Customer Feedback

Customer feedback is becoming increasingly hard to get in any representative way. The traditional customer survey now gets sub 2% response rates. Tweets, Facebook posts, review sites, likes and shares are all very well, but often it’s only the customers who shout the loudest (often those who’ve had a bad experience) who get heard.

We created Customer Thermometer to tackle exactly this problem. We are dedicated to sourcing the fastest and most accurate picture of how your customers feel without bothering them. In this section we’ve collected our best articles on the changing face of customer feedback, and how to navigate it.

Book Reviews, Customer Experience, Customer Feedback, Customer Retention, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Service, Customer Support, Customer Surveys, Feedback Surveys, News & Press, Retention Rate, Staff Employee Engagement, Staff Employee Retention, Staff Employee Satisfaction, Staff Employee Surveys

Blue Ocean Shift: Book Review

When Blue Ocean Strategy by W Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne came out in 2004 it was a seismic book. The thrust of Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS) is that companies must create and drive up elements of remarkable customer experience to be different…

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Customer Feedback, Customer Satisfaction

10 Customer Success Webinars

Webinars are a succinct and easy way to find out more about a topic that might otherwise seem a bit daunting! We think customer success - which is becoming increasingly pertinent - is just the type. You might already know about customer satisfaction,…

Punk CX: Book Review

Adrian Swinscoe writes on customer experience and customer service for publications like Forbes and the BBC. Punk CX is his second book covering the topic of CX. We've all read books where the author has hit upon a good business idea and…

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Customer Feedback, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Surveys, Retention Rate

How to Get a Better NPS

Net Promoter Score (NPS®), first developed by Fred Reichheld and Bain & Company in 2003, is a well-established measurement of a business' reputation with its customers. It acts as a league table for competing companies to benchmark their…

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Customer Feedback, Customer Retention, Customer Satisfaction

How to Track and Measure Customer Success

We have previously talked about how Customer Success Drives Customer Retention. Customer success has been defined as the business methodology of ensuring that customers achieve their desired outcomes when using your products or services and…

Book Reviews, Customer Feedback, Customer Retention, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Service, Customer Support, Staff Employee Engagement, Staff Employee Retention

Quirkology: Book Review

So, this month we've taken a wander through Richard Wiseman's book Quirkology: The Curious Science of Everyday Lives. Richard Wiseman is a truly interesting scientist and psychologist. He explains complex points on human interaction in an…

Customer Feedback, News & Press

Outlook 365 Survey Add-in Released by Customer Thermometer

Customer Thermometer launches on the Microsoft Add-in store; market-first 1-click Outlook 365 survey for signatures. Customer Thermometer, the market leader in 1-click customer feedback solutions, is delighted to announce its 1-click signature…

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How to Navigate the Feedback Economy

Why are ratings suddenly so important? In the UK alone, online reviews influence an estimated £23bn of transactions each year (source: FT). At the same time, Amazon has filed more than 1,000 law suits against reviews abuse (source: Fortune).…

Book Reviews, Customer Feedback, Customer Retention, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Service, Customer Support, Staff Employee Engagement, Staff Employee Retention

Rebel Ideas: Book Review

I loved Matthew Syed's book Black Box Thinking, (which we reviewed here) so I was excited to get stuck into his new offering, Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking. Syed was recently appointed to a very diverse board of thinkers advising…

Customer Experience, Customer Feedback, Customer Retention, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Service, Customer Support, Customer Surveys, Feedback Surveys, How To Survey Guides, News & Press, Retention Rate, Staff Employee Engagement, Staff Employee Retention, Staff Employee Satisfaction, Staff Employee Surveys

Emoji Use in Business: a Research Report

Emoji, emoticons, icons and star and smiley ratings are all around us but how much do we really know about attitudes to their use in business? We wanted to find out! So we commissioned independent research; asking 1000 US citizens how and when…

Customer Experience, Customer Feedback, Customer Retention, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Service, Customer Support, Customer Surveys, Feedback Surveys, How To Survey Guides, Retention Rate, Staff Employee Engagement, Staff Employee Retention, Staff Employee Satisfaction, Staff Employee Surveys

Customer Experience Strategies to Boost Loyalty

The average cost for a business to acquire a customer is roughly 5-25 times the cost for retaining a customer, so it's safe to say that it's worth investing in customer loyalty. But how *do* you maintain loyalty in your customer base? You…

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How to Create a Survey with Customer Thermometer

Deriving actionable, insightful feedback from clients and customers can often be daunting, but Customer Thermometer makes it both simple and a lot of fun. Creating your first survey with Customer Thermometer can be achieved in minutes - and…