Archive for Customer Experience

Finding Your Frictionless Feedback

Posted on: April 30th, 2013 by Kurt Williams - CTO

Survey Taker vs Survey Analyst

I recently received an email inviting me to fill out a customer satisfaction survey from one of my favorite online outdoor equipment retailers. I freely admit that I only opened it out of competitive curiosity. When I opened the email, and it promised to take only two minutes and ask two simple questions, I exclaimed, “An NPS survey! ROCK ON!”

But that was me speaking as the survey taker. As a data scientist and survey analyst, I recognized the shortcomings of an NPS-style survey. There’s no way to control the data points in the sample, so this equipment retailer wouldn’t be getting the data required to slice and dice my results in interesting and meaningful ways.

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Five Ways to Use Your Most Common Customer Feedback

Posted on: February 7th, 2013 by Clint Dalton - Marketing

What They WantYou don’t need customer feedback to tell you that your customers want to be treated with respect.

You don’t need customer feedback to tell you that a smile translates across a telephone line—and even a computer screen.

Yet, not surprisingly, that’s the story most frequently told in customer comments. From the thousands of customer reviews that Mindshare sees daily, the bulk of customer insights contain the same common sense recipe for success: “Be nice. Be happy. Keep products in stock. Treat customers like people, not transactions.”

Of course, completely unexpected insights pop up, too—but the fact of the matter is that the overwhelming majority of customer comments amount to this:

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Management Dashboard: Insights in a Minute

Posted on: December 20th, 2012 by Brad Clark - COO

Management Dashboard

WHO IT’S FOR

THE EXECUTIVE INFLUENCER

Corporate-level decision makers in need of comprehensive customer perspective

THE FIELD MANAGER

Area supervisors overseeing the customer experience of a multi-unit region
 

WHAT IT DOES

Over the last decade, Mindshare’s library of customer feedback reports has grown large to meet the many positional needs within any major enterprise. Admittedly, these reports, when taken all at once, can be a little like drinking from a fire hose. That’s why we installed a faucet—it’s called the Mindshare Management Dashboard.

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Local Dashboard: Onsite Coaching

Posted on: December 20th, 2012 by Jon Grover - VP, Product Management

Local Dashboard (Coach™)

WHO IT’S FOR

THE LOCATION MANAGER

Unit supervisor responsible for the performance of a single location, working directly and daily with employees and customers on the front lines
 

WHAT IT DOES

Your average store manager or call center supervisor doesn’t go to bed and dream of data. “They got 99 problems, but data analysis ain’t one.” When you’re working on the front lines, all you want are clear orders to deliver to your team.

When measuring performance scores, there’s a tendency to focus on the lower scores and take the higher scores for granted. Statistically speaking, this is not an effective way to look at scores—especially when it comes to improving overall customer satisfaction. We need to focus on the areas where we rank the highest. Think about it this way: We avoid negative people, but we flock to positive people. Why would performance scores be any different?

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Mindshare Discover™: Dig for Roots

Posted on: December 20th, 2012 by Spencer Morris - Director, Text Analytics

Discover

WHO IT’S FOR

THE EXECUTIVE INFLUENCER

Corporate-level decision makers in need of
comprehensive customer perspective

 

WHAT IT DOES

Business is based on cause and effect. When you send out structured surveys soliciting customer satisfaction levels, you learn an effect. Something—or a combination of things—happened in your store that day to cause customers to check the box marked “Very Satisfied” or “Very Unsatisfied”—or something in between.

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