There are a number of well known and popular ways that companies try to measure their overall customer satisfaction and loyalty. Traditional, overall satisfaction questions are still widely in use and provide a good idea of overall customer sentiment. However, they’re typically only a stepping stone on the way to engagement. And this blog entry explores why.

Preparing your survey data for analysis can be a messy process. But it needn’t be. In this article, Allegiance unveils a tried-and-true, five-step process for cleaning up your survey data.

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

In the current economy, there is a very real and growing concern about how to gain and to keep customers. In stressful times such as these, many companies tend to pull away from their customers, and may even cut back on ‘satisfaction and loyalty’ programs to try and improve their bottom line. This, unfortunately, is a mistake because it cuts at the very heart of what we all need to be doing during this time – engaging customers to the point that they are willing to ride out tough economic times with us, rather than viewing us as yet another business that really doesn’t care about its customers.

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 [...]

Many people think that surveys are just a bunch of questions, but they’re not. Every survey is a culmination of a challenging seven-step process. And here are some steps to follow to improve your surveys.