A few years ago, if you were a small business looking to grow, you would have been at a disadvantage when it came to technology-enabled transformation, due to high costs and limited options. Today, the story is completely different. With the rise of cloud-based SaaS applications, technologies that were reserved for businesses with big budgets are now available to small and medium businesses (SMBs) at a fraction of the cost. This makes digital technologies far more accessible and scalable for SMBs. In addition, capabilities available through these applications have also increased exponentially.
Let’s look at some of the ways in which small businesses can use digital technologies to their advantage.
https://www.firstpost.com/business/why-leveraging-data-can-be-a-game-changer-for-small-and-medium-businesses-4417589.html/
Organizations use a variety of data collection techniques. While some are polished and highly effective, others are a jumbled mess and the results look worse than a teenager’s bedroom. If you’re in the latter, good luck trying to make sense of it.
Some organizations have clung to using paper forms. Yes, a form that was created at some point in history and has survived many generations via the copy machine. This means customers and employees are still using a long outdated process to collect data. Paper forms can lead to a truckload of errors – mainly due to poor handwriting, lost forms, paying someone to accurately type the form information into a database, which can lead to typos – thereby rendering the data inaccurate, and the time required to manually input this data possibly worthless. And this could represent a single department in a large organization. If several departments use this same methodology, the error rate may increase by a magnitude.
If this is your data collection process towards building a stronger relationship with your customers, you could be starting off on the wrong foot. If it takes too much time to respond to customer inquiries, or if you can’t because the data is incomplete, you’re probably going to have an uphill battle on your hands if your goal is to impress the customer.
https://customerthink.com/how-companies-can-initiate-customer-relationships-through-smart-and-actionable-data-collection/
Can you go more than a few days without receiving a survey from one of the many companies you do business with?
Companies are hungry for data to guide their business, especially data about their customers and their preferences. And when the use of their product or service made it necessary for you to reach out to customer service for assistance, companies are even more interested in how those interactions went.
A lot has been written on performing customer service or customer satisfaction surveys. I would like to offer just a few best practices to consider based on my own experience being on both sides of the survey.
https://www.business2community.com/customer-experience/3-important-considerations-customer-service-surveys-02037297/
This article guides you through the basics of GDPR (e.g. what it is and who will be affected), the most critical changes to be aware of in terms of digital feedback collection, why it’s important to comply with these regulations, the consequences if you choose not to and what we’re doing here at Mopinion to get ourselves and our clients ready for the new legislation.
https://mopinion.com/gdpr-impact-on-digital-feedback-collection/
Expresso Fashion and Claudia Sträter are two well-known Dutch fashion brands with stores in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Alongside their more traditional, brick-and-mortar shops, these labels are also sold online. This omni-channel strategy makes it possible for these two webshops to not only serve as sales channels but also platforms for inspiration. Visitors can get their inspiration online and then choose to do their shopping in the webshop or in-store. In other words, their online services are critical to the success of both on- and offline channels.
Let’s take a look at how they’ve experienced the Mopinion software thus far…
https://mopinion.com/expresso-fashion-claudia-strater-customer-story/
Customers across industries now expect a better overall experience thanks to Amazon, and here are a few ways your business can follow their lead.
http://www.destinationcrm.com/Articles/Web-Exclusives/Viewpoints/3-Ways-Amazon-Has-Raised-the-Bar-on-Customer-Experience--124230.aspx/
Gartner revealed over 50 per cent of businesses plan to reinvest in improving customer service experience. Another study showed that 72 per cent of customers will share a positive experience with six or more people. Getting your customer service right not only improves retention and brand reputation, but it reduces the reliance on new business through upselling to an already captive audience.
With this in mind, I’ve written down some of the core activities I believe every small business should be doing in 2018 to improve customer service experience online.
https://realbusiness.co.uk/sales-and-marketing/2018/04/09/why-customer-service-still-remains-the-most-valuable-weapon-in-your-digital-strategy/
Customer experience surveys are a vital part of every business strategy, intended to provide valuable feedback for e-commerce businesses, but difficult to master.
The trick to customer experience surveys and getting people to actually fill them out is to know their purpose, vary the question types, ask questions clearly and consistently, automate wherever possible and offer an incentive.
https://www.business2community.com/brandviews/xsellco/customer-experience-surveys-need-actionable-feedback-02042312/
First, improve your customer’s experience – to help you attract customers, keep customers, generate solid business results, and maintain a positive reputation for service.
Second, build a strong and sustainable culture that provides a great place to work, for everyone who works in or with your organization.
Today, these outcomes are becoming more difficult to achieve, and more important because of six trends, six big changes that are disrupting the expectations of customers and the delivery of great customer experiences.
http://customerthink.com/the-six-disruptors-of-customer-experience/
In this article, we are going to go over the main points of collecting Customer Feedback, why it matters to your business to hone in your customer satisfaction, and finally, answer our main question: why most of you are not doing it properly.
https://hackernoon.com/why-do-you-s-ck-at-collecting-customer-feedback-9d0a42d8233b/
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