Category: Customer Satisfaction Surveys

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 from a Do-NOT-Reply address which frustrates customers and lowers response rate. Here’s What NOT to do: Most companies don’t want to collect customer feedback in all its various forms, so […]

May 14, 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 a team of analysts and a six-figure budget, it might be perfect. But for most companies? It might be too expensive, clunky, or bloated with features you’ll never use. The […]

April 18, 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: do they actually know which types of customer satisfaction surveys best match their goals? When most people talk about “different survey types,” they focus on delivery formats: online surveys, phone […]

April 10, 2025

Top Customer Satisfaction Survey Companies of 2025

Last Updated: January 31, 2025 Finding the right customer satisfaction survey company can make or break your ability to measure customer satisfaction and gain actionable insights. The best firms do more than simply collect customer feedback—they help you interpret data, identify pain points, and enhance customer satisfaction. This guide covers the top customer satisfaction survey […]

January 31, 2025

How to Improve Surveys: Amas Tenumah Interviews Martha Brooke

Is your survey a customer listening vehicle? Or could it be improved? On this episode of the ‘Amas Talks’ podcast, Amas and Martha agreed that if you’re considering how to improve surveys, a survey audit is the first step toward excellent survey design. The audit ensures your questions are sufficiently powered to achieve robust insights—and […]

November 11, 2024

The Science of CX Surveys: Greg Kihlström Interviews Martha Brooke

In this episode of the Agile Brand podcast with Greg Kihlström, Martha Brooke discusses the science of CX surveys. Martha touches on why most customer experience programs aren’t scientific, how you can become more scientific in your approach, and when and how to use AI in your survey program. The Science of CX Surveys, Summarized: […]

July 29, 2024

From a Data Die-Hard: How to Write Good Survey Questions

Does your company issue customer surveys, but you’re not getting the insights you need? Read on for a quick class on how to write good survey questions that result in objective, actionable data. Are you looking to improve your data right away and don’t want to read this entire post? Here are three tips I […]

April 13, 2024

Survey Question Bias: Stop the Skew

Here’s a fact: Survey question bias gives you skewed data. Another fact? Biased surveys are everywhere. Survey biases can be obvious but often subtle, and survey writers can be oblivious to them entirely. So, how do you make sure your survey is bias-free? Survey Question Bias: What It Is As my friend and I were […]

April 5, 2024

How to Improve Your Customer Satisfaction Surveys: Start Now!

While customer surveys have become a standard part of nearly every transaction, most surveys fail to engage; even worse, they fail to collect reliable data. Wondering how to improve customer satisfaction surveys and get yours to stand out? Read on for the biggest survey mistakes and solutions to common survey problems. “Quality is never an […]

March 26, 2024

The Cost of Customer Satisfaction: Survey Program Costs

Last Updated: February 24, 2025   What are typical customer survey program costs? Clients ask this all the time, and the answer varies widely. A simple, off-the-shelf survey might cost very little, while a comprehensive, data-driven program requires a bigger investment. If you’re considering options, surveys can range from quick satisfaction checks to full-scale programs. […]

January 24, 2024

How to Get Customer Feedback: Tips for Your Success

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos famously quipped, “If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell six friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000.” Whether those numbers are exactly right is questionable, but the sentiment certainly underscores the importance of keeping your customers happy – which […]

December 8, 2023

How To Choose Net Promoter Score Vendors, Consultants & Survey Companies

Last Updated: April 3, 2025 When you start shopping for a Net Promoter Score (NPS) partner, you’ll find no shortage of options. From survey platforms to consultants and tech vendors, it can feel like every company is suddenly a Net Promoter Score expert. But what most companies offer is the easy part: sending your NPS […]

December 1, 2023