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![Man about to create a lead generation survey](jpg/659d66ded7cfe2d4da1aee3e_exploring-lead-generation-surveys-and-their-value-to-your-business.jpg)
Lead generation surveys are a fantastic tool to gain a greater insight into what your prospective customers need and increase future sales. We explore these surveys and their value to your business.
![Desk research ready for longitudinal study](jpg/6417b44d6b9a65106ab8c063_what-is-a-longitudinal-study.jpg)
When it comes to conducting surveys, generally you’ll be looking to get a snapshot view of the feelings of a group of people at single point in time.
![Man in deep thought about choosing the right survey platform](jpg/6417b397cfe7ca0965e8fe21_how-to-choose-an-online-survey-provider.jpg)
Whether you’re a student or micro business, an SME or a much larger sized organisation. There’s lots of reasons why you might want to conduct a survey...
![Customer service team working to deliver a great customer experience](jpg/6417b3ae7a2ef2bc001716cf_how-to-measure-customer-service.jpg)
Nearly every business wants to be known for providing a great customer service. Not only does this make you feel good, but it can be a great different...
![Trying to think of qualifying questions to use](jpg/6417b3e6f0981fde61c01cfa_qualifying-questions-use-cases-and-examples.jpg)
If you’re to maximise the validity of your survey data and gain reliable feedback with which to take decisive actions, you need to ensure the right ca...
![Happy employee celebrates his success with another colleague](jpg/6417b3b38567bd7d5209b36c_how-to-measure-employee-satisfaction.jpg)
Every business strives to build a thriving workplace with contented teams and staff, yet many employees are unhappy. In fact, in one of the UK’s large...
![Customer leaves feedback at kiosk survey stand](jpg/6417b370f0981f372ebf9e04_examining-kiosk-surveys-and-when-to-use-them.jpg)
Whether it’s customers leaving your store or restaurant, or those using public services such as hospitals, trains, buses, leisure services and more. W...
![A survey invite arrives in a recipients mail inbox](jpg/6417b427181646f65e00ff58_the-survey-invitation-how-to-get-it-right.jpg)
Having the taken the time to carefully prepare your survey and craft some compelling questions, you’ll want to achieve the best possible response to i...
![Female customer leaving feedback](jpg/6417b395bf7f9189beec250f_how-ask-for-feedback-from-customers.jpg)
Customers are the lifeblood of your business. So, it pays to keep them happy.
![A random population sample that you may decide to survey](jpg/6417b3babf7f912e28ec4d7d_how-to-reduce-bias-in-surveys.jpg)
When it comes to your survey, you’ll want to do everything you can to avoid bias, which can result in inaccurate or unrepresentative data.
![Man losing focus working through a long survey](jpg/6417b433f0981f77bcc07960_survey-fatigue-and-how-to-avoid-it.jpg)
Alarmed about a recent drop in your survey’s response rates? Worried how this might affect the quality of your data and the insight you’re able to gle...
![Feedback's the key to managing customer expectations](jpg/6417b3a6eb7d2501828e120c_how-to-manage-customer-expectations.jpg)
Given how important customers are to your business success, being able to understand and manage their expectations is crucial.
![Getting ready to manually calculate a survey sample size](jpg/6417b3c2846e0c26fa90f7ea_determining-sample-size.jpg)
When it comes to your survey it’s nearly always impossible, or at least impractical, to collect data from all the people or items that you’re interest...
![Checking to see the best time to send your survey](jpg/6417b4603ae9d88469a1aada_when-to-send-nps-surveys.jpg)
If you’re to maximise your engagement with recipients and optimise your response rates, knowing when to send a survey can have major impact on how suc...
![Lots of survey questions to answer](jpg/6417b384089367bb185cafba_good-survey-question-tips-and-answers.jpg)
Whether you’re trying to better understand your customers, or better engage with your employees. Whatever you’re trying to achieve with your online qu...
![Man writing out his survey questions](jpg/6417b4096b9a65450eb8c01a_survey-errors-common-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them-scaled.jpg)
When it comes to writing your survey, at first thought it may seem a relatively simple task. However, without proper forethought and planning you coul...
