Conversion rate is the indicator of your app’s effectiveness in the market and can guide you towards your goal.
How to Gather Feedback Without Distracting the User Experience
August 6, 2018We’ve all been there: you’re on a website trying to buy a product or get access to a service, when you’re bombarded by the dreaded survey questions. It can be exhausting and survey fatigue is real. Businesses must understand that your visitors are often coming to your site for a product or service to solve their problem—gathering feedback should be secondary to that.
However, asking key questions to gain user feedback is extremely important for businesses to be able to deliver on their customers’ expectations and make improvements. Fortunately, there are ways to obtain this feedback without being obtrusive. We’ve broken down the top considerations in creating that strategy: timing, placement and length of survey.
Timing Is Everything
This is the number one rule in gathering user feedback: when your customer is in the sales cycle, don’t disturb them. Converting customers is the goal, after all.
If I’m trying to drive sales, I’m not going to ask for feedback; a better option would be to ask around milestones, such as signing up for a newsletter or just after making a purchase. These are perfect opportunities to ask a question gauging their experience.
The same goes for missed milestones. If a customer is abandoning their cart or navigating away from a landing page without taking action, prompt them with a question about why they’re leaving without completing the action. This type of feedback adds context to funnel statistics you may already be recording, making the data more actionable.
Be Strategic with Placement
Getting to real “moments of truth” when gathering feedback from users is no easy task; however, we’ve found that placement makes a difference. For software as a service (SaaS) companies, the best place to prompt actual users of your product is within the dashboard. Placing the question in the dashboard has two benefits: (1) you allow your customer to experience your product without interruption, and (2) they can offer feedback in an authentic context. This type of unbiased feedback is vital, especially when measuring your Net Promoter Score (NPS).
Great design shapes the way users interact with your site. If an on-site survey prompt is laid over text or relevant content, it not only draws the user’s focus from the call to action, it also prevents the user from gathering all the information they need to make a decision. We advise placing survey prompts in the bottom right-hand corner of the page: it’s contained and doesn’t distract from the content on the main area of the page.
Keep It Short
Companies want to know everything about the customer’s wants, needs, preferences and turn-offs. In theory, this is great news, but communicating that information is time consuming for the customer. Rather than present a lengthy survey about several experiences the customer has had over their journey, it’s far more effective to use shorter surveys at multiple touch points throughout the customer’s journey. This practice makes consumers more willing to actually respond and give honest feedback rather than simply clicking through to “get it over with.”
Conclusion: Keep Customers First
Designers and marketing professionals can easily get caught up in gathering customer feedback and lose sight of the bigger goal: to solve a customer’s problem. Using these best practices will create a space where users feel comfortable providing feedback and ultimately become invested in forming a relationship with your company.
We have the world’s most versatile user research & feedback survey tool starting at $0
More posts
Qualaroo Named the Best Survey Software of 2021 by Digital.com
Qualaroo has been positioned as one of the best survey software companies of 2021 by the widely renowned SaaS review website, Digital.com!
How To Design Customer Satisfaction Surveys
CSAT surveys are the standard way to gauge the happiness of the customer with your product or service. They give customers a voice. CSAT data can be qualitative and/or quantitative. There are customer satisfaction survey designs that gauge the emotional CSAT on a figurative scale, as well as those that calculate definite numeric scores. But what kind of CSAT survey gets you reliable responses and data?
Survey vs Questionnaire – What’s the Right Choice for You?
Many people, including some professional researchers, use the words survey and questionnaire synonymously. But, there is a difference between the two terms.
Best Customer Feedback Tools For 2021
The purpose of customer feedback software is to make collecting, sorting, and analyzing data accessible. In the early days, businesses sent survey forms by post, or snail mail, asking the population for their thoughts.
SoftwareWorld Ranks Qualaroo Among Top Survey Software for 2020
Qualaroo is proud to add one more feather in our cap: we have been ranked quite highly by the widely renowned SaaS review website, SoftwareWorld!
Actionable and Unactionable Customer Feedback: 6 Things to Consider
Criticism is the best gift your company can receive.
How to Build Customer Personas: The Complete Guide
Targeting customers accurately is no walk in the park, especially in these days of heightened competition. It takes keen business acumen to attract and convince the right customer to adopt your product or service.
How to Use Qualitative Data to Improve Your Blog
Every marketer becomes a better marketer with an increased understanding of the customer.
Benefits of Customer Feedback: 3 Reasons Why You Can’t Ignore It
Guide your business through choppy waters with a steady hand by understanding exactly what your potential customers are looking for!