the Justin Brady Show

Your customers HATE your tech. Customer feedback comes in unpredictable forms, like Twitter, surveys, Google Reviews, CSR conversations, etc. Dan Erickson, CEO of Viable, has developed an AI to analyze all that data and share results in natural language. What’s one big theme? Your tech, apps, and website suck! You’re ignoring it and it’s driving your customers nuts.

 

 

What trends are haunting you?

Because Dan Erickson has used Viable to analyze so much customer data at this point, he has quite a few insights. I asked him to share some of their top trends.

 

Trend 1: Customers Hate Your Tech

Erickson says their AI has found that most companies truly struggle with crappy tech experiences. Customers want websites and apps to just work, but even after they complain, nothing changes. Company leaders don’t spend the time or fully consider the complete tech experience—this is costing companies dearly.

Of all the data Viable has analyzed so far, bugs are the biggest trend. Bugs in websites and apps are an area customers are not willing to forgive. Negative experiences with the app hurts customers’ overall brand experience.

 

Trend 2: Customers Downranking Apps for Bad Service

At a high level, what other customer data is Viable seeing? They pulled in data from a bunch of retail apps in the App Store and Google Play Store and found customer experience with human support matters a lot! In fact, people use app reviews to complain about customer support. This is a key insight because it means negative reviews in the app store may not have anything to do with the app itself.

Company executives would be wise to fully analyze all reviews to understand their origination. It could have been a bad experience with a customer rep, OR simply a customer’s difficulty getting in touch with your customer service department.

 

Why don’t executives fix obvious problems?

Erickson explains there’s a huge communication gap between executives and their customers. But why? Why do CTOs, COOs, and CEOs miss this stuff? Because 80% of their customer feedback comes to them as qualitative data from unstructured text like emails, call transcripts, chats and phone calls. The only way to filter through this data is manual time. For example, analyzing 60,000 people surveys (compiling) could take five people 5 weeks to analyze. Viable can return a more detailed and more accurate report in 24 hours.

Resources

  • Download Viable’s retail app report here
  • Check out Viable’s main website here.

 

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