![People completing an online survey](jpg/6417b436cca3aab1541acb90_improving-survey-response-rates.jpg)
Whatever rationale you have for conducting your survey, you’ll want to achieve as healthy a response rate as you can. The reason for this is that if i...
![A smiley face emoji survey answer option](jpg/6417b40028f930d9c3a3c829_why-using-a-smiley-face-survey-can-boost-your-response-rate.jpg)
When you consider that a growing number of online surveys are already completed on mobile, and emojis and smileys are sent in their billions every day...
![Healthcare professional asking patient survey questions](jpg/6417b3b50bb1461c6bee66b8_how-to-measure-patient-engagement.jpg)
From public to private healthcare organisations. When it comes to the nation’s health, healthcare organisations are working extremely hard to achieve...
![Balloons depict happy customers](jpg/6417b348f0981f48a7bf690e_customer-satisfaction-metrics.jpg)
With statistics demonstrating that for every customer complaint you receive, there are another 26 who are unhappy but choose to remain silent, the lik...
![Man working remotely overseas](jpg/6417b41fe86a9a315f3d81ac_the-future-of-remote-working.jpg)
Given the chaos caused by the Covid 19 pandemic over the last two and half years and ongoing uncertainty about future variants, it’s difficult to pred...
![Staff member write their resignation letter](jpg/6417b3aa3ca364b45ee3841e_how-to-manage-the-great-resignation.jpg)
With almost a fifth of the UK workforce admitting they intend to leave their current job for a new one in the next 12 months, the Great Resignation sh...
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When it comes to experiences and how they help shape future behaviour, there are similarities between consumers and employees.
![Employee voluntarily putting in extra hours at work](jpg/6417b3632edbfb60bab8d297_discretionary-effort-in-the-workplace.jpg)
Whether a customer or colleague, or maybe a friend or family member. I’m sure you can all recall times when you went the extra mile for someone and yo...
![Emojis depicting satisfied customers](jpg/6417b3892aee011247a19b30_how-do-we-measure-customer-experience.jpg)
Given the state of today’s marketplace where customers and not sellers have all the power, keeping your customers loyal and content is crucial.
![Man using best practice advice to plan his next survey](jpg/6417b4056435646a5a9f59e6_survey-best-practices.jpg)
From the initial design of your survey and question choice, to your survey distribution and reporting of results.
![Transactional experience in motion as man tries to pay with app on smartphone](jpg/6417b437f0981f731fc07ed7_transactional-nps-vs-relationship-nps.jpg)
When it comes to business success, one of the most important aspects is your relationship with your customers. If that relationship is good, they’re h...
![Team working on a customer experience strategy](jpg/6417b39acfe7ca250ae900af_how-to-develop-a-customer-experience-strategy.jpg)
Having got to grips with what a CX strategy is in the first part of our CX exploration, including how to measure customer experience, why it matters a...
![Staff working together on a CX strategy](jpg/6417b44b298251b9c89cf743_what-is-a-customer-experience-strategy.jpg)
From product differentiation and pricing strategies to cross selling, improving customer service and more. There are many strategies businesses can em...
![Another satisfied customer](jpg/6417b27faf5669274f0a1cd7_why-measure-customer-satisfaction.jpg)
To answer this question, you need to get back to basics and think about what’s most important to your business. And this begins with your customers.
![Research team monitors real time responses from a consumer panel](jpg/6417b449643564a9429fafa5_what-is-a-consumer-panel.jpg)
Whether you’re trying to launch a new product or reposition your brand, or better assess consumer opinion and buying behaviour. No matter what sort of...
![Supporting marketing activities with surveys](jpg/6417b40df0981fcfe4c04754_surveys-in-meeting.jpg)
For your business to be successful, there’s no substitute for getting to know your audience and their wants and desires.
![Showing we use the tools to improve our customer experience](jpg/6417b45b0072ae5c34ee2434_what-is-net-promoter-score.jpg)
Keeping customers satisfied and loyal is a key aim for businesses everywhere. The belief being the more satisfied and loyal they are, the greater your...
![Visualising the touchpoints in your customer's journey with you](jpg/6417b4461816460f70012272_what-are-customer-touchpoints.jpg)
No matter what type of business, or industry you operate in, your customers will typically go through a series of steps and interactions during their...