Tag: customer experience research

Confero’s 25 years in the customer experience research field has allowed us to interact with various industries over the years.  With our experience in so many diverse industries, we apply knowledge to new projects in unique ways.  Here’s a list of 25 types of businesses that Confero has worked with over the decades, by providing them with services including onsite, telephone-recorded and email mystery shops, competitive pricing studies, retail audits, brand representation at retail, and customer satisfaction surveys:

Our mystery shoppers may have noticed that over the past year, Confero has seen a big increase in clients requesting audits of their location.  Audits are usually used by large companies or corporations with multiple locations, often nationwide. Audits provide a simple way for companies to manage the image they are presenting to customers in all their locations. 

Audits usually require auditors to visit the assigned location and do any of the following items:

1. Take an inventory of particular products.  Companies want to ensure that their shelves are properly stocked at all times.  And sometimes, they are auditing their competitors, so they want to be able to compare what their competitors have in stock.  In a recent program, one of our clients had auditors visit grocery stores to take inventory particular brands of products.  They wanted to know how much shelf space was designated for their product, as well as their competitors.

Mystery Shop Your Competition? Why would our business want to do that? Admit it. Every now and then, when you are online browsing your competitor’s webpage. Why are you doing that? You want to see what they are doing and how they are doing things differently compared to your business, right? While perusing things online […]

Confero’s Growth & Culture Reflect Our Founder, Joann Buxton’s Leadership If you were fortunate enough to know JoAnn Buxton and are familiar with the company she began, you will easily see that the company’s congenial determined go get it nature, the attention to detail coupled with strong financial management and valuing others are all a […]

Want to test the waters before entering into a full-scale mystery shopping  program?  A mystery shop pilot lets you do this.  Prior to beginning a mystery shopper program narrow down what your team wants to accomplish and determine what employee behaviors and front line performance you want to measure with a pilot. Sharing Seven Key Insights […]