Most training feedback forms ask 15 questions and tell you nothing actionable about the course. After analysing tens of thousands of responses across hundreds of training surveys, six questions consistently emerge as the only ones that matter. Here's the list, why each one earns its place, and the popular questions you can confidently drop.
You've brainstormed, wordsmithed and polished the survey questions, but if you skip the TRACER check before you hit send, the survey will quietly under-deliver. TRACER (random sample, respect, actionable, clear, easy, relevant) is the six-attribute filter your survey must pass. Here's each attribute explained, with the most common ways surveys fail each one.
You can't calculate customer lifetime value without a customer retention rate, and most companies calculate retention rate wrong, mostly because they include customers acquired during the period. Here's the formula done properly, with cohort handling, time-period conversions, and a free calculator. Plus the difference between retention, churn and attrition that even quite senior people muddle.
Treat the marketing funnel as one big undifferentiated pile of leads and you'll write copy that suits no-one in particular. Awareness, consideration and decision are different problems requiring different content and different offers. Here's the three-stage marketing customer journey, with what to do at each stage and where most teams confuse one stage for another.
The buyer's journey and the digital marketing funnel get used interchangeably, they shouldn't be, and the confusion costs you. The journey is what the buyer does; the funnel is what you do about it. Here's the side-by-side, then a stage-by-stage walk-through of the digital marketing funnel, awareness, consideration, decision, loyalty, advocacy, with the assets and metrics each stage needs.
The retail customer journey has the same skeleton as any other, awareness through advocacy, but the internet has scrambled how customers actually move through the stages. The diagram looks linear; real shoppers bounce backwards and sideways. Here are the five stages, how to measure each one, and the points where retailers most commonly lose customers between them.