Customer inputs sometimes become the most important critiques of your work. They are like mirrors and always give a true feedback. Carrying out usability testing with them is not enough till you seek their feedback and use the feedback to analyze your product design and also incorporate the changes that have recommended.
http://atrybox.com/importance-of-customer-feedback/
Many people have a misconception about accessibility: that it’s an “optional extra”—as if people with disabilities were not in the same crowd as the average user or learner.
https://www.washington.edu/doit/importance-user-feedback/
Most people in most businesses (sadly not all!) would agree that collecting customer feedback is a good idea. Most (sadly not all…) businesses have customers, and so it should probably be someone’s job to ask those customers what’s on their mind.
https://www.customersure.com/importance-of-customer-feedback/
If you run your own business I know you do your best to please your customers, satisfy their needs, and eventually to keep them loyal to your brand. But how can you be sure that your efforts bring desired results? If you do not try to find out what your clients actually think about your service, you will never be able to give them the best customer experience. Their opinions about experience they have with your brand is helpful information that you can use to adjust your business to fit their needs more accurately.
https://blog.startquestion.com/7-reasons-why-customer-feedback-is-important-to-your-business-28e99c00eba7/
During the last couple of years, the popularity of online reviews has grown significantly. Reviews help people decide which products or services they should buy, where they should travel and even where they should eat. Over time reviews have slowly become an integral part of business on the internet.
https://www.brightlocal.com/2017/03/15/the-impact-of-online-reviews/
Your customer experience management (CEM) system is up and running. You are actively listening to your customers and have an impressive 20% survey response rate. You’re measuring NPS and CSAT, and real-time alerts are coming in. That’s great! All signs point to a successful Voice of Customer (VoC) program.
But wait!
Do your customers know that you’re actually listening to them?
https://www.peoplemetrics.com/blog/are-you-there-company-its-me-your-customer/
It has become all too common for B2B SaaS companies to survey their customers once a year through a moment-in-time customer relationship survey, with at least one section addressing the ultimate question of Net Promoter Score (NPS).
https://www.peoplemetrics.com/blog/saas-companies-implement-a-product-nps-program-in-5-simple-steps/
We all remember that dreaded phone call. After working all day, you'd pull out your chair to sit down for a family dinner and the phone would ring. You'd roll your eyes and walk over to pick it up. A stranger's voice would then ask if you had a few minutes to answer some questions about a recent experience you had with a company. Really? Right now? "Please call back later, I'm having dinner with my family." You'd hang up the phone and go back to the dinner table. "Now where were we?"
https://www.peoplemetrics.com/blog/cx-secrets-dont-limit-feedback-opportunities/
It’s become something of a trend for U.S. consumers to share their thoughts about the customer service they have received -- good and bad --through social media. That said, the NICE/BCG 2016 Consumer Experience Report shows that many consumers are starting to have doubts about whether or not social media platforms alone are a way for brands to address their issues.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/273116/
We live in a churning sea of feedback. Comment boxes appear on web pages like graffiti on a boxcar. Swirling around us are emoticons with thumbs-up signs, clapping hands, OK signs, happy faces, sad faces -- the list goes on. Many websites ask you to take a brief survey with a pop-up box that obscures most of what you are trying to read. It’s overwhelming. It’s everywhere, and it’s stifling.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/273253/