March 14, 2019 Want Feedback? Make It So Simple a Kid Could Do It I like taking customer surveys and do so nearly every time I have useful feedback to share. Perhaps it’s because I’m in the survey business....Read more By Martha Brooke
February 27, 2019 Customer Surveys Pros and Cons Popular platforms (like SurveyMonkey and SurveyGizmo) are great for survey deployment—but only after you’ve carefully designed and vetted your questions. Make sure to account for the numerous difficulties and problems that can arise in survey design. By Martha Brooke
February 25, 2019 Interaction Metrics Issues Gold Customer Experience Award The Drives & Motion Division of Yaskawa America, Inc. has been recognized for its customer experience excellence with the prestigious Interaction Metrics Gold Award.To achieve the Gold Award, nearly 100 aspects of Yaskawa were analyzed using statistically-valid samples derived from customer feedback surveys sent to End-Users, Distributors, OEMs, and Yaskawa employees.The customer experience metric used to evaluate Yaskawa’s success is QCI™ Score (Quality of Customer Interaction). By Martha Brooke
February 19, 2019 How to Use a Research Mindset to Avoid Huge Survey Blunders Listening to your customers is smart—as long as you ask thoughtful questions that elicit useful insights. Unfortunately, when it comes to customer surveys, too many companies go through the motions, conducting customer surveys just to say they did it. That’s a big, BIG blunder. To avoid this, customer experience teams need to establish clear goals and put on their research hats. This means tackling customer experience with a research mindset. By Martha Brooke
January 30, 2019 How to Shorten Your Survey & Avoid Junk Data Is your survey too long? Here are four solutions for how to shorten your survey and avoid survey fatigue with your customers. By Martha Brooke
January 15, 2019 Answering NPR: Why 5-Star Rating Systems Don’t Work For anyone who hasn’t used a ridesharing app, once you’ve arrived at your destination, the app asks you to rate your driver between 1 and 5 stars. These ratings are said to provide valuable information, but if customers aren’t sharing what they really think what’s the point? By Martha Brooke
December 22, 2018 SlideShare: 5 Errors Satisfaction Surveys Make How to Fix Common Customer Satisfaction Survey Errors from Martha Brooke By Martha Brooke
December 10, 2018 How to Invite the Most Honest Customer Feedback Do you have time for a survey? Can you give us some feedback? Tell me how I did! We are all too familiar with customer feedback requests as they bombard us from every side: email signatures, website pop-ups, phone queues (“press 1 after this call to …”), even the grocery gal circles a survey she’d like us to take at the bottom of the receipt. By Martha Brooke
November 16, 2017 5 Ways to Improve Your Customer Service Chat—Today! There are many modes of customer service (phone, in-person, email, etc.). But, when done well, customer service chat is by far the best. It reduces customer effort, increases customer satisfaction and answers customers’ questions quickly. Plus, it’s less costly than the phone, is more immediate than email, and it amplifies conversion by showing up on your website just when customers are about to bail. By Martha Brooke
August 11, 2017 Get ROI on Your Great Customer Service Getting an ROI on your great customer service is an important goal for any company. Customer Experience Helps ROI Whenever I run a webinar on...Read more By Martha Brooke
June 22, 2017 How to Make Your Survey Better Than Nordstrom, Lowe’s, and Wal-Mart Last Updated: May 14, 2025 Survey Overload I know you get asked to take customer feedback surveys all the time, because I do. Even the...Read more By Martha Brooke
May 18, 2017 Improve Your Customer Service Interactions Another Customer Service Improvement Plan? In the US market alone, there are hundreds of customer service consultants offering thousands of customer service improvement strategies which...Read more By Martha Brooke
May 4, 2017 May 2017: Dedicated to Improving Customer Service & Measuring CX ROI Martha will be speaking at two events this month. On May 8, you can find her in Los Angeles at the ASOA ASCRS Annual Congress,...Read more By Martha Brooke
March 24, 2017 6 Steps to Improve Your Customer Satisfaction Surveys It’s always important to think about how you can improve your customer satisfaction surveys. Most surveys are littered with errors that drag down your response...Read more By Martha Brooke
December 20, 2016 GUEST POST: Jerry Sokol’s Thoughts on Customer Experience Metrics Jerry Sokol writes for Biz Meets Tech and he recently wrote about something that’s always top of mind at Interaction Metrics—good customer experience metrics. Numbers...Read more By Martha Brooke