Customer Surveys - Brad Cleveland

Revisit and reassess customer expectations

Jul 14, 2026 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Access Strategy, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Customer Surveys

An essential part of contact center leadership is understanding what customers need and want. How are their needs and expectations changing? For leaders, understanding customer expectations can seem like a daunting challenge. Fortunately, it’s not the guesswork...

Customer Feedback: Analyzing Input

Aug 12, 2025 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Experience, Customer Service, Customer Surveys, LinkedIn Learning

In the strategic approach to managing customer feedback, analyzing input is where disparate data begins to come to life and tell stories. It’s a bit like putting a snorkel mask on and jumping off a boat to explore the coral reef. What you discover is nothing...

Really Listening to Customers: Your Strategic Advantage

Apr 24, 2025 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Customer Surveys, Leadership

This article was originally published earlier this month at ICMI. I get it. “Listen to customers” has become an oft-repeated cliché — and one that often seems to collide with daily reality. Customer feedback isn’t always positive, easy to hear or...

Encouraging Dialogue with Customer Advocates

Apr 3, 2025 | Customer Relationships, Customer Experience, Customer Service, Customer Surveys, Leadership, LinkedIn Learning

Customer advocates are influential, even as passive promoters. They write testimonials and reviews, and they answer questions to reviews or on forums. Their engagement is visible, and it’s very believable. You further customer advocacy as you encourage dialogue,...

The Customer Feedback Funnel

Feb 6, 2025 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Customer Surveys, Leadership

Your feedback process should act as a funnel, catching data from all the various sources and bringing it into a centralized location. This could be a database that’s part of your customer relationship management (CRM) system, a dedicated customer feedback system, a...

Responding to Negative Feedback

Dec 13, 2024 | Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Customer Surveys

Elon Musk, the successful entrepreneur and CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and other companies, often highlights the importance of negative feedback: “You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that’s wrong with it and fix it....