Purpose
1.2. Enable cooperatives to continuously improve services/products by understanding customer perceptions and satisfaction levels.
1.3. Centralize all feedback touchpoints, from SMS, email, web forms, and social media, into a unified sentiment analysis pipeline.
1.4. Provide real-time alerts for negative sentiment and post feedback summaries to CRM or cooperative management dashboards.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. On submission of online forms for cooperative membership or event participation.
2.3. Scheduled monthly or after key cooperative events.
2.4. Manual trigger by customer service representatives following field interactions.
Platform Variants
3.1. Twilio SMS
- Feature: SMS feedback request and collection
- Setting: Configure Messaging API to send survey links post-transaction, receive inbound responses via webhook.
3.2. SendGrid
- Feature: Automated email survey distribution
- Setting: Use Marketing Campaigns API; trigger transactional email with embedded survey link after CRM update.
3.3. Typeform
- Feature: Web-based interactive feedback forms
- Setting: API to generate personalized survey links, embed in emails or SMS, receive responses programmatically
3.4. Google Forms
- Feature: Questionnaire hosting and responses collection
- Setting: Form Responses API to push new submissions to automation workflow.
3.5. SurveyMonkey
- Feature: Advanced survey logic and analytics
- Setting: Webhooks for new survey completion; API endpoint for pulling response data.
3.6. Facebook Messenger
- Feature: Collect feedback via chat interface
- Setting: Configure Messenger Platform Webhook, Messenger Send API for surveys.
3.7. WhatsApp Business API
- Feature: Conversational feedback collection
- Setting: Send interactive messages, capture answers via webhook events.
3.8. Zendesk
- Feature: Ticket-based feedback prompts
- Setting: Triggers to send feedback emails after ticket resolution with CSAT form link.
3.9. HubSpot
- Feature: CRM-integrated surveys
- Setting: Workflows to trigger feedback emails/forms post deal closure, collect results to contact record.
3.10. Salesforce
- Feature: Integrated survey modules
- Setting: Salesforce Surveys and Process Builder to trigger post-interaction surveys, store feedback on Contact object.
3.11. Mailchimp
- Feature: Feedback campaigns via email
- Setting: Automations triggered after campaign delivery, survey embedded in follow-up emails.
3.12. Qualtrics
- Feature: Multi-channel survey distribution and analytics
- Setting: API to create and distribute surveys based on CRM triggers, fetch responses.
3.13. Google Sheets
- Feature: Response aggregation
- Setting: Sheets API to pull in responses for analysis and share with cooperative managers.
3.14. Slack
- Feature: Real-time feedback alerts
- Setting: Webhook integration for negative sentiment notifications to #customer-feedback channel.
3.15. Microsoft Teams
- Feature: Automated reports and alerts
- Setting: Adaptive Cards pushed to channel; response triggers for immediate action.
3.16. Power BI
- Feature: Visualization of feedback analytics
- Setting: Scheduled datasets refresh from survey data sources, dashboards shared enterprise-wide.
3.17. Google Cloud Natural Language API
- Feature: Sentiment analysis
- Setting: Process aggregated text response batches, classify sentiment and extract keywords.
3.18. IBM Watson Tone Analyzer
- Feature: Advanced emotion and sentiment detection
- Setting: Analyze text via API, return scores for anger, joy, sadness, etc.
3.19. Amazon Comprehend
- Feature: Language-based sentiment scoring
- Setting: Batch process feedback text from surveys, extract themes and overall sentiment.
3.20. Zapier
- Feature: Workflow orchestration
- Setting: Multi-step zaps connect form responses to sentiment analysis tools, send alerts and populate cooperative master database.
Benefits
4.2. Proactive response to member or customer needs via real-time sentiment alerts.
4.3. Centralized dashboard reduces manual compilation and reporting work.
4.4. Actionable insights drive improvements in cooperative operations and marketing strategies.
4.5. Increased member/customer loyalty through timely, relevant engagement and follow-up.