Most companies devote a lot of energy to listening to the “voice of the customer,” but few of them are very happy with the outcome of the effort. Managers have experimented with a wide array of techniques, all useful for some purposes—but all with drawbacks. Elaborate satisfaction surveys that involve proprietary research models can be expensive to conduct and slow to yield findings. Once delivered, their findings can be difficult to convert into practical actions. The results also may be imprecise: Our research shows that most customers who end up defecting to another business have declared themselves “satisfied” or “very satisfied” in such surveys not long before jumping ship.
https://hbr.org/2009/12/closing-the-customer-feedback-loop/
When you use the phrase “capturing the voice of the customer”, many immediately think you’re referencing a survey designed for direct feedback. But today there are more channels than ever for the customer to engage with brands. Although survey feedback can be nicely packaged and easy to digest, it’s important to make sure you’re listening to customers in all of the many ways they give feedback.
http://customerthink.com/heres-what-you-can-learn-from-even-the-craziest-customer-feedback/
The old adage “the customer is always right” may frustrate some companies, but getting to the heart of the customer voice through robust data aggregation and analysis tools has never been easier. Social media has now given everyone a feedback channel that customer service organizations can harness to improve offerings and stay competitive.
Perficient recommends a solution that captures not only the customer voice but the employee voice as well. After all, large service-based organizations such as cable, telecom and satellite providers often distribute service to their own employees.
In addition, employees may hold valuable customer trends not evident in customer feedback surveys. A feedback environment should be created to welcome and reward constructive feedback. It is also critical the organization act quickly and efficiently on that feedback to implement positive change.
https://www.cuinsight.com/four-steps-to-successful-improvement-through-customer-feedback.html/
GDPR may be one of the hottest topics in the business world today, causing many organizations to rethink and revise how they approach many of their everyday practices.
The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR for short, aims to increase the protection and privacy of personal data, also known as Personally Identifiable Information (PII), for all EU residents.
In the age of the GDPR, consent and managing individual’s rights are crucial. Because of this, Voice of the Customer (VoC) research may become an even more important source of data and insights to marketers wanting to understand better and improve the Customer Experience (CX).
In this post, we look at why.
https://www.iperceptions.com/blog/voice-of-the-customer-gdpr/
Who in your organization receives the results and feedback from your Voice of the Customer program? The C-Suite? Your customer service or customer success team? If your answer isn’t “everyone,” you are shortchanging your Voice of the Customer (VoC) program—and the potential return on investment.
The benefit of a well-executed VoC program is the impact it can have in every corner of your business. Unfortunately, in many cases, the results are kept to a few people or a few teams, and this leaves a lot of opportunity on the table. That’s not to say everyone should get immediate access to everything that comes back as part of the program. Rather, it’s about creating a culture where customer feedback becomes a regular part of the conversation in every department, even the ones you wouldn’t initially expect to find value in the results.
https://www.satrixsolutions.com/blog/how-customer-feedback-should-be-shared/
The last 10 years of customer-driven innovation has taught Salesforce a lot. While listening is fairly simple (and fun!), using it to inform product planning is much more complex. Integrating customer feedback requires executive alignment, commitment to community, and a solution that is both simple to use and rich in information to help product managers plan effectively. Sound daunting? Well, we’re here to help because today we’re sharing some of the tips and tricks we’ve learned while building our listening machine.
https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2016/12/4-tips-to-turn-customer-feedback-into-action.html/
“We care deeply about our customers.” “We put our customers first.” Or: “We ❤️ our customers.”
You’ve probably seen more than a fair share of brands use these taglines or some other similar phrase in order to profess their undying, indissoluble love for their customers. They pop it into their office reception areas, YouTube ads, business cards, staff lapel pins, About Us pages, social media bios, email signatures. If your company fits this description, it’s important to be honest and ask yourself: do these words ring true or hollow?
To truly demonstrate your company’s commitment to customers, you have to be able to understand them first. You have to know their thoughts and feelings, their wants, needs, opinions, and expectations. You have to develop your ability to understand and measure the kind of customer experience you’re delivering, so you can gain insights essential to showing genuine customer love. None of this would be possible if you don’t know how to manage customer feedback.
https://customerthink.com/your-2018-customer-feedback-cheat-sheet/
If you’re on your way to building your first voice of the customer program, you might be wondering if the entire process actually works. And by that I mean, is the customer feedback gathered through VOC programs actually useful and actionable, or should you brace yourself for a flurry of poorly thought out attacks on your industry as a whole? Moreover, one might wonder if the VOC movement is based on results, or if it’s just a way for brands to appear interested in their customer’s opinions.
So CMSWire spoke to five different brands who gave us five different ways they benefited directly from their own VOC programs. The proof, as they say, is in the pudding.
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/5-voice-of-the-customer-program-examples-in-the-wild/
I regularly do customer feedback surveys for competitive analysis purposes (full disclosure: ServiceDock is a CEM platform for multi-location businesses). For the most part, I am a genuine customer of the business when I do them and try to think as such, while also making notes on the survey solution. Some of these surveys can be extremely tedious and drawn out, but the most frustrating experience I frequently encounter is when I’m told that there is no chance of a follow-up on my feedback.
The real irony here is that the goal of the exercise is to improve CX, but the process offers terrible CX.
https://customerthink.com/closing-the-feedback-loop-should-be-a-goal-of-great-cem/
Voice of the Customer (VoC) programmes are intended to capture the opinions and preferences of all customers, analyse those insights, and use them to create meaningful changes in customer experience (CX). Having a VoC programme in place has become increasingly more popular and essential, especially as more and more businesses (nearly 72% to be precise) continue to place CX as their top priority.
https://mopinion.com/which-type-of-voc-software-should-your-business-use/
