A customer-centric approach has always been a fundamental strategy for business. However, lately it seems to have become more of an idyllic vision than a reality.
Technology allows us to reach customers across the globe. But, it has simultaneously driven us further apart. Whereas businesses used to be in tune with their customers' every need, many corporations today have gained a reputation for being both out of touch with their customers, and slow to innovate.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/308367/
Online Surveys provide marketers with a simple and easy way to get in contact with a targeted audience and collect feedback. Not to mention, they are great for tracing product feedback, conducting market research, obtaining feedback on customer service and measuring customer AND employee satisfaction. Picking a suitable online survey software for your business can however be quite tricky – especially considering many of these tools seem to provide many of the same features. One particular tool which has become quite popular in recent years is Qualaroo.
https://mopinion.com/top-10-qualaroo-alternatives-and-competitors/
If you are not focused on receiving and using customer feedback, you are missing out on an amazing growth tool. Gathering customer feedback throughout the entire customer journey is of great importance to the buyer life cycle, marketing campaigns and the entire customer experience. As focuses shift to improving this experience, continuous feedback will be required.
According to a recent study, 86% of buyers will pay more for a better customer experience. And by 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator. How do you get the best experience? By listening to the customer, of course.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnewman/2018/04/10/want-better-customer-experience-combine-crm-and-customer-feedback/#1211312b3fbb/
Come to think of it. Customers are on a journey. From the moment they first learned about you to their first purchase, every step leads to a path. As a marketer, it’s your responsibility to drive them to your desired path – the conversion path.
Personalizing customer journey leads to better customer experiences since everything you send them is relevant to their specific needs. As a result, you get better email marketing performance. In fact, 96% of organizations believe that email personalization can improve email marketing performance. And the open rate for emails with a personalized message was 18.8%, as compared to 13.1% without any personalization.
So, be sure your email marketing software makes it easy for you to personalize customer journey, and then follow these tips!
https://customerthink.com/5-ways-to-personalize-customer-journey-for-improved-relevance/
With the explosion of social media feedback tools, there are now countless ways your customers can rate you what happened during their experience and how they feel about your organization, products and services.
Customer feedback is not a new concept. It is now much easier for the everyday customer to applaud your efforts – or voice their concerns – of your organization. The tools we use today are different and more democratized.
So here’s the question: what is your organization doing with that real-time customer feedback? And, more consciously, are you using those ideas, thoughts and suggestions to strengthen their experience with your organization? Are you using your customer’s feedback to spark innovation within your organization?
Here are five actionable items that can help you start using customer feedback to drive performance and innovation for your organization.
http://www.jbsa.mil/News/News/Article/1482219/five-ways-to-use-feedback-to-strengthen-your-customers-experience/
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/
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/
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/
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/
Implementing the insight from research into your Customer Experience strategy and acting accordingly is a different story.
Just because your satisfaction levels have fallen may not be due to a faulty product as first predicted – you might need to look a bit deeper to discover that actually, the customer service hasn’t been satisfactory or the website is too confusing when purchasing items.
Whatever it may be, the common denominator doesn’t always mean it’s right. So, the data is in front of you, but what next?
http://customerthink.com/how-to-understand-the-truth-behind-customer-feedback/
