Competition is rising in every industry, making it easier than ever for your customer to leave you for a competitor. With customers having an increasingly high bar for customer service, and loyalty being at an all time low, every team needs to have its finger on the pulse of customer feedback. The most important tool to remain competitive in this new age is
On this page, we cover the context and use cases for analysing customer feedback. We focus on SentiSum's platform as the core case study, showing how our features help companies compete on customer experience.
Customer feedback analysis is the process by which algorithms automatically make sense of large volumes of customer feedback and categorise it by topic and sentiment.
NPS is one of the most common ways to collect customer feedback. Understanding the drivers behind positive and negative NPS at scale is a powerful use case for customer feedback sentiment analytics. Although NPS surveys are now considered a biased form of feedback.
Reviews are a core driver of sales, as most customers look there before making a purchase. This makes understanding the reasons behind negative reviews even more important for business growth. A great example of a company taking advantage of their reviews is British Airways Holidays , who use sentiment analytics to proactively prevent customer complaints. Reviews are a more frequent form of feedback and real-time customer feedback analysis enables quick response-time.
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Support conversations are the most useful data source for customer feedback. Unlike reviews and surveys, the customer is likely in the midst of a problem so their memory is fresh. They are usually unbiased, because the customer is not aware their conversation will later be tagged and analysed. Customer conversation analytics is the latest use case for NLP and AI analytics.
In times of intense competition in customer service, a strong focus on turning customer feedback into product and operational transformation is needed to stay ahead. Customer feedback analysis done using NLP will provide you with immediate benefits, including a deep understanding of customer issues, a clear 'to do' list for your teams to prioritise, and a measure of performance over time.
The SentiSum team recently undertook a customer feedback sentiment analysis for two major industry verticals. Take a look below to see customer feedback analysis in action on reviews and you'll get a hint of what's possible when brands use this technology on customer support conversations.
How do you currently use SentiSum's customer feedback analytics platform?
We use SentiSum to actively listen to customer feedback so that we can take timely, objective action on any friction in the journey.
What's been the biggest impact on the way you work as a team?
We have saved hours of manual sorting of free customer text and achieved an objectivity which eluded us.
What's has been the biggest impact for your company-customer relationship?
We now have a clearer impact "to do" list for the Web Optimisation team in their efforts to reduce customer friction.
In what way has SentiSum been useful to you personally?
I get to quickly "take the temperature" of significant numbers of customers as I review trade, better understanding patterns over time which will lead the team to taking action on customer friction. Less friction means more sales.
SentiSum uses machine learning to achieve in minutes what manual analytics achieves in weeks. Automated topic tagging, anomaly detection, and multichannel granular insights are available with greater objectivity and speed than ever. We help you unlock your customer support data goldmine so you can reduce complaints, drive retention and foster cross-functional collaboration. Our Zendesk integration means that any channel that you've got connected, you have a clear understanding.
Understanding the drivers of NPS means you can measure the performance at each stage of the customer journey. You can look at sentiment for each customer touchpoint and how it has evolved over time, so that any dip in NPS is fully traceable to the source. Drill down into these touchpoints to know where you're competitive, and where your journey needs work.
If you effectively push insight to multiple teams, you open up an opportunity for customer-centric change across your company. With an understand of the main drivers of negative sentiment within NPS, reviews and customer support tickets, you set a to-do list with clear prioritisation. Our client Schuh discovered customer friction in the payment part of their checkout, clearly impact the roadmap for the web optimisation team.
Pairing insights from feedback data with the specific information like product SKU customer churn, enables a whole host of use cases. Targeting a specific action quickly is now possible thanks to the speed of AI-powered text analytics. Customers now expect a seamless experience and quickly knowing the contents of negative reviews and support tickets could be the difference between a customer lost or loyalty won.
There are numerous tools that can help you analyse customer feedback. Whether it's a holistic point of view of all your customer feedback channels or a specific sample of reviews that you want to tag, there's a tool out there for you.
A great place to start your search is on G2, a software review search engine. Insight Platforms also a dedicated environment for analytics software. For example, you can find a video of the SentiSum product demo on the Insight Platforms site (that's us, by the way!)
SentiSum gives a holistic, real-time view of customer feedback channels, including customer reviews, NPS surveys and support conversations. Every data point is tagged automatically, providing insights on volume, topics and sentiment. SentiSum is a powerful method of creating customer-centric change. See pricing here.
Qualtrics is an SAP owned enterprise software that enables organisations to collect feedback at every stage of the customer journey. They enable enterprises to uncover trends and drive customer loyalty across multiple channels.
Chorus captures and analyses all customer calls, meetings, and emails to identify top performers and uncover insights that could be used as testimonials.
IBM offers many APIs for sentiment analysis based on NLP. The Watson Tone Analyzer, for example, which focuses on support tickets and satisfaction surveys and monitors agent sentiment – whether they’re polite and eager to help, and if they truly solved the customer’s issue.
Rosette has an API that uses AI to analyse natural language. They've branched out from social media to analyse entire documents, for example, the sentiment expressed by customers when they mention a specific product, company, or person.
32% of customers will now walk away from a brand they love after just one bad experience. This makes for a precarious environment for ecommerce brands. With the pandemic and other world shaking events, companies are left with an increased chance of negative sentiment at each touchpoint. In light of this, delivery, digital experience and the post-purchase brand experience have never been more important.
To stay on top of customer touchpoints, negate negative customer experience and inspire loyalty, there's three features we focus on to help you remain competitive.
Truly customer-centric change is achieved by putting actionable insights in the hands of the right team. We help you counter data silos and encourage cross-functional change by adding anyone to a daily email full of customer insight.
Knowing what impacts customers most, matters. Thanks to our sentiment score, you can see which topics are the largest contributors to negative sentiment. Accurate support ticket tagging also provides volume data, so you can quickly identify the biggest causes of complaints.
The speed of AI topic tagging enables real-time alerts. If there has been a sudden increase in a new topic, you'll know about it. Meaning you can work proactively with teams across your company to prevent the same problem happening to more customers.
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