Gathering customer feedback seems like a no-brainer now. Every company does it to a lesser or greater extent.
Businesses spend thousands on setting up various customer feedback channels: surveys, emails, reviews, rates.
Is it worth it? It definitely is if you know how to act on the customer feedback you get.
https://www.livechatinc.com/blog/customer-feedback/
An angry customer is a business nightmare, right?
Wrong.
An angry customer is a business opportunity.
If you handle your complaints process right, you can transform an angry customer into a brand advocate and a high-value return customer. Marketing professors Michael McCullough and Sundar Bharadwaj talk about something they call the service recovery paradox, which they define as:
The result of a very positive service recovery, causing a level of customer satisfaction and/or customer loyalty even greater than that expected if no service failure had happened.
Your customers come to you to get their problems solved, and a customer with a complaint is handing you a golden opportunity to show how you excel at that.
Here’s how to make that happen.
https://www.livechatinc.com/blog/turn-customer-wrath-into-wins/
Just like any other service provider, customers are expecting insurance providers to give them an exceptional experience. While price is an important aspect of purchasing an insurance policy, by 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiators. Moreover, 88% of buyers will pay more for better customer experience, according to ShipEarly.
With demanding customer expectations, having a sound customer engagement strategy is the next thing that insurance companies should focus on.
http://insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/breaking-news/the-best-customer-engagement-strategy-for-insurers-in-2020-195462.aspx/
If you’re running a small to medium business, you’re on the lookout for every growth strategy you can find. Growth means more clients, more sales, and more revenue. But are you overlooking one of the most important?
I’m talking about customer reviews. All too many businesses think of reviews as a subset of customer relations, but they should be the pillar of your growth strategy.
http://dynamicbusiness.com.au/theinformer/partnercontent/will-customer-reviews-become-even-more-important-for-business-growth-in-2020.html/
Famous entrepreneurs Henry Ford and Steve Jobs were known for dismissing customer feedback. However, their stories prove that by ignoring consumers blindspots are created and competitors succeed, writes, Leela Srinivasan SurveyMonkey CMO.
http://martechadvisor.com/articles/customer-experience-2/were-henry-ford-and-steve-jobs-right-about-customer-feedback/
The old mantra of customer experience professionals is to “Ensure that customers achieve their desired outcomes while using our products and services.” However, this is very limiting and leaves a lot of goodwill (and profit) on the table. This is why the CX definition needs to be expanded to: “Ensure that our customers achieve their desired outcomes, starting when they become aware of us, and extending through the buying, delivery and usage process.
http://customerthink.com/good-marketing-cant-overcome-poor-customer-experience/