Allegiance Blog

Here at Allegiance, we continue to see more companies choosing to rescue customers in real time rather than wait months for the results of a large customer satisfaction survey. These businesses are embracing a new approach to traditional customer research that gives companies the ability to collect feedback from social media, engage customers in real time and use advanced analytics to understand what makes customer tick and predict what they’ll want.

Getting executive buy-in is crucial to any successful VOC program. Here are three main points to keep in mind when working with your executive team.

In response to overwhelming demand, I’ve written this to serve as a resource for those looking to justify the budget and resources needed to add social media monitoring to their existing customer feedback / market research programs.  All the organizations and corporations listed herein are trademarks of those respective companies. A Case Study:  Will the [...]

Join the American Marketing Association for the free March 23 webcast titled, “Social Media – The New Frontier of Customer Feedback.” Speakers include Matthew Bowman, former CEO of Wi5Connect (a social media company) and Eric Weight of Attensity (text analytics expert). To register, go to http://bit.ly/ajOQop

While doing my Christmas shopping this past season, it seemed most every store had a survey they wanted me to take. Their clerks dutifully circled the survey website with their pen and told me about a juicy incentive to get me to fill it out. Since I’m in the business I decided to take all [...]

Be sure to check out the Jan 21 webinar with Todd Rowe of SAP as he discusses why a survey is not enough for a complete VOC program. In this webinar, Todd will discuss: – The new role of surveys in the world of customer feedback / customer insight – New ways to listen to [...]

Bob Caruso is the former head of JD Power’s VOC Center of Excellence. He’s giving a webinar next Monday (Dec 10) on the top 10 best practices of VOC practitioners. He plans on doing a deep dive and field people’s questions. He’s also a former F4 fighter pilot from the Air Force so he is [...]

At a recent luncheon with Voice of the Customer (VOC) practitioners in Atlanta, the author of this blog, Matt Bowman, director of campaign marketing for Allegiance, noticed a few trends emerging from the conversation. This blog discusses those trends and also provides some insight on why those topics have emerged as “top of mind” items with today’s VOC practitioners.

Bob Caruso, Managing Director, Endeavor Management, recently gave a presentation on the “Voice of the Customer (VOC) Initiative Success: Win Friends and Influence the C-Suite and Board.” As part of this presentation, he shared insights about how successfully defeating the opposition relates to The OODA Loop, a military strategy initially developed by Colonel John Boyd, a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and military strategist. Read the full blog to learn more.

The Enterprise Feedback Management (EFM) market continues to grow, even amidst the current economic environment. The underlying cause of this growth appears to be increased customer retention through real-time voice of the the customer (VOC) programs. And there was certainly a lot of talk about this at the recent Gartner CRM conference in London. The fact that this is being talked about so much is evidence that the market has matured significantly in the past 12 months. The author of this blog, Chris Cottle, VP of Marketing for Allegiance, believes that the next big step for VOC programs will lie within the analytical side. Read this blog to find out why and also learn more about what this side will mean for businesses.