Martha Brooke, CCXP

How to Fix Common Customer Satisfaction Survey Errors from Martha Brooke

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.

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.

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 how to drive ROI from customer experience, I get an unusually high number of registrants. This leads me to believe that while there are more customer experience (cx) roles than […]

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 shortest business trip results in at least 5 surveys: Delta wants to know about your flight; Hilton wants to know about your stay; Enterprise asks about your car rental and […]

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 begs the question: does anyone need yet another plan to improve customer service? I think, decidedly, yes, for the simple reason that most customer service remains lackluster and inconsistent—while executives […]

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, sharing the stage with Randy Baldwin, CareCredit VP Industry Marketing. They’ll be presenting “10 Laws You Need to ACE the Customer Experience.” Attendees will learn how to improve customer service […]

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 rate and the accuracy of your data. I will be moderating conversations about Voice of Customer next week at the Operations Summit. It got me thinking, it’s practically a given […]

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. Metrics are only useful insofar as they help you improve—simply tracking outcome scores or collecting data and calling it done is never the answer. The right customer experience metrics don’t just […]

Bad customer survey questions are everywhere. But they’re not as tricky to avoid as it may seem. Why Use a Customer Survey? What’s the point of doing a customer feedback survey? Well, rather obviously, to gauge how customers perceive you, and where their expectations are being—and not being—met. This requires walking in the customer’s shoes […]

Today I’m pleased to share a guest post by Ian Golding. Ian drives home the critical point that customer experience metrics are essential to transforming experiences. It’s always great to share ideas about how improve customer service from like-minded thinkers. When it comes to the profession that Customer Experience has now become, one of the […]

It seems that we’re asked to take a customer satisfaction survey with nearly every purchase. But do you ever wonder…do they really care what I have to say? Our 2016 Customer Listening Study, the first of its kind, evaluated the customer satisfaction surveys of 51 top US retailers. The main finding: retailers like Lowe’s and […]