"We put the customer first!"
You've definitely heard this phrase before -- and probably from more than one company. This statement is a foundational promise in countless mission statements, website headlines, and choruses of customer service teams everywhere. Today, it's hard to find a company that doesn't say, "we put the customer first" in some part of their messaging.
But here's a tough question: how many of these companies go beyond a marketing message and actually take the necessary steps to put their customers first?
According to new HubSpot research -- not nearly enough of them. We found that an astonishing 42% of companies don't survey their customers or collect feedback.
How can your company claim to put the customer first if you aren't making the effort to listen to what your customers have to say?
https://blog.hubspot.com/service/state-of-service-2019-customer-first/
Can you do a good job if you only have a third of the information you need to get the job done? Probably not – yet that’s what most companies do every day.
The average response rate to a customer survey is 33%, according to recent research from SurveyAnyplace.
So what do the other two-thirds think?
What if it’s only your fans responding? You might mistakenly think you’re awesome. Meanwhile you have a lot of haters out there, and you aren’t changing anything.
Or what if it’s only your dissatisfied customers responding? You might conclude your experience is awful, and waste resources trying to fix it when, all along, two-thirds of your customers really like you.
The cure? Get more feedback from more customers more often.
The problem is how.
This can help – five research-proven tips on improving survey responses.
https://www.customerexperienceinsight.com/how-to-get-more-customer-feedback/
Spokeo is an online people intelligence service that helps you search, connect, and know who you are dealing with. Spokeo is used to find old friends, identify unknown callers, or research prospective dates. Professionals also use it to find new customers or to prevent fraud. The services organises over 12 billion records from thousands of US-based, publicly available data sources into easy-to-understand reports that include available contact info, location history, photos, social media accounts, family members, court records, work information, and much more. This organisation firmly believes that, ‘knowledge is a quick search away’.
https://mopinion.com/spokeo-selects-mopinion-as-its-voc-solution/
No one likes to hear negative customer feedback, but savvy marketers know that unhappy customers give you powerful insight into what’s working—and what’s not—with your product or service. In this article, SurveyMonkey CMO Leela Srinivasan shares tips for making tough feedback a powerful pillar of your marketing strategy. You’ll learn the importance of getting curious about feedback, how to create appropriate outlets for collecting it, and why it’s vital to get negative feedback in front of your team so you can move beyond measurement to understanding and acting on what you hear.
We live and work in the Feedback Economy. The ubiquity of the web and the rise of social media, coupled with the age-old desire for humans to be heard, means that feedback has suddenly become pervasive, public, and powerful. You can find billions of reviews of products, services, restaurants, travel destinations, company cultures, and CEOs online. Recent SurveyMonkey research found that 85% of people will leave feedback after a good experience, and 81% will leave feedback after a negative experience. That’s a lot of people commenting on how you’re doing.
https://www.martechadvisor.com/articles/customer-experience-2/how-to-put-negative-customer-feedback-to-work-for-you/
Customer experience in the travel industry has changed big-time over the last decade. Long gone are the days of traipsing into a travel agent to book a flight. Nowadays, there aren’t just websites to tell you what the cheapest deals are – you can even find out things like when’s the best time to book, making sure you always secure the lowest price.
While this all sounds like great news for jetsetters, it does mean travel brands have entered a race to the bottom in terms of price, leaving customers scratching their heads when it comes to working out which service is actually best. After all, short of operating at a loss, brands can’t afford to keep slashing their prices, they need to find other ways of standing out in a crowded market.
The most obvious way of doing this is by offering a customer experience that cruises 35,000 feet above the competition – and we don’t just mean lavishing on the free bubbly. As anybody whose luggage has ever ended up in Bangkok when they’re in Birmingham will tell you, travelling is loaded with opportunities for things to go wrong.
This goes to show, a great customer journey isn’t just about the added extras, it’s about the way brands handle problems – and for a one-way ticket to improving in this area, you need plenty of customer feedback.
https://uplandsoftware.com/rantandrave/resources/blog/why-brands-must-capture-feedback-from-the-silent-traveller-to-improve-cx/
Whether your company is a global brand with millions of fans or a tiny startup with a handful of customers, one thing remains true: Great marketing starts with understanding and empathizing with your customer. It’s the best way to build trust. Gain their trust first, then you’ll earn the opportunity to explain how your product or service solves problems for them.
From our research we know that 63 percent of consumers think marketers are selling them things they don’t need. That tells me that we, as marketers, are breaking this cardinal rule of marketing. We aren't listening.
I recently spoke at the 2019 SaaStr Annual conference about how we need to lean into customer feedback more than we ever have before -- and how using surveys to listen to your customers can create rabid fans for your brand. I’ve translated some of that talk below to show how easy and effective it can be to use customer feedback to accelerate startup growth.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/331392/
Digital survey sharing methods like SMS messaging, emails, web intercepts, and chat link URLs get excellent response rates and quality feedback because they are simple to use and catch respondents when the experience is fresh in their minds.
So you might be wondering how you can get the same level and quality of response rates for your company. The answer? QR codes.
https://learn.g2.com/qr-codes-for-feedback/
Every executive serious about growing their business also must be serious about understanding what is really happening when it comes to the perception and behavior of customers. Customer Experience, or CX, continues to permeate discussions among leadership teams, service teams, product and marketing teams, and board members as it becomes increasingly clear that winning today is as much about how customers feel about a brand’s offering as the offering itself.
An entire industry has grown up around the measurement of customer satisfaction (CSAT). It arrived on the scene a few decades ago, even before the internet drove customers online, where interactions could be scored based on what customers and prospects did that would lead to a sale -- or no sale.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2019/09/25/better-than-csat-surveys-really-knowing-your-customers-are-happy/#197024d43e46/
With so many channels and platforms where difficult customers have the chance to vent their fury, trying to manage all of them can be like trying to juggle with jelly. But with a step-by-step plan in place, handling negative reviews is just a question of deploying the right response, at the right time.
https://www.business2community.com/brandviews/xsellco/how-to-handle-negative-reviews-on-amazon-ebay-google-and-social-media-02244627/
Business and brand development is a continuous process of growing and staying relevant as a brand. I’ve been working with this process for the past three years at Adore Me, a direct-to-consumer fast-fashionable lingerie brand that started out as an online-only business.
Being direct-to-consumer (D2C) has its advantages when it comes to the customer feedback loop: You know who each and every customer is, and you can reach them directly. Listening to their preferences, needs and wants is important in order to better serve them.
In order to grow a brand that connects with your audience, your audience is your best starting point. At Adore Me, we constantly listen to what our customers want, like and don’t like — and from that, we create our products, our ads and our ethos.
Here are four tips on how you can leverage your customer feedback loop to build a brand that resonates with your shoppers.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescommunicationscouncil/2019/09/27/four-ways-the-customer-feedback-loop-can-help-you-deliver-a-better-brand-experience/#338d1d273d38/
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