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Mystery Shopper Insights

How To Be a Successful Mystery Shopper

While getting paid to shop sounds like a fun (and easy) job, being a mystery shopper requires multiple skill sets in order to be successful. Our robust, in-house team of Field Staff Coordinators got together to brainstorm what skill sets they feel define a successful mystery...

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Customer Experience Insights

What Makes a Great Manager?

All business managers have a certain set of skills acquired from their previous experience that mold them professionally—allowing them to form their own unique leadership style. While no leadership style is "wrong", a Gallup study found that companies fail to choose the...

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Customer Experience Insights

Using Big Data to Improve the Customer Experience

In today's age of the customer, organizations have access to more customer data than ever. From social media and website analytics to customer feedback and insights from mystery shopping, data has never been more easily accessible. It's also never been more important for brands...

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Customer Experience Insights

How Your Organization Can Optimize Its Experience Design

As a customer-centric brand, it's easy to get focused on one part of the customer journey. However, it's become increasingly important for brands to look at all the ways to leverage products and service within the overall customer experience to engage and retain customers. Learn...

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Mystery Shopping Insights

What You Should Never Do With A Mystery Shopping Report

Mystery shopping is the best way to understand your business from your customers' point of view. It allows you to understand how your customers experience your brand and see your business from all angles. The purpose of a mystery shopping program can range from ensuring your...

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Customer Experience Insights

How to Ensure Your Customer Experience Aligns with Your Brand Promise

“Talk the talk, walk the walk” is more than an old cliché; it’s actually a great benchmark for creating and/or reviewing your brand promise. Your brand should communicate the promise you make to your customers. It’s not just a catchy slogan or selling proposition. It should...

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Customer Experience Insights

How to Develop a Customer-Centric Culture in your Organization

What makes for a great customer experience? It’s not simply the first person a customer sees when they enter a store or the associate who answers the phone. Customer experience touches every facet of an organization, from marketing and sales to product development and especially...

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Mystery Shopping Insights

How Frequently Should I Shop My Business?

When a small business owner is considering a mystery shopping program, one of the first questions they typically ask themselves is, “how frequently should I mystery shop my business?”. There is no “one size fits all” answer, and some providers may simply tell you, “more”! We...

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Customer Experience Insights

Best Practices for Improving Customer Experience Through Social Media

Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have evolved to become strong marketing, advertising, and customer service channels for businesses in every industry. Social media is typically one of the first channels customers go to when they are seeking advice or need...

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Customer Experience Insights

Why Creating an Omnichannel Customer Experience has Never Been More Important

The way customers and companies connect has changed dramatically in recent years. Phone, email, live chat, text messaging, social media, mobile apps—there appears to be an endless supply of channels for customer communication, with the majority of customers expecting to reach a...

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Accurate, Immediate, and Relevant

Our mystery shop program has been that change agent for us. This program has helped instill great confidence in the accuracy, immediacy and relevance of the data – which has driven operational improvements, a better guest experience and positive business results.