Allegiance Blog

In our professional lives, surveys are an indispensable tool in our enterprise voice arsenal. When combined with operational data, business performance metrics, social media chatter and other less-structured forms of customer voice (e.g. call center logs, online comment cards, in-bound emails and letters), survey results form the critical foundation of a rich and robust voice of the enterprise choir.

Survey results that are presented as “average scores” can easily miss the mark. What does an average satisfaction score of 7.78 really mean? Presenting metrics that everyone can understand and act on is a critical component of any Customer Satisfaction / Customer Loyalty program, and it need not be very difficult.

Email has become the major method for delivering survey invitations. With so many types of legitimate and junk email hitting inboxes every day, people have become more selective in opening and responding to email invitations. However, there are a few actions you can take as you create your survey invitations that will help you increase your response rates, legitimize your survey and ensure that you are CAN-SPAM compliant.

The goal of any survey builder is to get responders to stay for dinner and finish the conversation. After all, isn’t a survey just a conversation? You ask engaging questions and expect the responder to give you a full, satisfying response. Here are some basic best practices for keeping respondents engaged in dinner/survey conversation.

Response rates to e-mail surveys can sometimes be low. Here are some tips for improving them.

Have you ever noticed that more people start your online surveys than finish them? It’s like they start clicking through the answers and then suddenly they have a heart attack and it’s curtains! What is happening to those hapless survey takers? Life insurance actuaries, the Census Bureau, and the Social Security Administration use a tool [...]