Mindshare Monitor™: Go Categorical

Posted on: December 20th, 2012 by John Crofts - VP, Analytics

Monitor

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

In the early days of VoC, managers would see an issue emerge, and they would have to read through all their customer comments until they landed on one that lent some insight into solving it. If you start with local management and follow feedback all the way up to corporate offices, you start compounding the number of customer comments into the thousands. Manual sorting and searching is not an option (at least not a profitable one).

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Mindshare Web Services: Enabling a Simple, Secure Client Connection

Posted on: November 16th, 2012 by Derek Newbold - SVP, Software Development

Tin Can PhoneWhen I was a child I loved making tin can phones. I would take a can on one end, my friend would take the other, and we would stretch the string tight across the room. We could talk to each other just as if we were standing face to face.

This was my first experience with networked communication.

As I grew older, and got my first computer, I was thrilled to be able to connect to my favorite local BBS on my 14.4k modem (for the few of you who know what a BBS and a modem are) and send messages at the speed of light, right from my computer.
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It wasn’t long before I was exchanging email and chatting over the Internet with those same friends who had once talked to me over a tin can phone, but now we were doing it from miles away, over a huge interconnected web of strings that spanned the globe.

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Using Mindshare’s VoC Platform to Deliver a Consistent Customer Experience

Posted on: November 8th, 2012 by Jon Sanderson - VP, Marketing

Admit it. It’s difficult to deliver a consistent customer experience at every touchpoint.

Whether the majority of your customer interactions happen in person across widespread storefronts or over the phone with contact center agents, a customer could have a very different experience with each interaction depending on the person they speak with or the store location they visit.

Mind the GapThat’s not a good thing.

One of our clients actually had a customer submit a comment through our Voice of the Customer platform that said this:

You really have great restaurants, and we especially like your [downtown] store. Here’s the thing, though—we drive past two of your other stores to get to that one, because the employees are so much better at that location.

Location variation is happening. So how do you minimize it?

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CEO’s Notes: Mindshare’s 2012 Best Practices Conference [highlights]

Posted on: October 16th, 2012 by John Sperry - CEO

Mindshare’s 2012 Best Practice(s) ConferenceLast month, Mindshare Technologies hosted, quite literally, the best conference on Voice of the Customer best practices. So many of our amazing partners—who are just plain fun to be around—made the trip to Park City and sparked a thousand different conversations centered on customer feedback application.

Together we discussed the impressive current state of VoC solutions (still vastly underused by the business world, by the way). We didn’t stop there, though, because getting “up to speed” is only half the battle. The second half of the battle was fought with previews and demos of tomorrow’s VoC solutions.

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#MindshareBPC: Mindshare’s 2012 Best Practices Conference on Twitter

Posted on: September 13th, 2012 by Mindshare

We’re halfway through the main day of VoC events up at the 2012 Best Practices Conference. The weather and atmosphere are amazing. Perfect for the great speakers we’ve heard from so far, including our surprise Olympian.


For a direct line into conference updates

Visit the hash tag #MindshareBPC on Twitter.