Listen to the unfiltered voice of your customers about their experiences with your company.


Our service delivers 52 genuine experiences from your own customers per year. Gathered and analyzed by our CX experts through one-on-one interviews, AI-assisted for a more neutral interpretation.

52 customer stories

Let us listen
to your customers

We continuously explore the experiences your current customers have with your business in trustful 1:1 conversations:

  • We analyze the conversations without being to close to your organization.

  • Our team is multi-lingual and our processes ensure GDPR compliance.

Get insights and stories

We transform valueable insights into compact stories, helping you understand how your customers feel about your business:

  • Stories to continuously share across the organization and foster customer centricity.

  • Quarterly and yearly summaries, highlighting patterns, trends and opportunities to improve.

Attract and retain loyal clients

By regularly listening to your customers, you gather evolving insights, allowing you to develop convincing customer experiences and relevant innovations.

For one utlimate goal: retaining customers and selling to new ones.

Proven
processes

World-class companies and top brands have been trusting us for many years, becoming more customer-centric, understanding customer needs and developing lovable customer experiences.

“… a straight-forward service for customer centricity and actionable insights. For everyone in the organization.”

Deep CX Expertise

Tobias Göllner and Michael Thurow, Managing Partners and accomplished experts for customer experience innovation, have put together a team of CX specialists that conduct and analyze the conversations with your customers - to transform them into actionable customer stories and insights.

Who benefits from customer experience stories?

C-Suite

Executives receive an unfiltered view on their customers and reconnect to the emotions of clients. Without sugar-coating.

HR Teams

By demonstrating how real customers interact with your product and your company, HR teams attract new candidates, accelerate onboarding and drive employee motivation.

Sales Teams

Utilizing customer success stories to create new opportunities by providing relatable and convincing narratives in sales.

Product & Innovation

New products and innovations are best built on actual customer needs. Pains and gains included.

Marketing & Brand

By working with genuine customer insights and stories, marketing identifies underlying motives to tailor campaigns and improve the brand experience.

CX Teams

Customer Experience teams use the stories and insights to enrich touchpoints and replicate positive customer stories.

Customer insights are priceless

Understanding your customers' experiences is crucial for driving innovation and growth.

Customer insights reveal how your customers perceive your products and services. They highlight their needs, preferences, and pain points. By uncovering these valuable perspectives, you can tailor your offerings to better meet customer expectations, enhance satisfaction, and foster loyalty.

The stories of your customers enable your teams to make decisions, identify emerging trends, and stay ahead of the competition. In a world where customer experience is a key differentiator, having deep, actionable insights is not just valuable - it's essential for long-term success.

Questions

  • On our online platform, you will be able to access recorded interviews and transcripts (raw data) right after they took place, with the first interviews expected to take place within 4-6 weeks after setting up the channels for the selection of interviewees. Every 3 months we prepare compiled and ready-to-use customer stories, which will be shared with all defined stakeholders/recipients in your organization.

  • Our cooperation is designed to be an ongoing process with no defined end point. This continuous engagement is crucial because it allows us to track changes in customer sentiment, preferences, and experiences over time. As we gather more data, the insights become increasingly valuable, revealing trends and patterns that might not be apparent in a shorter timeframe. This long-term approach ensures that your strategies are always informed by the most up-to-date and relevant customer feedback. However, we understand the need for flexibility, so you can cancel the cooperation at any time, with the agreement ending after the current three-month period. This structure gives you the freedom to adapt as your needs evolve, while still benefiting from ongoing customer insights.

  • Fifty-two interviews per year strikes the right balance between depth and frequency. This number ensures we gather enough data to identify meaningful patterns and trends without overwhelming your team with too much information. It allows us to provide regular updates and insights while maintaining a sustainable and manageable process throughout the year.

  • We understand the importance of protecting customer data. To address this, we create a system where customers opt-in to participate in these interviews, ensuring that all interactions are conducted with full consent and compliance with your data policies.

  • The questions we ask are tailored to your specific needs and focus on areas that matter most to your business. We focus on the experience a customer had while interacting with your business or using a specific service or touchpoint. We typically explore topics such as customer satisfaction, product usability, pain points, and suggestions for improvement. Before the interviews begin, we'll work closely with you to develop a question framework that aligns with your objectives and ensures we gather the most relevant and valuable insights. Together with your designated customer success manager, you can define focus topics which you can change or refine every 3 months.

  • Focus topics are the key areas we concentrate on during the interviews to gather detailed insights. These might include specific aspects of your product or service, customer support experiences, or broader industry trends. By concentrating on these topics, we can dive deeper into the issues that matter most to your business, providing you with actionable recommendations that directly impact your strategy and operations.Together with your designated customer success manager, you can define focus topics which you can change or refine every 3 months.

  • Yes, we leverage AI to enhance our analysis of the interview data. Our AI tools help identify patterns, trends, and sentiment across the growing datasets, making the insights more comprehensive and accurate. However, we also ensure that human expertise guides the analysis, providing context and interpretation that only experienced professionals can offer. This combination ensures you receive both data-driven insights and nuanced recommendations tailored to your business needs.

  • Quantitative data tells you what is happening, qualitative interviews explain why it’s happening. While quantitative data is essential for understanding broad trends and statistical patterns, qualitative insights from 52 in-depth interviews offer a different and equally valuable perspective. These interviews dive deep into individual customer experiences, uncovering the "why" behind the numbers that quantitative data alone can't provide.

    Through these stories, you gain nuanced insights that reveal customer emotions, motivations, and pain points—information that is often hidden in quantitative data. This depth of understanding is particularly valuable for departments like innovation, marketing, product development, and sales, where knowing the context behind customer behaviors leads to more informed decisions.

    For example, while quantitative data might show a trend in customer dissatisfaction, our interviews will uncover the specific reasons why customers feel this way, allowing you to address the root causes effectively. In marketing, these stories help craft messages that resonate on a deeper level, and in sales, they provide compelling narratives to engage customers.

  • Our service is specifically designed to focus on existing customers and their ongoing experiences. This continuous feedback loop allows us to track evolving trends and deliver actionable insights that help refine and improve your current offerings. However, learning about potential future customer segments is a different type of challenge that requires a targeted, time-bound project approach. This involves conducting a thorough analysis of potential new segments and tailoring research specifically to those groups. If you're interested in exploring new customer segments, we recommend discussing a dedicated project proposal with us, which will be customized to meet your specific needs and objectives.

52 Stories
by SHIFT11

52 Stories is a service created by SHIFT11.

SHIFT11 is a team of Customer Experience Innovation Experts based in Vienna/Austria and established in 2018. Our goal is to help our clients win and retain loyal customers and team members by making their experiences feel right.

Having worked with the best innovation and product development teams, we are convinced that the voice of the customer provides the most valueable insights for improving your customer experience and developing new products and services. From brand promise to every touchpoint.

Learn more about us at www.shift11.com or have a coffee with us.

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