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Why Your Customer Satisfaction Surveys Aren’t Performing Well + Fixes

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Customer satisfaction surveys provide you with important data that can help you increase customer experience and retention&period; Therefore&comma; this one tool has the power to give you a significant boost in revenue&period; But sadly&comma; only about 9&percnt; of consumers bother answering surveys at all &lpar;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;customerthermometer&period;com&sol;customer-surveys&sol;survey-fatigue-statistics&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Customer Thermometer<&sol;a>&rpar;&period; And the majority of those have a &OpenCurlyQuote;negative bias’&comma; which means they complete the survey only because they had a bad experience and want to complain about it&period; The data you’ll get through such survey results definitely won’t help you much&period; Therefore&comma; you need to take a good look at your customer satisfaction survey&comma; determine if it contains some of the main mistakes that make people drop them&comma; and fix those right away&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>3 Customer Satisfaction Survey Mistakes to Avoid<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">1&period; You have many open-ended questions<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Open-ended questions can be good as they give your customers a chance to share their personal opinion in detail&period; However&comma; the average person today gets distracted within 8 seconds or less&period; Therefore&comma; if your survey has many open-ended questions that require typing in responses&comma; you will be losing customers at the first one&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The solution is to create a survey that will have answer options already available&comma; so the consumer only has to click on the one they agree with&period; The point is to create a survey that one can complete within a minute or two maximum&period; However&comma; as open-ended questions can be a valuable tool&comma; you should tag one or two in the end and make them skippable&period; This way&comma; people who want to write more about their experience will be able to do that&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>2&period; Your questions are vague<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Answers to vague questions will be vague also&comma; if your customers will even bother answering them at all&period; Therefore&comma; they won’t provide any valuable information&period; What you need is to learn from a <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;agsinger&period;com&sol;mykfcexperience-survey&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">customer satisfaction survey done right<&sol;a>&period; KFC is a great example to follow because this brand is renowned for its focus on customer service&comma; and the great survey they have is one of the reasons why the company can deliver such a good experience throughout all its branches&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">All questions and answer options in the survey must precise and focused on the exact areas of customer experience that one comes into direct contact with&period; Simply put&comma; you have to &OpenCurlyQuote;guide’ your customer through analyzing their experience step by step&comma; not hope they will get there themselves by asking broad questions like &OpenCurlyQuote;do you feel like the service was good&quest;’ Instead ask &OpenCurlyQuote;was the server polite&quest;’&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;was your request answered within 5 minutes or less&quest;’ or &OpenCurlyQuote;did the agent offer additional information on bonuses and available discounts&quest;’<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Answers to such questions will be more valuable to you because you can process them quickly and immediately enact changes that will boost customer experience&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>3&period; You only give your customers one way to complete a survey<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Customer satisfaction survey response rates vary greatly based on the method of survey delivery&comma; from 57&percnt; for in-person surveys to 13&percnt; for in-app ones &lpar;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;surveyanyplace&period;com&sol;average-survey-response-rate&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Survey Anyplace<&sol;a>&rpar;&period; This means that you can get the best response by giving your customers some options&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">However&comma; do not make any of these surveys a mandatory step and avoid making them pop up too often&period; You don’t want your customers to get annoyed with these reminders&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

Hardik Patel

Hardik Patel is a Digital Marketing Consultant and professional Blogger. He has 16+ years experience in SEO, SMO, SEM, Online reputation management, Affiliated Marketing and Content Marketing.

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