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Are you being served (fairly)?

Perhaps it's a British thing? Queueing and complaining, and also expecting to be treated fairly? "Hang on there old boy, that's not cricket!" We published another article yesterday entitled Treating Customers Fairly and Future Purchase Intention that looks at  how customers felt they were treated when contacting/compaining about a problem and how this relates to their willingness to buy from … [Read more...]

Treating Customers Fairly and Future Purchase Intention

The UK Customer Care Study conducted earlier this year asked UK consumers about their experience reporting a problem with a product or service they used. The survey asked customers How do you feel you were treated? The question related to the "most serious problem" that the customer experienced during the year and was asked to all those respondents who contacted the company or organisation at … [Read more...]

Are online surveys the future of research?

On Tuesday I attended a lecture at the Royal Statistical Society - Are web based surveys the survey method of the future? I would first say that this lecture lent more towards public sector research where Probability Surveys (every individual in the population has a chance of being selected) are required, as opposed to, say, a customer survey. I am not a statistician. There are others far … [Read more...]

Why customers don’t complain?

In the UK Customer Care Survey conducted earlier this year, we investigated the contact handling experience of consumers reporting a problem with the product or service they used. Of the 8,873 respondents who answered that they had a problem with the products or services they used in the last year (across all industry sectors), 83% contacted or complained to the organisation at fault. This … [Read more...]

UK Customer Care Study – results

At work, we've finally published the top-line findings to the UK Customer Care survey (opens in Adobe PDF). I also spent a little time looking at the reasons why customers don't complain. There is tons of data and we hope to present more results in the coming weeks. … [Read more...]

Surveys about favourite airlines

On last night's TV Watchdog featured results from their favourite airline survey. Immediately you're thinking of British Airways adverts circa 1989 with Malcolm McLaren soundtrack (before you ask I googled it). I swear the phrase "world's favourite airline" was a Saatchi and Saatchi invention based on the number of passengers flying. Sadly I remember some pretty odd things and I remember reading … [Read more...]