Surveys capture the past. Signals power the present.
Understanding customer needs and expectations has always been at the heart of customer experience. But for many companies, early forms of gathering customer feedback simply relied on data collected from surveys.
While this used to be enough, these surveys don’t provide critical feedback across the customer lifecycle. Omni-channel engagement combined with omni-channel signal collection is the only way to establish and truly understand the connection between customer behaviors, thoughts, intentions, and needs.
The data richness of experience signals allows brands to identify the root causes of ongoing customer issues, opportunities for improvement, and even proactively see what customers are telling them. Even people who don’t engage when asked create vital signals which are captured in your operational systems.
Getting CX right starts with a clear understanding of what matters most to the customer. Done right, CX delivers tangible business impact–driving loyalty, reducing churn, and upselling new products and services.
What are experience signals?
Signals are customer experience data points that come from different systems, channels, in-house technology, and even third-party sources.
Signal types include digital clickstream data, e-commerce information, POS data, call center interactions, CRM data, service interactions, IoT data, HR data, sentiment captured from videos, sales and marketing tools, and yes, even survey data.
Data Types
Structured data is made up of objective responses from a set of pre-determined inputs (i.e. surveys). Unstructured data is open-ended with feedback coming in many forms–such as call transcripts, messaging logs, website contact forms, social reviews, and more
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