Customer survey critical success factors

You can’t read the minds of your customers but you can do the next best thing: ask them what they’re thinking.

That’s why so many successful companies have learned the value of conducting customer surveys. Unfortunately, not all customer surveys lead to increased customer satisfaction. In fact, a poorly designed or poorly executed survey can decrease customer satisfaction by eroding confidence in the company’s management.

In this series of articles, we will help you identify and understand the 10 critical components of a successful customer survey program:

  1. Determine objectives
  2. Select a data collection method
  3. Get buy-in from managers
  4. Develop the process
  5. Create a schedule
  6. Select a supplier
  7. Develop the questionnaire
  8. Get buy-in from stakeholders
  9. Analyze results
  10. Take action

This information will help ensure that your customer surveys yield valuable information and actionable results. So stay tuned to this site or subscribe to this blog in the reader of your choice.

About Todd Hollander

Hollander is Founder and President of Todd Hollander Market Research. He has over 25 years of experience in the design and analysis of strategic market research, is an instructor in the University of Georgia’s "Principles of Marketing Research" course, and is the author of "We’re Killing Our Kids," a highly-acclaimed book on the childhood obesity epidemic, and “The Online Survey Doctor,” a weblog dispensing expert advice about internet survey research.
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