Customer Satisfaction

Customer satisfaction encompasses a huge range of topics but the ultimate goal is that by keeping customers satisfied, organizations can keep costs down, per-purchase amount up, and keep staff happier for longer too. There’s a great line that goes along the lines of “customer complaints are the schoolbooks from which we learn”.

In this section we have detailed articles which will guide you in the multi-headed beast that is customer satisfaction. Here, we feature articles on why a sale is not something you pursue, it is something that happens to you while you are immersed in serving and satisfying your customer. Companies who listen hardest, win. These articles, tools and assets will help you do just that.

What is Customer Satisfaction?

Customer satisfaction is often abbreviated to CSat. It is a measure of how well services or products, provided by an organization, meet or exceed the expectations of customers. Customer satisfaction is often evaluated by determining the number of customers, or the proportion of customers, whose experiences exceed specified satisfaction targets.

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Competing Against Luck: Book Review

I'm writing this book review from lockdown during the COVID-19 crisis. While so much is changing, it's important to remember that in every disaster there is both risk and opportunity. One thing that's definitely true right now is that customer…
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Put a spring in your step - the CT way

Sorry for the bad spring pun, but there's no better time to help each other to feel a little more inspired, motivated, cheered, relaxed... you name it, we're here to help. With the news changing all the time and modern technology sometimes giving…
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Measuring NPS vs CSAT: A video with Adrian Swinscoe

Our Founder, Lindsay Willott, met with CX consultant and author of Punk CX, Adrian Swinscoe, to help us understand a little more about how to get the best from using Net Promoter Score surveys to measure customer satisfaction. Often, people…
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The Ultimate Service Desk Quotes for Inspiration

A major challenge for IT Service Desks is to provide excellent customer support with often quite technical and complex IT solutions to problems. From upskilling employees across the business around digital transformation, right through to how…
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How to get home working feedback from employees

However severe you think the Coronavirus outbreak will ultimately become, the reality is that many companies have already either encouraged, advised or mandated their employees to work from home. Reports out this week confirmed that Box,…
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Best Practice for Service Desks Infographic

We love hearing from our Service Desk customers about the amazing response rates they get using Customer Thermometer surveys, but what's also inspiring are the best practice strategies to maximize effectiveness. Thorough customer feedback contributes…
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Service Desk Experience Management for ITSM and ITIL

The idea of implementing a 'continual improvement' strategy across the entirety of an IT service management organization lies at the heart of both ITIL and ITSM. (If you're not familiar with these terms, they are a set of practices for IT…
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100 Practical Ways to Improve Customer Experience: Book Review

Usually Customer Experience business books come out of the experience of a single person, and often also a single company, which has had a reputation for generating good CX results. This month, we've been reading a book on Customer Experience…
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10 things you can do this week to improve your Service Desk Experience

How much do you know about the service desk experience your customers receive? How much time do you put in to making sure it's the best it can be? It can be hard to know where to start to tackle such a mammoth task, so we've broken it down into…
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Fanocracy: Turning Fans into Customers: Book Review

David Meerman Scott's New Rules of Marketing and PR is one of the books I often associate with the start up phase of Customer Thermometer. Meerman Scott's insights into content marketing and the concept of generating great content to bring…
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Creating a Product Market Fit Survey

Rahul Vohra's talk about how to create a product market fit survey for the Business of Software conference was one of the standout speeches of recent years (against some very strong competition). Rahul is the CEO of the email productivity…
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The Ultimate Question 2.0: NPS Book Review

Fred Reichheld published The Ultimate Question in 2006, at a time when thought-leaders started investigating the impact of customer service on a company's success and profitability. Telephone complaints lines and long-form surveys had been the…