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	<description>Increasing Customer and Employee Loyalty, Satisfaction and Engagement</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Software-as-a-Service: Advantages in 2009</title>
		<link>http://blog.allegiance.com/2008/12/software-as-a-service-advantages-in-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.allegiance.com/2008/12/software-as-a-service-advantages-in-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Enterprise Feedback Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of research lately on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and have come to the conclusion - given the current state of the economy which is forcing businesses to do more with less (e.g. collect more feedback and increase customer and employee loyalty; spend less on surveying, infrastructure and staff, and yet get the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Impressions Matter (Part 2 in a Series on Electronic (email) Survey Response Rates)</title>
		<link>http://blog.allegiance.com/2008/12/first-impressions-matter-part-2-in-a-series-on-electronic-email-survey-response-rates/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.allegiance.com/2008/12/first-impressions-matter-part-2-in-a-series-on-electronic-email-survey-response-rates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terence</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Customer Surveys]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hopefully you have already read my previous blog entry on this subject [see Why Do Electronic (email) Survey Response Rates Seem so Low? I Have a Theory, and a Way to Help Improve Them.]. This next tip I will keep short and sweet. Consider this fact as researched by the ESP (email service provider) EmailLabs: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holding On to Customers During Tough Times</title>
		<link>http://blog.allegiance.com/2008/12/holding-on-to-customers-during-tough-times/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.allegiance.com/2008/12/holding-on-to-customers-during-tough-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Customer Surveys]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the current economy, there is a very real and growing concern about how to gain and to keep customers. This was apparent at the 2008 North American Conference on Customer Management (NACCM) this year, with attendance lower than it has been in some time. The irony is that much of what was presented provided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survey Abandonment is like Death to a Researcher - Upshot: Put High-Abandonment Questions at the End</title>
		<link>http://blog.allegiance.com/2008/12/survey-abandonment-is-like-death-to-a-researcher-upshot-put-high-abandonment-questions-at-the-end/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.allegiance.com/2008/12/survey-abandonment-is-like-death-to-a-researcher-upshot-put-high-abandonment-questions-at-the-end/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Customer Surveys]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed that more people start your online surveys than finish them? It&#8217;s like they start clicking through the answers and then suddenly they have a heart attack and it&#8217;s curtains!
What is happening to those hapless survey takers?
Life insurance actuaries, the Census Bureau, and the Social Security Administration use a tool to understand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations from BAI 2008: Banking, Innovation and the Current Leadership Gap</title>
		<link>http://blog.allegiance.com/2008/11/observations-from-bai-2008-banking-innovation-and-the-current-leadership-gap/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.allegiance.com/2008/11/observations-from-bai-2008-banking-innovation-and-the-current-leadership-gap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jordan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a real sense of fear in the banking industry right now, and at the 2008 BAI Retail Delivery Conference and Expo, a conference at which we just exhibited last week, that fear was almost palpable.
While in any other year the following statement would have encouraged prospective attendees to pay the registration fee without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re-evaluating Business Standards and Practices in the Wake of the Wall Street Meltdown</title>
		<link>http://blog.allegiance.com/2008/11/re-evaluating-business-standards-and-practices-in-the-wake-of-the-wall-street-meltdown/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.allegiance.com/2008/11/re-evaluating-business-standards-and-practices-in-the-wake-of-the-wall-street-meltdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clay</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.allegiance.com/?p=56</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most important lessons that Enron, WorldCom and the recent financial/Wall Street meltdown has taught us is just how damaging unethical behavior can be to a company, and how important it is for businesses today to establish ethical standards in the workplace as well as support those who do come forward to report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survey Design – Begin with the End in Mind</title>
		<link>http://blog.allegiance.com/2008/11/survey-design-%e2%80%93-begin-with-the-end-in-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.allegiance.com/2008/11/survey-design-%e2%80%93-begin-with-the-end-in-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Customer Surveys]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 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 each step of that process poses unique challenges to researchers. After all, sound business decisions much come from high quality information.
And here is a seven-step process that you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Engagement? And Why Should Your Business Care About It?</title>
		<link>http://blog.allegiance.com/2008/11/what-is-engagement-and-why-should-your-business-care-about-it/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.allegiance.com/2008/11/what-is-engagement-and-why-should-your-business-care-about-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Customer Relationships]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[EFM]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.allegiance.com/?p=51</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here at Allegiance, we spend a lot of time talking to customers and potential sales prospects about engagement. But if you&#8217;re new to the engagement arena, you may ask: What is engagement? And why should my business care about it?
Since we&#8217;re going to be blogging about engagement and other related topics moving forward, I thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do Electronic (email) Survey Response Rates Seem so Low?  I Have a Theory, and a Way to Help Improve Them.</title>
		<link>http://blog.allegiance.com/2008/10/why-do-electronic-email-survey-response-rates-seem-so-low-i-have-a-theory-and-a-way-to-help-improve-them/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.allegiance.com/2008/10/why-do-electronic-email-survey-response-rates-seem-so-low-i-have-a-theory-and-a-way-to-help-improve-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terence</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Customer Surveys]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my theory, many of the people within companies that are sending out surveys are people that are not email marketing experts. They have not gone through either the training or the hard knocks of what it takes to successfully craft an email message to illicit response. I think most would agree it&#8217;s a bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Responding to Customer Concerns Quickly</title>
		<link>http://blog.allegiance.com/2008/10/the-importance-of-responding-to-customer-concerns-quickly/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.allegiance.com/2008/10/the-importance-of-responding-to-customer-concerns-quickly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Customer Relationships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I got a very complimentary email from a customer not too long ago thanking both myself and my team for getting back to them quickly. While this e-mail was very nice and I was really glad that our customer was happy, it did make me wonder: What kind of customer response times are other businesses [...]]]></description>
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