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May 23, 2025

New & Improved: 9 Core Customer Service Principles

Our Most Popular Blog, Rewritten for the Feedback Era Back in 2013, we published a blog on the 9 Core Customer Service Principles—and it struck...
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By Martha Brooke

May 19, 2025

B2B Customer Experience Research—Latest CXPA Roundtable

Customer experience research is evolving rapidly—especially for B2B companies, where their high-value relationships demand precision insights. That’s why earlier this month, for our B2B CXPA...
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By Martha Brooke

May 14, 2025

Email Survey Best Practices

Your Reply-To Address Matters! An essential email survey best practice is this: Use a Reply-To email address that actually works. Too many companies send surveys...
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By Mikaela Neal

May 9, 2025

New & Improved: How to Increase Response Rate

We’ve just updated our blog on How to Increase Response Rate with even more insights and detailed breakdowns! It now contains tons of useful new...
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By Martha Brooke

May 9, 2025

New & Improved: Customer Experience Research Firms

We’ve just updated our blog on Customer Experience Research Firms with even more insights and detailed breakdowns! It now contains tons of useful new information,...
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By Martha Brooke

May 1, 2025

22 Best Practices for Surveys: Tips for Writing, Design, and Analysis

You’ve probably been on the receiving end of a bad survey. Maybe it asked you to rate a delivery you never received. Or it forced...
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By Martha Brooke

April 24, 2025

What Is Customer Effort Score (CES) & Why Does It Matter?

Customer Effort Score (CES) measures how hard it is for your customers to get help from your customer service teams. And if you’ve ever had...
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By Martha Brooke

April 18, 2025

17 Alternatives To Qualtrics: Key Features & Use Cases Compared

Qualtrics is the industry standard for customer experience surveys. But that doesn’t mean it’s the right fit for everyone. If you’re a large enterprise with...
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By Martha Brooke

April 10, 2025

60+ Different Survey Types & Methods (and When to Use Them)

A lot of businesses collect customer feedback—but do they turn it into real insight, or just a stack of random data? An even bigger question:...
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By Martha Brooke

April 3, 2025

New & Improved: How to Choose A Net Promoter Company

We’ve just updated our blog on How to Choose A Net Promoter Company with even more insights and detailed breakdowns! It now contains tons of useful new...
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March 27, 2025

How to Increase Customer Retention: 15 Proven Strategies That Work

What Is Customer Retention and Why Does It Matter? Customer retention may sound like business jargon, but really, it’s just the art of keeping your...
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By Mikaela Neal

March 20, 2025

The Best CX Software Of 2025

Just as customer satisfaction surveys reveal gaps in happiness, the right customer experience software bridges them; It helps you meet customers where they are and...
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By Mikaela Neal

March 13, 2025

How Can Sentiment Analysis Be Used to Improve Customer Experience?

Sentiment analysis reveals the emotions your customers feel—but knowing how they feel is only useful if you know why they feel the emotion in the...
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By Martha Brooke

February 25, 2025

New & Improved: Customer Survey Program Costs

We just updated our Customer Survey Program Costs guide with even more insights and detailed breakdowns! What used to be a high-level overview is now...
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By Mikaela Neal

February 21, 2025

How to Improve Your NPS Score: 21 Strategies

Your Net Promoter Score (NPS) isn’t just another number—it’s a direct reflection of customer trust and customer loyalty. A high NPS means happy customers who...
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By Martha Brooke