Aug 12, 2026 · 37 min · 9 segments
Understanding what your customers are actually thinking is one of the biggest competitive advantages an ecommerce brand can have. But collecting feedback is only half the battle, knowing how to turn…
Nice.
Yeah.
I l- I typically like to relate e-commerce to actual physical shopping because I think-
... a lot of times physical and retailers just will outperform e-commerce stores in lots of different ways.
So when we think about what the actual shopping experience is in real life, then a lot of people are like, "Oh yeah, I should be doing that for my website too."
So every time you go into a store and, you know, someone's, someone's asking like, "Hey, did you find everything you're looking for-"
... at point of purchase or how you found us.
"How did you find us?" Or, um, you know, "Is there something else you'd be looking for that you didn't see?" All those questions that retailers have been asking for like decades and decades and decades.
We should be asking online too, right? 'Cause, 'cause if a retailer is hearing, "Oh yeah, I've been...
I, I was looking for, uh, you know, women's shoes and never found," it's like, "Oh, well we need to highlight that more effectively at the front of the store," or, "We need to have better signage," or, "We need to have a better flow through the store so people can find this stuff." It's the same thing online, right? It's just harder to collect feedback unless you are specifically asking for it because in store you're naturally gonna see what's happening, you're gonna hear what people are saying.
But online it's a little bit tougher-
... unless you have tech that's gonna help out with that.
And that's one reason why I think survey tech is insanely powerful because of the reasons you mentioned along with just like listening to customers, improving your marketing.
Not just your website, but your email, your paid acquisition, your product iterations.
You can get feedback on, you know, uh, product feedback as you're going through this, through, through this process.
So yeah, it's kind of a...
It's not rocket science, but I see so many brands neglecting it.
[laughs]
Nice.
Yeah.
I l- I typically like to relate e-commerce to actual physical shopping because I think-
... a lot of times physical and retailers just will outperform e-commerce stores in lots of different ways.
So when we think about what the actual shopping experience is in real life, then a lot of people are like, "Oh yeah, I should be doing that for my website too."
So every time you go into a store and, you know, someone's, someone's asking like, "Hey, did you find everything you're looking for-"
... at point of purchase or how you found us.
"How did you find us?" Or, um, you know, "Is there something else you'd be looking for that you didn't see?" All those questions that retailers have been asking for like decades and decades and decades.
We should be asking online too, right? 'Cause, 'cause if a retailer is hearing, "Oh yeah, I've been...
I, I was looking for, uh, you know, women's shoes and never found," it's like, "Oh, well we need to highlight that more effectively at the front of the store," or, "We need to have better signage," or, "We need to have a better flow through the store so people can find this stuff." It's the same thing online, right? It's just harder to collect feedback unless you are specifically asking for it because in store you're naturally gonna see what's happening, you're gonna hear what people are saying.
But online it's a little bit tougher-
... unless you have tech that's gonna help out with that.
And that's one reason why I think survey tech is insanely powerful because of the reasons you mentioned along with just like listening to customers, improving your marketing.
Not just your website, but your email, your paid acquisition, your product iterations.
You can get feedback on, you know, uh, product feedback as you're going through this, through, through this process.
So yeah, it's kind of a...
It's not rocket science, but I see so many brands neglecting it.
[laughs]
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