Category: Customer Satisfaction Surveys

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 […]

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 […]

Stop using the s-word! As soon as we see it in email subject lines for surveys, most of us hit the delete button. Of course, I’m talking about the word “surveys”. Surveys have become a ubiquitous aspect of customer interactions, and customers are exhausted. Right now, there are 240 unread emails in my inbox — […]

What’s going on with Providence’s healthcare surveys? Does Providence’s CEO Rod Hochman want to execute a strategy based on gamed survey data? Seems unlikely. At Interaction Metrics, our mission is to collect science-based facts, so I can’t understand why any organization would seek to game its surveys. Still, Providence may have its reasons. At any […]

In 90 seconds, Kaitlyn Bartley explains 5 ways B2B CX is different. McKinsey & Company reports that B2B companies score substantially lower on customer satisfaction than consumer companies. One reason B2B companies underperform on customer satisfaction is they are more complicated — with more moving parts — than retailers. But another reason is that without […]

 Customer interaction is the lifeblood of any company. It includes associates answering customers’ questions, staff engaging with prospects at the conference booth, and onboarding new customers. In short, customer interaction extends throughout the entire customer journey. And it includes a company’s surveys! And since the survey is a customer interaction, failing your customer satisfaction […]

Last Updated: January 10, 2025   Clients often ask, “How do we get every customer to take our survey?” But here’s the counterintuitive truth: you don’t need everyone’s feedback to get the real picture, which is why today I am addressing how to calculate sample size. Sampling is the art and science of choosing the […]

Few things bother me more than unscrupulous business practices. As a Customer Experience Analyst with decades in the CX industry, I thought I’d seen it all. But a recent experience with Fox Rent a Car showed me a new way to game a customer survey — resulting in ONLY the data they want to see […]

Clients often ask: do we need to allow for customer anonymity in our surveys? Market researchers generally provide the option for customer anonymity so that respondents who might otherwise feel embarrassed or fear reprisal can answer honestly. In the context of sensitive employee feedback like DEI surveys and engagement surveys, most researchers consider the option […]

How happy were your B2B customers this year? In 2023, what will you do differently? The reason I ask is that most B2B customers are having mediocre experiences: The software development company ClearlyRated finds that B2B sectors like manufacturing, engineering, and banking have NPS scores in the mid-40s. And the market research company B2B International […]

Last Updated: May 9, 2025   Getting customers to respond to your survey is harder than ever. You probably skip most of the surveys you’re sent—I know I do. After a trip, I’m flooded with requests from the airline, hotel, and rental car company. I rarely fill them out. If your customers are doing the […]

Last Updated: February 10, 2026 Effective B2B customer satisfaction surveys are designed to produce decisions, not just data. To move beyond generic ratings, B2B firms must use role-based routing, suppression strategies, and expectation-gap mapping. This guide outlines the essential rules for transforming B2B surveys into strategic assets that protect revenue and improve customer retention. The […]