With COVID restrictions still in place and almost a year of staying at home with our significant others, planning a romantic date night may feel like an arduous (and maybe unnecessary) undertaking. We’ve done the hard work of planning for you — using a conjoint study and SmartLab, our proprietary panel.

Ask 742 people how they felt about 2020 and their outlook on 2021, and you’ll get 742 different answers. We brought the data into Bellomy’s Text Analytics platform and used our emotions AI, modeled after psychologist Robert Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions, to examine the subtleties among these experiences.

Home sales have been on the rise over the past year, and those sales and loans are not expected to slow any time soon. Our research shows that two-thirds of the population have not bought a new home, financed, or renovated this year. Combined with interest rates hovering around all-time lows, there’s a good chance it could be in many of their futures.

When the feedback touchpoint isn’t a pillar of the overall customer experience, it shows.

Improving customer satisfaction comes down to figuring out what the customer is experiencing, what they care about, and how you’re going to address it.

Net Promoter Score® is a tried and true metric for quantifying customer loyalty, but understanding what drives customer loyalty is often the more impactful insight.

With endless possibilities of Thanksgiving Day sides and plates (and stomachs) that are only so big, there’s bound to be some decision-making on Thursday. Turkey is a staple, but what else should you prepare?

Moving homes. Paying bills. Flying home. Each of these journeys opens the door to improving customer experiences and, ultimately, maximizing customer lifetime value. The key to unlocking that door, however, starts with reaching out for feedback from your customers.

While I’d like to say I’ve been 100% productive during the pandemic, my wife and I have used some of our downtime to catch up on eight of the 17 seasons of the cooking competition show Top Chef. Here's what I've learned.