about the journey and what the potential steps are.

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InteractionMetrics

MAY 16, 2024

Sometimes, mystery shopping is part of customer service evaluations, especially when exploring how competitors handle conversations similar to yours is relevant.

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CX Journey

JULY 12, 2018

It means that you'll. create meeting agendas that always include customer experience and employee experience topics and metrics, customer and employee stories, etc. walk around the office, talking to employees and asking them about their work days, their careers, their passions, their lives, their jobs, etc.,

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1 to 1

MARCH 18, 2019

Mystery shopping, voice of the member, and other interv. So what is the state of CX among health insurance firms? TTEC Digital recently conducted an assessment of four leading U.S. health insurers, where we assessed channel experience and overall service.

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InteractionMetrics

AUGUST 14, 2024

Here’s how the customer service consulting process works at Interaction Metrics: First, we mystery shop you and your competitors to gauge the current state of customer service at your company. What’s the Customer Service Consulting Process Like? When we can, we augment this with your call recordings, chat documentation, etc.

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Qualtrics

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

70% of its surveys come from internal stakeholder requests, such as post-advertising tests, mystery shopping, consumer studies, or field surveys. Emmanuel’s team today manages more than 150 studies per year and can deliver results in less than 48 hours, 2 to 3 times faster than with an external agency.

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CX Journey

JULY 19, 2016

Mystery shopping : shop your own organization; you don't have to be a retail operation to do this. Shopping" can be calling your customer support line or your reception/main office line. An employee sits with a customer service rep and listens to customer calls.

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InteractionMetrics

DECEMBER 8, 2023

For this second side of the customer experience, deep observations via usability testing, employee studies, mystery shops, and performance evaluations are best. Your customers don’t know your values or what you are trying to achieve , so they can’t easily give feedback on these areas.

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SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

in 2018 where his passion for delivering CX strategies for organizations was seeded in Mystery Shopping and Customer Satisfaction research. After holding multiple global leadership roles within the top Customer Research organizations, Nick Lygo-Baker founded Paradigm CX Ltd.

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1 to 1

MAY 3, 2021

Top 5 CX Gaps in Messaging and Chat : We mystery shopped some famous brands. : Learn how asynchronous messaging differs from synchronous forms of communication and learn the benefits of utilizing asynchronous messaging as a customer communication channel. We’ve debunked some of the most common messaging myths out there.

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1 to 1

JULY 6, 2020

TTEC’s research team mystery shopped 27 companies from five different industries over a four-month period: E-commerce/retail Financial services Telecom Travel Utilities. The researchers asked simple questions like “can I buy an iPhone 11” for telecom companies to “can I book my trip through the app” for travel companies.

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Inside Customer Service

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The night before, I had completed a mystery shop on five random employees at the client's request. She was furious at this unknown coworker for failing the mystery shop and insisted I tell everyone who it was. My client had asked me to do the mystery shops before my class, and it had seemed like a good idea at the time.

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