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Lesson #8: VoC Is Not The Same Thing As Market Research, But They're Converging

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Market research was developed a century ago to measure the effectiveness of advertisements and products. However, market research and Voice of the Customer (VoC) are not the same. In fact, certain key principles of market research actually hold back VoC and the value that some companies get out of their VoC programs.

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#CXSecrets: Don't Limit Feedback Opportunities

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But that doesn't mean we aren't willing to provide feedback. In fact, we as consumers are more eager to openly provide feedback to companies than ever before. When I first started, we would call customers on the phone - on our time - to ask them for feedback. People today are in the habit of sharing feedback.

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#CXSecrets: Collecting Feedback IS a Touchpoint

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Numbers aside, though, companies often tend to overlook one vital touchpoint when conducting these mapping exercises: the touchpoint of asking their customers for feedback. Optimizing the feedback collection experience. Think really hard about how you're interacting with your customer when you're asking them for feedback.

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#CXSecrets: Use Your VoC Program to Quickly Answer Strategic Market Research Questions

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Do you know any CX professionals who started out in market research? Like many of my peers, I too broke into the customer experience space by way of the market research world—working at a large firm on a variety of highly valuable market research programs before founding PeopleMetrics in 2001. Market research roots.

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If you want a consistent experience across all touchpoints, you must ask for customer feedback at each one

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Native Mobile App: refers to customers who download a company’s iOS or Andriod app, and feedback is gathered about their experience with it. Gathering omnichannel feedback. You can gather feedback from these five channels in various ways. Or you can gather feedback via methods that are channel specific. Conclusion.

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5 Strategies for CX Excellence

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After writing my book, Listen or Die , which outlined 40 lessons that turns customer feedback into gold, I often got the question: "what are the small handful of strategies that provide the biggest impact or provide the most insight on driving CX excellence?". And their feedback should always be available in real-time. Here they are!

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Lesson #2: CX Measurement Is Hot, But It's Not What You Think It Is

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A consulting firm mentioned in the introduction, Forrester , coined a third term: customer feedback management (CFM). As I mentioned in Lesson 1 and will dive into deeply in Lesson 8, VoC is not market research. Market research provides answers to a specific question and provides those answers in the aggregate.